I am happy for you Nikki! You give me hope that soon I will also feel good about my progress :) In our situation I realized all we can really do is be patient and live our lives the best we can each day.
I just finished my 2nd period after going off bcp maybe that's the reason why I have been having off days. Last night was weird too after getting a massage and i was abt to sleep - i felt so weak like my head and body was tingling. It feels so weird and scary!!! I almost want to be rushed to the ER because i was panicking so much in my head.
I will try to look for a good therapist in my area just to talk to someone and release all these thoughts and all.
Happy New Year Nikki! Cheers to a brand new year hopefully it will bring us better days than what we went through before this year ended :)
I just finished my 2nd period after going off bcp maybe that's the reason why I have been having off days. Last night was weird too after getting a massage and i was abt to sleep - i felt so weak like my head and body was tingling. It feels so weird and scary!!! I almost want to be rushed to the ER because i was panicking so much in my head.
I will try to look for a good therapist in my area just to talk to someone and release all these thoughts and all.
Happy New Year Nikki! Cheers to a brand new year hopefully it will bring us better days than what we went through before this year ended :)
Yes we will talk in the new year! Just message in this forum if you need to talk to anyone. Cheers all the best xo
Hi Martha,
I'm so sorry your having to go through this as well. Honestly I felt the exact same when I first went off it.
My advice for anyone whose recently off the pill and experiencing depression and anxiety is to try and keep your mind distracted as much as possible. Spending time with the ones you love and doing anything that would mentally distract you is the best way to get through it. Also trust me when I say if your getting anxious and having intrusive thoughts for no reason just remember it's not you it's the hormone imbalance. Try and plan fun things for you to do every so often so you have something to look forward to. That helped me at the start.
Another thing I suggest is to track your cycles each month so you can see when they're irregular and when they start to settle out. Also track your mood during each month. I don't know if this is the same for everyone but I personally noticed there was a rough schedule to when I would suddenly get heart palpitations and anxiety and when I would feel depressed during each cycle. ItLL help prepare you for when you when your going to get hit with a moodswing and you can also see when the changes start to happen.
Also I don't know for sure how much this helped but during my 6th month I started to take multivitamins for hormone balance. I started to notice a change but that might also have been a placebo affect. Either way I started to feel better. I no longer take those now.
Also my final advice would be if you desperately need someone to talk to go seek professional help. I was fortunate that my family, friends and bf were so understanding and helped talk me through my worries but I know not everyone has that. Also mindfulness is a good technique.
I hope you get better much quicker than it took me!
I'm so sorry your having to go through this as well. Honestly I felt the exact same when I first went off it.
My advice for anyone whose recently off the pill and experiencing depression and anxiety is to try and keep your mind distracted as much as possible. Spending time with the ones you love and doing anything that would mentally distract you is the best way to get through it. Also trust me when I say if your getting anxious and having intrusive thoughts for no reason just remember it's not you it's the hormone imbalance. Try and plan fun things for you to do every so often so you have something to look forward to. That helped me at the start.
Another thing I suggest is to track your cycles each month so you can see when they're irregular and when they start to settle out. Also track your mood during each month. I don't know if this is the same for everyone but I personally noticed there was a rough schedule to when I would suddenly get heart palpitations and anxiety and when I would feel depressed during each cycle. ItLL help prepare you for when you when your going to get hit with a moodswing and you can also see when the changes start to happen.
Also I don't know for sure how much this helped but during my 6th month I started to take multivitamins for hormone balance. I started to notice a change but that might also have been a placebo affect. Either way I started to feel better. I no longer take those now.
Also my final advice would be if you desperately need someone to talk to go seek professional help. I was fortunate that my family, friends and bf were so understanding and helped talk me through my worries but I know not everyone has that. Also mindfulness is a good technique.
I hope you get better much quicker than it took me!
I came off the pill in march this year so it was a good while ago now. I'll try and remember as many symptoms as I can:
Heart palpitations
Depression
Anxiety
(All of the above would happen for no actual reason)
Intrusive thoughts and Ocd thoughts (both of these were over irrational things that never bothered me before)
Very long periods that would last over a week
Very strong cramps even when it wasn't my time of the month
Hormonal spots
All anxiety and depression would get worse when a period hit
Irregular cycles
These have now all calmed down a massive amount and nearly all gone. The only thing I get now is some short worried thoughts but they no longer consume my life and I can brush them off like I did before this happened.
I hope this list helps you.
Heart palpitations
Depression
Anxiety
(All of the above would happen for no actual reason)
Intrusive thoughts and Ocd thoughts (both of these were over irrational things that never bothered me before)
Very long periods that would last over a week
Very strong cramps even when it wasn't my time of the month
Hormonal spots
All anxiety and depression would get worse when a period hit
Irregular cycles
These have now all calmed down a massive amount and nearly all gone. The only thing I get now is some short worried thoughts but they no longer consume my life and I can brush them off like I did before this happened.
I hope this list helps you.
I always wake up in the mornings and have a severe stomach ache. The cramps usually wake me up although they were a lot worse a few months ago. Also, my legs feel very shaky and I feel weak in the morning
I’ve been off since March and I don’t deal with many physical symptoms anymore. The only things that have really stuck are, I wake up with a stomach ache sometimes, a part above my knee has been “numb” for months. I say numb like that because I don’t know how else to describe it but it just doesn’t feel normal although I could feel it. And I just had a period with no cramps so that was super weird because I always cramp up pretty badly. The only other thing that has really stuck with me is my moodiness and thoughts about relationship. It’s not as constant but I do still doubt a lot and I do still think about it. I just finished my period and I was very very moody and didn’t even want to be kissed. SUCH A BRAT! I feel bad for being like this but I can’t help it.
Hi nikki! Hope you had a wonderful new year. I had my 70% self yesterday as we welcomed the new year. However today when i woke up - i had extreme nausea and threw up. The weakness came after and now I can't stand up because i fear i will pass out.
It just really gets me down when these things happen. It pulls me back to the beggining of this battle and now Im just sad and mad and frustrated of my situation. How do you survive moments like this?
-Martha
It just really gets me down when these things happen. It pulls me back to the beggining of this battle and now Im just sad and mad and frustrated of my situation. How do you survive moments like this?
-Martha
Hi thank you so much for responding :) It's definitely a hard battle.. I am having such a hard time especially this morning. Im so scared of all these physical symptoms. The moodiness I can handle but this nausea, head pressure & fear of passing out is getting the best of me :(
I also get anxious for no reason sometimes. Then from there it will all go downhill like I cant move or do anything else because I'm scared of all these mixed things i feel altogether.
I also wakeup in the morning with jelly legs and weakness on top of my nausea. It's so not a good way to start the day
Hi Martha, it's me Nikki! So experiencing this in the early months I didn't understand what was happening to me because I thought I was doing better! And then a setback would happen.. And I would get so DISCOURAGED AND ANGRY AND SAD... and fall right back down sometimes even worse then the first month! So you have to remember that setbacks will happen :( and they might happen three or four times! That is why this is such a debilitating experience because you think your doing good and then sometimes you can fall backwards! But that is why time is the best healer :( remember "progression not perfection"
Thanks for the words of courage Nikki. I have been crying for the past 2 hours feeling sorry for myself. I am a fighter but this condition we have is just so hard to fight with sometimes. I feel so beaten down today... there is this constant pressure on my left head that wont go away after my anxiety attack earlier..
You are an angel sent to me Nikki. I lt feels so good to let this out to someone who knows exactly how it feels.
You are an angel sent to me Nikki. I lt feels so good to let this out to someone who knows exactly how it feels.
Hi struggling! I just took a chance to reply to your message to see how you are now after a year? I can relate to everything you wrote down. Ive been off the pill for only 6 weeks
Aw I would do anything to help! Because I wouldn't wish this on my own enemy! I used to have chronic neck pains from this and I did not understand what it was from :( i cried SO MUCH probably more in the past few months then in the entire year of 2017! I will probably cry when I get home because it's emotional that i had to endure this pain for what reason? I'm still waiting for God to show me the strength I gained from this experience or the lesson.
What symptoms do you have? I feel like I’m the only one with ROCD and it’s driving me insane. It’s so sad to feel detached and not in love anymore especially for 8 months.