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I Just Couldn’t Take It Anymore October 15, 2004

Those evil birth control pills were doing me in. I specifically asked for a different brand this time around, because I was so nauseated from the other brand during my fresh cycle. This new brand didn’t make me physically sick, but it made me depressed. I couldn’t get off the couch to shower or eat until the middle of the afternoon yesterday. I’ve been constantly weepy with breaks for sobbing breakdowns. I knew it was the pills. I wasn’t feeling this way before I started taking them. Even after my negative beta. I was sad then, not depressed.

Of course I had to do a google search about birth control pills and depression to make sure I wasn’t making all of this up in my head. On one of Brown University’s health education pages I found this about birth control pills:

Some women may notice changes in their emotional status: depressed mood or emotional instability. If you have a history of depression, it is important to monitor your progress carefully when starting BCPs. If you notice changes in your mood after beginning BCPs, call your provider.

History of depression- check. Changes in mood after beginning BCPs- check.

I thought I could tough it out, but it just got too bad yesterday. I remember all to well what it was like to be severely depressed in college, and I didn’t want to revisit that. I decided that I had no desire to spend another 16 days feeling that way, and I was afraid that it might get even worse. So, I called my IVF coordinator yesterday to see if I could switch brands at this late date. Sure enough, I could, and my IVF coordinator called out a new prescription for me. Hopefully this new brand will allow me to actually live my life for the next couple of weeks. There’s just no sense in feeling worse than I absolutely have to.

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1. Brandy - October 15, 2004

I’m sorry those BCP’s haven’t worked out for you. I hope the new ones don’t have the same effect. I’m one of those lucky people that get sick even on the pill with the LOWEST possible amount of hormone in their. Big fun, let me tell you. Well, anyway best of luck with the new bcp’s!

2. akeeyu - October 16, 2004

I’ve had pretty good luck with the Ortho Evra patch instead of the pills. Then again, I define ‘pretty good luck’ as ‘being only mildly depressed on Ortho Evra, as opposed to sitting on the bathroom floor sobbing for hours while on the pills’, so it’s not like my standards are high.

3. Brenda Sumner - October 16, 2004

What brand of BCPs? Just wondering if that’s why I was so freakin’ strange yesterday.

4. amanda - October 16, 2004

Brenda, the ones that I was taking this time around that made me depressed were Yamin. For my fresh cycle I took Ovcon 35, and they made me nauseated. Now I’m on the generic version of Lo/Ovral. They seem to be better. I actually took Lo/Ovral for years back in the days when I thought they were actually needed (ha, ha), so hopefully they’ll be fine for the next couple of weeks.

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