Think I am having horrible side effects of contraceptive injection - looking for others experience

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I have a 2.5 year old and also a 12 week old baby. After having the baby I actually felt really good happy positive enjoying life and coping well. Since I had the injection I feel I have had awful mood swings and can get so angry so quickly and not snap out of it, feeling frustrated all the time and not enjoying things like I used to. And when I thought about it it seemed to be after injection. I feel so sad as I know I can’t take it out of me.

has anyone else experienced anything like this ?

I had the injection years ago. I almost had the opposite reaction to you, I basically felt like
I lost all emotion. It made me feel sort of dead inside. I couldn't get really happy about anything but also never really felt sad (once I noticed, I actually found myself watching sad films to try and make myself cry - but nothing). I broke up with my then-boyfriend during that period and wasn't bothered at all, absolutely no tears were shed. I also lost a lot of hair, which had never happened before. I mentioned it to the GP who was a bit dismissive but I thought it was too big a coincidence with the timing of the injection so I decided not to get it again. Unfortunately I just had to wait for it to get out of my system, but sure enough, once it had worked its way out, I started to feel like myself again (and my hair stopped falling out). I realised when I cried at a news story about an old lady being robbed that I had feelings again! 😂 Nothing like that has happened to me since so I'm 100% sure it must have been the injection. It might work well for some people but it definitely did not agree with me.