[Keeme tries to look away but makes the pillar of salt type mistake and looks back]

"AY CARAMBA"

[And now, for some reason, feels like eating things like Yoplait Whips and Frusions].

*sigh*

It's been at least a decade since I used BC pills (infertility and all...)

However, some months, about a week before my period, I feel this way - like I could just eat and eat and eat and never get satisfied. It's a very odd and out of control feeling. I tend to crave carbohydrates and the more of them I eat the hungrier I get. Luckily this doesn't happen every month. Unfortunately it happened this month and with the holidays, I'm feeling kinda pudgy. I worked so hard to lose weight, too and now I'm afraid to get on the scale... We'll see... Anyway, definitely hormonal. My endocrinologist says that my heart arrhythmia is affected by my hormones, too, even though my cardiologist says not. I just know it's worst around my period and ovulation.

Hormones can do some strange things. If you've changed your BC pill lately that's probably the culprit. Most of the ones I tried made me feel really weird. The worst part was that anytime I quit taking BC my skin kind of exploded in acne. Nasty.

Now I figure since it took 5+ years (all that money on birth control WASTED!) and thousands and thousands of dollars to get my "litter" (and my husband was the one with the "deficiency") that if God sees fit to get us pregnant then there must be a special plan for the kid.

I don't like the pill, but that's just me.

Well, no. I was on b.c. pills for most of 15 years and didn't have food/hunger issues. I did really like them though since the "monthly visits" were so light and easy but I do think they effect everyone differently.

I never remember feeling like I was wasting away, but there were times that I would eat and eat and just not be able to get full.

Maybe that's where women get the weight gain that people say is a side effect of the BC pills? I have no idea.

BC pills do affect people differently. They ended up giving me major mood swings, and I had to add a Zoloft cocktail to the mix to balance things out. Once I went off of them, I was able to go off the Zoloft too.

I don't recall that ever happening when I was on the pill; however, it happens "just because" to me all the time. I eat a nice dinner, go to bed, and wake up at 2am STARVING to death, with no idea why. Then I eat all damned day long the next day, and yes, still am grumbly in the tummy. Awful.