I've read in this page how some girls had horrible experiences with birth control. well here is mine.
im a 28 year old female. growing up i had really bad craps and heavy periods. when i was 26 i decided to get on birth control because i was sexually active. they put me on mononessa and i hated it. my craps worse and my periods longer. i stopped taking mononessa after 2 months. i went back to normal and felt fine. i just dealt with my heavy periods and cramping. so in October of 2016 i started a new relationship with an amazing man. so i decided to get back on birth control. my doctor put me on a birth control called Lutera, first couple of months it was great i had no side effects and my periods where super light. by february-march i had sore breasts 24-7 and i just thought it was my body regulating so i didn't think much of it. during this time i gained 10 pounds and i went up a bra size. my brother got married in April and i looked so fat in all the wedding pictures and my dress looked like it barely fit. the end of April i was having pretty bad anxiety but i was able to deal with it, didn't know why it was happening and thought it was just all in my head. the fist week of may i made an appt to see a doctor because of the anxiety and she gave me antidepressants and anxiety meds. i still didn't know it was my birth control causing it. on May 5-6th i had a horrible anxiety episode. i took an anxiety med and went to bed. i had texted my boyfriend that may 5th night and he never replied to me. i had the worst panic attack thinking something awful had happened to him. i had this horrible thoughts that he had died or something horrific had happened to him. the rest of the month i kept having really bad anxiety and depression i took the anxiety meds the dr gave me bt didn't take the antidepressants because at this point i knew something horrible was happening to my body. i decided to look up online the side effects of the Lutera Birth Control and some of the reviews. it was 50/50 half of the reviews where really bad and the other half where good. the bad review had pretty much the same symptoms i was experiencing, bad anxiety, depression and some physical side effects like numbness of arms and legs and blurry vision. i went back to see my doctor on May 26th 2017 and i told her how i was feeling depressed and anxious all the time and i knew it was the birth control making me feel this way, she didn't seem to agree with me, she kept saying i was depresses, WHICH I WAS BUT IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE BIRTH CONTROL. she kept on trying to get me to take the antidepressants and i refused. she recommended a natural supplement called SAMe. i came home that day and i felt horrible i cried and i wanted pull my skin off and thats when i finally decided to get off the Birth Control, i looked at the pack and i had a week left of pills, I DIDNT CARE i threw them all away. i couldn't believe i was still taking them knowing they were the cause of all my problems. i stopped taking it that friday, may 26, 2017 i started the withdraw period the following tuesday. i still had bad anxiety and depression for a couple of weeks. i missed so much work because i feel the anxiety and depression didn't let me function. i want to do some physical activities bt my head feels heavy all the time. couple of weeks later i went back to see my doctor and i told her i stopped the birth control but still felt pretty bad, not as bad as i was when i was on the pill. i felt like my depression went away bt my anxiety was still around. i asked for a hormone check and she refused to do it. i was annoyed an decided to change doctors. i made an appt with a OBGYN and she did a hormone check i still havent got my results. she also referred me to a endocrinologist to make sure my thyroid and adrenals are ok. it has been a little over a month i got off the birth control and i feel better but i don't feel myself yet. i have good days and bad. at least i can make it to work now and function a little better. there is days i wake up feeling super anxious and make myself puke. I been taking the SAMe and Vitamin B complex. i make a green smoothie every morning before leaving to work and i make sure i ate healthy meals. it has been a horrible couple of months and i know i am getting better, just wanted to share my story because i know there are girls that are doing through the same thing. you go to your doctor to get help and sometimes they look at you like you don't know what your talking about, but you do YOU KNOW YOUR BODY and you know when something is wrong. hang in there. i been trying to stay as positive i can, doing lots of prayer, deep breathing exercises, yoga do anything that you think it will help oh and keep your mind busy.
Blessings-Silvia
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