Comments | terebi_me: IT'S THE SODDING PILL!!

terebi_me

IT'S THE SODDING PILL!!

Jun 02, 2006 12:28

After many weeks of feeling progressively worse - not quite suicidal, but close; obliterated self-esteem; creeping fear and malaise; excessive emotionalism that makes me weep about ten times a day over NOTHING - I used my massive powers of scientific deduction to determine the only thing whatsoever that I'm doing that's different from the way I was ( Read more... )

health, drugs, rant

Comments 7

the_automatik June 2 2006, 19:47:04 UTC

Good for you. I never trusted Seasonale's claims and I'm glad to know I'm not alone in my distaste for the drug.

terebi_me June 2 2006, 22:41:17 UTC

Oh, it works like a charm for managing endometriosis - I haven't had anything approaching the white-knuckled, groaning-because-screaming-would-bother-people kind of pain that I'm used to since I started on it - but it just doesn't work for psychosensitive ol' me. I'm certain that being on the pill was a major cause of my crippling teenage depression, because as soon as I stopped taking it, it was like night and day, and this has been duplicated several times as I've had to stop taking the pill for various reasons.

I wish my body wasn't so incredibly sensitive to anything that alters my hormonal balance, or that my hormones being out of whack didn't utterly fuck up every single aspect of my life, from the ability to control my emotions, to having enormous pain in random parts of my body, to my sleep, to having extremely frequent hallucinations (like now! I just saw bright red streaks on my hand that weren't actually there! awesome....)

the_automatik June 5 2006, 13:26:20 UTC

Yuck, that sounds awful. I wonder if a lot of my emotional problems have been due to crazy hormone issues, too.

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terebi_me June 2 2006, 22:35:11 UTC

Wow... I'm a vitamin/supplement geek, and I've never even heard of L-theanine before, let alone having ever seen it. If the depression persists after next week, I'll see if I can rustle up some (after I do some extensive research, of course - I can't have another one of those situations like I had with evening primrose oil, which, being a powerful estrogenide, made me go from 0 to psycho in about 12 hours).

anonymous June 3 2006, 03:02:45 UTC

So you picked up Gnarls Barkley. Now that's got to help you feel a little better. "Storm Coming" is gorgeous. I know anything can happen between now and next March (or is it February?), but if they aren't nominated for Record or Song of the Year, then God and I will have to stop seeing each other for a while.

Oh, and while undoubtedly appealing to most women, I've always felt it unwise to interfere with the menstrual cycle. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature. Glad you solved the problem and respect for warning others about Seasonale.

misprid June 3 2006, 22:20:57 UTC

hey! add me back. I was only making entries private! xoox

bookbabe1999 June 15 2006, 18:30:20 UTC

remembering how wretched and fat depo provera made me (literally -- i gained 50 pounds in a year while on it) makes me eternally glad that my little tendency towards bloodclotting makes it highly unlikely that i can ever take hormones of this type. feh. especially since my hormones make me a raging depressed wee git. (psst -- is your myspace up yet?)