I got my Nexplanon implemented in January of this year. Before that, I had been on a super low dose of the pill in high school to help regulate my period. I never really had any side effects from it and once my period started going on a schedule, I went off it.

Since getting Nexplanon, my periods totally stopped (which is great) but I feel like the symptoms that I had when I was having my period have been turned up to 100.

Generally, the week before I got my period I became extremely hungry all the time. I never felt like I was ever full no matter how much I ate. But once my periods started and for the rest of the month...I was fine and never had those cravings until my next cycle. But now, I have those feelings all month and they are not going away. I knew weight gain/becoming harder to lose weight was a likely symptom, but I had never read about the hunger/food not tasting the right way aspect of it.

Now, I am hungry all the time. I have never been a big eater, but now it's like my body has done a total 180 and it now wants to eat everything within 100 miles of me at all the time. Just tonight I had a pretty normal dinner (chicken, mashed potatoes, veggies), and less than an hour later I was "starving" again. I've tried drinking more liquids and chewing gum because I thought I was just eating out of boredom, but no matter what I drank/chewed, I was always just really hungry.

And along with being hungry, I sometimes feel like food is just not tasting right anymore? I really don't know how to explain this one. But the food I have always enjoyed...just tastes like nothing now and sometimes just doesn't taste good at all anymore. I'll be craving something like chicken and when I eat it...it just doesn't taste like anything and I'm still often hungry even if I do eat it. Sometimes It feels like I will go from craving one thing to craving something else as soon as I eat the first thing!

Could this be because of Nexplanon? or could just be related to something like stress?