I've heard from a lot of people that they've experienced decreased sex drive while on the pill, so I'm annoyed that it didn't make it onto the "possible side effects" list, because that's a major one. I mean, don't a good majority of people take birth control pills so, I don't know, they can have sex? What's the point if you're not in the mood, ever?

I just made an appointment to talk to my doctor about my options. If the low-dose pill is available, I may go on that again (I'm pretty certain I was fine on that, and that the higher dose is the one that screwed with me). We'll see how it turns out.

Thanks for the info on progesterone-only BC. The info that I found says that the minipill (progesterone-only) is just as effective as the combo pill, patch, or ring. It says Implanon has a failure rate of 0.05% and looks to be the best option in terms of effectiveness. If your sister got Mirena, it's progesterone-only and has a 0.02% failure rate, versus the Paragard copper T 0.08% failure

I'll be going over all of this with my doctor on Tuesday. Right now I'm still leaning towards the implant, since it's easy to put in and is effective. I'll let everyone know how it turns out.