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Originally Posted by Navi  I too have extremely bad anxiety. It's gotten to the point where I can pick out symptoms from any major nervous disorder - generalized anxiety, panic, OCD, agoraphobia, you name it.
I personally believe mine is genetic (as my mother used to have terrible panic attacks, to the point where she was the type of person who ended up in the hospital for observation because she thought she was having a heart attack), but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the BCPs.
I've been on them for 5 years so I really can't remember if I had this bad anxiety before (especially because I was barely even a teenager). I'm not sure I'm willing to go off them because of the birth control aspect, but I wonder if there's a better BCP I could switch to. The anxiety is positively crippling.  |
Navi: I also have anxiety, panic, depression, OCD, and sometimes agoraphobia. It can be crippling for me too! I thought it was my BCP (Loestrin 24 fe) so I stopped taking it and got a prescription for another. Since coming off the BCP for these past few weeks (can't start my new kind until AF comes) the depression and anxiety have lifted some, but not all the way. The new kind of BCP my doctor gave me is Lo/Ovral.