Feeling rubbish on contraceptive

[katherz]

Just wondering if it is normal to feel so rubbish not long after starting a new contraceptive. I am on Noriday mini pill and feel so down, am crying as I write this,nhave eaten 2 big chocolate bars and half a box of jelly babies. I feel like I do when I'm really hormonal just before m period but I've jus had a period so that's not it. Really wish I could find something that doesn't make me feel like this. Have tried copper coil- very heavy bleeding, cerazette- bleeding constantly for months, combined pill- blackouts and high blood pressure and then tried barrier method for few months.

I hate feeling like this, have had the best Christmas ever with the kids and my husband so shouldn't feel like this. Was much better when not on any contraceptive but I am desperate for another child and my husband does not want any more so we have decided to go back on a regular contraceptive so that I am no gettin my hopes up all the time that he might change his mind and torturing myself every month. My husband has offed to get a vasectomy because I struggle with contraceptives but I really want another child and hope he will change his mind someday. Any words of advice or encouragement greatly received. Seems so stupid taking a pill every day to stop myself getting pregnant when I want another so desperately but suppose its better than getting my hopes up every month just to be dissapointed.

thanks

Oh God, me too. I feel sick with a headache and just, well, bloody miserable and horrible. I have had this on every pill I have taken. All the new pills seem to do this, the old ones didn't. You are not alone though - loads of people suffer these side effects.

Just wish they would hurry up and settle down though. Wondering whether there is anything better I should try.

It should settle down. I have found Gracial to be the best in terms of side effects. I still feel shit on it, but not as shit. The worst - in my experience - was Yasmin. I thought I was going mad, I felt completely psychotic on it.

I never got on with hormonal contraceptives at all. They made me fat and depressed. I walked around feeling like I was in a fog. My answer? Condoms, until I was engaged and thinking about ttc when we moved to rhythm/withdrawal for a few months before ttc properly.