AYGESTIN Reviews (NORETHINDRONE ACETATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (163 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare AYGESTIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AYGESTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | fibroids, heavy periods | HORRIBLE!!!!! Gained 15 lbs in 3 weeks!! Massive migraines, unbelievable hot flashes, no sleep, acne, extreme hypoglycemia. I have been off the med for a vew months and my body is still screwed up!!! Can anyone help?? unable to control hypoglycemia and extreme hunger and still gainong weight - even though I have been dieting and exercising! NEVER TAKE THIS DRUG!!!!!! | F | 6 months | 11/16/2014 | 2 | Prolonged bleeding | Extreme appetite decrease. No motivation for exercise. No motivation for anything. Depression. Cry spells. Headaches. Dizziness. Nausea every day. Weight loss. Increased sex drive. Cramping | F | 17 | 3 weeks 5 | 7/18/2014 | 4 | Abnormal Uterine Bleeding | Moodiness, weight gain, crying and anxiety spells | I started aygestin after about 3-4 weeks of heavy bleeding and TERRIBLE clots. Before I went in to see my gynecologist, I felt like there were no options but to get a hysterectomy. My doctor put me on this persecution at four times a day for three weeks and the heavy bleeding went away and stayed away until I finished my last pill. About 3-5 days later (after stopping the pill) the bleeding came back (with excruciating cramps) not as bad as it was before but still pretty heavy. I want another prescription of this stuff but my doctor wants to try and regulate me using birth control. While on aygestin I was able to have my life back but now all I do is lay around and miss out on life. Being on aygestin is great if it works well for you but coming off is just as depressing as before you start. Good luck to anyone who is thinking about trying this medication for the same reason as me. I do hope that the withdrawal doesn't send you into a funk! | F | 20 | 3 weeks 5MG | 3/26/2016 | 3 | Endometriosis | Extreme anxiety and restlessness when I laid down to sleep. Kept getting the urge to want to tense and stretch all my muscles. Very strange, have never experienced that feeling before. Starting to drive me crazy. | Got put on Aygestin after my 3rd endo laparoscopy hopefully trying to prolong the next surgery & pain. | F | 20 | 3 weeks | 9/7/2009 | 2 | Endometriosis | Weight gain, acne, mood swings. | F | 21 | 3 months 5 mg | 6/24/2013 | 3 | 2 months missed period | Abdominal pain that comes and goes, hard nipples non stop, irritability, PMS | I didn't experience this the first time I took this the only thing that happened the first time was a sever case of PMS for about 3 periods after taking this, but then it subsided eventually. | F | 22 | 5 days 5 MG 2X day | 4/30/2012 | 4 | no period/ no ovulation | EXTREME mood swings!!!! VERY irritable! EXTREME bloating! it looked like i was 5 months pregnant! | i have been trying to get pregnant for over 10 months now. all of a sudden i stopped having my period. so my doctor said to take the aygestin to make me have a period, then followed by fertility drugs. i have never been more miserable, bloated, irritable, and sensitive in my life. i actually used very fowl language to my coworkers and boss while on this medicine. i'm lucky i wasn't fired. the swelling and bloating is to the extreme. i don't fit into my clothes anymore because of my extended stomach. on the plus side.... i did finally start my period today... yay!! so that's in the right step to having a baby. i am very excited that by the doctor's instructions, i should be pregnant by this time next month! | F | 23 | 10 days | 6/25/2009 | 3 | Postpone period for Wedding | Moon face, slight weight gain, Coming off of it bad cramps before period and feeling of fullness and nausea. | So this medication served its purpose for me. I took 5mg three time daily for about 2 1/2 weeks to postpone my period for my wedding. I took it In combination with birth control so I know the risks I put my body through on so much hormones . I am becoming a licensed pharmacist and I know going cold turkey off a medication is not always the best thing to do, so I tried tapering it off to avoid bleeding. It didn't work. It took about 2 days of being completely off of it to bleed. I felt extremely bad the entire day. Terrible cramps. My periods are usually very easy for me. This hasn't been. I was feeling nauseas all day. Second day wasn't as bad. I'm just trying to figure out when the bleeding will stop. | F | 24 | 2 weeks 15mg | 7/25/2016 | 3 | longterm bleeding | Nausea, loss of appetite, weight gain, mood swings, depression, anxiety, leg pain, back pain, cramping, headache, weakness, and shakes. | I started taking Aygestin after having my second child and after two months I was still bleeding. Soaking up to a pad a hour. My Ob wrote a Rx for this medication. Instructed to take it every six hours til bleeding stopped, than twice a day. I stopped bleeding after a day. Almost a week later I started bleeding again very heavily. At first it was like a miracle drug, than the headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and tiredness. The shakes hit almost instantly. Now with a three year old and a two month old I could not function like this. However with also going too school I can not keep getting up every half hour to forty five mins to check my tampon. | F | 24 | 1 weeks 5 MG 1X H | 11/26/2010 | 3 | Endometreosis extreme pain w/ cycle | Migrains, acne, irritability, insomnia, bleeding recently | I think that it has helped with the pain, although I am not supposed to have a period. I am bleeding now and it is just all different. I am a little weary though I dont need to gain weight and get the worst migraines... anyone that has ideas or experience with endometreosis and PCOS and extremem pain with cyecle feel free to give some advice... etc. | F | 24 | 1 months | 1/21/2009 | 2 | Endometriosis | I took this in conjunction with Femara. I experienced abdominal pain, water gain (about 12 lbs, all in the abdomen), and dizziness. | I didn't like it. It didn't help with endo pain, and the drug itself was a pain. | F | 24 | 14 days 1X day | 12/14/2012 | 1 | Endometriosis | Irritability, leg pains, anxiety, nausea, headache | I expressed significant concerns about aygestin affecting my mood to my doctor who assured me that it would not be an issue. I took it for approx 2 weeks, 5mg a day. I experienced noticeable irritability. I had leg pains (sort of like growing pains) and didnt realize why til after reading some of the other reviews. I also had anxiety. I stopped taking it two days ago...started my period today (even though I just had a period 2 weeks ago) and I have had EXCRUTIATING headaches both days. I am also experiencing nausea and still having anxiety. I hated this medicine...now my body is all out of whack. | F | 24 | 14 days 5MG 1X day | 4/26/2012 | 2 | To regulate period | The first couple days I noticed that I was very bloated and so bloated that it hurt my feet walking. I gained 6 lbs within the first 4-5 days. I also started breaking out and I look like a high school student with bad acne right now :( I couldn't sleep well and started having some crazy dreams. NO sex drive whatsoever and random cramping as if I were going to start my period. | As soon as I noticed the weight gain, I started drinking water like crazy, eating healthier choices and continued my normal exercise routine. The weight was controllable. My other side effects remained the same but the acne worsened. | F | 25 | 3 weeks 5 2X day | 8/1/2012 | 1 | endometriosis/lupron add back | leg cramps/extreme food cravings/intense highs and lows with mood | Im a 25 year old who has been struggling with painful periods that leave me bedridden for up to 10 days. I had an endo laparoscopy where they removed all of the endometriosis. Following surgery I was recommended to get the Lupron shot which i allowed my gyno to do and give me this add back of aygestin. This drug led me to think I was having a mental breakdown. Which it did. Gave me leg cramps and body aches that I wasted to much money seeing doctors trying to figure out if I have an autoimmune disease. Get the ok from doctor and dump down a toilet!!!!! | F | 25 | 2 months 1X day | 8/16/2016 | 1 | PCOS-no period | Dizzy all day every day, nausea so bad it hurt my abdomen, extreme cramping, lots of clotting when my period finally came around. I did develop a few dark patches on my face as well, I would also constantly shake and be cold while on this medication. I was only able to muddle through 7 days of the 12 prescribed. It had shook up my mental health so badly that I could not continue the medication, it felt like putting myself into a prison. My mind was the prison, so depressed I was thinking of suicide and harming myself, sleepless nights for 7 nights due to heightened anxiety, then came the vigorous mood swings and rage, crying spells, and sense of being alone/worthless. Even after stopping the medication, I am still trying to repair the damage and emotional toll it did on me in just a weeks time. | I would prefer to not take this medication again. I have used Provera and it has worked just fine for me with minimal side effects. | F | 25 | 12 days 5mg 1X day | 9/1/2020 | 3 | Endo | I had weight gain, serious increase in appitite, terrible mood swings and irritibility, insomnia,headaches, and acne. It worked well for my pain but I began bleeding yesterday and have decided that the bad more then out weighs the good for me. I will be stopping medication as of today. | Good Luck! | F | 26 | 3 months 5mg 1X day | 5/5/2010 | 2 | Endometriosis | Nausea, no period, mood swings, major depression | F | 26 | 2 months 5mg | 5/26/2014 | 1 | Endometriosis | Weight gain: I was only able to maintain my weight with extreme dieting and exercise. Irritability, extreme depression, anger, exhaustion/fatigue. | F | 26 | 9 months 5mg | 3/7/2014 | 5 | pcos & irregular & heavy periods | No major side effects. It actually helped me keep my weight down... Decreased appetite. Stopped pain from cysts. Shut period off completely. No spotting. Wonderful drug. | F | 27 | 4 years 10mg | 6/13/2013 | 1 | Menorrhagia | HOrrible mood swings, depression, swelling of feet and hands, drop in blood sugars. Irritable, very sad. | I like the fact that I have some relief from teh bleeding it does help, but the sadness that I have experience is overwhelming. I have been very depressed and iritable. I can hardly bend my hands and toes. The swelling is painfull and isn't going away even though I quit med 2 days ago. I will not ever take this med again. | F | 27 | 5 weeks 5mg 1X day | 6/7/2010 |
AYGESTIN (NORETHINDRONE ACETATE): This medication is used to treat women with abnormal bleeding from the uterus. It is also used to treat women who have stopped having menstrual periods for several months (amenorrhea) but who are not pregnant or going through menopause. In addition, this medication is used to treat a condition (endometriosis) in which tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus is found outside the uterus in the abdomen/pelvic area, causing painful/irregular periods. Norethindrone is a type of female hormone (progestin). It is like the hormone progesterone that your body makes naturally. This medication works by stopping the normal growth of the uterus lining during the menstrual cycle and signaling hormone changes in the uterus to restore normal menstrual periods. This medication must not be used to test for pregnancy. Progestins are not effective in preventing miscarriages. FDA Approval Date: 1982-04-21 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)