LOESTRIN FE 1.5/30 Reviews (ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; NORETHINDRONE ACETATE)Average Rating: 2.4 (711 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LOESTRIN FE 1.5/30 with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LOESTRIN FE 1.5 | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Birth Control | Weight gain, dizziness, growth of fibroids, irritable,break through bleeding, hair loss pigment spots on shins, night sweats. | I would not reccommend this to anyone. I had never been diagnosed with fibroids. I actually could feel them on top of my lower abdomen and I thought I had a growth so I called my doctor and he ordered a pevic ultrasound. My diagnosis was fibroids. I went off the Loestrin and had major hot sweats for 2 months. I gained 10 pounds on this pill all in my belly. Being off the pill has lead to a shrinkage of the fibroids, at 3 months the hot flashes stopped and I am very very slowly losing the weight at being off for 6 months. I still have a little bit of residual dizziness. I have decided to never go back on a birth control pill again. Prior to taking this pill I was very healthy and active with normal weight. I think it could take another 6 months to get back to normal. | F | 44 | 6 months | 6/28/2007 | 1 | To control heavy monthly bleeding | Depression, lethargic, constant cramping, bloating, breast soreness, irritable, angry. Awful!! | I haven't completed a full month on this med yet but I am ready to quit! My first week on it, I thought I was going insane with irritability and crazy, depressing thoughts! It has improved slightly, but now I have constant cramping, spotting that taking pain relievers will not alleviate. I'm calling my OB today! | M | 47 | 10 days | 6/27/2007 | 1 | Birth Control | Extreme Depressive Mood. Breakthrough Bleeding. Tiredness. Weight gain. | I actually think I'm going crazy, I have nothing to feel depressed about but I'm scaring myself with how low I feel. I cry constantly, I scream and shout over the slightest thing and I just had to cut my holiday short and get a flight home because I felt so down. I have never felt like this and after reading this website I am convinced it's due to this pill. I have been taking it for 10 months now and for the first 8 months I had on/off breakthough bleeding. I am really tired constantly even though I get enough sleep every night. I eat sensibly but I have gained a stone on this pill, I even tried the Atkins diet to try and lose some of it but this proved extremely difficult! I also feel dizzy and just plain weird! Stopped taking this pill today...hopefully things get better :) | F | 20 | 10 months | 6/26/2007 | 4 | Cramps/ to shrink ovarian cysts | weight gain, EXTREMELY emotional, terrible moodswings, breast tenderness/growth, headaches during and before my period. | I my periods was taking Ortho a couple years ago for about 2 years, but it used to make me nauseous allll day, so i stopped. Then, my doctor prescribed Loestrin, and my period is definitely shorter and lighter. I think my cysts are starting to get smaller because i don't have much pain from them anymore. My boobs are huge :) I've gained about 10 pounds in 2 months, and i feel like i am gaining a couple of pounds every day! I can't even fit into my clothes anymore- seriously! I literally broke the zipper on my jeans in an unsuccessful attempt to squeeze into them, which is NOT something i am used to. And i'm 5'8, 130 lbs... now. Oh well. I'd reccomend this drug if your cramps are bad enough, as long as you think you can deal with the irritablity and everything. Ok, i guess the best way for me to describe it is this: you know how you might get PMS the week before your period, and be moody, eat weird, feel bloated and tired and your breasts are sore? That's pretty much how i feel al | F | 21 | 2 months | 6/22/2007 | 1 | Birth control | Weight gain, 15 lbs in the four months taking it! Mood swings, irritated all the time and anxiety, very light period. Sweating a LOT! | Prior to taking this dosage of Junel I was prescribed the 1/20 I noticed a small amount of weight gain and mood swings. I was on that for about 2 years. After going for my last yearly exam I was changed to the 1.5/30 dosage within a few weeks the symptoms became worse. I was put on anxiety medication and have terrible sweating since starting this pill! Not to mention the weight gain, it became so bad I have just contacted my doctor and asked to be changed to something else. | F | 22 | 4 months | 6/20/2007 | 2 | To regulate periods & birth control | Stomachaches, headaches constantly, bleeding after intercourse and spotting all month long. | I am not at all happy, I am in constant fear that I'm either pregnant or going to GET pregnant...I never know when I'll start spotting. I'm miserable and I do not like the pills AT ALL. | F | 24 | 2 months | 6/18/2007 | 1 | Regulate cycle | WEIGHT GAIN and mood swings (very irritable) | I am shocked about how fast my weight increased in just a few days. I have only taken the pill for 8 days and I have already gained 6 pounds. I'm stopping the pill immediately and hope that it is just water retention. I have not changed my diet (which is very healthy) and have continued to exercise. My legs and stomach feel VERY swollen. Would not ever take this pill again. | F | 26 | 8 days | 6/18/2007 | 1 | shorter period, birth control. | nausea, bloating, spotting to no periods, mood swings, cramps, weight gain, sore breasts. | I have been taking Loestrin for 3 months. It is my first pill I have taken. My doctor told me that I might feel "off" for the first 2 months. I am always cranky, have hot sweats, and am completely cold from head to toe from touch. First month, spotting, 2nd month, period, two weeks after, period again! 3rd month LIGHT spotting, I wouldn't have even noticed it if I hadn't have gone into the bathroom. I live by a strict vegan diet, yet I am still gaining weight. Pale all the time. I never have had any acne breakouts, but while on this pill, I break out on my face and neck all the time. I cry for no reason, my mood is down. I thought this would only last a month, two the most, but... I really need to change this medication! | F | 18 | 3 months | 6/16/2007 | 1 | birth control | depression, mood swings, anxiety, spotting. | very unhappy. others noticed my mood swings and anxiety. | F | 15 | 16 days | 6/14/2007 | 5 | bc and shorter periods | slight headaches during period | This is the best bc ever! I have never felt so great and didn't realize what my other bc was doing to me. I am so much more happy and less stressed out. I went from never wanting to have sex on my old bc and now my sex drive has gone through the roof. I use to have my period for about 2 weeks and now about 4 days. No spotting, no weight gain, nothing. I just feel awesome and I'm so happy I switched to this pill, it's amazing! | F | 22 | 4 months | 6/12/2007 | 3 | birth control and HORRIBLE cramping | gained 15 pounds in 3 months!! angry moods and depressed feeling | this is the first pill that i have taken since i was 13 (for cramps) that helped me. i had no period last month and the first month a light period for a day or two. it's great not to have a period except i though i could be pregnant because of the weight gain. i am torn about switching because this is the first and only pill that has been most beneficial for my cramping....but the weight gain and mood swings are terrible. i don't know what to do. i have begun working out 7 days a week instead of my normal 4 in hopes that i can get off some of this excess weight. | F | 23 | 3 months | 6/12/2007 | 3 | birth control | after 13 years on this pill- I suddenly started having headaches which sucked. So I'm off it now and looking for a new form of birth control that won't give me headaches, nausea or make me fat! | Loved this pill for many years. Had no period or light periods most of the time. Way back I was nervous about not having a period and being pregnant but after a few months I trusted it and stopped worrying. Loved the fact that it didn't make me gain weight or nauseated. | F | 32 | 15 years | 6/10/2007 | 2 | Birth Control/stomach cramps | No period!freaked. Never realised but depressed & very down then the total opposite!! | I never realised until i saw some other comments on here how much this pill has affected me in being depressed, down, not wanting 2 be around people n my family! missed a period & made me very upset & thoughts of pregnancy occured.switching me thinks!! thanks 2 every 1 else whos wrote on this as it made me feel alot better & not so stressed! | F | 20 | 6 months | 6/6/2007 | 3 | birth control | No period | This is my first month. I called pharmacist he said I'm probably not pregnant (don't think I am, but who knows). I had one brown clump/spotting Tuesday. But no period 5 days on plecebo. Wouldn't mind this, but it's nerve wrecking, I'll be so nervous with no period I'll have to take preg. tests every month now. | F | 26 | 30 days | 6/1/2007 | 2 | Restart period after 5 mo. hiatus. | All month cramping. Severely emotional. Weight gain, Water retention, and an increase in trips to the bathroom. | Never again. I had stopped getting my period after working hard to lose 30lbs. Since I've started taking LoEstrin I feel like I gained it all back. The last thing I want to feel like is that I've lost control of my weight all over again. I also find myself crying about everything. ( I burst into hysterics at the super market when they didn't have any Light hot dog rolls) Also, I have to get up to pee several times a night when I usually never get up to pee. Never again will I take this pill. | F | 19 | 27 days | 5/31/2007 | 2 | Terrible cramps, lower dosage. | A little weight loss. Less pain but lots of brown "spotting" | I was on Cilest and was concerned that I had put on half a stone. My doctor told me that the pill makes you feel more hungry and can increase water retention. As Loestrin is a lower dose of the hormones, she said that the side effects with this pill would be less. Since taking Loestrin I have been taking water relief tablets too and did lose some of the extra wieght within days. I do still feel hungry most of the time and am a bit fed up with with having spotting of brown blood for a week after my period finished (perhaps due to the lower dosage too?) but I have only been on it 2 weeks so perhaps this wont last. | F | 24 | 14 days | 5/30/2007 | 3 | birth control | I have an allergic reaction hives, but also just finished a round of antibiotics. Anyone else experience this? My doctor says she doesn't think it's the pill. I have been on other bc pills so I don't think I am allergic to them, unless theres something very differnt from Loestrin to Ortho Novum. | So far my breasts are very sore and fuller. Probabaly gained 5 pounds already. But it's the possible allergic reaction that frightens me. | F | 36 | 2 weeks | 5/28/2007 | 4 | Birth Control/Cramping | Little or no period/increased sex drive/no weight gain what-so-ever | (Part 2 of 2) My experience with this pill has been pretty good so far. Sex drive is back to normal, and no cramps or PMS (not that I had any cramps or PMS with the Ortho). The only issue that I have with Loestrin is the lack of a period! The first two months I had a normal 4-5 day period, but after that, nada. At first I thought it was due to pregnancy, so I had a blood test done. It was negative. Then I took in my stress level. Stress can cause a missed period, and mine was high because we just purchased a new home, but that was over a month ago and no period still., but then I found this website, which makes me think that it might not be stress either. I never thought I’d say it, but I miss my period. This has caused many pregnancy worries for me and my boyfriend, and I am still trying to get used to it. | F | 22 | 5 months | 5/25/2007 | 4 | Birth Control/Cramping | Little or no period/increased sex drive/no weight gain what-so-ever | (Continuation of part 1; sorry, it was cut off...)This is the main reason I went to the OBGYN to see if there was a lower estrogen dose OC out there. It turns out Loestrin 24 FE has the LOWEST LEGAL amount of Estrogen allowed by the FDA This is one of the reasons that you HAVE to take it on time, every time, or at least within 1 or 2 hours to prevent breakthrough bleeding. It is a 24 hour pill; whereas the Othro Tri Cyclen Lo was a 28 hour pill (meaning that’s how long it circulates in your body | F | 22 | 5 months | 5/25/2007 | 1 | birth control | depression so severe my doctor put me on anti-depressants, tired all the time, irritable, lethargic. I finally put together that this all started when I started this pill, and symptoms diminished significantly within 2 weeks of stopping | be very careful--I personally would not recommend | F | 43 | 4 months | 5/24/2007 |