yes .. talk to doc and get off pill im assuming. I am currently going through the same thing and its killing me.. im planning on getting off
It's a bit overwhelming the number of women reporting the same symptoms isn't it?! I'm on here because my own health is declining and i've been looking for a connection. As well as the anxiety symptoms which people are reporting I have chronic stomach issues and i'm really keen to hear if other women using the contraceptive implant or pill are experiencing the same conditions. I have never suffered with IBS before. I've been using the implant since 2011 and steadily over the past three years my symptoms have worsened to the point where i am now gluten intolerant and possibly unable to digest lactose too. I suffer with bloating, stomach pain (most / everyday) an inability to tolerate certain foods, such as roasted potatoes and meats, wind and crazy gurgling sounds and poor bowel movements...if this sounds similar to your experience i'd love to hear from you...I'm seriously considering removing my implant just to see if there really is a connection with both my anxiety levels and my IBS symptoms
I literally feel like i'm insane! and I feel so horrible that my bf has to put up with it. i literally feel so on edge when i'm not with him. I am always anxious and irritable and I can't sleep anymore unless I'm either with my bf or basically so exhausted I can't keep ,my eyes open. I am questioning my every thought and emotion and am so moody. I feel like a psycho! I'm on Minastrin 24 Fe right now and am thinking of switching to the shot. the first month of the pill was horrible, I threw up all the time and had headaches and was super horny. The second and third month I started having anxiety and depression setting in. Now this month I can barely function! Anyone else feel this way. I've also noticed OCD like behavior.
I am taking the same birth control and the SAME thing happened to me! I had been on it before, then got back on it and it was okay the first couple of months but then it got bad. I didn't even THINK the crazy anxiety and depression was my birth control until one time I didn't take it for 2 weeks because I couldn't get it, and I felt totally myself for the first time in 3 weeks I wasn't anxious at all! Then when I took it again, all of a sudden I was anxious again. Needless to say, I'm getting off of it for good.
I am SO glad other people have had similar experiences. So I've been taking birth control for years but this past summer, out of nowhere I had a crazy panic attack and I ended up in the ER because I had no clue what was happening. After that, I had three weeks of absolutely crippling anxiety and depression. I couldn't physically make myself smile and I also couldn't stop crying no matter how hard I tried. I couldn't sleep but I layed in bed all the time because I was miserable. I've always been incredibly normal and never had anything like this happen so I didn't understand how I all of a sudden developed anxiety especially when I was at the happiest point in my life. I started back to college and I almost took the semester off because I thought I was going crazy and I couldn't handle it. After one week of being on campus, I started to feel like my old self again. I went to the doctor one week after my panic attack because I couldn't stop being anxious 24/7 and she told me that panic attacks throw your body out of wack and it takes a few weeks for your body to level back out to baseline. So I knew it'd go away and when it did I was so relieved! But then after feeling completely normal for 2 weeks, all of a sudden out of nowhere the anxiety hit me, just not as bad. I then realized that it just so happened the 2 weeks I felt normal, I was off my birth control because I couldn't get them. Then the anxiety just so happened to come back when I started taking them again, so I pretty much just came to the conclusion that it is most likely the pills. So I am definitely going to get off them for good. It ***** because I have such heavy periods and painful cramps but I would SOOO much rather deal with that than anxiety!!!
I was on birth control for over 10 years ... I am currently 29 I have been off my pills now for two years and have been trying to have kids with no luck. Girls beware, do not take the pills for that long unless you NEVER want to have kids.