Anxiety and hormones

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I found this story on NPR very interesting:

commonhealth.wbur.org/2015/04/women-anxiety-hormones?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150424

Considering I am taking BCPs mainly to ease my depression mood swings associated with my hormonal cycle.. and I have also noticed anxiety taking more of a hold recently. It's definitely something I will be looking into more and I thought some of you might be interested too.

[runnergirl812]

Very interesting considering I'm on fluoxetine. I do notice that my anxiety gets worse at certain points in my cycle (for example, ovulation is one). This is also the time when I get hormonal migraines.

Unfortunately for me, BCPs made me bat sh*t crazy, and I chose to use an non-hormonal IUD. But in the future, I may switch to Mirena and see how that goes.