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 | Birth Control | Hair loss | Love the short periods and no cramps!!! Could definately do without my hair falling out. | F | 32 | 4 months | 7/17/2007 | 2 | Decrease length/heaviness of period | Mood swings, bloating, breast enlargement & tenderness, and weight gain. Had insomnia episodes. Fatigue (extreme) | I have absolutely no patience with my husband or my kids - which is totally out of character for me. I wanted to give it a couple of months to see if it got better - and let the hormones normalize. Well it has been 4 months and no normalcy, yet. Periods are definately lighter and shorter which is a major plus. Breasts increased a cups size (c to D). I have gained about 12 lbs. Nights that I can't sleep with my mind racing. Hubby is going to get vasectomy - I think I'll get Novasure and be done. | F | 35 | 4 months | 7/17/2007 | 2 | birth control | Weight gain, moods swings, severe constipation and break through bleeding | Gained about 8 lbs, break through beelding at least once a month. Have never been constipated in my life until taking this pill. | F | 43 | 10 months | 7/16/2007 | 2 | Contraceptive | Headaches, bleeding in first pack won't stop! | I switched to this pill just over a week ago having taken Microgynon 30 for over a year. I LOVED microgynon, it was amazing, but my doctor switched me to this because it seemed microgynon was giving me high blood pressure unfortunately, which is something I didn't want at the age of 20. I really don't get this new pill though. As soon as I switched pills I have been bleeding contstantly... that was a week ago and it still shows no sign of stopping. Apart from that I have had some annoying headaches, but otherwise it's OK. I just want the bleeding to stop. I think it is a side effect of changing from a higher dose to a lower dose combined pill but I'm not impressed! | F | 20 | 8 days | 7/16/2007 | 3 | Birth control | extreme nausea, extreme fatigue, food cravings, bloating | I have been on birth control before and had only had extreme weight gain as a side effect. However, with loestrin, I have had the worst nausea, and sleep during the day (and even with sleeping, am still tired). I have not felt depressed but have had a lot of up and down moodiness. No weight gain but terrible food cravings. After reading everything on this site, I realized I'm not weird and that feeling this way is not normal. I wouldn't recommen loestrin. | F | 26 | 15 days | 7/11/2007 | 2 | Regulatecycle - put off hsterectomy | Spotting at first, nausea at first, headaches at first, anxiety and depression after 6 months, no drive at all | I had headaches ans nausea for about a week. THen spotting for the next 3 months which stopped after that. But then at about 6 months had no physical desires. I got anxious and depressed and would have night wakings and early wakings. I got severely sleep deprived and anxious. I had to stop taking it. I had panic attacks and thought I was sick and dying. Then I realized it was probably the hormones and lack of testosterone in my body. Back to feeling like myself in about 6 weeks after stopping it. I feel mentally better now and I am sleeping all night. What a relief to stop taking it. Glad I didn't get meds for the anxiety when all I needed was to stop taking this pill. And it is possible these can increase cancer risk - not studied enough yet. | F | 36 | 10 months | 7/10/2007 | 1 | regualte mood after pregnancy | weight gain, sore breasts, food cravings | My food cravings were very random and intense almost as if I were pregnant! It did, however, help my mood swings. Yet I have been working out like crazy and eating well and my weight continues to rise. | F | 29 | 2 days | 7/10/2007 | 3 | Birth Control/Lighter Periods | Hair loss, slight upset stomach | Overall this pill agreed with me because I used to have very heavy long periods. It decreased the bleeding A LOT and shortened my periods so that was great. After taking it for 5 months I noticed my hair is considerably thinner. I did some research and found out this pill is highly androgenic which means it can cause hair loss and acne in people prone to it. So now I have to find another pill. Otherwise, I really liked it because of the low estrogen. I hate to stop taking it, but thinning hair just isn't acceptable to me. | F | 37 | 5 months | 7/9/2007 | 5 | To stop heavy period(i have anemia) | Weight gain | I gained eight pounds in two months, but that is the only problem | F | 15 | 2 months | 7/8/2007 | 1 | irregular periods | weight gain, headaches, leg swelling, bloated all the time, very very tired, depressed, swollen breasts and underarms. | took for 7 months, gained 40 lbs. been off for 1 and a half months and still no period. i want a period so maybe this huge stomach can get smaller. i am not so tired anymore. still no sex drive. breasts are better. underarms still swelling and legs get swollen from time to time. i am giving up, having my tubes tied and the NovaSure done. $1200.00 is worth it. | F | 36 | 7 months | 7/7/2007 | 1 | Birth Control | Major depression and crying episodes, spotting through the entire month | I would not recommend continuing on this if you are feeling sad, angry, depressed. There is something not right about a birth control making you feel like you are going crazy. | F | 28 | 25 days | 7/7/2007 | 2 | change in hormone levels | initial vomiting, daily nausea, bad skin irritations/bumps, some facial acne | I am just at the end of my first pack. I was on Lo/Ovral 28 since I was 18 (almost 9 years)to control my heavy & irregular bleeding, which it did. However, in the last year I started having wierd changes in moods that I could only identify as being hormonal. My OBGYN said I had grown a resistance to my old bc and switched me to this one. I am very concerned. I have hardly been able to eat; I get nauseous every time after I eat. There has been abdominal cramping; my varicose veins have been more prominent, and I have skin irritations (red bumps, not pimples) all over my chest and arms. the loss of appetite and nausea are what are most alarming, now even moreso, because I noticed a few posts on here of women having nausea as a side effect as well. | F | 26 | 1 months | 7/6/2007 | 2 | contraceptive | disconnect from world, sadness, no libido (at all!), two periods a month, easily irritated, food cravings | I started taking this pill in January and I have had two periods a month every month, except April. My irritation, separation for the world and lack of a sex drive are effecting my marriage. This pill made it seem like I was PMSing all the time instead of helping! I also had weird cravings as if I was pregnant! | F | 25 | 7 months | 7/6/2007 | 2 | Birth control | Cystic acne mainly. My hair got thinner. Weirdly, it made me nauseous when I was hungry. | Only BC that actually increased my libido. But the acne kept getting worse and worse, so I switched to Yaz. | F | 25 | 4 months | 7/4/2007 | 5 | Birth Control | Ongoing: Acne. (For the first 2-3 months, my breasts were very tender, but that went away.) | Generic: Microgestin 1/20. Very light periods. Much less cramping. No more PMS. | F | 25 | 10 months | 6/30/2007 | 2 | Birth Control | Nausea, increased appetite, lack of energy, decreased sex drive, sadness, bloating | This is the first time I've been on the pill and I have been on it for 6 days now. After the third day I started feeling the side effects. I feel like throwing up all the time. I'm always either hungry, nauseated, or sleepy. All I want to do is eat or lay around and I'm not as happy as I was before. I've been feeling low and acting like a jerk. I thought I could wait a little while to see if the side effects would seize, but I don't want to feel like this every day and I'm afraid of gaining weight. I'm going to call my Doctor first thing Monday morning about switching! | F | 22 | 6 days | 6/30/2007 | 2 | regulate periods | no period for first 5 months- this month, breakthrough bleeding. headaches have been incredibly painful, lower energy throughout. | F | 33 | 6 months | 6/28/2007 | 1 | prevent pregnancy | no sex drive, fatigue | This has been the absolute worst last six months of my life. I went on this after having my daughter looking for something other than what I was on before just to change things up. While on this pill my sex drive continually diminished until I was no longer interested at all. I didnt feel like doing anything ever and was just tired all the time. I HATED it!! | F | 26 | 6 months | 6/28/2007 | 1 | prevent ovarian cysts | Weight Gain--I gained 6 pounds in 5 weeks!!!! and moodiness--I'm a happy person and now I am biting off everyone's heads. I feel like crying and I am irritable. | don't take it if you don't have to. | F | 40 | 6 weeks | 6/27/2007 | 1 | Birth Control & PMS | HORRIBLE! I have had the worst 2 1/2 weeks of my life since I started this pill: continual headaches alternating between regular headaches and migraines, hard to see with the pain behind my eyes, sinus pressure, extreme fatigue to the point where I couldn't lift my arms and I ended up sleeping 3 days straight with being up for maybe 4 hours each day. I was confused, also had insomnia, horrible painful cystic acne. | All of this became so bad, I went to the hospital because I got scared. I had bloodwork done and do not have any illness that would cause such extreme fatigue, such as mono or epstein barr or other problems with my general blood workup including white cell counts, red cell counts, the testing of all of my vitamin levels -- everything was fine! I even had an MRI of my brain and an eye exam. Everything is fine. I even went to a neurologist. Everything is fine except none of the medications to make the migraines and headaches go away are really working. I am off the Loestrin 24 Fe now but the headaches haven't stopped. Now I have to go on Topomax to attempt to prevent the headaches and migraines from starting in the first place. Joy, another chemical to put in my body. This whole thing really really scares me. Then I find this site and listen to all of you other women victims of god knows what!!! And I'm really mad my doctors' didn't say one word about this pill when I told t | F | 41 | 2 months | 6/27/2007 |