NH – I think birth control pills are unhealthy, and, generally, it is a good idea to get off them. However, you are already in heavy duty AD w/d right now, and I’m genuinely not sure if it would make things worse or better for you to taper off the birth control pills right now.

It’s kind of impossible to tell whether the symptoms you mention are from AD w/d or from birth control pills or both.

If you do decide to stop them, I think you should try to taper, although I know nothing about how one does that. But, a quick Google shows me that women often have w/d from getting off birth control pills abruptly, and here is one place that mentions tapering them --

http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/in...?topic=31260.0

If you decide to taper off them, Google for more hints, and then please give us the upshot, so we can learn from your research.