"5 years i took junel. for the first year it was fine. lighter periods and less cramps. year 2 i started suffering from increased anxiety and what everyone else decided was depression even though i insisted it was fatigue. i was as tired as if i had the flu all the time and the week before my period i could not handle a thing. so i got therapy and started eating healthy to treat what my doctors insisted was not symptoms of the pills. i worked out, ate healthy consistently but the weight kept coming on at 5 to 10 lbs a year. my sex drive completely disappeared which doctors will blame on the depression. i finally couldn&#039;t handle it and went off two weeks ago. i feel like crying at how much better i feel. it&#039;s like i woke up from a coma."