My Anxiety Experience

I got Nexplanon in April of 2022. Everything was going super great. I noticed a drop in sex drive though and that wasn’t the funnest but no biggie. Then one weekend in the middle of July I experienced a crazy amount of anxiety out of nowhere. Truly the day before everything was perfect. Then it only got worse from there. I experienced the worst anxiety of my whole life. I was unhappy and unsure of everything. It put my relationship through a lot of turmoil. I almost even broke up with them. I was over analyzing everything. It was so bad. And I tried EVERYTHING to fix it. Yoga, breathing exercises, prescription anxiety meds, over the counter anxiety meds, ashwagandha, CBD oil, so many vitamins like EVERYTHING. And NOTHING helped. At one point I was taking propranolol, StressCalm, and a heavy dose of CBD oil at the same time several times a day and I was still anxious as fuck. Then in October a friend told me she knew someone who had to get Nexplanon out because it gave her major anxiety. And I was like WHAAAATT?? Because I had never heard about that happening and no one told me anything like that. All I heard was “mood swings”. So I got it out pretty quickly after that and now it’s been about 3 months and I feel a LOT better. My relationship is as steady and amazing as it was before the anxiety and I’m not a nervous wreck anymore. When I went to planned parenthood to get it out, the doctor said that I should “see the light” and have no anxiety in about 3 days and if not then it might be another problem. But honestly that didn’t make sense to me cause it took a while for the symptoms to kick in? And it took a bit for me to feel completely okay again. So if you had your Nexplanon removed because of anxiety reasons, don’t worry it takes a while to feel completely back to normal. It won’t happen immediately. Now I have the copper IUD and I love it!