Birth control seriously fucked with me and now (two years after stopping it) I feel like I’m more emotionally stable than I had been over the last 4 years really. It really does amp up depression and anxiety, even for people who hadn’t had problems before. I’m about to go talk to my doctor about getting sterilized. I don’t want kids. Lucky for me, my insurance covers the whole procedure since they classify it as a preventative procedure.
Taking it controlled my period cramps and pain and made my skin better, made depression and anxiety worse and completely killed my sex drive. Without it the cramps and pain are really heavy, I sometimes literally lay around and cry because of the pain, my skin is shittier, but depression is better when I‘m not around my period and my sex drive is back. For me it’s a physical vs mental pain thing and I can’t figure out which one is better
Edit: to all the people who recommended an iud - I had one and went to check how it was sitting a month after getting it AND IT WAS FUCKING GONE, my doc couldn’t find it for life and I was traumatized because I didn’t knew when it fell out / if I‘m pregnant for a while. So I paid over 200€ for basically nothing. My doctor was kinda unimpressed by the fact that it fell out and wanted to put a new in again for a bit less € but I can’t trust this man anymore because he never wants to clarify anything. I‘m currently searching for a new doctor that cares more about his patients and who can explain things that happen with my body
PinkVoyd on January 6th, 2020 at 21:38 UTC »
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thethinksshethinks on January 6th, 2020 at 23:57 UTC »
Birth control seriously fucked with me and now (two years after stopping it) I feel like I’m more emotionally stable than I had been over the last 4 years really. It really does amp up depression and anxiety, even for people who hadn’t had problems before. I’m about to go talk to my doctor about getting sterilized. I don’t want kids. Lucky for me, my insurance covers the whole procedure since they classify it as a preventative procedure.
halbmondkatze on January 7th, 2020 at 00:27 UTC »
Taking it controlled my period cramps and pain and made my skin better, made depression and anxiety worse and completely killed my sex drive. Without it the cramps and pain are really heavy, I sometimes literally lay around and cry because of the pain, my skin is shittier, but depression is better when I‘m not around my period and my sex drive is back. For me it’s a physical vs mental pain thing and I can’t figure out which one is better
Edit: to all the people who recommended an iud - I had one and went to check how it was sitting a month after getting it AND IT WAS FUCKING GONE, my doc couldn’t find it for life and I was traumatized because I didn’t knew when it fell out / if I‘m pregnant for a while. So I paid over 200€ for basically nothing. My doctor was kinda unimpressed by the fact that it fell out and wanted to put a new in again for a bit less € but I can’t trust this man anymore because he never wants to clarify anything. I‘m currently searching for a new doctor that cares more about his patients and who can explain things that happen with my body