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Paranoia and birth control
Posted: 04-27-08 08:11am

I have been taking Ortho-Tri Cyclin Lo for a few years. As a result I have suffered nearly every side effect possible: migrains, weight gain, occasional nausea/vomitting, and finally gall stones. Now the gall stones were the last straw, and honestly I didn't know that birth control could lead to all those conditions. Within the last year I have also had increasing irrational paranoia. I have almost delusions or periods filled with intense fear that everyone around me is working against me, and I become unrecognizabley angry. In hindsight I recognize that my paranoia was silly, but when I become anxious, I believe it is real. I am hoping that paranoia is a symptom that has been linked to birth control. My question is: Can I expect in a few months that my paranoia will dissapate once the pill has had a month or two to leave my body?


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Posted: 05-02-08 13:50pm

It doesn’t seem likely to me that you have paranoia. Paranoia is a severe psychotic disorder where the patient strongly believes in his paranoid (delusive) thoughts and suspicions. In your case, you are aware that all those thoughts are not true which is the strongest evidence that you don’t have the psychotic disorder - paranoia. You may only have a paranoid personality which is not the same as paranoia. Birth control pills can cause an anxious-depressive disorder as a side effect. This anxious-depressive disorder may potentiate your paranoid personality. Your mental problems should vanish after going off the birth control pills, if they are the cause. You can try that but you may also want to consult a mental health professional about this.




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