Really important question
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Thread Topic: Really important question
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For cramps and hormonal issues. My doctor suggested I get on them because I have a severe mood shift that my current meds can't help. If you take birth control regularly, could you tell me the pros and cons of it?
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My chest.
I'm having light chest pain. -
^ Wrong thread.
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I got you!
I was diagnosed with bipolar 2 a year and a half ago. Sever cystic acne and mood irregularities. I got on birth control around the time I was going through the diagnosis process and ended up never getting on medication for my manic depression because the birth control helped me stabilize that much.
That is 100% not medical advice. If you're dealing with a mental illness you should get proper help, I'm just saying that for ME it helped a lot with my moods. My acne cleared up and I feel a lot more calm and stable.
Cons would have to be weight gain, a slight lack of enthusiasm, and possible loss of sexual drive. The cons have never been enough for me to consider an alternative method though.
Def talk to your doctor though! It's nice to talk to other females for their perspective but your doctor will know what's best. -
Thanks.
I didn't know the lack of enthusiasm part, though. I don't know if it'll interfere with my meds I already take. Right now, I'm on 30mg Celexa, which does SOMETHING, but I can't really say what.
Also, I don't identify as female. 🙏 -
Sorry didn't mean to assume! I don't know what your main account so I wasn't sure!
I'd research lack of enthusiasm in birth control for yourself though because for me personally it might've just been that I wasn't manic all the time so I thought everything was dull and wasn't pumped up to do things all the time. That's the same side effect as antidepressants though. -
Ah. That may be you, then.
My meds don't make me hyper, but I don't have a constant desire to...you know. -
A high estrogen dosage will give a higher risk of getting breast cancer.
But a low estrogen dosage won't.
So if you can, go with the low one. -
Hm. True. I almost forgot about that.
Thanks. I'll try to keep that in mind. -
I have to go, but please give any information or help that you can. I just might do what the doctor recommended if the pill has no crippling effects.
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