anxiety attacks after stopping birth control

So glad you're almost better after 5 months , I'm going through the same thing but find I'm so sensitive to everything :/ so I'm scared to take a lot of supplements . I came off the pill end of May but then made the mistake of trying prigesterone cream which has put me right back again after I came off it :/

Wow! I couldn't sleep for the last few days and was wondering why. I had feelings of anxiety. I cried uncontrollably last night yes I was upset about something but I'm not sure if I would of cried like that if I hadn't missed my pill. I realized this morning that I had missed two days when I saw spotting. It made me think that because I had missed a couple days of my bc I had been having anxiety before bed. That's when I came on here and seen that I wasn't alone and my suggestion was true.

Hi Heather, I'm wondering how long it took for you to feel like yourself again?

Hi, I'm wondering what else you did to feel any better? And how did you deal with the depressing and anxious feeling? I'm also feeling exactly like this, I stopped taking the pill in June and it's now the end of September, it's been getting worse. I've been seeing a counselor and my family doctor has prescribed antidepressants to help me cope with the transition. Some days are ok, some days I feel like a mess and I can cry at nothing. Please get back to me, thank you!!!

Hi All, I posted as a guest back in June I think it was. My anxiety has only started to improve in the last 2 weeks. I'm able to drive my car again and do things on my own again. I still get butterflies in my stomach when I'm doing stuff but it beats the nervousness I had there a few weeks ago. I'm hoping I have turned a corner. I started doing reflexology about 2 and a half weeks ago and I think that has helped. I started taking magnesium and omega 3 fish oil and probiotics as well. I'm not sure which thing has been helping me the most. I feel it's a combination of them all.
I am still quite snappy, emotional and slightly depressed but I am due my AF so I think that is normal. I'm not sure what my normal is anymore because I was on birth control 10 years in total except for a break to have my daughter in 2008. I got pregnant within 3-4 months off the pill so I didn't notice any side effects.
I'm really hoping to be back on track. What I will say though is Maca powder threw me over the edge!!! I was coping fine with my anxiety up to then-I was able to go about my days with relative ease but when I tried Maca powder I went into breakdown mode. I could leave the house or be on my own. I've spoken to women who said progesterone cream also had that effect on them. So really research what you take. I'm also in CBT therapy. It's been a life changing experience.
Hopefully we will all recover. I just hope my AF went sent me back a few steps. Thinking of you all. It's such a difficult thing to experience.

There is a real research about this subject. So you know, it is actually the pill that is causing this!

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Thanks for posting the link. I hope people are improving symptom wise. I'm still in recovery l. It's a long road. I hope they do more research on withdrawal symptoms. :)

Thank you for this! I needed this a positive message on healing, this is awful and they should warn women that this can happen

Thank you I hope you continue to improve I am coming up on week 4 and i feel like i am going out of my mind. Im hopeful.

How are you doing? What symptoms have you? Have you posted here already? Hard to know with all comments under guest so sorry if you have.

How do you feel now!! I feel the same way. I have a great life and got slapped in the face with all of these emotions..

I came off my birthcontrol in late 2015...it has been a long journey. I will describe everything in hopes to help someone as a Guest. So I took a birthcontrol pill which honestly they seem to all be the same garbage so I won't even bother disclosing the name but it was a generic and low dose. So ever since I took that birthcontrol I was a teenager..I didn't know any better the things I would have to face which I still believe its from the birthcontrol.
As soon as I quit the birthcontrol I was fine for like 2 weeks.
Then I started becoming a worry-wart weather it was for important or things that for someone else would seem insignificant. After a few months the intrusive thoughts (just bad thoughts about people, thinking bad of myself, etc.) this thoughts would have me feeling stuck on those thoughts all day feeling guilty/anxious and eventually I developed ocd...which was me cleaning my hands a lot and me wanting to confess these thoughts but to my loved ones due to guilt/shame. I went through that for about a year....now it's a year and a few months and although I feel 50% better at times theres times I only feel 30% better in comparison to before especially before my period. I still have a long journey to go and I feel its taking me longer because I went thru this so long that the anxiety still haunts bc I know "myself" as having anxiety/ocd/bad thoughts for the last year...so I guess in a way I'm like "wow how do I go back to normal, like this never happen..what if I get a bad thought..what if I relapse and my anxiety goes to as bad as when I quit the birthcontrol...I feel like I have been shaken a bit from the experience because I felt like my mind was bullying me...I would cry everyother day before because I felt like if I was given another mind and not my own...and I had intrusive bad thoughts and would feel very bad about it and the more I fear having a bad thought or w.e the more it came. I started going to a therapist and that has helped me cope with the confessing part somewhat compared to before. I was put on anti-depressant (because my therapist and pschiatrist both concluded I had ocd and general anxiety disorder) honestly I would worry about everything...if it can run thru my head as a thought I would most likely worry...but it was strange like it was beaten and trying to question the type of person I was. So when I went on celexa/citalopram is the generic which I took generic...I didn't really feel a difference no benefits and no side-effects. My psychiatrist switched me to fluoxetine which is the generic of Prozac...I have been on it for about almost 3 months and that has helped me cope....if before my anxiey was a 9 it took me to a 7...a 5-6 on a good day and back to like an 8 before period....but what this fluoxetine made me feel is start to think a little more rationally that im not crazy, im not bad that im dealing with a chemical imbalance and that my serotonin is low...nobody knows what happeneds but all I know is hormones and chemical transmiters in the brain go hand in hand. I had 3 blood hormal tests done at a general doctor ofiice after I got off birthcontrol on random days all normal..however, I was told that hormones need to be checked on a specific day which was not the case for me I just happened to ask for hormone blood tests when I went for check-ups...I knew in my bones something was wrong with me. This month I'm going to check my hormones on cycle day 21 and cycle day 28....just to see and im going to google what the correct date in cycle its best to accurately check hormone levels...as they flunctuate from day to day..from my understanding. Ever since I stopped the birthcontrol I went thru 5 months of twitching in my arms,cheeks,toes etc. that went away except my right toes have never stopped twitching...they still twitch everyday till this day...I dont know why.

So in a few weeks, now that I'm a year off birthcontrol and I havent fully gotten 100% I'm going to test my hormones on the accurate dates, I'm going to do a vagina ultrasound to check for anything and I will have another blood test.
What I have tried and what I will try that may work:
Sleeping well
water water water (avoiding plastics)
avoiding microwave
trying to eat healthy and organic

Fluoxetine..I was on 20mg which my psychiatrist says is a low-dose and it's more for mild-depression etc and then he upped me to 40mg and that's the dosage for anxiety. On the 40mg I have had a little better days than before. At least I can breath in between the good and bad days before it was all bad.

What I try and didn't help me:
Citalopram (everyone is different and one med that doesn't work for one person can work for another. Don't feel discourage if you don't see results with the first anti-depressant you try. Just get another dosage or brand)/

Acupunture (spend about 200-300 dollars and it really didn't make a difference to me)

I check this post every week

^ to add to my post I felt unusual bloating since I stopped birthcontrol and some increase in body hair growth. Then like I said the moodswings,irritability,anxiety,intrusive thoughts and ocd. Physical symptoms if I get too nervous I feel a little nauseaus, been having twitching in my right toes since the beginning but my period cycle seems to be regular 28-32 days. its all so weird.

Hi, I had 2 good days and now I'm feeling anxious again. I think my cycle is trying to start! The irrational/intrusive thoughts are starting to get to me. Any words of wisdom? Are you still doing well?

I wish I had words of wisdom for you. I was doing well until I got my period and I got hit with very bad depression. I couldn't pull myself out of it. My anxiety as gone pretty much by then only very not anxiety was lingering and I could cope with that and I though I was finally getting better and the depression hit then. It is all based on my hormones though because it hit the last day of my period so whatever shift in hormones happen then it doesn't suit me. I reluctantly had to call for an anti-depressant prescription. I hate saying it but I was just worn out from trying to fight it all the time. I know it's my hormones and everything but knowing the cause isn't making me get better any sooner. I have a child that needs me so I had to give in to them. I hope they work. I do feel though that I was getting better-like I was going on to another stage in healing but I'm physically tired so I just relented and just had to get the meds. I know people have managed without meds so you can do it too. Just because I've had to get them doesn't mean that you can't manage without. We are all different. I hope you get through this. I wil update here every once in a while. Sorry I can't be of more help to you.