Reaction to progesterone contraception.

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Anyone have a bad reaction to progesterone contraceptives? I've tried implanon and felt awful, so then had a depo injection but (aside from having 11 weeks of bleeding so far!) I still feel miserable, shouty, zero-sex drive. Generally crap.

But is this a reaction to the hormones or is it just me now? Maybe I'm just crap with 2 kids and maybe my relationship with DH is just crap

I think I'm going to have to stop with the hormones altogether for a while and see how it goes, but I'm terrified I'll find out this is just what 30 year old me is like! (Also hate condoms but that's a whole other subject!)

Please tell me I'm not going crazy!

Ohhh nothing wrong with u at all.....I had the implanon and felt like i had lost the plot!! However i did keep it in and it settled but took many months! TTC at the moment and being hormone free feels soooo good! xx

nope, I'm just crap with hormones full stop - was on cerazette (pop) and it made me headachey and not myself for a couple of years - doc didn't believe me when I said I could feel my body didn't like it. I came off it and had 3 months of migranes and took me 9 months before I felt vaguely normal again.

Thanks for your replies. I felt totally zoned out on implanon and am getting that way again.

Right. Going to cancel my appointment for my next injection and go hormone free. Fingers crossed I'll feel normal again soon.

I was ok on the mini-pill (micronor) except for PMS which had me crying easily for a week although I was only on it for six weeks before getting the implant so that could have gotten worse. I lasted a whole 24 days with the implant - no sex drive, tired all the time, depressed, crying over silly things, memory of a goldfish, really foggy brain like I was stoned the whole time etc. I had evil mood swings on microgynon (combined pill) too - made me take a swing at my then boyfriend for ogling a picture of a girl in the student news paper and cry over the equivalent of spilled milk.

I'm hoping to go back on Loestrin 20 which is a low oestrogen pill that I happily took for years just to regulate my periods. It's the only hormonal contraceptive that hasn't driven me crazy (I think). I'm going to wait until I feel completely myself again before I start taking the pill so I'll be able to spot any side effects rather than just thinking it's fine because I feel better than when I had the implant. After reading some other forums when I realised that I had lost my libido because of the implant rather than just being tired, I'm happy that my side effects are acute and noticed as a side effect rather than something that builds up over time and doesn't get noticed until it's been going on for years and has made many people's live a misery.

Thanks Queen. That's what I was like on the implant but it built up over a year or so and I'd been like it for months before I figured! I'm going to keep a note of that low-oestrogen pill. I have a family history of breast cancer so they don't want me on oeastrogen based pills so I wonder if that might be ok. Like you I'm going to leave it completely til I feel normal again, then I might look into that.