ORTHO EVRA Reviews (ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; NORELGESTROMIN)Average Rating: 2.5 (592 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ORTHO EVRA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ORTHO EVRA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Birth control | Insomnia, Depression, severe Anxiety, Migraine that's not going away even i took medication, Body pain, Sweat nights. | I removed the patch on the 6th day. I developed a very bad insomnia. In 6 days of using this I only have 2 days of good sleep abd the rest 4 days I'm a wake for more than 24hrs or only have 3 hours of sleep. My anxiety gets worse and started developing depression. This is the worst contraceptive so far I tried. | F | 29 | 6 days 1X day | 4/5/2021 | 1 | doctor recommended for irregular bl | EXTREME HAIR LOSS! painful periods and heavy bleeding, chest pain | I stopped using it about 2 months ago and still experiencing extreme hair loss.. I had so much hair and Evra destroyed this for me! I definitely do not recommend. Please, if any of you have experience with hair loss and when it stops email me! | F | 22 | 7 months 1X day | 11/26/2020 | 1 | Birth control | Extreme breast pain just about brings me to tears, mood swings/depression, hair loss, rash at the site when I remove the patch (but I get this with bandages too), libido plumetted in the past month or so | I will ask my doctor about other birth control options soon but I've tried two different pills and an iud already and I don't react well to any of them so far. | F | 27 | 4 months 1X W | 11/22/2020 | 1 | to regulate my period | Awful first day i was fine nothing then day 2 started getting horrible chest pain and bad nausea day 3 woke up felt like i had been hit by a bus chills all over flu like symptoms and completely lost my voice headaches and nausea overwhelming safe to say i have binned them AVOID !!!! | F | 31 | 4 days | 11/9/2016 | 1 | preventing pregnancy | Sever head aches, nausea, lack of libido, Sensitive on smell | On my third week of using evra pat church I had a horrible head ache that didn't get better with pain killers. I took the patch off. After taking the patch off on the 2nd week without the patch I was on my way to work when I nearly passport and hubby took me to hospital suffering shortness of breat hand pains | 39 | 1 days 1 patch we | 3/31/2016 | 1 | Pregnancy prevention | I put the patch on 5th day of my period. First week, went smooth, zero side effects. Was so happy with it!Put my second patch on and my life became hell!...( last 72 hrs) Continues severe cramps, abdominal pains, exhausted all the time but can't fall asleep, back pain, extreme nausea (threw up couple of times) . I have never felt this nauseous before, even with my daughter. All the smells would make me sick, wanting to go throw up. Can't eat anything but hungry all the time! Hot flashes, chills. Started bleeding again( enough for a change of tampons) . I can't do it anymore. I took the patch off. There is no snowballs chance in hell, i would " wait out all of these" to see if it gets better. I already cant take it. The side effects are too much for me to deal with. I so regret even trying this. | F | 26 | 10 days 1X W | 10/31/2015 | 1 | Pregnancy prevention | I put the patch on 5th day of my period. First week, went smooth, zero side effects. Was so happy with it!Put my second patch on and my life became hell!...( last 72 hrs) Continues severe cramps, abdominal pains, exhausted all the time but can't fall asleep, back pain, extreme nausea (threw up couple of times) . I have never felt this nauseous before, even with my daughter. All the smells would make me sick, wanting to go throw up. Can't eat anything but hungry all the time! Hot flashes, chills. Started bleeding again( enough for a change of tampons) . I can't do it anymore. I took the patch off. There is no snowballs chance in hell, i would " wait out all of these" to see if it gets better. I already cant take it. The side effects are too much for me to deal with. I so regret even trying this. | F | 26 | 10 days 1X W | 10/31/2015 | 1 | Severe cramps, continuous heavy flow period, feelings of Depression, crying for no reason, weight gain, faintness | During my weeks on the patch, I continuously had a period for about two of those weeks along with very painful cramps, I took my patch off and it basically emotionally broke me! Crying all the time for little or no reason, feeling anxious or worried for no reason, feeling dizzy and faint all the time. I would definitely NOT recommend the patch. Particularly if you suffer from a history of depression I have found out the emotional side affects can be hugely heightened which I was not made aware of when getting the patch! | F | 18 | 1 months | 9/2/2015 | 1 | Stop periods or at least help with | Nausea and trouble breathing within 30 minutes. | I had my first patch on for 30 minutes. Was already nauseous and felt like it was extremely hard to breathe. I took it off a little bit ago. I don't know if my dosage was too high, or what. But I'm done with birth control it all makes me sick! | F | 17 | 1 days | 8/15/2015 | 1 | To control cramps | I got my first migraine with aura just after starting Ortho Evra, at age 20. I stopped taking it after the migraines wouldn't stop, especially since the patch just fell off. Every birth control I've tried since, even Lo Loestrin, triggered migraines again, so I stopped taking them entirely several years ago. It's been eleven years, and I still get migraines at least once a month because I used the patch once. | F | 31 | 1 months 1X AN | 7/13/2015 | 1 | To enjoy intercourse without condom | Non-stop heavy bleeding, mood swings , breast engorgment, fatigue, static tension, severe weight loss, and the list goes on | I've been on the ortho evra patch for about 6 weeks now... The first 3 weeks were fine.. but after those I've been gushing blood continuously this is not normal ... It's not a small leakage like everyone is talking about. I can't find anyone with the same symptoms .. am I the only 1 in this?? I stopped using it 3 days ago and I'm still bleeding heavily down there.. I'm tired of this.. any help?? | F | 21 | 6 weeks | 12/25/2014 | 1 | Birth Control | I experienced nausea, enlargement of my breasts, an unusal bodily warmth and dizziness the first few days I was taking it. On the 5th day, I ended up fainting from this drug and knew to immediately take this patch off. I also experienced the leg and arm pain that other patients have mentioned. Now I'm unsure if I am able to take another form of birth control such as the pill, as well as fearful because of what happened. | F | 18 | 5 days | 12/24/2014 | 1 | start my periods off after mc | Migranes , nausea, abdominal pain i put my first ever patch on as i suffered a mc at the beginning of the month and wanted my periods back earlier to determine when im ovulating to ensure i dont have sex then. I put my patch on about 11 this morning it is now half 9 at night and im lieing in bed crying at how sick i feel and how much of a bad head i have. My boyfriend is even peed off as now the slightest move he is making im ready to slap him one. Fair to say id rather just wait for my periods to come back and ive just ripped my patch of. | F | 16 | 1 days 1 weekly | 10/29/2014 | 1 | birth control | I experienced pain & a blood clot in the leg of where I applied the patch..one user said it got so bad she was admitted into the hospital and it was cancer...the reason I don't trust the government or technology(New drugs) | F | 29 | 1 years | 7/3/2014 | 1 | Birth control | Severe depression. Migraine, nausea, fatigue, light headedness | F | 2 days | 6/12/2014 | 1 | Birth Control | Orthra Evra made my skin yellow , however before I stopped using the medication I noticed horrible leg cramps/spasms ! Later they were so intolerable , that I had to be admitted to the hospital to later find out that it was cancer ! Chronic Mylogeous Luekemia! Please if this happened to you contact me . | F | 22 | 6 years I patch/wk | 2/18/2014 | 1 | The first 12 hours were okay. After that I experienced debilitating dizziness, nausea, and headaches. Could barely walk to my kitchen and almost fell over multiple times attempting to shower and go about a normal day. Had to take it off when the headaches kicked in. I was on it for 15 hours and would not ever try it again. | F | 26 | 1 days | 12/2/2013 | 1 | bc | Extreme fatigue and sleepiness. My right thigh: skin went numb ! | F | 38 | 1 weeks | 4/22/2013 | 1 | Pregnancy prevention | Bloating, HORRIBLE mood swings, HORRIBLE feeling of wanting to vomit everyday I wore the patch, lost weight, depression, anxiety, not interested in daily responsibilities much at all, when I did have an appetite I could never eat much which caused the weight loss, my boyfriend hates BC all around at this point because I was turned into a monster basically. He felt really bad for me because of all the pain this patch was causing me. I also had the rash that is still there till this day. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!!!! | F | 19 | 3 months 30MG | 4/18/2013 | 1 | yes | After the second day off using the patch it started itching, after the first weekwhen I change my patch the spot where the first patch was was red for a whole week after the red mark went away it turned into A itchy dry peeling mark with small scabs over it!!! I will never use this method again... | F | 21 | 3 weeks | 4/17/2013 |