Are the side effects of birth control reversible?
The side-effects of birth control are going to be a lot different for every woman, so going by others’ experiences is not going to help a whole lot. I have been on OrthoTricyclin-Lo and NuvaRing. My boobs increased in size almost immediately after taking OTCLo and stayed that way on NuvaRing. I did not start getting emotional/mood swing awfulness stuff until about a year after taking OTCLo–it’s why I originally switched to NuvaRing. On NuvaRing, the craziness continued. I decided to go off birth control due to the mood swing side effects, and within a week was feeling back to my old self. My boobs decreased in size again, but it took a couple months. There are some women who get bigger boobs and they never return to their original size. Some after ending birth control end up with smaller boobs than they started with. Some women do not get any emotional craziness from birth control, and some, like my boyfriend’s ex, keep the emotional craziness after they go off it (according to him, a
