Feeling depressed after stopping the birth control pills?

Guest over a year ago

I don’t speak to my gyno anymore about it bevause she makes me feel crazy and it doesn’t help anything.

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Guest over a year ago

I hear what your saying about not wanting to go back to your gyno. She prescribed me norethindrone (mini pill) because I had high blood pressure and I took it for a couple of weeks and I felt crazy so I went off it. When I saw her again and told her I didn’t like how I felt she told me to try it again and give it 3 months so my body can acclimate to it. I gave it 3 1/2 months and I couldn’t take it anymore. I was having panic attacks daily, which I think is want pushed me into depersonalization. If I would have done my due diligence and read about the side effects of the pill I would of learned that it can exasperate anxiety/depression symptoms which I already had before the pill.

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Guest over a year ago

The exasperation of my depression and anxiety has been my biggest issue. My depression was mild and anxiety attacks were few and far between prior to pill. ALL of that went down the drain after going on the pill and even moreso being off it.

Been off pill since late January and while things have gotten better with vitamin b and magnesium supplements as my symptoms are dulled on them, I'm tired of feeling all the exasperation altogether. Just wanna be my old self again but I worry I'll develop an anxiety disorder from this and it will never go away.

-Dani

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Guest over a year ago

What symptoms did u feel that made u drink those supplements dani? Did u have your real period already?

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Guest over a year ago

The biggest one was the intrusive thoughts and the anxiety that came with it. Things that were silly for me to stress over in the past suddenly became a big deal when my hormones went out of wack on the pill and after I stopped taking it. The thoughts were pretty much constant from the moment I woke up until the moment I went to bed. It was maddening and I knew I had to get onto a med for anxiety and supplements or else I could've starting hurting myself or worse.

I'm on an antihistimine and one of the things it does is lighten up the amount of anxiety/intrusive thoughts. It definitely helps in conjunction with supplements and I've had a very noticeable change for the better.

Currently on my first actual period and it's been happening the way it does naturally for my body.

-Dani

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Guest over a year ago

Mine lessened with the supplements too. You mean you had your first period after around 5-6mos? im on my second month off the pill and i missed the first period with a negative pregnancy test. Its crazy. I heard symptoms will improve as your cycle improves

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Guest over a year ago

Yeah had my withdrawal period around sometime in late April into early May and my first real period started around a week ago.

-Dani

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Guest over a year ago

Does anybody feel like a wall has gone up between them and their surroundings. Like nothing makes any sense and when you talk to people you feel no connection and your words don't mean anything. I am really scared that this feeling of being disconnected won't go away. Anybody?

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Guest over a year ago

Yes, I often feel this way. Almost like I am watching myself interact with other people/do things and am not really living it first person. Sometimes even when I'm out for a walk and I look around it doesn't feel real. Its like I'm in a fog/dream. I'm not sure if it will ever end, I've been like this for almost 3 months now...

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Guest over a year ago

How do you cope. Its gotten to the point even language seems and sounds weird. I hoping it is just the depersonalization and once I deal with my hormones, stress and anxiety I will feel somewhat complete as to who I was before. Even though after this experience I don't think you ever can be completely the person you were before. Have you looked up depersonalization/derealization. It sounds like that is what you could have. It is not bad it is just your bodies way of dealing with immense stress.

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Guest over a year ago

I’ve had this for about two months. I know my boyfriends face but i feel like i can’t remember him. maybe it’s just stress and anxiety and since i was thinking about that for so long that it became reality. i really cannot explain it. it has gotten better though! it’s a strange experience i hope it does slowly fade away.

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Guest over a year ago

How long have you been off the pill?

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Guest over a year ago

If you don't mind me asking what other symptoms have you had?

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Guest over a year ago

i was on nexplanon actually but they’re both hormonal so it’s kinda the same in some ways.

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Guest over a year ago

While i was on nexplanon it was constant anger and sadness and i would always argue with my boyfriend and try to start fights for noooo reason. i wasn’t like this before i had it either. After i got off, a couple days later i felt like myself again. I felt happy and back in love. A day before my period i started having bad thoughts like what if my boyfriend died what if i lost him. And my mind went crazy til i ended up looking at him in confusion. like i didn’t know him. it’s been about a month and half i think since then and it did get better after my period ended but then once i got my period again the thoughts came back. I’ve had headaches backaches i feel like my vision is somewhat weird. i feel sick a lot of the time. my anxiety got worse but sometimes my feelings are numb. i’m actually in new orleans at the moment and it’s so weird being away from my boyfriend because i feel numb. i know i love him and don’t want anyone else so i’m just hopeful with time and regulations of my cycle i should be back to feeling in love again. i sometimes also feel strange like everything around me is weird. i think that’s normal with anxiety when it get super high. you just snap into that til you calm down.

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