Well, I am morally against hormones for menopause, so those are out for me. I refuse to use them. I'm going to either use herbs or go the way my mother did and just tough it out. Women have been going through menopause for a million years and it's time that it be treated the way it truly is: as a natural state of being and not as a disease. I'm on the pill and on thyroid replacement right now and I don't have any problems with them. I've never had a problem with any BCP that I've ever been on. My best friend can't take the pill so she's on an IUD and she also takes thyroid replacement. She's on the natural thryoid hormone, while I'm on the synthetic one.