birth control pill causing anxiety/ depression??

[torque]

I was just wondering if anyone has been on birth control pills and have suffered from anxiety or depression issues? I have been on the pill for 11yrs now and cant take how I am feeling anymore. I went on the pill for irregular periods, but since then I have been feeling blah, libido has decreased severely, I have sinus problems- I found out I have no allergies- so I think it is related to axiety, I worry constantly about everything; I get so nervous I get light headed sometimes. I thinkk I am going to try and stop the pills. I was just wondering if anyone had similar side effects from birth control pills. Thank you!

[BEmilyW]

So glad to have found this forum! I started taking Sprintec 10 months ago and almost immediately began going crazy. I was paranoid my boyfriend was cheating on me, I got super clingy. Never in my life had I felt this way. A few months agol, I became very anxious and depressed. Suicidal thoughts crossed my mind constantly. I couldn't take it anymore. I was no longer the same happy person I had always been. I tried finding excuses to not be around anyone but my boyfriend. I refused to make new friends and I was afraid of talking to people. My whole life revolved around my depression and anxiety. It was becoming very unhealthy. It was not until a month ago when I decided to really do something about this. Sprintec basically destroyed my being and I needed a change. I talked to my doctor and just recently I switched to the IUD Skyla. Ever since switching, my mood has changed back to its normalcy. My depression and anxiety are no longer present. I am back to my old self. I highly recommend getting Skyla, particularly for all of you ladies who are suffering from severe mood changes as a result of Sprintec.

[mnfm123]

I can relate to all of this completely. It's a horrible feeling, I just quit my birth control yesterday. I know this was posted a while ago but I wanted to see if things improved for you?

[Collegegirl92]

This is so relieving... Obviously I have been going through the same thing. I'm 21 and I just started Lyrna this month.  The Wednesday before I was supposed to start my period on the pack everything started to hit the fan. I have been dating my boyfriend for 4 years and I have always been completely in love with him. I know this might sound like bragging but he is literally perfect ladies. He is everything that I have wanted in a man and more.  But on that Wednesday I woke up obsessing over the fact that I might not love him anymore and have been throwing the thought of breaking up with him and the thought of marrying him doesn't excite me anymore when the day before that was all I would day dream about.  So since then I have been obsessing over the thought of whether I want to or not. LIKE I CANT TURN MY MIND OFF. When I think that I do I have an anxiety attack and start going through deep depression.  I just can't imagine my life without him and the thought of him with someone else makes me sick.  But then I have these weird thoughts of how relieving it would be if he broke up with me... its like my mind is playing tricks on me.  Then yesterday I was with him and everything was perfectly normal but then those thoughts would haunt me again and I would think to myself that "I don't love him anymore." I do love him so much but I don't know why I'm obsession over all this.  Also I haven't been able to eat.  Putting one morsel of food in my mouth makes me gag and I have been force feeding myself for the past two weeks.  My family has even been noticing that I haven't been eating enough.  I have just lost all my appetite because I am so worried about my feelings.  I just haven't been feeling myself at all. I had to call off two days of work because I couldn't keep my composure and today I lost it at my desk and my supervisor had to pull me aside to calm me down. I have stopped taking the pill but I was wondering if anyone knows how long it will take for me to get back to normal. I really can't live like this anymore I'm drowning in my thoughts and I just want to be happy and normal again.HELP!

[Kassandragirl]

Hey ladies! I'm eighteen years old and yes I'm sexually active. I started on LOLO about thirteenth days ago. and it has made me feel horrible: anxious depressed, and extremely sick.it nothing short of *****. Has anyone else had these symptoms on a low does birth control?  

[nikki3182]

Lately I've been in a deep depression and all of a sudden I snapped on my family members and my companion I've been dating off and on for 16 years. I have been on Lo Loestrin since November of last year and it seens like each month I have a new symptom.  It has gotten to the point where no one wants to be around me at all.  I've also had sucidial thoughts feels like no one understands me.  When I wasn't taking birth control I wasn't this bad off.  Yes I get depressed, but usually I snapped out of it quick.

[kelseyblake]

My story is not as bad as many of the others on here... kudos to all of you who made it through these BC pill horror stories! I am doing a little research to see if my evening sadness/ moodiness is due to my birth control. I've been on Generess fe for a little over a year and a half now. It has worked great and I've not realized any huge side effects. The past few months I have been a little more emotional and grumpy than I'd like to be. However, it often only surfaces in the evening. I am a morning person 100%, I love knowing a full day is ahead of me. When evening approaches my mind cannot stop racing of all of the things I could've done that I didn't, or how my boyfriend should've called to hang out with me after work and many other unreasonable things that should not make me that upset! I cry myself to sleep some nights, and I absolutely hate it. I too feel like I go "crazy" with my boyfriend sometimes too. My instances just don't sound as severe as the rest of the stories I've read. Do any of you have any input or similar feelings? I don't want to get off the pill if it isn't necessary, because so far it has been a great contraceptive. Advice PLEASE!