ORTHO TRI-CYCLEN Reviews (ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; NORGESTIMATE; NORGESTIMATE; NORGESTIMATE)Average Rating: 2.8 (1491 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ORTHO TRI-CYCLEN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ORTHO TRI-CYCLE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Birth Control | Nausea, breast tenderness, bloating, possible weight gain | F | 18 | 7 days | 11/18/2008 | 3 | birth control | very tender breasts, water retention, slight nausea | when i went on tri-cyclen lo, i gained a bit of weight and my boobs grew (they were alread a d cup) and i retained a lot of water. i went on tri-cyclen after my doctor recommended it because she thought perhaps the lower hormone was causing the problems ( i dont understand why a lower hormone would cause more problem but what do i know?) and i continued to gain weight and i was discustingly bloated.. it got to the point where i just felt like a huge fatty and couldnt even sit comfortably in a chair. Some women are totally fine on birth control and some have a horrible time with it and i don't understand why. Everyones body is different and I get that but it would be cool if there was research being done to figure out why it is some women have such a horrible time and others it doesnt effect them at all.. | F | 20 | 4 months | 11/13/2008 | 3 | birth control and acne | Break through bleeding - it does help your skin, but, the brown bleeding off and on is so irritating. I switched to another pill and had no interim bleeding, but, broke out so I switched back and within two weeks, brown bleeding again. Not worth the facial benefits! | M | 38 | 1 years | 11/5/2008 | 3 | Birth Control | 15+ pound weight gain, EXTREME migraines | I have been on this a year. At first I thought everything was good, I was actually loosing weight and felt wonderful. Now I have gained over 15lbs and I get severe migraines when it is time to switch pills. The good thing is that my periods are light and now I can track them, and my skin looks amazing. If you have any info about what I can do about the weight gain and such or questions email me. | F | 19 | 1 years | 10/29/2008 | 3 | birth control | frequent nausea,very long and heavy periods and an anal itch. | F | 19 | 6 months | 10/28/2008 | 3 | Thats what my doctor prescribed me | I have just recently got a prescription for this birth control, for my first time ever, and its been a week now and I feel like crap. The first day of taking it I was nauseated after a long nap of waking up, and could not keep food on my stomach and then I decided to take it after food other times and let the food settle in my stomch, but it still at times caused me to feel sick, yet it did help alot better than taking it without food. My mood swings have been out of this world. But thank God that I have a loving and understanding husband. I have dizziness, headaches, and sometimes I even experience vomiting. Also notice fluid retention and its only been a week. A girl at my job told me that it takes a while to get use to it. I havent noticed any real big changes in my skin yet, maybe it will show up later on. One good thing is my appetite has picked up better, and I am putting on weight that I did not want to lose before. Hopefully once my first few months of getting use to it, I will | Overall I recommend any females looking for some form of birth control method to try it and see how it works for them, because all women are different and could actually have a good experience using this product | F | 22 | 1 weeks | 10/27/2008 | 3 | Birth control | Somewhat decreased acne. Regulated periods. Prevented pregnancy for 10 yrs. Caused mild moodiness, weight gain, and breast tenderness. Also loss of sex drive and ability to orgasm. | Was on OTC (and generic) for 10 yrs w/o any known problems. Suddenly pill began causing abdominal pain. Went off (against Dr's advice), and felt much better. Sex improved which I did not even realize was due to pill. | F | 33 | 10 years | 10/11/2008 | 3 | Birth Control | SEVERE mood swings that got progressively worse with each month. I've been taking it for 6 months and it's not bearable anymore. I had to stop taking it. My mood swings are definitely caused by the drug. Before taking them I was a pretty stable person. After taking it, I can feel my head fog up and I start to take offense to anything and everything. I feel depression and it takes away my motivation to do things that I enjoy. This only happens a few days before I start my period and a few days after. Most severe is the day I start. My thoughts are clear. I can think that I have no reason to be crying - but I just feel so down, I don't want to bother to stop crying. | I do not recommend this drug if you want to avoid mood swings. | F | 21 | 6 months | 10/9/2008 | 3 | Birth control and acne | Morning nausea 1st week of new pack of pills; feeling of fuzzy-headedness, inability to focus; 2 days/month totally crazy and depressed, sometimes in a rage. Lost 8 pounds when I discontinued it so I suppose it contributed to some weight gain. | Cleared up my skin, worked great for that. Also no babies, so worked there, too. But the depression, irritability, moodiness and overall gloomy mood 2-3 days/month made it not worth it. | F | 29 | 5 years | 10/9/2008 | 3 | I have been on ortho tri cyclen lo for 5 months and I gained 7 lb. This the only side effect that I noticed. | F | 23 | 5 months | 10/4/2008 | 3 | period regulation | weight gain, water weight, severe bloating, didn't do much with my acne, brownish/ blackish discharge, depression due to weight gain, night sweats | I've been taking ortho tri-cyclen lo for a few years now and in the beginning it was going really well. Or maybe I thought it was going well. I didn't realize that some of the things that were happening to me were not normal so I didn't really realize until I read this site that these are things that were caused by my birth control. I have made an appointment with my doctor and plan on trying new birth control as soon as I can. One thing I must say about the weight gain thing is I am not a big person, I happen to be pretty skinny, and there was one day that physically I could not fit into my jeans. It was just the one day. Now I am actually gaining fat on my stomach and my lower back and it is causing me to be depressed. Especially because I don't eat junk and I exercise daily. | F | 18 | 4 years | 9/21/2008 | 3 | PCOS, and birth control | positive: regulated period, increased breast size, decreased facial and other male-pattern hair growth, didn't get pregnant. negative: nausea, vaginal dryness, decreased sex drive, decreased ability to climax, moodiness (crying), hair loss, depression/morbid thoughts, severely worsened existing anxiety; heart palpitations, insomnia at night and drowsiness during the day (maybe because I took them at night) | Until about the 7th week, I was fine. The only side effect was temporary nausea 3 - 5 hours after taking the pill. But after about 7 weeks, I noticed I was always dry down there, and my sex drive and ability to orgasm was diminishing. The nausea became more spread out. Then, I notied that after taking the pill every night, my anxiety was through the roof. I could not calm down, no matter what. I would try to sleep and I would just lay there all night. My heart pounded. I was not taking anything else, not even caffeine. I would finally fall asleep around 7:30 am, and find that I could just sleep all day if I would let myself. (I recalled having similar unexplained daytime drowsiness back when I had been on Yasmin, and now I attribute it to that) Through all this, I still wanted to tough it out and go past the 3rd pack like the directions say your body will get used to it, but here's the reason I stopped: I used to have OCD so severe that it interfered with my living a normal life. Towar | F | 24 | 3 months | 7/23/2008 | 3 | acne, shorter periods, safe sex | depression!!!! Extreme mood swings, crying all the time, and brownish/ blackish discharge week before period. | I've been on OTC for about 9 months now. I used to have really bad acne until I started taking OTC. It took about 3 months before I ever saw a difference. I haven't gained any weight and my periods are shorter, but it seems that for the past month or two I have noticed that I have brown almost black discharge but I don't see any normal colored blood until after my "period week" is over. I also have noticed that I cry a lot and I'm always depressed!! It sucks. I think its time for a new birth control. :) | F | 17 | | 7/10/2008 | 3 | Birth control | Migraine, severe headaches, zits, weight gain | I've only been on for a couple of months. I'll give it another month, but the headaches were brutal. I actually had to get a prescription for them. One night, about 5 days before my period, I had a migraine (the only migraines I'd had before were during my second pregnancy) and then I had severe headaches for almost two weeks after. If it happens next month, I'll go off. | 38 | 2 months | 6/25/2008 | 3 | severe cramping, heavy flow | I gained 10 pounds within the first month of taking this pill. My cramps have lessened somewhat, and my flow has been greatly reduced. The cramps still require excessive quantities of pain killers, and I start to feel them coming on the Monday after I go off the pills even though my actual flow doesn't start until Tuesday or Wednesday. So, that is a bit bothersome. Also, this pill caused my flow to have fairly large clots, which I never experienced before and contributes to the painful cramping. On the upside, it has drastically shortened the actual days of flow to about three, which is the best thing I can say about this pill. I have also experienced increasing anxiety and mood swings. While you can never really be sure if that's directly related to the pill, it does seem to have intensified since I started taking this pill. | I started on birth control when I was 16. I'm now 36. I started on Demulen 1/50, 50 mcg of estrogen. Talk about harsh on a 16 year old. I've been on Ortho cept and Ortho Cyclen since then, never being really satisfied with any of them. I started OTC after reading some decent things about it online. First off, I gained 10 pounds in the first month of taking it, mostly in the boobs it seemed. I went up almost a full cup size. My husband was pleased with this. Me, not soo much. Secondly, it did reduce the flow amount and length greatly. 3 day periods, and I basically only use Lite tampons. That's the best benefit this pill had. Thirdly, it caused pretty extreme clotting in my flow, which makes the cramping worse. Lastly, I have experienced increasing anxiety, depression, and mood swings with it, unlike anything I experienced with the other pills I've been on. Bottom line, you will most likely gain weight on this pill and experience some negative mood altering effect | F | 36 | 2 years | 6/23/2008 | 3 | prevent pregnancy | Light periods. No cramps. No bloating. Weight loss. Helped Acne. Did not feel nauseous at any time. Mood Swings. Crying over everything.Depression. Anxiety. | Worked great in prevented pregnancy :) | F | 26 | 7 months | 6/11/2008 | 3 | Discontinued Tri-Phasil 28 in 2007 | Tried OTC-Lo as gynocologist said was comparable to Tri-Phasil 28 which I had been on since I was 21 yrs old. I gained about 10 lbs and had 2 periods a month. After 4 months, they switched me to OTC regular and lost 10 lbs quickly. I seem to be more regular but have had some naseau in mornings and sometimes become very moody and rude my husband says for no apparent reason. I feel almost pre-menopausal and have an anal itch that has started. I also feel it makes my stomach more acidic and gasy if such a word and have had 2 painful stomach aches with lightheadedness and cold sweats in last 4 months and ate nothing out of the ordinary. | OTC regular seems to be keeping me regular and have not experienced any hair loss. I am just trying to figure out if all my side effects are normal or am I having pre-menopausal experiences at 37 years of age. I have a history in my family on my mom's side of early menopause before 40. Ugh! This is very frustrating and wish Tri-Phasil still existed as never had any of these experiences till the switch to OTC! : ( | F | 37 | 6 months | 6/6/2008 | 3 | Period regulation | YEAST INFECTIONS, depression, weight loss, weight gain, nausea, lighter periods, clearer skin. | I've had my good and bad with this pill. When I first started taking the pills I was constantly throwing up. I actually lost 20lbs due to being ill. 3 months into it - I started having serious yeast infections, depression and continued to lose weight. 6 months into it I began gaining the weight back and some more. However I did have MUCH lighter and pain free periods. My acne also cleared up. I stopped the pills mostly due to the painful yeast infections. | F | 23 | 1 years | 5/4/2008 | 3 | to prevent the birth of my 5th baby | headaches, weightgain, alopecia, mood swings | F | 30 | 5 years | 4/24/2008 | 3 | Considering OTC/OTClo | You tell me :) | I have taken two different birth control pills for the past seven-eight months. I was on levlen28 for six months and my face was getting acne so I asked to switch. I have naturally clear skin. No breakouts. I then switched to Loestrin and quit after two months. I'm basically looking for a birth control that doesn't cause acne. And if it does, it will go away after a few months. I also want it to seriously do some pregnancy-preventing! lol Because that's not what I need during college. If anyone could tell me whether they think OTC sounds right for, it'd help a lot. Granted, I know my decision is the one that counts, but hey- advice always helps! Thanks | F | 17 | 0 days | 4/2/2008 |