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  • sourpuss
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2006
    • 3581

    Going off the pill was the best thing I ever did for myself. I never knew how bad I felt or how bad my body was responding until I got off of them, then a light bulb went off...oh!...it's not actually normal to feel that way. I'm so glad I'm not on BC, I'll never go back.

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    • Ashlee T.
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      • Dec 2008
      • 6412

      Going off the pill was the best thing I ever did for myself. I never knew how bad I felt or how bad my body was responding until I got off of them, then a light bulb went off...oh!...it's not actually normal to feel that way. I'm so glad I'm not on BC, I'll never go back.
      Same thing here. I spent so much time feeling like "gosh I'm just a grumpy tired moody person". FINALLY the light bulb went off and I'm SO glad it did. All the things I thought were "just me" and that doctors reinforced was "just me"...........were SO not me.
      "Be what you're looking for."

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      • sourpuss
        Veteran Member
        • Dec 2006
        • 3581

        OMG! I was the same. I had resided myself to just being 'a grumpuss' and I'm totally not. BC is evil.

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        • LanaBear
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          • Jul 2009
          • 8373

          Oh my, me too... Especially when I was on Seasonale (the pill you take for 3 months). Three months of pms was compounded into one month, I was a raging hormonal witch (the most polite phrase I can think of), hubby and kids contemplated staying in a hotel for a week every 3 months. I was a nasty nasty human being then.

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          • sourpuss
            Veteran Member
            • Dec 2006
            • 3581

            Here's a weird thing my body does naturally:
            Whenever I'm training really hard and my body fat dips below the 13% range, my cycles get shorter and shorter, the opposite of what's supposed to happen. Last summer when I was training like mad, I got my period every two weeks! UGH! Now I'm training hard again and trying to make weight for a tournament and my cycle shortened by 6 days. If I get my period again in two weeks I'll be mad.

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