Mood Power Surges

[omimouse]

Okay, when they said 'you may experience some mood swings' in regards to the birth control pill that I've been on for the last month and a half, they lied through their teeth.

What they should have said was this: 'You have chosen to ride the emotional equivalent of Terror Mountain. You will start off at horny, swing up into homicidal, come back down through horny on your way to moody depression, with a sudden upswing back up into insanely cheerful, followed by jagged swings up and down from horny enough to contemplate the stickshift of your car all the way to sudden crying fits and hysteria. There will be the occasional detour through extreme apathy, boredom, and bouts of restlesness just to keep your intrest during the ride.'

Seriously. I'd love to be able to hold onto an emotional state for longer than an hour at most. The insert said the worst side-effects were in the first three months, and that most side-effects go away completely after the first six.

Comments

[elialshadowpine]

Aww, honey. *hugs*hugs*hugs*

What birth control formulation did they put you on? Some of them are worse than others about side effects; orthotricyclene is commonly prescribed, but it's one of the worst for mood swings.

And yes, the side effects should be gone by the third month... if they're not, switch formulations. Have you ever been on birth control before?

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, back when I lived with my parents. I was on orthotricyclene for about two or three months. They were wanting to put me on some sort of ingested acne medication, and the had to have me on birth control for at least six months beforehand. Apparantly the acne meds were really bad about causing some nasty birth defects. That, and I was having (and still have) hideous periods.

Didn't have any real mood swings to speak of, funny enough. I just got nausea so bad that I spent a week around the end of December of '99 almost not eating. That was the ultimate reason that I wound up abandoning ortho. I'm currently on generic Levlite.

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

If the swings are really bad, talk to your doctor now. I was allergic to one that I was given and went completely nuts on it. The doctor took me off that one at once.

[mikailova.livejournal.com]

I had really bad moodswings when I was on Birthcontrol for the first time, and the didn't level out. But when I changed formulations it got better. Midol did help. I would recommend running the first three months and if it doesn't get any better then switch. Because if it's just the first three month period until you level out and you don't let that run it's course, your just going to be going from pill to pill letting each one of their "first three month" moodswing periods wreak havoc on your body.

[sabine791110.livejournal.com]

Those mood swings are part of the reason why I'm not allowed to take hormonal birth control of any kind. The other part of the reason is that I fall into a major depressive relapse and start contemplating Very Bad Things.

[cerval.livejournal.com]

Ye-ow honey! You sound like me, and I'm bipolar! *laughs* Seriously, call your doc, tell them how serious the side effects are, and see if that's at all common. Side effects do tend to go away after a few months, but not if you have a serious negative reaction to the drug. If this one isn't working, there are plenty of others (different hormone combinations, different strengths of drugs) that you can try.

[dimers.livejournal.com]

The "horny" part doesn't sound so bad =) Did Juliette make a pass at you? ;)