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Birth control side effects

Sa • Sun, Jun 05

So I've been on the patch (Xulane) for two cycles; I'm about to start my third tomorrow. I looked at my logs these past two months compared to other months before I started BC, and I noticed a really big change in my emotions. Of course I noticed this without my logs, but I didn't think it was so bad.

I've hypersensitive, but since I've been on the patch, I've been even more emotional and much more susceptible to mood swings and depression. The depression comes and goes, but when it's here, I'm feeling awful for about a week, sometimes even suicidal.

I was wondering if anyone else has had enhanced mood swings and depression as a side effect of the patch? Does anyone have any advice for how to stop it or to change my BC to something else? I'm only fifteen. Does my age have something to do with it?

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