A Honest Month-One Check-In On Slynd

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We share a car-recorded throwback, a trunk-or-treat line that tested patience, and a candid month-one update on Slynd: headaches, breakthrough bleeding, and why we’re staying the course for hormonal stability. The goal is a steadier baseline for moods, more presence with our kids, and practical steps when symptoms test resolve.

• car recording as a nod to early seasons
• small parenting wins that shift perspective
• handling irritation and edge days with grace
• week-by-week Slind adjustment and headaches
• breakthrough bleeding and longer cycles explained
• doctor guidance on sticking through the first months
• coping tools for PMS rage, anxiety and dark days
• defining safety lines and tracking trends over days
• commitment to updates and honest testimony

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody.
This is Steel Roses Podcast.
This podcast was created forwomen by women to elevate
women's voices.
A little um bit of a throwback.
I'm recording from my car, so Ihope the audio is coming through
okay.
I used to do this quite a bit inseason one because of time and
silence needed for this.

(00:21):
And in the earlier seasons, Ialways recorded episodes at like
five o'clock in the morningbecause of the kids.
And trying to fit something inthat I really, really wanted to
do when my kids were young wassomething sort of an nothing
short of a miracle because theywere like a tiny tornado.
So this is a bit of a throwbackto that for me.
I'm laughing as I do thisbecause I I haven't had to do

(00:44):
this in a while.
You know, moments like thismakes you appreciate things like
that that you may not reallyrealize um in a daily, regular
basis.
For example, yesterday we tookour kids to the trunk or tree in
our town.
And when we got there, we had towait in this long line, and it
was a little annoying, but likeobviously it really wasn't that
bad.
They they kept it moving reallynicely.

(01:05):
And the annoying part was likeone of my one of the kids was
begging for my phone.
She wanted to check her videogame because something was
happening and and whatnot.
So we kept saying no becausewe're like, no, like you're on
it all the time.
You could take a break.
It's okay, you're gonna survivethis.
And that was the only annoyingpart.
The kids were actually prettywell behaved in line.

(01:26):
Now, when they were little, thatwasn't the case.
And my husband and I would getto a point where we'd get be
trying not to scream at them infront of people because they
would get so rowdy and out ofhand and be pushing with each
other and fighting with eachother.
That didn't happen yesterday.
So I said to Chris at one point,I turned to him, I was like,
well, it could be worse.
And then almost on cue, a babystarted screaming, a little kid

(01:47):
was whining, had thrown up onitself, and they had to change
the costume.
So I I like looked at him and Iwas like, it could, it could be
worse.
It could be, it could be worse.
Isn't that bad?
And that was really more areminder for myself because I
was like slightly on edge.
And that happens to me now andagain where I have an
unexplainable, as you all know,slightly on edge moment with my

(02:09):
kids and my husband.
And I try not to do that.
But yesterday was one of thosedays where I was just like
consistently getting irritated.
On that note, I really wanted togive you guys an update on how
I'm doing on SLInd.
Um, so at this point, I'm veryclose to hitting the one month
mark.
I'm about, I think I'm about aweek out from it.

(02:29):
So the early symptoms for me,not symptoms, the early um, you
know, this is why I don't recordthis early in the morning
because I lose my words.
The early, not symptoms.
The early, the early uh reactionfor me from you'd think I would
know this off the top of my headbecause I work in pharma.
The early reaction for me that Ihad to the medicine was I did

(02:51):
have headaches.
So that was something that mydoctor had talked to me about.
She asked me, are you prone toheadaches?
Are you prone to migraines?
I told her I do get them, butit's not all the time.
And it's not, you know, everyweek, it's not consistent like
in that nature.
For this particular situation,though, it actually did cause
headaches almost every singleday for me.
So that was a little bitannoying, but manageable.

(03:12):
It wasn't anything that Icouldn't handle.
So that was fine.
I didn't have as much of anissue there.
For I did have to take migrainemedication, not medication,
migraine, um, etc.
migraine every single day,basically, just to keep it under
control.
But for the most part, it wasmanageable.
Now, the reason why I'm sharingthat particular detail is

(03:35):
because if you do have intenseheadaches and migraines, then
this lend might not be asolution for you because then
it's it's gonna make those evenworse.
So that's actually why I wantedto mention that.
But for me, I was able to manageit.
And now that I'm going into myfourth week, um, the headaches
have pretty, for the most part,stopped altogether.
Um, it's not daily like it was.

(03:57):
I'm still taking the Exeteranproactively in the mornings,
just uh in case, but I reallyhaven't had an issue like I did
the first two weeks.
The other thing that took me bya little bit surprise with Slind
was that I made the assumptionthat Slind was gonna be just

(04:17):
like every other birth control Ihave ever taken before, in the
sense that if you take a birthcontrol pill and you start the
pack, your cycle basicallyadjusts to the pack.
So if you start the pack, a newpack of birth control pills and
it's about a week out from yourperiod, you're not gonna get
your next period.
You're gonna keep going.
And then your that new pack isreally gonna dictate when your
periods come.

(04:38):
So it's gonna dictate yourcycle.
For Slind, one of the one of thethings upfront that they tell
you is that it could causebreakthrough, bleeding, like,
and then it is going to causeyour cycle to be longer within
the first three months becauseyour body is adjusting to Slind.
Eventually, your cycle will stopaltogether.

(04:58):
That's really the goal here.
But for the interim, you justhave while your body adjusts,
you have to accept the fact thatyou are gonna have cycles that
are longer than normal.
I knew the science, I knew thescience, but then I quickly
turned into an annoying patient.
And I was really frustrated whenmy cycle was longer than normal.
And it came when I wasn'texpecting it to come.

(05:19):
Again, I made this assumptionthat I was gonna take it and
that was gonna be it altogether.
So I called my doctor on theeighth day of my cycle and said,
look, I haven't had a cycle likethis since high school.
I don't like it.
Please tell me there's an end insight.
What do I do?
Is it safe to continue takingthis medicine?
And she confirmed everybodypretty much loves being on this.

(05:42):
If I could just gut out thesymptoms for the first couple of
months, I'm probably gonna loveit too.
But I just have to, you know, beokay with it and just deal with
it.
So I hung up with her and I'mlike, all right, I will deal
with it.
And so now I'm going into myfourth week.
Now, the whole reason I startedtaking Slind wasn't even because
of, oh, I want to stop myperiod.

(06:02):
I started taking Slind because Iwanted to be able to get a
handle on my hormones and thosereally bad dark days that I was
getting.
So I had explained to you guyspreviously that along with my
cycle, now at the age that I'mat, I was getting really bad, I
guess you would call it, I wasgetting really bad PMS symptoms,
basically.
But it was like completelyexacerbated.

(06:23):
That all it is is PMS, buttotally exacerbated.
So I was getting these reallybad rages.
I was getting really bad, verysad days, days where it was full
and full of anxiety and Icouldn't really function and I
had to really work to maintaincontrol of myself.
For the days that were the darkdays for me, um I was crying and

(06:45):
just really depressed and feltlike my life wasn't going
anywhere.
Really horrible stuff.
Because if you hear me on aregular basis here, you know
that that's not how I feel atall.
But I would have these dayswhere it was an overwhelming
sense of like despair.
Logically, I knew it's not rightand I know that it's gonna go
away.

(07:05):
So I would have to talk tomyself the whole time, being
like, Jenny, this isn't real.
You're gonna get through this assoon as your hormones shift back
into place, you'll be okay.
But what scared me into actionwas I had this stretch of three
days of really deep sadness.
And I was like, I cannot playRussian roulette with this
particular situation because Ican't have my kids growing up

(07:25):
with a mother that has nocontrol over how she's feeling
in any given day.
So that's where I'm at now.
Now that I'm pressing ahead andI'm getting through the first
month, I'm starting to get onboard here too.
I also think that this is gonnabe a really good thing for me in
the long run.
And I just have to let my bodyadjust.
I'll continue to keep you guysupdated, let you know like how
things are going.

(07:46):
I do want this testimonytestimonial to live out there
because testing out all thesemedicines and trying to figure
out what works best for you isreally hard and it's scary.
And I'm in it with you guys.
So I appreciate you listening.
I hope you're all having awonderful day and I will catch
you on the next one.
Take care.