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complex cyst and birth control pills
My doctor recommended that I go on birth control pills while I watch and wait a complex cyst on my right ovary. I understand the pills are to keep me from ovulating so that my ovaries, in essence are inactive and we can see what's going on with the cyst. Here's the deal: birth control pills affect my moods so extremely, that they completely change my life, my happiness, and everyone around me. I have such an extreme emotional reaction to pills that I absolutely don't want to go on them. I told this to my doctor who gave me "low dose" estrogen, but I've been on them before, I've been on several different kinds that supposedly have low-estrogen/low-hormonal effect, but I'm so sensitive to them that all of these different pills have transformed my life into misery (no, I'm not exaggerating). So my question is, how necessary is it that I take these pills? I'm due back for a second ultrasound in 2 months.
I understand... I had extreme reactions to all the types of oral BC they tried me on. Even my best friends didn't want to be around me!
After surgery they put me on Depo-Provera, which scared me at first, since if I had bad reactions to it, there's no way to get it out of your system for three months, but the one thing I noticed with all the other BC pills is that they have estrogen in them, and are comprised mainly of natural or synthetic estrogen, and just a tiny bit of progesterone. Turns out that I already have higher estrogen, and the added estrogen of the BC made me nuts. So the Depo-Provera, which is all progesterone (you stop cycling cause your body thinks it's pregnant), has made a huge difference. I tend to get a little depressed, but no major mood swings, no irritability, etc. HUGE difference.
Try having your estrogen levels tested... see if maybe that's part of it.
~Marianne
After surgery they put me on Depo-Provera, which scared me at first, since if I had bad reactions to it, there's no way to get it out of your system for three months, but the one thing I noticed with all the other BC pills is that they have estrogen in them, and are comprised mainly of natural or synthetic estrogen, and just a tiny bit of progesterone. Turns out that I already have higher estrogen, and the added estrogen of the BC made me nuts. So the Depo-Provera, which is all progesterone (you stop cycling cause your body thinks it's pregnant), has made a huge difference. I tend to get a little depressed, but no major mood swings, no irritability, etc. HUGE difference.
Try having your estrogen levels tested... see if maybe that's part of it.
~Marianne
Welcome. Could you go get a 2nd opinion with a gyn/onc? They are specialists and have seen everything. Perhaps there is something else that can be done. Although 2 months is not that long, it will seem even longer if you are miserable. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Godspeed
~Tascha
~Tascha
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