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    Default Birth Control Pill/Oral Contraceptive Roundup

    I'd like to try birth control pills again, but I'm hesitant. My last experience with BCPs was Yasmin, and the stuff made me experience severe mood swings and tanked my sex drive (I even stopped masturbating - I had no interest whatsoever) I had lovely skin, though.

    I was on Ortho Tri-Cyclen and then Alesse in my early twenties. I don't remember having any emotional side effects from them, but then again, at that age I was a generally moody and unhappy girl, so I'm not sure I would have noticed. Ortho made me puke a lot. With Alesse, there was no nausea but there was breakthrough bleeding. I had great skin on both.

    Has anybody here tried Lybrel, the new continuous dose pill? Has anyone done poorly on a birth control pill, and well once they switched to another? I'f everyone is comfortable sharing, please do, because the pharmaceutical companies and many doctors insist that BCPs don't cause depression or weight gain. And I think we all know that they can and do.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pill/Oral Contraceptive Roundup

    I just switched from yaz to loestrine 24. I rarely get zits and yaz gave them to me! I also had break through bleeding every month I was on it and finally got sick of it, so I switched. So far, I really like loestrine.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pill/Oral Contraceptive Roundup

    I've tried:

    Lybrel
    Kariva
    Femcon
    Yaz
    Yasmin
    Alesse

    and a few others I can't remember right now. I have been through all of the above in the last 12 months. I've had breakthrough bleeding on all of them. I'm going off everything for 3 months and trying again. I hate them all, personally, but hopefully you have better luck
    I believe you Dottie and you have my support

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    Quote Originally Posted by smartcookie View Post
    I'd like to try birth control pills again, but I'm hesitant. My last experience with BCPs was Yasmin, and the stuff made me experience severe mood swings and tanked my sex drive (I even stopped masturbating - I had no interest whatsoever) I had lovely skin, though.
    I am just relieved to find out that I am not the only one who had sex drive issues with this pill!

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pill/Oral Contraceptive Roundup

    ^^I'm on Yaz now, and love my skin and breasts, but hate my lack of libido

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    Quote Originally Posted by alessandra View Post
    ^^I'm on Yaz now, and love my skin and breasts, but hate my lack of libido
    I didnt even grow bigger boobs! My skin is way too dry.
    I had a much easier time with ortho triciclyn lo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brendita View Post
    I didnt even grow bigger boobs! My skin is way too dry.
    I had a much easier time with ortho triciclyn lo.
    No sex drive issues on that one? Any mood swings?

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pill/Oral Contraceptive Roundup

    I like OrthoTriLo I had some breakthru beeding the first 2 months but didn't gain any weight and have been quite the horndog lol so no trouble in that department! lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by smartcookie View Post
    No sex drive issues on that one? Any mood swings?
    my sex drive was fine. I was already emotional before that, and was also going through difficult times, so I dont know whether or not that had anything to do with the pills or not.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pill/Oral Contraceptive Roundup

    Well I have switched a lot in the past few years. I had 2 shots of the depo and that made me psycho and I spotted for around 5 months. Then I started Ortho Evra. I was on the patch for 3 years with a 3-4 month break in between. The first couple of weeks I experienced nausea but no other side effects except for my boobs going up a cup size. The last time on it 8 months in I gained A LOT of weight 15+ so I went off birth control for awhile and then started Yasmin. I took that for 2 months and had horrible mood swings and my face started breaking out crazy and switched right to Ortho Cyclen and only took that one month and my face was all crazy again so now I'm back to condoms. I just can't handle hormones.
    This is a good site for other women's rating on BC:
    http://www.askapatient.com/

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