Hey guys! Just an update. I’m a year off the pill & FINALLLLLLLLY feeling 85% like my normal self. Yes it took a full year to feel this well. I can say each month some symptoms went away and new ones came. I had no mental health issues before BC and after getting off i had extreme anxiety, panic attacks, odc thoughts, weird thoughts about hurting myself which i never ever ever had before, i became obsessed with the thought of something bad happening to loved ones, didn’t want to leave the house, etc! I can feel my body leveling out and i went from feeling terrible 25 days a month to know only having maybe 2/3 days a month where i feel more anxious than usual, get bad migraines, blurry vision, and insomnia. It’s always right before your period. Taking BC stopped your body from making its own hormones and i was taking it over 10 years.. we have to give our bodies time to adjust to making its own hormones again and making the right amounts. I tried things off and on but i didn’t notice any crazy changes other than with light cardio 3 days a week and drinking A LOTTT of water helps for some reason. Just hold in there. You are NOT crazy. It’s your hormones & it will take a while.
I so feel for everyone on this message board! You are NOT alone and things will get better. Looking back now I have no idea how I got through those really bad times. I have been off for a little over three months. The first two weeks were nonstop anxiety worst thing I’ve ever felt. I wanted to quit my job and move home but I resisted and I’m glad that I did. I took Xanax on the very bad days which pulled me through. Still have to take it from time to time. Annoyingly enough my doctor wouldn’t prescribe it to me only Prozac or Zoloft which I didn’t want to take so I found it where I had to. After my anxiety subsided to manageable levels another bad wave hit me another month in. Somehow I’ve gotten through all of them and now am just dealing with a more baseline anxiety which I used to have. I’ve tried vitamins and been talking to a therapist which I guess helps some. Also please get this book called DARE the new way to end anxiety and panic attacks. It will really help w your mindset and it touches on intrusive thoughts. The instrusive thoughts are strictly from anxiety!! You’re not going to act on them so don’t worry. I was so scared and freaked out about driving across a bridge and thought to myself what If I get out of car and jump off bridge. I couldn’t believe this book actually touched on these thoughts. Definitely anxiety and that’s it. I was quite scared because I have two friends attempt suicide in past year and it added to my anxiety and paranoia about what if I ever felt that way.
Just know that it’s all the anxiety and hormone imbalance. Things will get better you just have to hold onto the hope. Yes I do still have bad days but I have a lot of stress such as upcoming wedding, moving to a new city, work events, new job etc. but I am dealing w all these things despite what I’ve been through past three months.
My name is Amy. I am six months post removal of my Nexplanon implant. I have been through it all. Extreme/debilitating anxiety, paranoia, obsessive/irrational/racing thoughts, ridiculous mood swings, nausea, migraines, joint pain, no libido, lack of energy, chronic fatigue, strange somatic pains, etc. After three long painful years of hell, I can finally say that consistently every month I am getting better. Let me also say this -
THIS IS THE HARDEST THING YOU WILL EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH. AND, YOU WILL COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE VERY STRONG and VERY POWERFUL, holding a skillset and muscle that many in our society do not possess.
You don't have to go back on birth control, you don't have to go on medications that cause other side effects, you can do this naturally. I have found very inexpensive ways to deal with this and provide relief naturally, because well, I had to, I was broke. I spent my life savings on medications and therapy that did not do (pardon my language) a f***ing thing. I was on pharmaceutical medications (six at one point) and spent a year and a half in intensive therapy with no improvement, including a residential facility. I finally started doing my own research and got that damn birth control implant out of my arm. I am also a Certified Hormone Specialist through the Institute for Nutritional Transformation. I work SOLELY on donation and exchange only, I do NOT charge money. Feel free to contact me at ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** posting of private information such as name, phone number or email address is not allowed in order to protect your privacy*** Please read our Terms of Use
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