Hi ladies!
I want to share a bit of my story and give a little encouragement to help you along the way. My story began back in March when I was bumped up to all higher dosage hormone twice in two months (first in Feb. then again in March). I began having spells of shortness of breath, trembling, and nearly blacking out ( once at work and once while driving was not fun). I then went to see my Family Doc. whom suspected the birth control, but did not mention it to me at that time.
The next week I was sitting on my couch when out of no where I began to feel shortness of breath again, lots of trembling, and this time with heavy anxiety (Just want to take a moment here and say that up to this point in life I had never felt anything like this. I was overcome by terrifying thoughts, my muscles shook so bad I needed help walking, and I broke out in hives all over my face, neck and chest). I was driven to the ER by my sweet husband. After hours in the ER and lots of blood work I was told it was just a severe anxiety attack probably due to a stressful life (which I don't have); and I was given zanax and sent home. The next day I went back to my family doc whom took me off the birth control immediately and also prescribed me zanax.
Over the next several months I felt absolutely horrible. I had terrible migraines (never experienced those until this point), insomnia, depression, anxiety, digestion pain, diarrhea etc.. at this point all I could do was lay on the couch and watch tv (fixer upper to be exact) to get my mind off how horrible I felt. My symptoms lessened very gradually, and began to peak and dip with points in my cycle (which at this point were all over the map! Very long cycles).
In June, about 4 weeks into a very long cycle the feeling of depression became much worse. I was unable to get out of bed and brush my teeth without sitting on the floor leaning my head on a pillow (side note: this is when I began to notice that things got worse right before I bled. It gets better keep reading