This Contraception Made Me Suicidal

I would like to raise awareness of rigevidon, rigevidon is a combined oral contraceptive, also called the pill. It contains two types of female hormones: an oestrogen, ethinylestradiol, and a progestogen.

Six months ago I moved over 100 miles away from my home town for my husbands work, we have three children together and we are not sure if we would like more children in the future, I saw my Gp and was put on rigevidon to prevent us conceiving another child but leaving the option open to have future babies.

Within two weeks of being on this tablet I was depressed, contemplated taking my own life and couldn’t see the joy in anything, at first I put me feeling like this due to moving away and all the changes that had come with it plus missing my family and friends.

One week later and I found myself so anxious that it mimicked the symptoms of a heart attack, I was depressed enough to ind myself crying all the time, I lost all sex drive and found it nearly impossible to sleep without terrifying nightmares and over thinking situations.

One night I sat by my children’s bed all night as i thought that something was going to take them away, that night I realised it wasn’t moving away from my hoe town which was making me feel like this I was losing the plot.

I went to Dr.Google and discovered thousands and thousands of other woman who have experienced similar effects after being on this brand of pill.

I then booked a proper doctors appointment only to be told I had depression, I stopped taking the pill and my husband and I agreed to use condoms, 72 hours after taking the last pill my moods began to lift, my tear dried up and I began to feel like my old self again.

I’m not saying everyone will have the same side effects when taking this pill but I came this close to taking my own life and I would hate to think of another woman feeling the way I did.