Microgestin Fe 1/20 causing anxiety/depression?

[ank1019]

I started taking Microgestin Fe 1/20 about three weeks ago, after the first night of taking it I was at the gym and almost passed out...I work out regularly and have never experienced this. Then every single day for the following two weeks I was having anxiety attacks, while driving, while at the mall, at the grocery store and I started to think I was losing my mind. I feel like I am in a haze and nothing is as "clear" as it used to be.  I went to back to Planned Parenthood and they told me to take a week off birth control (its been four days) and to start was I was originally on, Desogen again. It takes everything out of me to go to a store, or on a walk around my neighborhood. I still feel anxious and I can start crying at the drop of a hat...I am happy with all aspects of my life so i am not sure what is bringing this on. I really hope my emotions (horomones) start to level out again and this feeling of hopelessness and anxiety goes away!!! Has anyone else ever felt this while on a birth control, how long until it goes away?? Thank you!

[VoxMerus]

There's nothing more irritating than starting on a bc pill - in this case, Microgestin fe 1/20, feeling horrible side effects, and then seeing medical websites insist that the pill is not responsible. It's absurd. We know our bodies. I'm 46, and I've been the same weight for the last ten years. I had no problems...just wanted to stop having a period since I didn't need it anymore, and I felt like I was on my period about 1/5 of every year. The gyno talked me out of an IUD, insisting that it was a production and that I'd probably bleed anyway. I told her I didn't want a bc pill, because I didn't want to gain weight. She said it was a myth. I just finished my third month, during which I bled regularly the entire time. Yes, folks, I have worn tampons every day for the last three months. I called after 6 weeks and said I'd bled heavily since beginning the med, and she had her assistant email me that I had to wait another 6 weeks before she'd address this.) And that's not all:

1. I gained 10 pounds.
2. I grew a light coating of peach fuzz on my face.
3. I felt a general sense of despair and hopelessness.
4. I was incredible irritable.

I can't believe this is allowed. The providers are part of the problem. They don't treat each individual patient's circumstances. Why this idiot prescribed me a 28-day pack (I was supposed to skip the placebo row, therefore I was made to pay out-of-pocket when my pack ran out too early, and the pharmacist said that doctors can write a 21-day pack script which is allowed by insurance companies) of Microgestin is beyond me. But she lost my business and made me even more disgusted by the caliber of healthcare providers we're made to endure even though we pay out the nose for good insurance. Stay away from this stuff. It's life-changing and not in a good way.

[tmarieross]

Let me just start off by saying the worst decision of my life was starting on microgestin. I started taking microgestin last July and within days I was feeling dizzy and i called my ob and she advised me to keep taking them that my body just had to get used to them. So I did. About a week later I suffered from my 1st panic attack at a meeting at work. Then I knew it was from microgestin. So I took myself off of them. It has been over a year since taking microgeatin and I have been diagnosed with panic disorder, social anxiety, and depression. I was living a perfect life until microgestin and I haven't been the same since. I'm very surprised that this is still on the market and hasn't been recalled yet. I advise any and everybody not to take microgestin, its just not worth the side effects.

[Jtcandy]

Hello- I have been in this bc for on one month and I have the worst side affects!!!! Terrible depression and anxiety about things I never did. I got off it 3 days ago and symptoms are still there, will they ever go away? It makes me feel good I'm not alone.... :( it's ashamed a

[Jtcandy]

Hello- I have been in this bc for on one month and I have the worst side affects!!!! Terrible depression and anxiety about things I never did. I got off it 3 days ago and symptoms are still there, will they ever go away? It makes me feel good I'm not alone.... :( it's ashamed a

[randomname232425]

Hi surviver262...You said that you were on microgestin 3 years ago and you're still taking antidepressants. Did you get off of the pill and the depression is STILL affecting you? I just started microgestin about a week and a half ago and over the past few days I've been having the anxiety attacks, getting emotional for no reason, depression, etc. I feel better today, but if you're off of it right now and it's still causing depression then I think maybe I should switch pills now...

[surviver262]

Hi my name is michelle and i know what your going through. I was taking microgestin fe 120 3 years ago and i felt the same symptoms.Of hopelessness and anxiety,i also suffered from major depression and the doctor tryed to tell me it was family heditary.I dont believe that, nonsense at all.I was taking micro gestin fe 120 for about 4 days and all hell broke lose i was feeling very terrible and i also was  having suicidal thoughts.I never once in my life felt like this  i had everthing a girl could ever dream of.During the time had a perfect life i was fixing to get married move into a new house i had a wonderful job .Had a job That i enjoyed doing.Now its been 3 years and the symptoms are not gone away i still have to take antidepressants pills to  subside the symptoms.I see alot of storys about this drug they need to recall it cause its just destroying peoples lifes, u know but i had to learn how to deal with it till then and now.So just to let you know you are not alone.So if you would like to talk more email me   good luck

[MMahon]

Side Effects of Microgestin Fe 1/20

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