@seraphinacox: It was March 2020. I’d been on the combined pill (Microgynon) for like 6 months. I was working full time in a job I hated - supermarket retail. I was going through stuff at home. The reason I gave for wanting to come off the pill was that my ✨drive✨ had taken a complete nosedive. I was 18, and it was NOTICABLE for me. I was sad about it (valid asf tbh). I came off the pill, and lo and behold: suddenly, joy returns to my life. Not just in the form of my drive (although that too, thank god), but general joy. Like coming to from a black out, colour vision returning 😂 I had so much going on, I just assumed it was all of that that made me so miserable to the point of not caring if I lived or d!ed (and later on, it did lol). But coming off that pill, my god. I didn’t realise how much a pill could affect mood. So here’s a reminder of 1. What women go through for contraception, and the fact that it gets approved anyway (when for men a headache is deemed too much for their BC pill ???) and there is no real push to find ways to remove these side effects, and 2. That if you are on the pill and feeling miserable, even if there are other factors at play it is worth, if you can, trying to come off the pill and see what happens. It could be making things MUCH worse (and I was on it to manage pain, rather than for contraception. I thought I was a whole lesbian at this point in time. It was still worth trying something else instead). I got the hormonal coil and that has been a lot better for me. The point is, there are other options, please don’t settle for misery 😭🖤

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