WANTED TO SHARE WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT HORMONES

Hello, I've been going nuts lately. Everything gets on my nerves and I want to cry all the time because things irritate me so much. I can't stand to even look at my husband anymore. It's been really bad and I hate feeling this way. I switched from my birth control patch to the Nuva Ring, thinking that may be the problem. Things got worse. So I went to my Gyno and through my tears I explained what has been going on. She explained to me that the more you weigh the more estrogen you have and it is stored in your fat cells. When you lose a dramatic amount of weight your estrogen level drops dramatically and your hormones go crazy. Then in my case, the Nuva Ring had even less estrogen in it which was a double whammy for me. She said it was like I was put into Menopause, YIKES, I'm only 35!!! So now I'm going to start The Pill with a higher estrogen to get my level back up and also I started Wellbutrin XL for the depression. I can't wait for things to kick in because I really feel like I'm losing it! At least now I know there's a reason for all of this craziness and I'm not really losing my mind. I wonder if all women go through this after surgery, there are so many people on anti depressants, they really should prepare us.

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