Yep. I'm much more depressed on the pill, it also completely squashes my libido.

I was on the pill for 13 years before we started TTC. 13 years with no issues at all. But when I went back on the same pill I was on before, I started bleeding. Every single time, I would bleed constantly while taking the hormone tablets. At first, my clinic's response was to keep taking the pills. This lead to bleeding so heavy I was soaking through a tampon in under an hour and was just about passing out. A panicked phone call to an OB/gyn friend of mine had me stopping the pill and calling my clinic and eventually winding up in an after hours GP to get a drug to help stop the bleeding. A pill you tolerated once certainly isn't a sure bet that you will tolerate it again.

Now, with my bleeding issues, and this happened every single time I took the pill, they couldn't have me do a full down-reg cycle with 3-4 weeks of pill-taking as they wanted me to. But they found a way. They cut it down to one week, and we coped. It was still a pain in the bum to be bleeding constantly while on it. We would do 10 days on the pill, with a three day cross over with lucrin.

The thing to remember is that while most clinics tend to like to start with a down-reg cycle, there are others that do not involve taking the pill. If it's seriously bad, stop taking it. Call the clinic. They could try again with another, or they could switch to a different protocol. It will mean a delay in starting, but I think a delay is better than constantly battling the depression as you are. At the very least, call your clinic and tell them what's happening and ask if there's any way to do things differently. They may complain and grumble, but this is NOT the only way IVF can be done. They need to do what's going to suit you.

BW