Y'all might remember me, though I haven't been on the boards in a while since starting grad school. I took Ortho Tri Cyclen for a year and it caused me to become really depressed. Then I switched to Mircette and started feeling much better.
In July my doctor put me on Lipitor because she found that I had high cholesterol. Now I'm finding that I'm depressed again, even worse than before. My dbf suggested that it could be the meds, since that was the problem the first time. I told him that he was crazy because I asked my doctor and she said that Lipitor doesn't interact with the pill. We looked it up, and sure enough, Lipitor interacts with oral contraceptives. Apparently it can increase their side effects. Do you think this could be causing my depression to come back? I've been looking up other cholesterol meds that aren't known to interact with the pill so that I'll know what to ask my doctor about when I go back next month for my checkup.
I'm not familiar with medication interactions. Some women say that BCPs, without any other meds, severely increase their depression. I imagine that mixing the them with other medication will not help.
__________________ I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Helen Keller
My doctor changed my BCP about 7 months ago, and I've spiralled into very severe depression since.
Unfortunately (or fortunately maybe!) the BCP seems to be working for me in all other senses, so I've decided to stay on it but try anti-depressants to counteract the depression side-effect.
I was depressed when I was on Ortho Tri Cyclen. But when I switched to Mircette I felt much better, so I think I can't take high estrogen pills. But now I feel worse than ever, and I started feeling depressed about two weeks after going on Lipitor. I think that the Lipitor is doing something with the bcp's because according to the National Institute of Health website, it's been known to interact with them (and my doctor didn't tell me this!). Plus I know how I feel on high doses of estrogen and that's how I feel now. So starting tonight I'm not taking the Lipitor anymore. I called my doctor's office and told them I needed to see her ASAP because I really can't function like this, but the soonest they could see me was Tuesday and I can't handle feeling like this anymore. So I'm not taking the Lipitor as of tonight, and on Tuesday I'm telling her that I'll try some other cholesterol medicine but I won't take this one again.
Just to follow up, I went to my doctor yesterday and she said I did have every symptom of depression and it looked like the Lipitor probably was interacting with my bcp. So now I'm off Lipitor, giving the depression a few weeks to go away, and then going back to figure out what to do about my cholesterol. She said that this side effect was pretty uncommon, but since I've had problems with depression on bcp's before, that was probably the cause.
BCP interaction...depression? 
