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God-- that sounds like what happened to me after I went off of the pill. Due to bad medical advice, I was forced to quit cold turkey. For a couple months, I would feel 20-30 symptoms of PMS all at once. It has gotten better now that my hormones have restablized and the junk is working out of my system, but I'm still in therapy for the anxiety and depression that came from not being able to taper off. I hope that you get your mess sorted out.
Quitting it sounds like a good idea. I knew of a lot of the bad things it was doing to my body/mood (rage, anxiety, losing my hair, weight gain, insomnia), but I am still surprised by little changes in my body that I didn't think birth control was affecting that has gotten better (like my Irritable Bowel Syndrome, for example, has gotten significantly better since I stopped). PMS has gotten better as time has passed, and the initial stabilization process started to wind down. Instead of say...20 symptoms, I'll experience 3-5.
I am done with hormonal birth control for good after this experience.
I've heard mixed reviews about the shot, but on the whole, few people have told me they enjoyed it. That's a lot of synthetic hormones to be taking in all at once and by the end of it, your body is confused because it's running out of the fake stuff. I think that was my big problem with the mini-pill -- so little synthetic that my body thought it needed to make its own too.
Yeah, I know how you feel. My Depakote made my period late by a month and a half. I was worried about it at first since I don't bother looking up the side effects to meds cos I don't wanna scare myself, but when I did it was listed on there. I thought, Oh great! Now I have irregulars. It sucks. Luckily I'm seeing my psychiatrist tomorrow, so I can tell him about that. Not that he'll love talking about it, of course. lol
That's no good. I can understand not wanting to look up side effects; I have found myself being more anxious when I know what a drug can do to me, even if it isn't likely. I didn't know that Aviane was causing my anxiety, rage, insomnia and hair loss until I ruled out all other things in my life and finally did the research.
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I am done with hormonal birth control for good after this experience.
I've heard mixed reviews about the shot, but on the whole, few people have told me they enjoyed it. That's a lot of synthetic hormones to be taking in all at once and by the end of it, your body is confused because it's running out of the fake stuff. I think that was my big problem with the mini-pill -- so little synthetic that my body thought it needed to make its own too.
Good luck!
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Make his ears bleed! ;)
I went to therapy today, too.
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