Anyone got sterilized to avoid birth control side effects? Share your stories!

Hi everyone! I (F29) am a 100% convinced no child person, and have been on birth controls for eleven years now, Evra patch. During the last three years, I've been experiencing an array of symptoms that prevented me from being the usual sporty/active person I am and had me feeling miserable (sore throat and swollen lymph nodes with fever every two weeks, extreme fatigue, knee and wrist joints pain, IBS, skin tingling). I'm European, but still spent a few thousands euros doing any and all tests and arguing with doctors who think I'm "just tired" or imagining it, but nothing came up other than crazy high levels of cortisol - triple what it should be. I even tried switching to pills and the ring, but nothing changed, so my first gyn thought my issues had nothing to do with BC.

Now, yet another doctor said hormonal BC might have altered my body's ability to deal with cortisol, causing chronic inflammation. I have a feeling she might be right - and regardless of that, I already always wanted to have a bisalp.

Has anyone got sterilized after having experienced side effects from BC? I want to read your story and get some hope that my life can go back to not feeling constantly sick:)

Edit: thank you all for being so kind and share your personal experiences!! I will slowly go through each of them:)