Microgynon pill to Rigevidon anyone?

I'd like to share my experience.
I recently picked-up my contraceptive pill from my doctor. When I opened it up at home, I noticed that it was Rigevidon instead of my usual Microgynon (having been prescribed Microgynon for the last 8 yrs). After reading the basic blurb, it still seemed to be a contraceptive pill with the same ingredients, so being a busy woman, who trusts her doctor, I started taking it as normal (& as prescribed).
To cut a long story short, I turned in to an emotional lunatic! It was frightening, as I was becoming someone who I didn't even recognise, BUT I DIDN'T REALISE IT WAS DUE TO MY ALTERED HORMONES. I became so unreasonable with my long-term boyfriend, that I actually ended our relationship!! It was only his perseverance & patience that allowed us to get to the bottom of it. "Please think hard: what's actually changed that has made you so insecure with me?", he begged me. Eventually it clicked that it coincided with the change in the pill [so it wasn’t by definition a placebo effect]. However, I still wasn’t sure, as I’d never experienced mood swing anything like this before, but my newly-ex-boyfriend was more insistent, as he’d had a previous girlfriend who’d had similar (but not as bad) mood swings. I was soon easily persuaded by him that this was the cause (& not him!) I immediately started feeling less irrational, as I had an explanation, rather than just blaming my depressed state on those unfortunate enough to be around me, & especially close to me. The day after this revelation, I angrily visited my doctor, & immediately got the prescription changed back to Microgynon. She told me that her “computer system suggested that you were suitable for a switch”. She also told me that it could take up to 2 weeks before I am back to normal; it’s been 3 days now, & I still feel the ‘depression’ (although it is waning slightly), but knowing that it’s the drugs, not me, is keeping me sane in this mental discomfort. I’ve had a lot of apologising & making-up to do; not just with my boyfriend, but also my father, & work colleagues.
I’m not a luddite, but a tax-payer, & if the system suggest I’m suitable for a switch to a cheaper version, I’m happy to help-out the NHS by trying-it-out. However, I’m so angry that I wasn’t warned about the possible SERIOUS side-effects (as exemplified by reading these other forum posts today, some from over 3 yrs ago!), or even INFORMED THAT THE PRESCRIPTION WAS BEING CHANGED! I’m incensed because I came close to losing my job, & falling-out with my family, & almost lost the man I love!
I've never contributed to a forum before, but feel so strongly that this procedure of changing a patient's medication without informing them that it's a change with potentially serious side-effects, I'm taking my precious time to contribute here. Also, I just hope that it's not that doctors are being somehow bribed to these changes.

Hello, this Sunday that just passed I stopped taking my pill for my one week period break. I hadn't started my period yesterday so me and my boyfriend had sex. He didn't finish inside me but I'm starting to get worried as its nearly been a week and I still haven't had my period?

Whilst the active ingredients are the same, the inactive ones are not. I know they're in tiny amounts but the last time I had my birth control brand switched I bled for three weeks straight. These things do make a difference.

I'm arranging an appointment with my GP because since being switched from Microgynon to Rigevidon 3 weeks ago I've been getting migraines every other day. Nothing else has changed with regards to my medication. I'm wondering if something in it is interacting with my antidepressants.

I'd like to share my experience.
I recently picked-up my contraceptive pill from my doctor. When I opened it up at home, I noticed that it was Rigevidon instead of my usual Microgynon (having been prescribed Microgynon for the last 8 yrs). After reading the basic blurb, it still seemed to be a contraceptive pill with the same ingredients, so being a busy woman, who trusts her doctor, I started taking it as normal (& as prescribed).
To cut a long story short, I turned in to an emotional lunatic! It was frightening, as I was becoming someone who I didn't even recognise, BUT I DIDN'T REALISE IT WAS DUE TO MY ALTERED HORMONES. I became so unreasonable with my long-term boyfriend, that I actually ended our relationship!! It was only his perseverance & patience that allowed us to get to the bottom of it. "Please think hard: what's actually changed that has made you so insecure with me?", he begged me. Eventually it clicked that it coincided with the change in the pill [so it wasn’t by definition a placebo effect]. However, I still wasn’t sure, as I’d never experienced mood swing anything like this before, but my newly-ex-boyfriend was more insistent, as he’d had a previous girlfriend who’d had similar (but not as bad) mood swings. I was soon easily persuaded by him that this was the cause (& not him!) I immediately started feeling less irrational, as I had an explanation, rather than just blaming my depressed state on those unfortunate enough to be around me, & especially close to me. The day after this revelation, I angrily visited my doctor, & immediately got the prescription changed back to Microgynon. She told me that her “computer system suggested that you were suitable for a switch”. She also told me that it could take up to 2 weeks before I am back to normal; it’s been 3 days now, & I still feel the ‘depression’ (although it is waning slightly), but knowing that it’s the drugs, not me, is keeping me sane in this mental discomfort. I’ve had a lot of apologising & making-up to do; not just with my boyfriend, but also my father, & work colleagues.
I’m not a luddite, but a tax-payer, & if the system suggest I’m suitable for a switch to a cheaper version, I’m happy to help-out the NHS by trying-it-out. However, I’m so angry that I wasn’t warned about the possible SERIOUS side-effects (as exemplified by reading these other forum posts today, some from over 3 yrs ago!), or even INFORMED THAT THE PRESCRIPTION WAS BEING CHANGED! I’m incensed because I came close to losing my job, & falling-out with my family, & almost lost the man I love!
I've never contributed to a forum before, but feel so strongly that this procedure of changing a patient's medication without informing them that it's a change with potentially serious side-effects, I'm taking my precious time to contribute here. Also, I just hope that it's not that doctors are being somehow bribed to these changes.