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

[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.