Birth Control

Hey,


I have a question, maybe someone here can help.


I recently (as of a few weeks ago) stopped taking my birth control pill. I of course bled for a few days which is a side effect when you stop taking it. Now, I've recently been feeling very sick. Lots of nausea and literally NO appetite at all. It comes and goes in waves. I've also been feeling very tired and shakey, my hands shake sometimes too. I can barely eat anything without it making me feel so sick.


I had a fill about 2 months ago and have had no problems. It's been a couple of months and I feel like NOW I have tons of restriction out of nowhere. I feel like I can't eat anything and what's worse is I don't even want to! Even with the fill, my appetite was not completely surpressed. Lately, I don't even want to LOOK at food. I try to eat and take one bite and I throw it out.


Is this normal?


Could it be stress??


A friend told me that any side effects from when you stop taking birth control should not last longer than one week. It's been about 3 weeks now..



Any thoughts/advice??



Thanks

I see you're with BIDMC.....I had my surgery done there as well. Why not direct your questions to Dr. Schneider or one of the nurses. They should be able to help you right away. Is there a chance you're pregnant? Since you stopped taking your birth control pills and you're saying youre getting that sick feeling...could it be morning sickness?

Good luck.

I have an appt there in about another week. I think I might just hold off and see what they say. I'm pretty convinced it's symptoms from having stopped taking the pill. But it's been so long! I wish it'd stop already..

I don't think I'm pregnant. I sure hope not.. I've been safe, So I'd be shocked to hell If I were!

Thx : )

You could be having a hormonal imbalance, that was corrected when you were taking BC, and now it's stopped. That's not necessarily a side effect, just a result of not taking the hormones anymore.
Depending on your bleeding, or just flukey timing, maybe you're becoming anemic. I was a little anemic last year when I went off of b/c to do surgery. I took iron pills from CVS (when I remembered) and it eventually went away.
Best advice though is to check with your doc, they may want to do a blood workup to see if anything is going on.

I was having breakthrough bleeding on my BC pill so my Dr. put me on the Ortho Evera Patch. I was wacked out for 4 weeks. I can't even describe what I felt like, I just kept telling my husband, I'm in a funk that I can't snap out of. I was miserable. I had a HUGE deadline I was working on at work and thought maybe I was just caught up in the stress or something. Then my husband asked, when did you start taking those new patches. He was right, that "funk" I was feeling was directly related to the new bc. It took about 4 weeks, then I took them off for a week and felt much better. I have a lot of "women" issues so I decided to try them again. It wasn't quite so bad then next month, now I just get a little weird feeling the first day I put them on and it gets better as the week goes by. With patches you get kind of a "surge" of Estrogen with each new patch so that is why I feel so weird, the flux of hormones.

I hope this helped, I totally think all you have described is related to the bc. Of course you should talk to your Dr. and take their advice :)

Good luck and let us know how your doing.