Out of it and confused

poohybear1 · 10-15-2005, 08:40 AM

Hi,

I was diagnosed with PCOS in May of '05 and was put on BCP's in late July. Im also taking 1500mg of Metformin as well as Aldactone. Lately my personality and behavior have done a complete 180. I dont know whats going on with me. I cant stand to be around people. Everyone and everything annoys the hell out of me including my family and closest friends. I never go out and spend every minute i can in my room either listening to music or sleeping. It takes an extraordinary amount of effort for me to make myself do anything like go shopping or out with my family and in the end i feel absolutely drained and exhuasted. This is extremely inconvenient as i have just started graduate school. While my family has noticed the change in me others definitely have not because as soon as i am around other people i put on my perky front although on the inside i am counting down the seconds until i can go home and be alone again. And while im definitely definitely definitely (cant stress it enough) not suicidal or anything like that i find weird thoughts creeping into my head such as what if i just took the whole bottle of aldactone. but again this is a thought i would not even entertain or EVER act on, but its disturbing enough to me that it even entered my mind. At my last doctors visit i told my dr about some of the personality changes and he informed me that none of it had anything to do with the PCOS or any of the meds i was taking. I find this slightly hard to believe since ive never experienced anything like this before and i think its more than coincidental that it coincides with my taking BCP's for the first time. Anyway...as its 6:30am i should probably get to sleep.
I would greatly appreciate any help, advice, or words of wisdom you guys could share.
thanx!

nicole47 · 10-15-2005, 01:06 PM

It sounds like there's something funky going on with your medications to me. Definitely talk to your doctor about it...or rather a different doctor since it even says on the package that BCP can cause mood changes.

Graduate school all by itself is stressful enough!!!! What are you doing it in, out of curiosity? I did mine in economics and I am SO glad to be done.

choirmissy · 10-15-2005, 01:43 PM

I definitely noticed personality changes about the time that I was diagnosed. If the timing seems right, I too would bet that one of your medicines is not the medicine for you. Go with your instincts and see another doctor if you need to. I had a doctor who swore that BCPs could not be part of the reason for an increase in my cholesterol but had me go off them just to prove me wrong. I was the one to prove her wrong.