Originally posted by: zixxer
I know it's long, cliffs at bottom.
This girl I'm dating got on birth control about 4 months ago. She took it for a couple months and it was making her gain a lot of weight... she's 5'2, normally like 100lb (I think? She was healthy.. not super skinny.. just right) and went up to like 135 in 2 months.. A pretty significant difference. She eats right and works out every day. She said this happened the last time she was on BC but this time around she tried the low dose stuff hoping it wouldn't affect her.
Anyhow, she stopped taking it, and ever since is REALLY moody and crying a LOT (2 months straight). We're talking every other day she breaks down crying, or flips out at me for no reason.
Example: I just bought a house, and she 'lives' with me (although she keeps a room at her parents in case something happens with us).. She did the kitchen how she liked it - paint, where things go, etc. Same with the bathrooms and master bedroom. I have my 'office' that I have my way, and the garage is how I like it. She was in the garage with me and some friends last night and wanted to rearrange my pegboard.
I was like this is kind of how I want it sweetie but tell me what you think should be different and I might like it (nice, not mean or sarcastic)... and she flipped. B*tched me out about how I treat her like she doesn't live here and she feels like nothing in the house is hers at all, etc etc etc. with company over at the time (keep in mind the house is mine and I pay all bills. I didn't want to deal with us breaking up and all the sudden she wants 1/2 of "her" house or some crap like that. She offers $300 a month to help out, which is what she was paying for the room she was renting before she moved in with me) ....today she comes and apologizes for last night. This type of thing has been happening at least every other day, if not every day.
She has a DR appt on monday to see if something is permanently messed up from the BC. She was NOTHING like this before getting on bc. We had been dating for a couple months before the birth control and there were no issues. I've known the girl for 5-6 years and she has never been like this.
opinions? I had no idea birth control could have an effect on someone 2 months after stopping it. Is this normal or some sort of 'early 20's' thing that happens with females?
Cliffs:
zixxer's gf has not stopped pms'ing for 2 months. It looks like the result of birth control, and zixxer can't take the moody-ness anymore. Is it permanent?
:::::::::::UPDATE::::::::::::::::
she went to the dr (my dr actually since she didn't have a pri care whatever).
He put her on a mild anti depressent and an anti anxiety medicine. One she takes daily, the other she takes when she starts feeling really upset over no reason. The dr called me and talked to me for 10-15 min basically explaining the difference between her 'anxiety' attacks and normal pms-ing. The idea is that I help her figure out the difference until she can on her own.
He also put her on a different form of birth control - the patch. Only downside is it's friggin $50 a month. (her insurance doesn't cover birth control)
