Hey Nyx, considering you started the pills after already being on your herbal program it may have taken you over that fine line of hormone balance. You originally were taking herbs in accordance to what your body could handle in it's natural state, the BC added a new amount into the mix and bang. What you're describing sounds like it took your estrogen into that "Hi, my names Sybil, which personality would you like to speak to?" range, known as estrogen dominance. It's the most common complaint because it's extreme enough to really get a persons attention to realize something has gone wrong. All the swings that come with it always follow yur cycle, in this case your artifically created BC cycle. The problem is at this point with each surge of estrogen or suppression of progesterone that naturally occurs during your cycle, it will effect your natural hormone production more and more and just add to what is going on.

You may want to take a break with a good cleanse to help get some of the excess that has been building in your liver cleared out. If the moods are extreme enough that you feel you need help fast you can run to walmart and in the vitamin section look for a menopause cream they carry in a jar with a pink label, It may be in a small box, but it's the only progesterone cream they carry to my knowledge and is a pretty decent progesterone cream. Go light on your dosing though until you see if it will help smooth things out or not. Too much progesterone cream can cause mood swings just as easily as too much estrogen, so tread lightly. If you do, it may be early enough in the hormone surge to get it fixed pretty quick if you're lucky.

Even if you decide to stop the BC, it may still take some time and work to get things smoothed back out again. Hormone balance is a fickle thing to say the least. Hope you can get it fixed quickly, I know first hand how it feels, after going through it myself several years ago.

Mel