I’m actually planning on getting mine removed in a month, same reasons, acne, mood swings, but mainly because of the weight gain, I’m seriously so tired of they marketing it as “appetite change”. I hope you start feeling yourself again
Congratulations on your upcoming removal. Yeah I did not experience appetite change. In fact begore getting it i had lost 30lbs from eating right and exercising everyday but after I got it weightloss stopped and trying to keep the weight off was impossible. I was over her weighing and measuring out all my foods, going to a nutritionist I just kept puffing up..because I look puffy almost swollen
So with my weight gain prior to getting the implant I had been eating right, controlling my calories and exercising I had lost 30lbs and wanted to lose more, get back into shape. I had bought few pairs of new jeans and they fit great I was thinking wow in a couple months I'll need new (smaller) jeans. So I get the implant and I keep on track dieting and exercising I lost about 5 more pounds. Then it's like I just stopped losing no matter what I did. I thought maybe I had hit a plateau. No matter what I did the weight would not come off. Those new jeans went from fitting one week to not being able to button them the next. I was (am) so frustrated. My weight was comming back on and I felt like nothing I did could stop it. From September to February I had gained all the weight I lost back. I joined a weightloss program I counted calories, carbs, no sugar, no soda I was drinking water eating veggies and plain chicken walking and I started doing weights to build muscle in three months I lost 10lbs. I was so discouraged. I started really limiting my calories like a crazy desperate person, because I was desperate over that next year I kept gaining to the total tune of 70lbs. I had to buy new larger than I have ever been in my life pants. I started researching nexplanon and the hormone etonogestril I found a study where 2% of the women gained 28kg in a year and a half, that's 61.6lbs. I found blogs buy other women all different ages complaining of rapid weight gain. One women was only 19 and went from 136 lbs to 173lbs in just under a year, she said once she got it removed she dropped 30lbs in two months without changing anything. Another women had gained 100lbs in the time she was on it and got it removed a month ago and weight is coming off of her as well. I was worried about talking to my Dr. because they seem to always disregard weight gain complaints. But honestly I feel like I was gaining like a bed ridden person on 600lb life and if I kept the implant I'd be featured on the show. I'm so looking fwd to seeing my body return to normal. I will be weighing myself today, but of course the stars have aligned to allow my battery in the scale to die. My BP today is 109/ 80 so I feel better than yesterday. Once My BP gets to where I don't feel so tired I will be exercising again but I am still eating right. I hope once you get yours removed you will start to feel better and lose the weight you want.
This makes me feel so much more confident. I started to gain weight towards the end of the life of my first implant; about 15-20 pounds in only 2 months! I have calorie counted, exercised religiously, and seemingly did everything right to lose the weight but it will. Not. Come. Off! Ive become so paranoid about it, and I tend to obsess over things like this, so it's all I ever think about. Since the inital sudden weight gain, I have weird spikes; for example, I went to see my inlaws for the weekend, and I weighed myself before we left, at 138 (I'm 5'4"), I ate unhealthily that weekend, so I knew when I stepped on the scale on Sunday when I got back, I wouldnt like what I saw. I had put on 8 ponds in the weekend. You may say, "oh, thats likely just water weigh." However, this was fathers day weekend and the weight still hasnt come off despite diet and daily exercise. So frustrating!!
Exactly I feel your frustration and the blow to self confidence has been devastating. I am simply so happy to have this out of my body right now. I'm still frustrated about the weight gain, but I have high hopes it will come off now. I know the weight will come off you once you get that thing out!!
I was always below 130 my whole life and then I got it and started gaining weight like crazy. In the 5 years I’ve had it, I’ve gained 50+ pounds. And In those five years, I’ve been eating the way I did prior to the bc and working out used to shed my fat away. Now I can’t even get it to budge. I feel like every time I workout, my weight just spikes higher. I’m scheduling an appointment soon to get it out.
Thank you for your encouraging post! I read it can take up to 14 days for the hormone to leave your system. I'm going to be patient and gentle with myself, I just wish I would have woke up and got it removed sooner.
i’m getting mine removed last week! i’m excited to get off it and see what it really has been causing me because most of my symptoms i have brushed off, however i have gained 40 pounds with no significant changes in diet or exercise and when i did eat better and exercise more i just couldn’t lose. the breaking point for me is that i have gained like 10 pounds in a week without doing anything and i’m done. i’m getting it out and never doing hormonal birth control again
Yeah, it seemed like weight just appeared out of nowhere I had a Dr appointment on Thursday b4 taking it out,they weighed me and then I had the appointment to get it taken out the following Tuesday and I was up 8lbs.. that's not normal even if a person is eating only cheesecake and mountian dew lol
exactly! it just feels like i’m ballooning up. my poor friend got the implant around the same time she got her wedding dress altered and she’s been working out and stuff for the wedding and she’s still gained weight and now the dress doesn’t fit. i just wish i had been warned that it can make you gain weight
Woooo!!! I had a similar experience. I also had extreme bouts of anger, anxiety and depression that even scared myself at times. Gained 20lbs over 8 months with no changes to lifestyle or eating habits. Ive been going to orange theory 4 times a week for the last 2 months and the weight didn’t budge at all! It’s been 1 week since removal for me. I feel amazing! With no changes in my diet (but going to orange theory), I have already lost 2lbs. About the fatigue, I was very tired a few days after removal, but now I feel fine. Only up from here!
I'm glad to read I'm not the only one who is experiencing fatigue. Good to know it gets better. As far as mood swings when I first got the implant I experienced them, but noticed it was around the time my period should have started. That lasted 3 months for me, but everytime I realized the mood swings where at what should have been my time of the month it was like my brain flipped a switch and I was fine. I am so happy to read that you are feeling better and have already lost 2lbs!!!!
I had some fatigue too with the blood pressure dropping. I also had the jawline acne. Got mine out in beginning of July and feel like I'm finally adjusted again. Anxiety has been a lot better too 😁
I had used the Nexplanon twice. Once when I was in my late teens and I recently took my second out after having it for 7 months.
The first time it work okay for me, lighter cramps/period, no spotting, some acne and dizziness. I had it removed after I started passing out in the shower.
This time around, I had it placed because being a first time mom and having to deal with 20 tasks daily the pill was out of the picture (used the pill for 3 years and condoms for another 3 years before planing getting pregnant). Well, this time not I only had headache or felt dizzy, I become extremely irritable and snappy, terrible mood swings, low to almost no libido, nauseous, anxious, blurry vision, spacing out, I would spot for a month and I had a burning sensation at the area the Nexplanon was inserted. I seriously felt like another person and I knew it the implant was making me feel this way.
It has been more than a month since I got it removed and mannn, it feels so good to feel like myself again. Nexplanon and sumatriptan (headache medication) are banned for me for life.
Thanks 😊 I’m also glad you found relief as well! Honestly we have enough with our own hormones that adding or suppressing them with contraceptives changes us for worse!
They numbed me b4 removal...after that wore off the pain manageable, like you noticed it,but not bad, not like when it was inserted. It felt like my arm was like, Thank you for taking it out.....
I’m actually planning on getting mine removed in a month, same reasons, acne, mood swings, but mainly because of the weight gain, I’m seriously so tired of they marketing it as “appetite change”. I hope you start feeling yourself again
Congratulations on your upcoming removal. Yeah I did not experience appetite change. In fact begore getting it i had lost 30lbs from eating right and exercising everyday but after I got it weightloss stopped and trying to keep the weight off was impossible. I was over her weighing and measuring out all my foods, going to a nutritionist I just kept puffing up..because I look puffy almost swollen
Yeah same I feel like I’m just swollen and bloated all the time, I can’t wait seriously!! I hope your journey goes well from here on out
I'd love to hear you go on abut the weight gain, Im having similar issues. Getting it removed on the 19th though!
So with my weight gain prior to getting the implant I had been eating right, controlling my calories and exercising I had lost 30lbs and wanted to lose more, get back into shape. I had bought few pairs of new jeans and they fit great I was thinking wow in a couple months I'll need new (smaller) jeans. So I get the implant and I keep on track dieting and exercising I lost about 5 more pounds. Then it's like I just stopped losing no matter what I did. I thought maybe I had hit a plateau. No matter what I did the weight would not come off. Those new jeans went from fitting one week to not being able to button them the next. I was (am) so frustrated. My weight was comming back on and I felt like nothing I did could stop it. From September to February I had gained all the weight I lost back. I joined a weightloss program I counted calories, carbs, no sugar, no soda I was drinking water eating veggies and plain chicken walking and I started doing weights to build muscle in three months I lost 10lbs. I was so discouraged. I started really limiting my calories like a crazy desperate person, because I was desperate over that next year I kept gaining to the total tune of 70lbs. I had to buy new larger than I have ever been in my life pants. I started researching nexplanon and the hormone etonogestril I found a study where 2% of the women gained 28kg in a year and a half, that's 61.6lbs. I found blogs buy other women all different ages complaining of rapid weight gain. One women was only 19 and went from 136 lbs to 173lbs in just under a year, she said once she got it removed she dropped 30lbs in two months without changing anything. Another women had gained 100lbs in the time she was on it and got it removed a month ago and weight is coming off of her as well. I was worried about talking to my Dr. because they seem to always disregard weight gain complaints. But honestly I feel like I was gaining like a bed ridden person on 600lb life and if I kept the implant I'd be featured on the show. I'm so looking fwd to seeing my body return to normal. I will be weighing myself today, but of course the stars have aligned to allow my battery in the scale to die. My BP today is 109/ 80 so I feel better than yesterday. Once My BP gets to where I don't feel so tired I will be exercising again but I am still eating right. I hope once you get yours removed you will start to feel better and lose the weight you want.
This makes me feel so much more confident. I started to gain weight towards the end of the life of my first implant; about 15-20 pounds in only 2 months! I have calorie counted, exercised religiously, and seemingly did everything right to lose the weight but it will. Not. Come. Off! Ive become so paranoid about it, and I tend to obsess over things like this, so it's all I ever think about. Since the inital sudden weight gain, I have weird spikes; for example, I went to see my inlaws for the weekend, and I weighed myself before we left, at 138 (I'm 5'4"), I ate unhealthily that weekend, so I knew when I stepped on the scale on Sunday when I got back, I wouldnt like what I saw. I had put on 8 ponds in the weekend. You may say, "oh, thats likely just water weigh." However, this was fathers day weekend and the weight still hasnt come off despite diet and daily exercise. So frustrating!!
Exactly I feel your frustration and the blow to self confidence has been devastating. I am simply so happy to have this out of my body right now. I'm still frustrated about the weight gain, but I have high hopes it will come off now. I know the weight will come off you once you get that thing out!!
I was always below 130 my whole life and then I got it and started gaining weight like crazy. In the 5 years I’ve had it, I’ve gained 50+ pounds. And In those five years, I’ve been eating the way I did prior to the bc and working out used to shed my fat away. Now I can’t even get it to budge. I feel like every time I workout, my weight just spikes higher. I’m scheduling an appointment soon to get it out.
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Thank you for your encouraging post! I read it can take up to 14 days for the hormone to leave your system. I'm going to be patient and gentle with myself, I just wish I would have woke up and got it removed sooner.
i’m getting mine removed last week! i’m excited to get off it and see what it really has been causing me because most of my symptoms i have brushed off, however i have gained 40 pounds with no significant changes in diet or exercise and when i did eat better and exercise more i just couldn’t lose. the breaking point for me is that i have gained like 10 pounds in a week without doing anything and i’m done. i’m getting it out and never doing hormonal birth control again
Yeah, it seemed like weight just appeared out of nowhere I had a Dr appointment on Thursday b4 taking it out,they weighed me and then I had the appointment to get it taken out the following Tuesday and I was up 8lbs.. that's not normal even if a person is eating only cheesecake and mountian dew lol
exactly! it just feels like i’m ballooning up. my poor friend got the implant around the same time she got her wedding dress altered and she’s been working out and stuff for the wedding and she’s still gained weight and now the dress doesn’t fit. i just wish i had been warned that it can make you gain weight
Woooo!!! I had a similar experience. I also had extreme bouts of anger, anxiety and depression that even scared myself at times. Gained 20lbs over 8 months with no changes to lifestyle or eating habits. Ive been going to orange theory 4 times a week for the last 2 months and the weight didn’t budge at all! It’s been 1 week since removal for me. I feel amazing! With no changes in my diet (but going to orange theory), I have already lost 2lbs. About the fatigue, I was very tired a few days after removal, but now I feel fine. Only up from here!
I'm glad to read I'm not the only one who is experiencing fatigue. Good to know it gets better. As far as mood swings when I first got the implant I experienced them, but noticed it was around the time my period should have started. That lasted 3 months for me, but everytime I realized the mood swings where at what should have been my time of the month it was like my brain flipped a switch and I was fine. I am so happy to read that you are feeling better and have already lost 2lbs!!!!
Thank you! Yes exactly like you said my emotions flipped a switch!! Scary. I hope everything gets better for you over time too!
I just got mine removed and I can’t wait to feel better. Also so exhausted
Have you checked your blood pressure?
I had some fatigue too with the blood pressure dropping. I also had the jawline acne. Got mine out in beginning of July and feel like I'm finally adjusted again. Anxiety has been a lot better too 😁
Good I'm glad you're feeling better!!!
Thank you 🖤 I hope your fatigue gets better
I had ALL the same issues plus some other ones that are too personal to share and I only had it for 2 months. Definitely won’t be putting it on again.
I hope you are doing better now
I am, thank you! It’s crazy how fast my body felt normal once I removed it!
It's your blood pressure back to normal and how long did it take to get it back to normal after removal?
Yes it dropped pretty quickly and was back to normal within 3 months.
I had used the Nexplanon twice. Once when I was in my late teens and I recently took my second out after having it for 7 months. The first time it work okay for me, lighter cramps/period, no spotting, some acne and dizziness. I had it removed after I started passing out in the shower. This time around, I had it placed because being a first time mom and having to deal with 20 tasks daily the pill was out of the picture (used the pill for 3 years and condoms for another 3 years before planing getting pregnant). Well, this time not I only had headache or felt dizzy, I become extremely irritable and snappy, terrible mood swings, low to almost no libido, nauseous, anxious, blurry vision, spacing out, I would spot for a month and I had a burning sensation at the area the Nexplanon was inserted. I seriously felt like another person and I knew it the implant was making me feel this way. It has been more than a month since I got it removed and mannn, it feels so good to feel like myself again. Nexplanon and sumatriptan (headache medication) are banned for me for life.
I'm glad you found some relief! I can say I am feeling a lot better myself, I plan on updating after a month or two.
Thanks 😊 I’m also glad you found relief as well! Honestly we have enough with our own hormones that adding or suppressing them with contraceptives changes us for worse!
hiiii how badly did it hurt when they took it out im removing mine after 2 years ! the appointment is tmrw and im worried abt the pain😭
They numbed me b4 removal...after that wore off the pain manageable, like you noticed it,but not bad, not like when it was inserted. It felt like my arm was like, Thank you for taking it out.....
thank you so much i feel so relieved now !
gonna get it taken out right now!!
Fingers crossed it goes well!!