After years of being on some kind of birth control, I finally stopped being on them a few weeks back. I have never felt so normal! Didn’t realize how much of those hormones added to my mental health too.

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25F here. This is why I’m afraid to go on BC and decided I will not. Have never been on those pills and don’t plan on starting

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I hated being on the pill! I definitely felt better when I was off of it as well.

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Same! I tried a few and they all made me feel like 💩💩

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Yesssss! I tried multiple forms of bc (pill, nuvaring, patch). All of them noticeably altered my mood and emotional swings. I can attribute one of them to specifically ruining one of my relationships (unfortunately I was the ‘crazy ex’), it made me cry all the time over NOTHING.

After I got off that BC, I was completely normal. I know what it’s like to be non-emotional, and I cry when things are worth crying over. It pisses me off that I had to go through all that and went through such a stressful period of my life just bc a guy wanted to go in raw.

I only use condoms since the last 3 years, even in a committed r/s. No exceptions. I will never again ruin my mental health for the sake of a guy needing to enjoy sex just slightly more.

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Yes girl!! Do what’s best for your body! I had a similar experience where I initially never wanted to be on BC, but my bf at the time pressured me because he didn’t want to use a condom.

Good for you

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Question for you guys who aren’t on BC! How are you guys preventing pregnancy? We’ve just been using condoms now, and it’s working fine. I still get scared though haha.

Fake name/number has always worked fine for me

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I’m opposite, I went on the pill because of horrible mood swings. It helped level me out.

I feel ya

I never realized that my PMS raging anger mood swings were caused by birth control until I stopped taking it. The best decision!!

That’s awesome. My wife feels the same way. It’s why I got the ✂️ when we were done having kids

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