LOESTRIN FE 1/20 Reviews (ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; NORETHINDRONE ACETATE)Average Rating: 2.4 (1356 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LOESTRIN FE 1/20 with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LOESTRIN FE 1/2 | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | PCOS, irregular periods | Headache, overly emotional, cry easily, mood swings | This is my first bc pill and it has helped regulate my periods, improved my skin and have been an effective method of birth control. I experienced no weight gain and it made me feel a lot better. Recently I put two-and-two together that the pill is responsible for my extreme emotions and frequent headaches. I have no feelings of depression, just occasional withdraw. But I manage the headaches well and other than the crying easily i like this pill. Dont really want to try others, unless emotions become unmanageable. | F | 22 | 12 months 1/20 1X day | 1/30/2011 | 2 | birth control, heavy periods | hot flashes, crying spells, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, breast tenderness | I have been taking Loestrin 24 FE for a little over 4 years. About a year and a half ago, I was diagnosed with a complex ovarian cyst that no dr. really seems to know much about. In the past 2 years, I've had fainting spells during my periods. Also, i've been experiencing hot flashes and crying spells (especially during the 3rd week of the pack). More recently, I've been experiencing major anxiety (I've never experienced anything like this before) and difficulty concentrating. Does anyone else experience anything like this? Are there any side effects of going off the pill? HELP!!! | F | 22 | 4 years 1X day | 1/30/2011 | 2 | Birth Control | LoEstrin caused me so many UTI's that I had never experienced before. I was getting about 2 a month and many yeast infections as well, which I had also never experienced before. My urologist put me on a low dose antibiotic to take FOREVER, and no one else could tell me anything. When I went off the BC due to financial reasons, everything went away. In addition, I hadn't had my period for 9 months but once I went off it, I got my period normally. | I think it could be a good birth control but only for some. You have to be careful. | F | 22 | 1 years 1X day | 1/30/2011 | 2 | Loestrin 20 | Mood Swings, Anger, Thrush Symptoms, Breasts hurting, Lowered Sex Drive | The last 5 months seem to have been ok as far as i know, however i went on my 7 day break and i have been taking them again for 5 days. Ever since i started taking them again i have been so moody and feeling really down. I keep getting thrush symptoms in the last couple of months and i have never had it before. So after reading some of the reviews on here i have maybe come to realise that it may be due to this pill why i am getting these symptoms. Still yet to see nurse to change soon. | F | 20 | 5 months 1X day | 1/28/2011 | 2 | to regulate perimenopausal symptoms | bad PMS, NEVER a period, very annoying mild ongoing yeast infection | I felt better on Loestrin for the most part, because my perimenipause has been brutal most likely due to the fact that I am hypothyroid. I hated having to go on the pill at my age. so risky, and I am a very 'natural' person. I think I have to get off Loestrin because I have this lingering vaginal problem, like a mild yeast infection that caused discharge and vaginal tears that hurt like hell. Its messing with my normal PH or something. I have tried to combat it with probiotics to no avail. i am going to try to go off this pill. Here goes nuthin. Good luck everyone and thanks for the comments! | F | 45 | 1 years 1X day | 1/24/2011 | 2 | birth control | irregular, missed periods; spotting | I've been on the pill in general for a little over 2 years and have not once spotted until this pill. I skipped a period on Yaz but it was so light I wasn't surprised. On microgestin (generic), I've not only skipped and spotted, but I don't always know what day I'll get my period, how long it will last, or how heavy it will be. I get horrible cramps again and my skin (which wasn't great to begin with) is even worse. I've been getting more headaches which I suspect is from this pill. Luckily my libido is still the same versus the lack of one I had on Yaz. | F | 20 | 5 months 1/20 1X day | 1/22/2011 | 1 | Birth Control | Extremely tired, lethargic, anxiety, depression, unexplained anger, food cravings | My husband finally convinced me to get on the pill, which I have been off since I had my first child 4 years ago. I had forgotten about side effects from taking the pill but I really don't think it was ever this bad. I don't even want to get out of bed in the morning I could just sleep all day and that's not gonna happen with a 15 month old and a 4.5 yr old. All day I find myself snapping at my son and getting so worked up over the littlest things and my poor husband is getting his head bit off every time he says something. My sex drive is gone which seems so crazy to me since the reason to be on this is to have lots of sex! I guess I am going to try another brand of pill though during my research today I have little hope there is any out there that's any better. Thanks for all the posts, I don't feel so crazy now! | F | 33 | 3 weeks 20 mcg 1X day | 1/18/2011 | 1 | Prevent Pregnancy | I am taking the generic microgestin. I thought I was going crazy until I read all of these side effects others were dealing with also. I was finding myself crying all the time, freaking out and being irratated by everyone. I remember being completely fine and telling my boyfriend I just felt like crying and continously apologizing for how I was acting and saying this just wasn't me. I am 20yr old and constantly feel anxiety and even thoughts of wanting to kill myself. I told my mom about this and how I was feeling. My moods would change like that and I would being yelling at anyone. I've never been this hateful to people and would always be apologizing. I plan on stopping these pills today and going to my GYN for another pack and brand of pills.. | Anxiety, depression, extreme anger and mood swings, irritability, frequently crying.. I started these pills 10/10-1/11 | F | 20 | 3 months 1X day | 1/16/2011 | 1 | Ovarian cyst | Mood swings, nauseous, tired, crazy | I started taking this pill and my whole life just seemed to go down hill. Every night I would pick fights with just about anyone I could. I also would cry uncontrollably for no reason. I felt like killing myself. I still am feeling this way even though I stopped taking the pill a few days ago. I am just praying that this feeling goes away so I can return to being myself and I dont ruin my relationship forever. | F | 19 | 15 days 30 1X day | 1/9/2011 | 1 | Birth Control/Reduce menstrual flow | Much lighter menstrual flow, acne, headaches, irritability, depression, decrease in libido. | After 3 months I am going to be going to my ob/gyn to seek out alternative bc. I have experienced increased acne, headaches, after 2 months I started feeling listless. Not really happy, tired, moping about. I thought it would pass and it's getting worse. | F | 28 | 3 months 1X day | 1/5/2011 | 1 | birth control | EXTREME Fatigue, lethargy, foggy mind, flat affect, nausea, headaches, feel like crying, mild acne | I am a healthy, normal weight, active female and first time bc user. I don't take any other medications and started taking Loestrin 8 days ago. Since taking this med, I FEEL HORRIBLE!!! I have never felt worse in my life. I had a lot of nausea the first 3 days, and then extreme fatigue and foggy headedness set in. I tried to stick with it, but in the last 4 days, I have been in such an exhausted, zombie- like state that I have ENDED this HORRIFIC MEDICATION! I have stayed in bed the last 2 days due to utter exhaustion. I have alternating moments of being totally spaced out and then wanting to cry. This is coming from a very happy go lucky, emotionally stable wife and mother. I have never experienced anything so debilitating in my life. I stopped taking Loestrin FE last night, and continue to experience the terrifying symptoms today. I could barely muster enough energy to type this. Plan to go back to other bc methods. | F | 36 | 28 days 1X day | 12/31/2010 | 1 | birth control | Severe migraine headaches, mood swings, anxiety, frustration, vision problems. | I took this medicine for about a year I started to have really bad headaches and were told that they were migraine but did not associate it with the pills. My attitude changed where you could say "hi" and get your head bitten off. Eventually I started to have vision problems along with the headaches. I became pregnant while on the pill and was unaware. I was 6 weeks pregnant when I got a positive. At eight weeks I had a stroke due to blood clots. I was told the blood clots were probably the cause of the headaches and the pregnancy caused things to go haywire. I am recovering from the stroke which fortunately was a venous stroke instead of arterial and in my 23 week of pregnancy. Be careful ladies and followup on those "migraines" they may be more. | F | 29 | 1 years 30mg 1X day | 12/17/2010 | 2 | Strong periods and birth control | Headaches throughout day, severe post coital bleeding, irregular periods, loss of appetite, odd cravings, swollen breasts, severe mood swings, grinding of teeth | I am extremely worried about what this pill is doing to my body, I have had severe pcb for 3 days after intercourse now and headaches that can span an entire day. I am quitting this pill asap. | F | 21 | 1 months 1 1X day | 12/16/2010 | 1 | Birth Control | I developed a double pulmonary embolism and was hospitalized in early October. I am 39. It is believed that it began in my right leg as a DVT. I do not smoke and had no family history or reasons for blood clots. I am now on blood thinners and report to the doctor weekly fro blood tests. | F | 39 | 8 months 1X day | 12/12/2010 | 1 | ovarian cysts | Weight gain, tender breasts,acne,extremem fatigue, mood swings,anxiety,depression, breakthrough bleeding, unpredictable periods | I was switched to this bc to handle frequent ovarian cysts. I had a two month check up they were gone so I decided to endure the first grouping of symptoms(fatigue, tender breasts, about 5-10lbs weitght gain) the cysts were a big problem so i was ok as long as they were gone. before the 6 month check up I couldn't stand it. All the other symptoms jumped on. And the fatigue went from ok maybe another hour of sleep will do it to OMG i can sleep for a month and still be tired-i even had a sleep study done! When i called my OB he did a full internal exam and the cyst was back and i had all these nasty symptoms. He determined that i had to come off this pill and infact did not put me on a new one because he felt my body needed to fix itself after this ordeal. This was an awful pill not at all worth the couple of months i went without a cyst. | F | 30 | 8 months 1X day | 12/7/2010 | 1 | Birth Control | severe depression, awful anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, crying all the time over nothing, headaches, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, weight loss, loss of appetite, irritability, anger for no reason, inability to think rationally, uncontrollable thoughts and emotions. | I have been taking the generic version of LoEstrin, Microgestin. During the first month and a half I had horrible anger and felt horribly irritable for no reason. I also developed a lump in my breast, had irregular bleeding and awful stomach pain. I started taking this pill at the end of June and from July through September I felt okay. But about the second week in October I began to get very depressed. I would start thinking about my boyfriend's past relationships and it would emotionally kill me, but I just can't get those thoughts out of my head, no matter how hard I try. It has gotten progessively worse because now I can't sleep, I cry all the time for no reason, I can't think rationally anymore, and this just isn't me!! I DON'T FEEL LIKE MYSELF! I feel like I'm going INSANE and I can't take it anymore! Recently when I look at my boyfriend, who I love so much, I want to rip his f***ing head off and I don't know why! I barely leave my house, I just sit home and cry. I am so thankful to have found this website so I know that it is not just me who has had this experience so I know I can overcome it. I am stopping this pill TODAY and I will hopefully get back to my old self soon because I can't take these horrible feelings anymore. NO ONE SHOULD TAKE THIS PILL!! Its absolutely awful. | F | 18 | 5 months 1/20 1X day | 12/6/2010 | 2 | Birth control | Anxiety,depression, chest palpitations,back pain, silent migraines, exhaustion. | Normally a balanced person, this pill made me so anxious that I ended up at an ER with chest pain and crippling anxiety. Mid-cycle each month, got a silent migraine (visual disturbance) that scared the crap out of me. Thought there was something horribly wrong; would obsess over any anxious thought and cry endlessly. Stopped pill; within days, totally back to normal! Went back on name brand Loestrin last month, and sure enough, anxious, crying constantly, bad back pain in one spot,weird silent migraine on day 17, and no period last month. HATE IT, and reading here only reminds me that I should have steered clear. So tired I can't move- not the usual me! | F | 35 | 3 months 1X day | 12/5/2010 | 1 | birth control | Fatigue, depression, angry all the time. I was completely useless this week, cried for everything. Now that I have read this I know I am not crazy stopping at once. | F | 34 | 6 days 30mg 1X day | 12/4/2010 | 1 | birth control after a recent miscarriage | severe cramping, bladder infection, mood swings, itchy rash | I have only been taking this form of bc for less than a month, but it has been horrible! At first I was happy that my period was light, but it came two weeks early. I started cramping two weeks straight now! I have never been in so much pain, and I have three children!!! I have cried at least twice a day for the last week. My bf is about to go nuts too! I also developed dry itchy patches of skin all over my body within days of starting this med. I am stopping as of right now!!!!! | F | 25 | 15 days 20 mg 1X day | 12/3/2010 | 1 | birth control | extreme depression, anxiety/panic attacks, mood swings, breast tenderness for the first 3 months, no sex drive, itchy back, copius gas, fatigue | I ended up having to go back on lexapro all the time just so i could function without having a complete breakdown every time my b/f left for work. between the loestrin and the lexapro, i have zero interest in sex, can't orgasm, and don't care if i ever have sex again --- clearly NOT a plus when you're in a relationship. The itchy back and gas are majorly annoying, and i'm tired all the time. i want to go to bed by 9 and sleep 12 hours. i wake up every morning in sheets that are soaked with sweat, and i keep waking my b/f up with talking in my sleep. didn't have any of these issues before i went on the loestrin. going to make a call to my ob to see about alternatives because this is ridiculous. | F | 37 | 10 months 1 1X day | 11/28/2010 |