Birth control has the opposite effect on me. I have suffered from anxiety disorders and panic attacks due to my emitophobia since around the age of 10-12. My anxiety was so unmanageable and spurred on by my phobia that I suffered from anorexia for over three years because of my intense fear of vomiting. I started using nuvaring at 18 and withing a month felt like my anxiety was completely manageable. I got off of birth control about a year ago (for no reason other than I just haven't scheduled a gyno visit and 2mo turned into 6mo turned into a year) and my anxiety has slowly started coming back to where I had gone from not having a panic attack in over three years to having 3 within the last year (and those are just the I-have-to-stop-everything-and-shake-in-my-bathroom-for-three-hours-until-i-can-breath-again-and-then-pass-out-from-exhaustion attacks, not the daily on the verge of a panic attack feeling.). I am going to get back on BC to regulate my hormones because it makes me more comfortable to be on BC than to use antianxiety medications. Everyone's different, but if being on birth control makes you feel the way I feel without it definitely get off of BC because severe anxiety is crippling and terrible and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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Birth control has the opposite effect on me. I have suffered from anxiety disorders and panic attacks due to my emitophobia since around the age of 10-12. My anxiety was so unmanageable and spurred on by my phobia that I suffered from anorexia for over three years because of my intense fear of vomiting. I started using nuvaring at 18 and withing a month felt like my anxiety was completely manageable. I got off of birth control about a year ago (for no reason other than I just haven't scheduled a gyno visit and 2mo turned into 6mo turned into a year) and my anxiety has slowly started coming back to where I had gone from not having a panic attack in over three years to having 3 within the last year (and those are just the I-have-to-stop-everything-and-shake-in-my-bathroom-for-three-hours-until-i-can-breath-again-and-then-pass-out-from-exhaustion attacks, not the daily on the verge of a panic attack feeling.). I am going to get back on BC to regulate my hormones because it makes me more comfortable to be on BC than to use antianxiety medications. Everyone's different, but if being on birth control makes you feel the way I feel without it definitely get off of BC because severe anxiety is crippling and terrible and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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