Can the contraceptive implant implanon cause anxiety and depression?

[Stress_Head]

Hi,
I have had the implanon now for 2 years and since then have experienced 6 month cycles of extreme depression and anxiety followed by periods where i return to my normal happy mood and behaviour.  For the last month I have been feeling hightened level of anxitey, which have caused social withdrawal, and fellings of sadness and depression. Most worringly, recently i have had thoughts of self harming.

I couldn't seem to put my finger on why I was feeling this way, and till tonight, hadn't considered the possibility that it could be the implanon. I have done some brief reseach and found that the implanon can cause depression, but I am concerned can it completely explain the reason for my extreme long-term changes in mood, or is there something more deep routed?
Thanks

[oli1994]

Hey guys I am in exactly the same position!! I have had it since last October and always suspected it was having bad effects cause i got really depressed as soon as they put it in really. The depression comes and goes, it's bad right now. My boyfriend is the kindest person I have ever met, and he used to spend days with me where I would be having a great time with him then all of a sudden something would snap and I would be crying for hours and shouting at him and It makes me feel horrible, I don't know why he's stayed with me but I am so angry that it could be due to this thing in my arm which made me lose my sex drive anyway. The doctor is taking ages to book me an appointment! WE NEED TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE DANGERS OF THIS, it has ruined my social life, my motivation for school and my teenage life.

[Amy1212345]

Can anyone tell me how long it intakes for the hormone to leave your system once having implant removed

[missp29]

hi i was just reading ur comments iv had my implant in for 2years two now, and im the same . im crying for no reason at all and it seems to be getting worse , i cant sleep  but when i go to sleep i dont want to get out of bed at all. i cant  think right  im finding it hard even writin this thats how bad it is . i just wanted to ask u did u get pains going up ur arm. and like stabbing pain in ur stomach. and how do u feel now its out. cos im going up to get this out this is going on to long im going off me head and after seen all them comments has me worryed to bits. but the good thing is im not the only one this is happing to ....  

[Dolly0215]

i've previously had the depo 3 month injection almost 2 years ago. i lost 11 pounds without effort in less then 2 months(lost my butt and some breast weight, and weight in my area and thighs), lost hair my hair got super thin, i had super thick hair, it has recovered some since i stoped takin the injection, stoped my periods those are all my side effects for the depo. Now i take implanon, got it at the end of august this year, since then my periods has decreassed not fully, mood swings getting really sad, teary, and even crying for no reason at all, or get really sensitve and upset when my boyfriend jokes with me (we've always beem like this even before the implanon) and i KNOW he's just being playful and then i get upset even tho i know he means no harm and at times i feel super bad :( cause i know it hurts his feelings at times and even thinks he did something wrong especially if i get rude or irritaded but i told him its not him and i love him with all my heart, i also get very very dizzy and nauses ALL THE TIME! i actually threw up walking from the store to my house with my boyfriend the other day, it was weird cause i was fine in the store as soon as we walk out on the parking lot i get sick. i get sick almost everytime after i eat, i use to eat alot, recently my appitite has gone CRAZY, now i eat in very small amounts because i feel even more sick wen i eat alot, regardless i get sick, no hair loss yet thank good, and my weight seems fine(i gain my weight back this summer) but im afraid that with my new appitite im going to loss a lot of weight again and i dont want too!! my boyfriend lives with me so he notices all these things, and he's getting really worried if things dnt get better he wants the implanon out! he wants me to go see a doctor, he hates seeing me like this, if anybody knows anyways to better the side effects please let me know!! oh and does anybody know if marijuana has anythiing to do with it, i dont think so, i've done reasearch in the past about it cause i thought it was affecting me when i had the depo.

[sowerballs]

im 18 years old and I got the implant in may 2011 and i thought nothing of it at first. after three month or so i started feeling a change within my body. slowly but surely i started feeling more and more down everyday, i was taking my moods out on the wrong people and nearly lost the love of my life a few times through this, i dunno what i would do without him. i would cry at the slightest of things and get upset at things that would never usually bother me, anyways as time went on it got worse and worse. I started feeling down all the time, tired all the time, angry for the slightest things, moody all the time, not myself at all. I used to be so happy and have a good personality, i seen my friends everyday, now im housebound. i hardly go out, and when i do i cant enjoy myself. im just not myself whatsoever and the implant is the only thing i can think the problem would be. this last year and a bit has to have been the most emotional and upsetting part of my life so far.

After finding this website and realizing other people are going through what i am also, and that i am actually not going insane and loosing my mine, it has took a bit stress off my shoulders. finding this has really helped me, now time to go and get this thing removed before it gets any worse. It has ruined my social life and personality, i cannot let that get worse, hopefully i get back to my normal self soon :)

[Samantha1985]

Hi guys so its been a month from when I last posted and things are on the up! So turns out I was suffering from post natal depression but only mildly but having the implant just made my hormones go AWOL! I decided that my only option was to take anti depressants, which I'm so glad I did because it has now started to balance out my hormones again, don't get me wrong it has been a very very tough few months but girls i strongly recommend that you spk to your doctors for advice! And the anxiety attacks have lessened everyday and I finally have started enjoying my life again so just to let everyone know that there is hope xxxxxxx