"okay so nexplanon is useful in the sense that you&#039;re safe from pregnancy etc. but what it&#039;s done to me mentally is not pleasant in the slightest. i go through 2 week periods of feeling completely myself and then suddenly drop into these phases of chronic anxiety and exhaustion. i  have intrusive thoughts that do not help my anxiety in the slightest and i just feel so isolated from everyone. my mum had told me that i&#039;m not myself anymore and that&#039;s just the hardest thing to hear because i&#039;ve noticed it too. i&#039;m usually energetic, enthusiastic and bubbly but during these periods i have no motivation. i&#039;m getting it out in a few days, i just need to be myself again, i hate feeling like this and cannot cope any longer."