To draw your attention to the personality-altering effects of Microgynon?

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Here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2070348-Has-anyone-actually-beaten-depression-and-what-helped-the-most?pg=1&order=

And here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2070348-Has-anyone-actually-beaten-depression-and-what-helped-the-most?pg=1&order=

...and all over the web, if you google it. With this many people reporting depressive symptoms on it, surely there is a problem here somewhere?

Oops sorry ignore duplicate second link, I meant here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/general_health/949632-Major-Microgynon-problems-anyone-else-had-this/AllOnOnePage

theres been a similar thread a few years ago. good to keep it in people's minds though.

I also feel health professionals should make women more aware of the huge risk of cervical erosion from long term use of hormonal contraceptives

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/general_health/a1387941-Cevical-Erosion-and-The-Pill

I just don't get why its not 'known' about widely when so many women end up with it

ah ... I see you found the old mumsnet thread!

That's really interesting. I started microgynon about 4 months ago after my dd2 was born. The first 1.5 months I was terribly angry and anxious all the time, but now I've eased into it and am pretty relaxed and fine again. Infact (touch wood) I haven't had an argument with DH for months, and I'm not short tempered or anxious anymore. I have no sex drive though but that may be because I'm still ebf.

Cerazette ruined my life. It made me argumentative, anxious and angry.

contraceptive pills have different effects on different women. If one doesn't suit and has physical or psychological effects, report to the GP and ask to change.

I'm on Cerazette and feel fine. As I was on Microgynon. That doesn't invalidate anyone else's experiences but everyone knows that all medication has risks and side effects. That's what the leaflet in the pack tells you.

life ain't safe, peeps. Make your choices.

Fakebook...I'm on cerazette and am currently really suffering from anxiety, to the point where I've started taking medication for it. I asked GP if the cerazette could be contributing to the anxiety and she said no, it's a low dose hormone and would be very unlikely to cause problems like that. I'm really interested to hear your experience of it though, I've always been a worrier but its never been a problem until the last couple of years, when I've been on the cerazette. I was fine before that, on microgynon!!

I was an absolute mess after just 6 days on Cerazette - weepy, furious, bloated, spotty, jittery, anxious, paranoid and on the brink of kicking out my utterly blameless DH for some perceived slight. It was horrific .

I'm shocked and sorry your GP said that Scarlett. When I was asked about contraception at my 6 week check up my GP was concerned to hear that cerazette had given me horrible mood swings. She suggested microgynon as a "first try" to see if it had the same effect as cerazette. Luckily it hasn't. Could you go back and ask for a change of contraceptive just to see if it makes a difference?

I think, like specialsubject has said above, every person's body reacts differently to every medication. I know I'm naturally a very hormonal person. When not on any kind of contraceptive I get very agitated 2 weeks before my period and will argue and cry for no reason. I need some kind of hormone balance to keep me level, if that makes sense. Some contraceptives can do strange things to your biochemistry.

I was on cerazette for a few months at 17, and had the same experience. I was anxious, depressive, teary, panicky - it was just awful. I felt totally out of control. My dr was similarly flippant and said there was no link, but I refused to take any more and was normal again really soon after I stopped taking it.

I was like this on the depo.

Goodness - thanks ladies! I thought it was just me... I've been off the pill for more than two years because I was all over and wasn't myself. I've spoken to a number of doctors about it too, and none of them have discussed the level of hormone or the fact there are other types of pill. Will book an appt in the morning (I hate using condoms!)

I find that very interesting. Microgynon was the first pill I've tried and completely eradicated the horrific pmt I used to get. I had depression before and after starting it but no discernible difference. Even now on the 7 day break I do get a bit down 2 days in but nothing like the uncontrollable weeping I used to have. I was thinking of changing to injection but have been reminded that I am lucky to have a pill that has improved my mood!

Microgynon was also the first pill I was ever on and the only effect it had on me was to make my boobs grow an unwanted extra two cup sizes.

I cried the whole time I was on microgynon. Was fine on cezeratte though.

I was fine on microgynon too. I was on it for years but have just had to switch to Logynon after dc2 as I was spotting on microgynon which had never happened before.

Not sure what the equivalents are, but in the US I was on Lutera for 18mos, and Ortho-Tri-Cyclen Lo for one month.

Lutera seemed ok at first, but then every single month started getting worse and worse: physically, horrible cramping which I'd never had, but the emotional was worse. I was severely anxious, I'd be inconsolably weepy, and if DP wasn't such a rock for me, I would have ended with him, over the most irrational, horrible unwarranted anger I would feel for inconsequential things. I didn't feel in control of myself. Sometimes it was literally like floating above myself, I could see how irrational my feelings were, I could see how horrible I was acting, how I was treating DP and my family, but I was locked in those feelings.

GP switched me to Ortho, and it was twice as bad. I couldn't stand more than a month to see if it leveled out, any more of that, I don't know what I would have done.

I stopped taking the pill entirely, just last month. It's been night and day. I feel so much better than I have the past year and a half. I feel like my body and my emotions are my own, I'm not a wreck all the time, I don't fall to pieces. I'm myself again. I actually feel more in love with DP, like I used to feel.

Every woman is different, the pill affects people differently, but I will never be on hormonal contraception again, ever.

It was the mirena coil that messed me up. Still have some effects a few years on!

I was this bitch from hell on microgynon, it was awful. I put on weight, had headaches, intermittent bleeding. I took myself off it.

I was on microgynon for two years & I was depressed, weepy & very anxious. I didnt connect it to the pill and now I feel much better since I have come off it.

Microgynon was the only pill that I felt ok on and that didn't give me constant breakthrough bleeding.

I did get pregnant while taking it though!

Implanon had an awful effect on me though.

I was on microgynon for years and had no effects, on cerazette now and no problems.

However when I had the implant I became utterly depressed, had no interest in anything, no libido, no appetite yet piled on weight. I asked the nurse to remove it but she refused and instead put me on microgynon as well. I only managed to get the implant removed when I wanted to get pg. even then I made an appointment for removal and received a letter from the surgery telling me my appointment had been cancelled until I had a meeting with the GP to discuss my reasons for wanting it removed as I was under 25. The doctor said they won't remove it for any other reason than wanting to get pregnant which shocked me!

Emotionally I was fine on microgynon but it did cause a cervical erosion when I was 17

I changed to yasmin which was fine before I had ds but since having him if I take it I just seem to bleed (sorry tmi) so think I need to change it.

My sister tried the implant and had an awful time until she had it removed 3 months later.

I guess certain contraceptives just don't suit some people.