Hey girls, I'm glad you read the article. Here's another forum I stalked during my really bad days:
One thing I recently read from that forum really helped me. One of the girls mentioned that when we have those bad days and those repeating negative thoughts, our body becomes conditioned. So that even if we only think the negative thought once, our body has learned to have an emotional reaction to it, which makes the thought worse, and possibly is what causes it to play repeatedly in our heads.
A quick update from me is that I've recently learned how to better cope with those negative thoughts when they pop into my head. I'm almost 2 months off the pill. While I do still have an emotional reaction on my bad days, it's much less severe. Also, the "happy letter" I wrote to my "bad day" self has helped too. Now, I don't even have to actually read it. Something about writing it at all had some kind of therapeutic effect on me. During my bad days, I think of what I wrote, and feel instantly calmed.
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One thing I recently read from that forum really helped me. One of the girls mentioned that when we have those bad days and those repeating negative thoughts, our body becomes conditioned. So that even if we only think the negative thought once, our body has learned to have an emotional reaction to it, which makes the thought worse, and possibly is what causes it to play repeatedly in our heads.
A quick update from me is that I've recently learned how to better cope with those negative thoughts when they pop into my head. I'm almost 2 months off the pill. While I do still have an emotional reaction on my bad days, it's much less severe. Also, the "happy letter" I wrote to my "bad day" self has helped too. Now, I don't even have to actually read it. Something about writing it at all had some kind of therapeutic effect on me. During my bad days, I think of what I wrote, and feel instantly calmed.
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I was on Yaz.I had some symptoms before stopping the pill,anxiety,severe mood swings,lost appettite etc
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Hi Jen,
That article sounds good everything you wrote is what happened to me yesterday I was having a bad day and all these negative thoughts came rushing back about my boyfriend and I was crying and everything!
I want to ask you one thing does those negative thoughts about your boyfriend eventually go because I really want mine to go :-(
That article sounds good everything you wrote is what happened to me yesterday I was having a bad day and all these negative thoughts came rushing back about my boyfriend and I was crying and everything!
I want to ask you one thing does those negative thoughts about your boyfriend eventually go because I really want mine to go :-(
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Well, I don't have a straight answer for you yet. Essentially, on my good days I have no negative thoughts at all. In fact, when one of those doubts pops into my head on a good day, I have no reaction to it at all. I simply move on and forget about it completely. However, on my bad days, I still have those negative thoughts, and I still do have a slight emotional reaction to them. I've learned how to cope with it though. The best part of learning how to cope, is that a negative thought doesn't affect my whole day. The thing that helped me the most recently was talking to my sister and her telling me that she thinks I'm focusing my negative thoughts on my fiancé, when really, I could be feeling that way about other things. It just so happens that I focus the negative on him because I'm so close to marriage and it's the biggest change I've ever made in my life.
Anyway, I really hope this helps. Hopefully I'll be able to post in the future when I'm completely healed. I have faith that eventually those negative thoughts will only be a memory, and not something that affects my moods. Until then, we just have to be patient and let time work its magic :)
Anyway, I really hope this helps. Hopefully I'll be able to post in the future when I'm completely healed. I have faith that eventually those negative thoughts will only be a memory, and not something that affects my moods. Until then, we just have to be patient and let time work its magic :)
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Is there anyone out there who feels completely healed who could give us some insight? On good days I feel great, but on bad days I still feel a shadow of that sadness (that's how I describe it anyway). How does it feel for those out there who are back to their "old self"? Or...do we ever get back to that?
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Hi Jen,
Thanks so much for your reply. Today was a bad day but I joined zumba so I wentto that and felt good after it..... All day today I was anxious but only because I had those negative thoughts!
Ibhave this paralyzing fear that I'm not going to feel like myself again and that's all I want is to go back to normal because I do want to marry my boyfriend and have kids.
Those articles you put up where good. It's been a total of three months now and I'm still not myself been out of work for three weeks because th panic attacks got so bad.
All us women do really deserve a medal for all of this. I do believe that BC should be investigated because coming off the pill has extremely effected my life. Hopefully I will feel better soon !
Hope you are well x
Thanks so much for your reply. Today was a bad day but I joined zumba so I wentto that and felt good after it..... All day today I was anxious but only because I had those negative thoughts!
Ibhave this paralyzing fear that I'm not going to feel like myself again and that's all I want is to go back to normal because I do want to marry my boyfriend and have kids.
Those articles you put up where good. It's been a total of three months now and I'm still not myself been out of work for three weeks because th panic attacks got so bad.
All us women do really deserve a medal for all of this. I do believe that BC should be investigated because coming off the pill has extremely effected my life. Hopefully I will feel better soon !
Hope you are well x
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I've been off ortho tri cyclen lo (a birth control pill) for nearly 6 months. i took it to balance my hormones but after 3 months i started suffering from side effects that I couldn't tollerate so i stopped taking the pill and now that i'm off it i get a lot of mood swings. one minute i crave for a lot of sugar and the next minute a lot of herbal teas like peppermint tea (relaxed the muscles) and sour food . has anyone had this experience when getting off birth control pills? will it go away? thanks and cheers bye.
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I lived on this forum for months! I was SO happy to find it. I to always wanted the women to return to tell how they felt and if I would ever feel normal again. I finally felt back to "normal" at the 6th month mark after stopping the pill. I was on it for only 1.5 month (Loestrin) and I didn't get the crazy side effects until 3 months of quiting it. It was terrible!!! WORSE anxiety ever! Blured vision, headaches, always thinking I had a brain tumor or heart problems. It consumed me!! I had MRI's and tons of tests done. NOTHING came up but I felt terrible! The exhaustion I felt was paralizing and I have 3 little girls. Anyway I'm so happy to tell you that YES you WILL feel better I promise! I have my days where I feel bad but thats just part of being a woman with a menstral cycle. I'm just really aware of those days now, more so than I have ever been. I'm a total health freak too. I work out everyday, juice, gluten free, eat healthy so I knew I had to be in good health. BOTTOM LINE IS putting those hormones in our bodies screws us up and I feel SO bad for all the women who have yet to experience these terrible side effects and hope they never have to. Each month you'll feel better but allow yourself to have the bad days and remind yourself that it is JUST your hormones!! They can change levels from day to day. Good luck!!
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Hi Emily,
Thanks for your post it really helped. It's so hard on your bad days because all the negative thinking comes back and it upsets me because all the negative thoughts are about my boyfriend.... I have read alot of posts from girls and they also have experienced the same thing also.
The question I have for you is on the 6th month does everything just get better like do you feel alot better ?
Thanks for your post it really helped. It's so hard on your bad days because all the negative thinking comes back and it upsets me because all the negative thoughts are about my boyfriend.... I have read alot of posts from girls and they also have experienced the same thing also.
The question I have for you is on the 6th month does everything just get better like do you feel alot better ?
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I could feel the symptoms get less by 5th month but on 6th and 7th month I realized I wasn't obsessed with the situation like I had been. Make sense? I didn't think about it anymore or obsess with the way I was feeling. I also had a lot of stress in my life. I have 3 little girls and my husband is currently deployed (I think that stress had a lot to do with it lasting so long). I had read a lot of posts and Dr's say it can take 6 months for hormones to regulate and for me that was totally true. I just knew more and more it was hormones bc I would have crazy hot flashes too. The only thing I can say that is terrible is my period! It's heavier but that's about it. It's still not worth it to ever go back on a pill knowing how my body will react coming off :S YOU WILL FEEL BETTER, I promise. I look back and think about the way I felt ALL DAY EVERY DAY and I don't feel like that anymore AT ALL! Also, I started doing a diary of this whole process. When I looked back on the dates it was like clock work! It was so obvious it was my cycle. For me the craziness would begin 2 days AFTER my period ended. It would last about a week. I would have a week of good days and then BAM ovulation time and back to the crazy thoughts and symptoms. Strangly enough ON MY PERIOD I was fine. Well, I hope this helps. It will all end, just put you mind into something else! Thoughts are powerful ;)
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Well, back to normal is a fine line. I've been off bc for about 6 months now and now is the best that I have felt. The panic attacks went away after 3 months, the depression eased around the same time. I think 3 months is the golden number because thats when everything started getting better for me. Just keep your head up! Because even if it does take you 6 months, or even longer, 6 months is nothing compared to the rest of ur life you have to live. Just think, in a few years, this horrible time will seem like just a blink in time.
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Hi Emily,
Thanks so much for your reply. Yes i agree with you when you talk about stree and changes in your life because there was 2 deaths in my family in the space of two months and also alot of stuff was changing in my life. So i think the stress of that did not help really with all of this.
Yeah i have started to keep a diary and i due my period next week so i just want to see if my moods change coming up to them or after. All i want to do is get better and the support i have had is unbelievable. I had to go see a therapist and she is helping alot.
Yeah i never thought it was the pill until my therapist told me because it was like one week i was coping with lifes daily stresses and then a week later which i noticed on my diary was after my period all the symptoms came about. My symptoms were headaches, my gums were bleeding, i was always tired and i was so depressed could not stop crying and all i wanted to do was stay in bed. And then one day a panic attack over came me when i was having a silly argument with my boyfriend and then after that everything just spiraled and thats why he is my negative thought all the time that we are going to split up because i don't love him......but i know i do love him deep down its just my hormones wont let me feel it and there are so many girls out there that are going through this.
It annoys me that so many dr's out there do not think the pill can do this.....you are putting a pill in your body everyday and it is messing with you system.
I will never go on BC again.
Thanks emily for your input and your story it means alot. Hope you are keeping well.
Jen
Thanks so much for your reply. Yes i agree with you when you talk about stree and changes in your life because there was 2 deaths in my family in the space of two months and also alot of stuff was changing in my life. So i think the stress of that did not help really with all of this.
Yeah i have started to keep a diary and i due my period next week so i just want to see if my moods change coming up to them or after. All i want to do is get better and the support i have had is unbelievable. I had to go see a therapist and she is helping alot.
Yeah i never thought it was the pill until my therapist told me because it was like one week i was coping with lifes daily stresses and then a week later which i noticed on my diary was after my period all the symptoms came about. My symptoms were headaches, my gums were bleeding, i was always tired and i was so depressed could not stop crying and all i wanted to do was stay in bed. And then one day a panic attack over came me when i was having a silly argument with my boyfriend and then after that everything just spiraled and thats why he is my negative thought all the time that we are going to split up because i don't love him......but i know i do love him deep down its just my hormones wont let me feel it and there are so many girls out there that are going through this.
It annoys me that so many dr's out there do not think the pill can do this.....you are putting a pill in your body everyday and it is messing with you system.
I will never go on BC again.
Thanks emily for your input and your story it means alot. Hope you are keeping well.
Jen
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