New relationship so started cerezette and I feel so wrong in myself.

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I’ve put this in this section as I started taking Cereztte for a new relationship and I’ve been feeling very wrong. Could it be the pill?

I started it about a month ago and the last week I feel so down and crying all the time. I do have a lot on but I usually can handle my shit to some point. I feel paranoid and needy and not like me at all. I’ll probably end up ruining this relationship as I’m not myself at all.

It most certainly could be the hormones you're taking. Have you spoken to a sympathetic GP?

Hormonal contraception doesn’t agree with everyone. I felt much the same as you on the mirena coil which I believe contains the same hormones as cerazette.

Yeah, come off the pill and try another method. Hormonal contraception doesn’t work for me either.

I nearly ruined a new relationship in exactly these circumstances. If I didn’t feel like killing him, I felt like killing myself.

Do speak to a GP about switching contraception.

I had the exact same experience with Cerazette, it made me feel very very strange - exactly as you describe. I stopped taking it after a couple of weeks and the feelings went away. Anecdotally, I know a couple of people who said the same about that particular pill - it's a common one to give to breastfeeding mums so I know a few women who have taken it and had the same experience.

Cerazette made me go from very happy to feeling everything was grey and being angry. Have a look at the side effects, it was like a tick list for me

It’s a progesterone only pill. I take HRT which is a combination of 14 days estrogen followed by 14 days progesterone - on the progesterone days I feel dreadful, angry, paranoid, tearful, anxious and overwhelmed - so yes, I think a progesterone only pill could definitely make you feel very wrong in yourself.

I had the same with this pill. Go back to your GP.

I hear you! Cerazette turned me into a spotty, fat(ter), raging monster. I stuck it out for three months as my GP insisted and then had it changed. Pills affect every woman differently. Sounds like you need a change.

I had the same experience! I didn't realise it was that bloody pill until I stopped it as I also had some big stuff going on at the time.

I came off it and it was like I was a different person and DP and I realised it had been that pill all along.

I stopped it that night and feel better already. First day I haven’t cried in a week although I do have a large headache and my period today!

I can't remember if it was cerezette or a different kind but I went on the pill after the birth of my first child and it literally turned me suicidal. I was so down all the time and everything my partner did gave me the rage. I think I had a element of postnatal depression as well but as soon as I stopped taking it my mood was id say 80% better within 2 weeks

I really hope there comes a day where many more women don't feel the need to pump their bodies with unnecessary hormones. So many women are not adequately informed of the risks and side effects. A male pill has never been launched as male market soundly rejected it.

I had to try a few different contraceptive pills as some made me more emotional and 'down' and others played havoc with my skin. I did find one that works well with my system though after some trial and error.