just wondering if anyone else out there is having side effects of coming off the pill. I was on orth tricyclene for 9 yrs and this is month 5 off the pill and the 1st 2 months were hell and for the past 60 days i have been on Vitex and it has helped greatly!!! BUT, i still am having side effects, like uncontrollable irritability, sadness, depression, thoughts of suicide and hopelessness....these "epidsodes" have not been as intense as i experienced prev. but it still scares the S**T of me and i am so afraid that i am going to lose my mind, or go crazy and never be back to my old self again, which i am not so sure what that is now b/c it seems like a life-time ago that i felt normal! - has anyone else been through this or going through this and how long did it take for you to get back to normal? - b/c i am taking the herb vitex, i did some research and found that herbs are very slow acting and could take some time to see full results, and so far that seems to be correct, but my research also found that the rule of thumb for taking herbs b/c of an illness, etc. is to take them for one month of every year of sickness, so i figure 9 months ought to do it and if after that i dont feel right than i will have to conclude officially that the BCP has F****ED me! - it would have destroyed my emotional balance and natural rythm of life and to think that could happen scares me soo bad! - i just got married 8 months ago and feel terrible that 5 months of those 8 have been horrible for me which in turn does not make it very nice for my husband - HELP has anyone else experienced what i m talking about or tried to take Vitex or some other herb to help ease back to normality and has it worked???