Birth Control Pills

[MXena]

This is one great post!!! It's so nice to know I'm not the only one feeling "nutty" and "bitchy".
I started getting really painful periods and very heavy bleeding a few years ago. I have been on so many different pills and they all seemed to either make my face break out horribly (even Ortho) or I felt like I was gaining alot of weight. My gyno basically told me that the pill does NOT make you gain weight, you know what after reading these threads I realize I was right he was wrong. I had a laproscoprosy (sp?) and they only found a cyst no endo whatsoever but I was still in pain. Around this time I was diagnosed with a panic disorder and my regular doctor put me on Effexor (anti anxiety and depression) ever since I started taking it I feel 100x's better!!! I still get cramps but nothing like they used to be (no more puking in the toilet because of the pain) I really believe our minds can cause us to be physically sick. So maybe for some, a anti-anxiety/depression med could really help.
Now, I just went off the pill a month ago because I really think it's the cause of a lot of my weight gain. My question is: how long do you think it will take to see some of this weight come off?, and how long before my moods regulate? I seem to be very "roller-coastery" since I went off it, especially the first week!!
Thank you to all who contributed to this post, it was all helpful! Us girls gots to stick together!!!!

 

[The_Monster]

V and M both have went through this. With V it was believed to be endometriosis, after a loooong time and lots of tests it was finally concluded that the pain would start as an ovarian cyct came close to the point of rupturing.
Laproscopy verified that and (as she would have intense pain during intercourse... from me hitting her cervix dead-on ) turned up that she has some scar tissue that happened to connect from her cervix to some "anchor" point that made her cervix unable to "move" as I hit it and caused the pain.

In the end we had to try and work so she could relax more and found that relaxing helped by preventing the "anchor point" from tensing and allowing the cervix more flexability. It was a catch 22! She needed to relax, but couldnt relax for fear of the pain... round and round and round it went for quite a while.

Im not saying that this is your exact problem, but your anxiety could somehow cause a physical root for your pain?
(Damn, I must be more tored than I thought... Im meandering all over the place)

As for the weight, when your body adjusts its hormonal balance your mood should improve and any weight being artificially kept on due to the hormone flux caused by the pill should subside. But any weight that was "earned" *wink wink* will probobly need to be dealt with.... good luck!

 

[The_Monster]

BTW, they said removing the scar tissue would not be an option as it might cause even heavier scar tissue to take its place...