"of course, birth control affects every person differently, but i wanted to share my experience to shed some light on the possibilities of hormonal birth control. i got the implant and had it for one year. i didn&#039;t get pregnant, which was good, but i experienced extreme &quot;mood swings&quot; and &quot;depression&quot;. that&#039;s what the symptoms would be called on the websites you&#039;ve been skimming, but there&#039;s not really words to describe the hell that i went through. the irony is that sex didn&#039;t really matter, because i was bleeding so often and so depressed. i waited for my cycle to even out. and it did eventually and proceeded to swing in the other direction, i hardly ever got my period. then, back to normal, then back to bleeding all the time. i was done."