Hough I knew a neighbour who was using them. But that

Hough I knew a neighbour who was using them. But that woman had suffered with them so much and they were removed. But for my case, the health worker told me it would match with my body since I had used the injectables before. So I followed her recommendation to use it. And now I am using implants. (25 year old) Health workers were also supportive in enabling women cope with side effects by providing medications, counselling and fnins.2015.00094 advice on alternative methods. Trust was vital in the relationship between women and health workers particularly for young women who were using FP without their partners’ knowledge. I always talk to the health provider and she finds a way of helping me. I cannot take a decision on my own regarding these challenges. When I got the injection and experienced problems, I came back and talked to her. She told me `such things happen at the start but you will be fine after some time’, and I indeed I got well after. (26 year old) I did not tell anyone about my side effects with implants [stopped using it] except the health providers because people can spread Pan-RAS-IN-1 structure rumours and yet my husband does not want me to use it. (25 year old) The role of marriage partners was both supportive and negative. Seven women noted that their partners provided `permission’ to use FP, provided finances for transport to the facilities, and for purchasing contraceptives and FP-related health care like treating side effects, as well reminding partners to take the daily pill. . . .my husband is very supportive regarding family planning. We always sit with him and discuss planning for our family. . . He always ensures that I do not forget the period to go back for refills and reviews. . . I think because he also sees that the order PD325901 children we have are enough. (38 year old) However, other women reported lack of support from their partners due to desire for more children, or in genuine response to side effects affecting their wives, notably reduced libido. I have not told my husband that I have bought the tablets again [to help cope with the heavy bleeding from Implants]. The first time he is the one who bought them because the doctor asked him to buy them and he thought that I got well. [But] now I went and bought them myself because if I had told him, he would have asked me to stop using contraception. So I kept it to myself. . . (23 year old)PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0141998 November 2,7 /Experiences of Women Using Modern Contraception in Wakiso, UgandaClose female friends were supportive if they had positive experiences with FP journal.pone.0158910 themselves. Such friends played the role of `experts’ in helping peers to cope with negative experiences. However, friends with negative first-hand or rumoured experiences discouraged women from using contraceptives. Often the rumoured experiences reported turned out to be misperceptions as noted in the following quotes from a young and an older woman. They [other women friends] were telling me that the IUD changes location once inserted and goes deep into the body of the uterus and causes cancer. As a human being I am scared. Women talk a lot here. My friends discourage me because they are not using family planning. So when I hear them say this, it makes me feel bad yet I do not want to follow their negative talk. (22 year old) They say that there are many cases of cancer in Mulago [national referral] hospital due to the IUD. So we get scared and we have failed to make choice of what method to always use. (40 year old) L.Hough I knew a neighbour who was using them. But that woman had suffered with them so much and they were removed. But for my case, the health worker told me it would match with my body since I had used the injectables before. So I followed her recommendation to use it. And now I am using implants. (25 year old) Health workers were also supportive in enabling women cope with side effects by providing medications, counselling and fnins.2015.00094 advice on alternative methods. Trust was vital in the relationship between women and health workers particularly for young women who were using FP without their partners’ knowledge. I always talk to the health provider and she finds a way of helping me. I cannot take a decision on my own regarding these challenges. When I got the injection and experienced problems, I came back and talked to her. She told me `such things happen at the start but you will be fine after some time’, and I indeed I got well after. (26 year old) I did not tell anyone about my side effects with implants [stopped using it] except the health providers because people can spread rumours and yet my husband does not want me to use it. (25 year old) The role of marriage partners was both supportive and negative. Seven women noted that their partners provided `permission’ to use FP, provided finances for transport to the facilities, and for purchasing contraceptives and FP-related health care like treating side effects, as well reminding partners to take the daily pill. . . .my husband is very supportive regarding family planning. We always sit with him and discuss planning for our family. . . He always ensures that I do not forget the period to go back for refills and reviews. . . I think because he also sees that the children we have are enough. (38 year old) However, other women reported lack of support from their partners due to desire for more children, or in genuine response to side effects affecting their wives, notably reduced libido. I have not told my husband that I have bought the tablets again [to help cope with the heavy bleeding from Implants]. The first time he is the one who bought them because the doctor asked him to buy them and he thought that I got well. [But] now I went and bought them myself because if I had told him, he would have asked me to stop using contraception. So I kept it to myself. . . (23 year old)PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0141998 November 2,7 /Experiences of Women Using Modern Contraception in Wakiso, UgandaClose female friends were supportive if they had positive experiences with FP journal.pone.0158910 themselves. Such friends played the role of `experts’ in helping peers to cope with negative experiences. However, friends with negative first-hand or rumoured experiences discouraged women from using contraceptives. Often the rumoured experiences reported turned out to be misperceptions as noted in the following quotes from a young and an older woman. They [other women friends] were telling me that the IUD changes location once inserted and goes deep into the body of the uterus and causes cancer. As a human being I am scared. Women talk a lot here. My friends discourage me because they are not using family planning. So when I hear them say this, it makes me feel bad yet I do not want to follow their negative talk. (22 year old) They say that there are many cases of cancer in Mulago [national referral] hospital due to the IUD. So we get scared and we have failed to make choice of what method to always use. (40 year old) L.