Middle aged woman on birth control and I feel crazy

[Anonymous]

I started it three months ago, and I feel...crazy.
Angry, PMS-y, bleeding more than ever. It is a very low dose pill. I am 45, help? I called the nurse's triage and she said it can take six menstrual cycles to even off. anyone bdtd

[Anonymous]

What were you using for BC before? If it’s really bad, just say you want to give up and try something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What were you using for BC before? If it’s really bad, just say you want to give up and try something else.

My dh had a vasectomy so I got on it to regulate my moods and bleeding but it's done the opposite - more bleeding worse moods. is this normal!?

[Anonymous]

All birth control pills are not the same. There is somewhere a list of side effects and types - have a look at that. Don't wait 6 months - that's a nurse blowing you off.

[Anonymous]

Low dose BCPs didn’t work for me - I bled/spotted basically all the time. It didn’t get better after 3-4 months so I went back to regular dose BCPs. This was in my early 30s. I’m now 44 and have had an IUD for several years, highly recommend (although it also took a few months to stop spotting, but now no periods at all!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Low dose BCPs didn’t work for me - I bled/spotted basically all the time. It didn’t get better after 3-4 months so I went back to regular dose BCPs. This was in my early 30s. I’m now 44 and have had an IUD for several years, highly recommend (although it also took a few months to stop spotting, but now no periods at all!).

Yeah apparently low dose continuous is notorious for spotting, does the IUD hurt

[Anonymous]

SSRI for PMS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Low dose BCPs didn’t work for me - I bled/spotted basically all the time. It didn’t get better after 3-4 months so I went back to regular dose BCPs. This was in my early 30s. I’m now 44 and have had an IUD for several years, highly recommend (although it also took a few months to stop spotting, but now no periods at all!).

Yeah apparently low dose continuous is notorious for spotting, does the IUD hurt

I didn’t have any issues with the insertion, although apparently some women do find it painful (and I’m normally a wimp about pain). In terms of day to day, you don’t feel it at all. I couldn’t stay on BCPs because of elevated blood pressure, and like I said it did take a while to regulate, but now I absolutely love it.

[Anonymous]

No medical practitioner will ever acknowledge problems with BC because they don’t have anything else to offer you. I recommend looking at other approaches. Do research, read books on the lifestyle changes for perimenopause/menopause and commit to those. Look elsewhere for mood control.

[Anonymous]

No, switch pills. Not normal.

[Anonymous]

I am 46 years old. Never had problems with birth control pills in my 20s and early 30s. Tried again recently to control perimenopause mood issues, and it made me feel AWFUL...like completely drugged and sick awful, not just regular start-up side effects. I actually had to take sick leave from work, and quit taking them after 7 days. I think if after 3 months they are not working for you and you feel off, you should quit them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 46 years old. Never had problems with birth control pills in my 20s and early 30s. Tried again recently to control perimenopause mood issues, and it made me feel AWFUL...like completely drugged and sick awful, not just regular start-up side effects. I actually had to take sick leave from work, and quit taking them after 7 days. I think if after 3 months they are not working for you and you feel off, you should quit them.

oh no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No medical practitioner will ever acknowledge problems with BC because they don’t have anything else to offer you. I recommend looking at other approaches. Do research, read books on the lifestyle changes for perimenopause/menopause and commit to those. Look elsewhere for mood control.

^^Well said.

[Anonymous]

Get of the BC. It's not helping. At all. I've been off mine for 20 years and never will take hormones again.

[Anonymous]

why the bleedinvg ughhh