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 |
| 2 | regulate period, lessen mood swings | very tired, nauseated, and anxious! i am having a tingly feeling in my arm and chest pain, but i suppose that could be related to the anxiety. | I was on the search for a new birth control. I was taking Zovia 1/35 (generic for Demulen) and it was great for my skin. No side effects, sometimes I was just overwhelmingly stressed out and felt crazy, however I have 3 kids and am 3 months postpartum, any other time I didn't experience that and I was taking it off and on for 7 years. I decided to try the LO version of ortho tri-cyclen and the low amount of Estrogen is making me tired and I am very anxious... I hate that feeling. I also read that not enough estrogen makes you tired and it's the progestin component that causes moods, so I will be switching back to Demulen and if it does not work will either try Ovcon, Brecicon or Ortho-cept. If anyone has ever been in my shoes and tried any of those medications... let me know how it worked for you! [email protected] | F | 24 | 11 days | 1/21/2009 | 1 | period regulation | depression from generic TriNessa | TriNessa: I am an 18 year old girl. I have loving parents, a great home, good grades, sport teams, wonderful friends, and an incredible boyfriend. Nothing is wrong with my life right now and nothing is even complaint worthy. I started taking TriNessa not for sex but to control my period because I was getting it twice a month and was therefore iron deficit. Then I started feeling a little down, not motivated, sad. Then I started to get this overwhelming sense of doom, like my life was on an extreme downturn, but nothing had changed. I don't have any history of depression but I would have been clinically diagnosed as depressed because I would go to bed crying and wake up crying and had this sense of hopelessness and despair. I almost asked my boyfriend to take a break even though he is the most amazing guy ever until I figured out that it was the trinessa. there is something seriously messed up with this medication and I would advise all to use this with extreme caution. | F | 18 | 60 days | 1/21/2009 | 1 | Prevent pregnancy | Lack of libido, moodiness, anger with no cause, frequent nausea, headaches, my face breaking out the worst it ever has in my life | (TRINESSA) I just started birth control recently. I'm in the army, and the medical center put me on Trinessa. It does what I wanted it to - I don't want any children anytime in the near future, and I remain not pregnant - but the cost (all of these side effects) is seriously making me consider changing bc as FAST AS POSSIBLE. I get this medication FREE through medical care, and even then I'm not satisfied. | F | 19 | 1.5 months | 1/21/2009 | 3 | prevent preg, acne, lighter periods | i switched from ortho lo to reg. ortho and what a difference! the lo worked in the past for me but this time it gave me depression, bloating, weight gain, rashes, acne. Since switching to a higher dose my mind is much clearer and i seem to cope with things better. | the first two months on regular i saw a drastic improvement in acne. but now i am on my first week of the third month and i am having some problems with it again. I am hoping my body is just adjusting and will stick it out because this really helps to reduce my period cramps and makes them much lighter. every woman is different, give it time! if it causes too many negative emotions get off of it! it is not worth threatening your quality of life. | F | 24 | 2 months | 1/20/2009 | 1 | to prevent pregnancy | MEAN!! terrible mood swings, want to eat all the time, anxiety,horrible horrible migranes | i got off the shot becuase it made me gain weight i went from 100lbs to 130 in about 6 months or less. so i switched to the pill wich my doc. prescribed ortho tri-cyclen. I hadn't had a prtiod in about 4yrs so when that first one came i thought i was dying i had cramps 24/7 for about 5 days. i almost went to ER. then i started thinking about food all the time. i would get myself full but think of what i could still eat. Then i started to become mean like wanting to argue with my husband and anyone. Sometimes i would cry over the stupidest things. Finally the migranes just kept coming and nothing would take them away. I went to my doc and asked her if it could be the bc but she said no and game me lexapro for my mood swings wich didn't do anything, and a CT scan of my brain wich came back normal. i Have since stoped taking it and have not yet had a migrane and feel happier. I wouldn't say this is bad but if you start to get some painful side effects do try to "ride them out" G | F | 21 | 6 months | 1/18/2009 | 1 | Lighten Period | Extreme nausea | I was so nauseated, I couldn't even tell if I had other side effects! I've never reacted to any medication like I reacted to Orthotricyclen. I vomited 12 times the first day, 10 the second. I hadn't vomited once in ten years before taking this pill. It was so horrible!!!! I had to quit after 2 days because the nausea was debilitating. | F | 22 | 2 days | 1/16/2009 | 1 | PMS & Birth Control | nausea, mood swings, dizziness, tiredness | I was prescribe ortho tri-cyclen and opted to take Tri-nessa, the generic form, because it was cheaper with my insurance. I read online about how awful trinessa was but decided to tough it out anyways. I could not even make it through a whole week on Tri-nessa because it made me so incredibly sick. By day 3 I was so nauseous that I would have to stop exercising when I went to the gym, and I had to miss school on day 5 because I was in so much pain. Last night (day 6) I woke up at 2 am and sat in the bathroom gagging for 3 hours and could not go back to sleep. Along with the nausea, I had some incredible mood swings where I would be cheerful and giddy for maybe 15 minutes and then lethargic and grumpy for the next couple of hours. It was really a dreadful experience, and I refuse to take any more of these pills. Maybe my experience was more extreme than most, but I would strongly recommend not putting yourself through the same experience. | F | 18 | 6 days | 1/16/2009 | 5 | birth control | less cramping, more regular cycles, increased breast size | F | 26 | 4 years | 1/15/2009 | 1 | DEPRESSION. | F | 18 | 5 months | 1/15/2009 | 1 | BC | I developed a fucking blood clot. Sure it's rare. But when it happens to you, it really hits home. I will never be using BC pills again. Also had some side effects. Fatigue and problems with depression | Never using hormonal contraception again. | F | 24 | 6 months | 1/12/2009 | 4 | Contraceptive | Fatigue | I take Trinessa (Ortho Tri Cyclen) and have on and off for about 6 years. Never got pregnant when taking it correctly and besides being more tired than usual I didn't have any horrible side effects. In fact, my normal flow is 8 days every 21 days and on this pill its about 5 days every 25 days, so improved. Never got sick with it, though I'm not really sensitive to hormones (didn't get sick with pregnancy either). I didn't gain any weight on it and didn't get any extra breast tenderness. Actually, I'm having to switch to Yaz in an attempt to control panic attacks (not BC related) with the extra progesterone. Decided to leave a positive comment about Trinessa after I researched Yaz and saw nothing but bad paranoid comments, researched this and basically the same (I suddenly realized no one decides to rate unless they have a negative reason to). Your best bet is to try something and go off of it only if it doesn't work for you. Everyone responds differently to medication. | F | 21 | 6 years | 1/9/2009 | 4 | Birth Control | Clear skin, never had a big problem. Breast growth. Mild Depression and migranes. | for the first month I was very emotional and depressed, I would cry for absolutely no reason. It did regulate my period, but now on the second month I have not been depressed, although I still get headaches. BC works differently for different people. I'm very young so I am putting this on here for those girls that aren't above 20. | F | 16 | 2 months | 1/5/2009 | 3 | acne prevention & contraceptive | depression, mood swings, weight gain | I was on Ortho-TriCyclen for four or five years--initially to clear up my acne and later as a contraceptive when I became sexually active. It has been fantastic in both regards, but in the last year I've experienced horrendous PMS (mood swings, depression, irritability, extreme tearfulness) and also depression between periods. When I figured out that the birth control was the problem and I wasn't just crazy, I switched to something with a lower estrogen dosage--which admittedly had its own problems, but I felt saner almost instantly. I also lost about 10 pounds without even meaning to, which makes me think Ortho-TriCyclen was causing some weight gain. If you're on Ortho-TriCyclen and you're feeling down, please consider switching to a different birth control. It changed my life. | F | 24 | 4.5 years | 1/2/2009 | 1 | Regulate periods | Dry eyes, mood swings, depression, fatigue | I switched to Trinessa about 10 months ago and ignored the side effects but since the dry eye problem has become so severe I have stopped taking it. I tried everything to make my eyes better and 400 dollars and 5 months later have been told that the cause is the trinessa. I am constantly tired, needing a lot of sleep, I have severe headaches and major cramping during the third week of the pack especially. I have been super emotional and depressed, I don't feel like doing anything or going anywhere. I would never ever recommend trinessa it interferes too much with daily life. | F | 20 | 10 months | 1/2/2009 | 4 | birth control | Tired...nauseas a lil...eat a lil more..breast tenderness ... | I have no real troubles with this medicine im good..I did change my attitude bt I was to nice before so I love these pills im nt pregnant..I still enjoy sex..very more active..the only problem to me is the tiredness other then that I am good | F | 19 | 2 months | 12/31/2008 | 1 | this was what my doctor gave me | breast hurt 24/7, horrible cramps, mood swings, very emotional, depression, head aches, dizziness, vomiting/nause, horrible cravings 24/7, weight lose, tired, feeling like crap 24/7, face is still not clear, bloating, it feels like i'm PMS 24/7!, lose of sex drive | ! | F | 21 | 2 months | 12/28/2008 | 1 | Birth Control | Panic attacks, anxiety, over emotional, excessive crying | I started becoming more and more stressed at work, but I work in a semi stressful environment so I chalked it up to the job. Over the next several months it became more intense, to the point I have been to three different doctors all of which have prescribed me anti-anxiety medication. First it was Lorazapam then Lexipro, the later of which made me very nauseous and achy. I have never had an issue dealing with stress, never had rampant emotions, let alone the excessive crying. I mean I cried over a Tupperware container once… ridiculous! I told my last doctor I felt like I was loosing my mind. Now ALL three of these doctors knew I was on TRINESSA – NONE of them said a peep about the birth control. I even called my “girley” doctor who prescribed the “CRAZY” pill as I’ve nicknamed it. She actually told me… and I quote from the voice mail she left me… “You can quite the birth control anytime, but I really doubt that your anxiet | F | 33 | 1 years | 12/24/2008 | 4 | birth control | clear skin, some headaches | It is important to remember that birth control affects everyone differently. I started taking Ortho Tricyclen Lo a little over a year now, and I am pleased with it overall. I switched from a different brand altogether that had been making my periods extremely heavy and painful, and now my periods are much more normal. My skin is much clearer, but occasionally with my period I get migraines. And, of course, no pregnancies, which is my primary reason for taking this. My biggest concern right now is that I am uncertain how this has affected my libido: It seems to have decreased from before, but I'm uncertain if it's the BC's fault, as I have had a lot of other things going on in my life. I am currently scheduling an appointment with my doctor to see if there are types of birth control that commonly do not lower libido in women. | F | 20 | 1 years | 12/21/2008 | 2 | Birth Control | Horrible mood swings, depression, hot flashes, nasea, and horrible migraines. | My mood are completely unpredictable and I have become very depressed. I am sick at my stomach during most nights, I wake up with a headache every morning, and I'm really starting to think this isn't worth it. My doctor said it may take a few months for my body to get used to it. I'm going to stick with it for another month, but after that I'm switching. | F | 18 | 2 months | 12/20/2008 | 3 | Ovarian Cysts | Nausea, breast tenderness, breast growth, extreme mood swings, sleep problems, depression, anxiety | My cysts don't seem to be changing, I'm still having cramps and I'm not even on the dark blue pill yet, my breasts hurt so bad it hurts to even walk, I'm very snappy with people and I'm crying a lot | F | 16 | 2 weeks | 12/17/2008 |