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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ORTHO TRI-CYCLE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | acne | My daugher was recently prescribed BC pills for acne so I thought I would do some research before giving them to her. Wow!!! I couldn't believe the comments about Tri-Nessa. I am returning them to the pharmacy right away and asking for Tri-cyclen. Thank you so much to everyone for your comments. It helped me to avoid a potentially horrible situation for my daughter. | F | 56 | | 11/9/2006 | 1 | Birth Control | Bleeding from the get go, severe nausea, vomiting, breast tenderness, gained four pounds when I can't even eat and no sex drive. | There must be a better way for women my age. My doctor told me to quit taking it. I can't wait to start feeling better again. | F | 53 | 14 days | 11/28/2007 | 1 | Uncontrollable bleeding during cycl | Sever mood swings, depression. Last night started bleeding slightly now heavy with huge clots. The color is of fresh blood | Horrible | F | 50 | 1 weeks | 8/9/2015 | 5 | birth control | I, too, was switched from Ortho tri-cyclen to TriNessa because my insurance no longer covered ortho tri-cyclen. I get severe headaches weeks 3-4. This month was the worst! Throbbing headaches and not able to do much of anything. Taking headache and migraine meds didn't help a bit. I am thankful I saw this web site. I have suffered long enough. I am getting off tri-nessa NOW. Thanks for all your helpful insight. I thought it was just me and didn't realize it was the tri-nessa. It will be worth paying the extra money for ortho tri-cyclen. Thanks for all your postings! | F | 48 | 4 months | 12/4/2008 | 5 | Birth control | Worse cramps during period even though period was light. Breast tenderness, sensitive bladder. | This was a very good pill. There was no transition adjustment at all from the Triphaisal I was taking previously. I had absolutely no PMS with this pill. When generics came out I switched to OTC Lo, but that pill did not work at all for me. I had even worse cramps, worse breast tenderness, stomach cramping and premenstral tension. | F | 48 | 5 years | 2/21/2007 | 3 | to prevent ovary cysts | bad swimg moods every day at the same time. That swimmg moods always happen around 9 pm. This having happen for the last 4 months. Every night I pick up fights with my teeanager kids for stupid reasons. Also I have low sex drive, I feel sad, tired burning down,. I am very irritable in my job. I liked because I dont have the crampy periods, my periods are shorter but I dont know if worth to take it anymore because I dont like my terrible mood at night. | F | 48 | 6 months 30 1X day | 11/13/2010 | 4 | large blood clots | first week a little nauseated but it went away. Periods are lighter but have actually been extended by about 2 days. | I am on ortho tri-cyclen lo. No weight gain...actually have lost 10 pounds in 2 months but have also been more active in that time frame. No depression, irritability, tiredness, hunger that others complain about. As of this month because of price difference, I am trying the generic version and so far no change. | F | 47 | 4 months | 1/15/2010 | 3 | Birth control | Ortho tri-cyclen for 10 years doc switched to ortho tri-cyclen lo a year ago major hair loss for the last year it just stopped recently. No other noticeable side affects. | Does anyone know if the hair loss is permanent or will it grow back when I quit???? Please I'm totally worried! | F | 47 | 20 days | 1/14/2008 | 1 | heavy periods | Dizzyness, dry mouth, slight headaches, nausea. | I was prescribed this bcp due to heavy periods. I started taking this pill every evening before bed and noticed during sleep shifting from positions that I would be extremely dizzy. In the morning I would wake up slightly nauseated but nonetheless didnt think it was due to the pill till I started reading all the comments. I thought maybe taking the pill during the day after a meal would make a difference, but instead made me nauseous again and dizzy and want to just lay down for the symptoms to subside which im still feeling into the evening. I would rather deal with my heavy flow than experience these symptoms that make me feel aweful! I cannot get pregnant due to tubal ligation, so this was to help regulate periods. I am discontinuing use of this pill tomo and cant wait to flush out all the chemical from my body and return to my normal self again. I will look for other alternatives to handle my heavy periods as I enter perimenopause. Maybe it works for others, but in my case no. Maybe I didnt give it enough time, but Im not willing to put up with the side effects. | F | 47 | 10 days 1X day | 4/25/2012 | 5 | Birth control, period regulation | I was on OTC Lo with no problems for 2 1/2 years. | Insurance forced me to switch so the Dr gave me and Rx for OTC regular instead of Lo. The pharmacy gave me the generic Tri-Nessa. I have been on it for two weeks. I have been feeling like I was going crazy. I have been extremely moody and irritable. I wake up feeling like I did not sleep. Just yesterday, I realized that I have been feeling like this since switching pills. I'm going to ask the pharmacy for the OTC regular instead of Tri-nessa and see if that works. If not, I will pay the extra for the OTC Lo. Thanks for all of your great comments. At least I know I'm not going crazy! | F | 46 | 15 days | 2/17/2007 | 3 | cramps, prevent pregnancy | Moody, zero sex drive, and I mean zero. | I have been on and off birth control since the age of 18 years. Started when I was 18 took for a couple of years, and then stopped. Had to return to it to control severe cramping. I was a track runner and wonder if that contributed to my endometriosis. After I go married in my thirties, I took the pill between planned pregnancies. Hair thinned (but could be just age) and my once great sex drive has been driven into the dust. I never want to have sex..!! I would rather sleep. The only time I feel slightly normal is at the tail end of my cycle. It is awful to walk around feeling like a mummy. I often have high anxiety as well. | F | 46 | 8 years 1X day | 2/27/2010 | 1 | regulate periods | Extreme nausea, vomiting, anorexia | F | 46 | 7 days | 11/18/2005 | 1 | Regulate periods | Benign tumors everywhere | I am now 45, but began taking Ortho Tri Cyclen at 15 to regulate long, heavy periods. It did work for that reason. I can recall knowing the exact day I would start and end. I also recall that I had very clear skin for a teenager. I believe I was on this for maybe 7 years and had no issues (that I noticed). I have 2 healthy boys, 19 and 20, and I was always athletic and energetic and organized, blah blah. BUT, during a random check up in 2010 something was off in my blood test that lead to a CT scan, then and MRI, that eventually led to a liver biopsy. I have a monster benign tumor in my liver (and several other smaller ones) known as FNH Focal Nodule Hyperplasia. That's where it all started. Since then, it was discovered I had monster gallstones that led to my gallbladder being removed, huge fibroids that led to my uterus being removed, and huge nodules on both sides of my thyroid that led a total thyroidectomy. Also recently found small benign cysts on my right breast, but I understand this is common for women at 40. So now I'm a hot mess with no thyroid and my digestive system and hormones are a disgrace. Synthetic hormones can't help me b/c I have no gallbladder and my liver is consumed with these tumors so I cannot process the T4 to T3 for metabolism and whatever else it does. Something to do with bile. My body will not digest food properly so it just kinda sits there and all I want to do is sleep. I have gained almost 20 lbs since this past August. I sleep 10-11 hours a | F | 45 | 7 years Unsure | 3/10/2016 | 5 | prevent pregnancy | possible hair thinning | I started this pill when I was 18. I think that my hair thinned on it (not bald, just thinner), but then again, I did not inherit a good hair gene from my parents. I believe that hair loss is a side effect of all BC pills. This side effect was not out there in the late 80's and back then my female gynocologist scoffed at me when I suggested the pill was causing it. (I found a new doctor). Otherwise, I had no complaints at all - no obvious side effects that I can attribute to the pill. However, if you miss a pill and have to double up, you will get breakthrough bleeding. A few years ago I tried a couple of different BC pills b/c of some breakthrough bleeding that turned out to be polyps and no relation to the pill. What a nightmare! The last one I was on was Apri (brand name - not sure of generic name) and it was dreadful - always starving and water weight retention. At 44 I am taking a break from the pill, but I have endometriosis and probably should go back on. I am enjoying hormone free time, but would choose this pill should I decide to go back on the pill. I truly believe all women react differently to BC pills so there is no way to truly "rate" a pill until you try it yourself. I am also happy that I cut my chances of ovarian cancer by about 40% by being on it b/c my mother died of ovarian cancer at 59. | F | 44 | 18 years 1X day | 1/5/2011 | 1 | Generic Trinessa | weight Gain, anxiety and maybe the cause of a stroke | i was using the BC patch and my insurance did not cover it any more so i was told it covered Trinessa so switched, my boobs hurt, gained weight and then last saturday i suffered a stroke which my be due to this BC i have had numerous test which have come back ok i have one more test to do and if that is normal then the BC was the cause of the stroke, I dont smoke and I am only 44 | F | 44 | 4 years 1X day | 3/5/2010 | 1 | acne and birth control | Trinessa made me gain weight so dramatically the first two weeks, I had to stop taking it - I felt like I was hungry all the time. It also completely killed my sex drive. I never had these problems with ortho tri-cyclen. | F | 44 | 2 weeks | 2/3/2006 | 1 | birth control | Took TriNessa and feel like I'm dying | I've had nothing but problems since taking this drug for a month, mood swings, lack of sleep, bloating, and break through bleeding which I've never had in my life on OTC. I am going back to the regular one asap! I think this drug is very dangerous! | F | 44 | 3 weeks | 9/10/2009 | 5 | To regulate my period | No side effects to OTC, which I was taking for years. My insurance stopped covering it so I was forced to switch to Trinessa. TERRIBLE allergy starting after just 1 pill. I thought I'm going blind swelling and burnign of the skin around my eyes got progressivly worst despite allergy meds I was taking, finally after 4 pills I figure it out. It was Trinessa!!! Don't take this pill, you are safer to pay more more OTC. | F | 43 | 13 years | 4/28/2006 | 5 | Birth Control | none | Works well. Extremely light and short periods. | F | 43 | 10 years 1X day | 5/9/2013 | 1 | Hair loss | Terrible weight gain, even tho I was working out 6 days a week. I have had severe migrains, mood swings and the pms bloating is ridiculous, on top of the weight gain, I have never been so uncomfortable in my life. | I was prescribed this because of hair loss, heaven forbid we have a bad hair day. But at this point, if god wants me to be bald as I get older, I guess thats just what im gonna have to accept. I will be miserabe either way, but maybe I wont be as fat :( | F | 43 | 26 days 1X day | 3/1/2012 |
ORTHO TRI-CYCLEN (ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; NORGESTIMATE; NORGESTIMATE; NORGESTIMATE): This combination hormone medication is used to prevent pregnancy. It contains 2 hormones: a progestin and an estrogen. It works mainly by preventing the release of an egg (ovulation) during your menstrual cycle. It also makes vaginal fluid thicker to help prevent sperm from reaching an egg (fertilization) and changes the lining of the uterus (womb) to prevent attachment of a fertilized egg. If a fertilized egg does not attach to the uterus, it passes out of the body. Besides preventing pregnancy, birth control pills may make your periods more regular, decrease blood loss and painful periods, decrease your risk of ovarian cysts, and also treat acne. Using this medication does not protect you or your partner against sexually transmitted diseases (such as HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia). FDA Approval Date: 1992-07-03 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)