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Old Feb 12, 2025, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by June08 View Post
@Blue_Bird and @MuddyBoots I'm not sure how you feel about birth control, or if your body would tolerate it, but one of the best things I did for my bipolar management was start taking it. Every month, I would become hypomanic a week or two before my period and then have a bad depressive crash once it started. I'd get 1-2 weeks of stability and then the whole process would start again. Since I started birth control this summer, I've only had one depressive episode (which was actually triggered by the first birth control med I tried) and one mixed episode. I haven't had this kind of stability since before I started having symptoms in 2019.
That’s interesting to hear, I am not on birth control but I do hear it helps with things like that. I plan on asking my doctor about it at my next physical, thanks for the reminder
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