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 | Birth Control | TRINESSA-brest tenderness, weight gain, maybe moodiness | My doctor prescribed Ortho, but I was given TRINESSA by my insurance. I gained 10 pounds in the 3 months I took it. I've only been off about 3 weeks and am now tackling this extra weight. May not be for everyone, but just in case you're experienceing something similar... | F | 22 | 3 months | 3/15/2006 | 2 | Birth Control | Anxiety, nausa, mood swings, heart palpitations | I have been on OTC for 4 years and have recently developed anxiety issues and waves of nausa that come and go. I am going to my doctor to get switched to another brand or im going to quit taking BC all together and hope I dont get pregnant!! I need to get my life back, I stay home now ot of fear that I will start to feel sick | F | 24 | 4 years | 3/14/2006 | 3 | birth control | I thought I wasn't having any problems with ortho tri cyclen because I have been on it for 3 years and have not gotten pregnant...but I have recently realized that I am pretty sure it is causing my migraines and low sex drive. I am going to stop taking it and see what happens. | Good for birth control, bad for health and relationships | F | 21 | 3 years | 3/13/2006 | 4 | Birth Control | Small anount of weight gain I gained about 2 pounds | I dont know how well it prevents pregnancy because I have yet to have sex but I do know that it has helped with my period to make it lighter and more bearable and it was free because I went to a Health Dept. and they prescribed it to me free the only thing I had to pay for was the exam | F | 17 | 2 months | 3/11/2006 | 1 | birth control | PLEASE CHECK FOR HPV VIRUS BEFORE STARTING ANY BIRTH CONTROL PILLS. If you have the HPV virus you are at increased risk to get cervical cancer. I did! | I was taking the pill for about a year and was diagnosed with high risk precancerous cell in my cervix that will lead to cervical cancer if not treated. I am 25, slim, dont' smoke, never had any health issues before. I found this article: http://www.holistic-online.com/cancer/cancer_news_cervical_cancer-and-birth-control-pills.htm. It basically says that almost all the women are or will be infected with the HPV virus in the life. Taking birth control pills significantly increases the risk of getting cervical cancer. I am going to undergo surgery in 2 weeks to get rid of these precancerous cells that I got. | F | 25 | 1 days | 3/11/2006 | 5 | birth control and acne | Some moodiness the last week just before your period | Have been on TriNessa for about 4 months and have gone from outgoing to anxious, dizzy, depressed and almost crazy. Physicians should warn patients about these serious side effects. I have seriously felt like I am going crazy. I will stop TriNessa immediately and will let everyone know not to touch it. | F | 28 | 4 months | 3/10/2006 | 5 | Birth Control | 3/9/06 When I was taking OTC it cleared up my face, it minimized my flow and reduced cramps. When I was switched to TriNessa I started getting migraines. I got them so often that I was taking Advil like they were m&m's chocolate candy. I would finish a family sized bottle from Costco entirely on my own in one year! Talk about mood swings and being angry in life. Every slight thing would throw me into a tailspill and I would retaliate with cutting remarks. My sister tried to tell me to let things role off my back and I would enjoy life better. But I couldn't, everything was bad, everything depressed me. I would at times not leave the house. I thought about suicide and couldn't understand because on paper I had everything good in life. My hands and feet swelled too and every activity became laborous so I became a depressed couch potato. I'm currently on Sprintec, this is the first month. I hope it works and I hate that the drug company ever produced a drug that they obviously didn't | F | 30 | 2 years | 3/9/2006 | 5 | does everyone here realize that the generic for ortho tri cyclen is tr-sprintec. trinessa is the generic for ortho cyclen. ortho cyclen and ortho tri cycen are not the same. | | 3/7/2006 | 1 | birth control | GENERIC VERSION CALLED TRINESSA Breast Sensitivity, Irritability, Yeast Infections are happening almost every month at taking the 10th or 11th pill in the cycle. My hair dresser freaked out that I lost so much hair during the washing process! I am losing a lot of hair. Saw my family doctor, everything tested fine, thyroid, diabetes, am not anemic. I am a healthy 39 year old woman that teaches yoga and has been taking this generic version for a little over 6 months. Think I'm going to quit taking it, the yeast infections are out of control, not to mention, I'd rather not go bald!!! | F | 39 | 6 months | 3/6/2006 | 5 | birth control | none really | Can I just say that trinessa is the devil. I called my doctor and told her to put me on OTC... When i got to the pharmacy the gave me Trinessa. I was really trippin since i hadnt been on BC in a long time and didnt really know what to expect. In the week that i took it, i started it on the 1st day of my period. I have never bled so much in my life, not to mention i was so moody and felt like shit. I researched it online and found out all of the negative things people were saying about it not to mention that it had been flippin recalled! I called an cussed the pharmacy out, now im on OTC and very happy. Stay away from Trinessa!!!!! | F | 24 | | 2/28/2006 | 5 | birth control | I was on Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo for approximately 3 years and last month I was switched to TriNessa I don't really know why but I just started this new doctor and thats what she prescribes. I just started my 2nd month of TriNessa and for the past week or so I have had these intense stomache pains that I never even got when I had my period. I have also had the worst chest pains right around my heart and it is very scary! I also couldn't figure out why I have gained so much weight in the past month and I'm eating exactly the same even better. I have called my doctor so i will hopefully get a call back soon because after reading everything I am just so happy I am not alone in this. I will definitely go back to Ortho-Tri-Cyclen after this. | Please for the sake of your own health do not take TriNessa. The intensity of the side effects are not worth it and all the manufacturers do is downplay it. It's not worth the extra $20-40. | F | 20 | 2 months | 2/28/2006 | 5 | Birth Control | OTC is great; Trinessa is the most horrible drug. | 2/27/06 - I was on OTC for about 6 years and it was working great. I had to switch to the generic Trinessa because my insurance company didn't cover it any longer. My breasts were so sore and I became so moody. I was mad for no reason and cry for no reason. I was ALWAYS mad. I kept saying that it was the generic, but everyone kept telling me that it can't be because the active ingredient in a generic must be the same as the brand name, so I really shouldn't have any different side effects. I really thought I was going crazy...until...yesterday, when I went to refill my prescription, my pharmacist told me that Trinessa has been recalled! I flipped and asked why. He told me he didn't know the exact reason why, but it could be something as menial as the color of the pills were wrong. So basically, nothing serious. Today, I find this website and you don't understand how much better I feel. I am trying Tri-Sprintec Tab this month and hoping that it works out better for me. For th | F | 29 | 6 years | 2/27/2006 | 5 | bc, acne, cramps, heavy flow, regul | OTC was great but insurance didn't cover it. Took Trinessa for four months and it gave me all of the problems listed on this website... especially the strange weight gain, and ACNE that I didn't have with OTC. I was informed by the pharm that both products came from the same manufacturer that the acne was from XMAS stress... strange that OTC raised their prices so badly that insurance had to convert to Trinessa - to find that it has been recalled? My period wasn't coming on time, my breasts hurt BAD - worse than when I wasn't taking bcpills. Cramps, bloating, swelling, crocodile tears over tv commercials.... | This is COOL! I hope everyone sees this. AT SAM'S (WHOLESALE CLUB) with the PLUS card, you receive 50% off on prescriptions... I get half off on my OTC at SAM'S (without using my insurance) wish I could talk to the girl that cancelled her netflix! I am now a forever Ortho taker, and will be a lifetime Sam's member. (also, get some other prescriptions cheaper without using my co-pay.) Check into it! | F | 24 | 9 years | 2/23/2006 | 1 | hormone reasons | I am so glad to find all these reviews. I have been taking tri nessa for about 6 months now. I hate it. My boobs are so swollen and they hurt and I have gained weight without changing my eating habits. I finish my pack in 5 days and then I am definitely switching. I will post in a couple of weeks to let everyone know how long it takes to get back to "normal". EEEEEK I can't wait to be OFF TRI NESSA. It's been the worst 4 months ever. | F | 23 | 6 months | 2/19/2006 | 4 | reduce bad periods/ no pregnancy | I had nausea in the mornings and my hair thinned.I also got chronic yeast infections, almost every 2 months, it was awful. The doctors didn't know why and I was tested for everything, all was negative. Then I started taking acidophillus and I stopped getting them and was able to stay on the pill. I think it was caused from the high levels of hormones. | I had been on ortho tri cyclen since I was 14 and till about almost a year ago at 21, until I switched to ortho tri cyclen lo. Since I've been on it I have gotten a few bladder infections and really bad night and morning sickness. I started to wonder what was going on with me, because I would wake up in the middle of the night with severe abdominal pain, like someone hit me in the stomach and that feeling would last till later in the morning, but never completely going away. So I went to the doctors and they ran different blood tests to figure out what it was and they still don't know, $700.00 later. I thought it was a bladder infection, because I keep having to go pee every few minutes. But I think it's the pill, because it tricks your body into thinking it's pregnant when it's not and maybe I'm having side effects like I am pregnant. Also it could be because of the less hormones it has comparing with the regular ortho tri cyclen and maybe my body is just used to higher doses of estr | F | 22 | 8 years | 2/17/2006 | 4 | continued ......from paragraph below. | I never missed a period in my life but have missed one being on the ortho tri cyclen lo and spotted and gotten my period 2 weeks early and 2 weeks late another month. I had pregnany tests and everything and wasn't pregnant and I took my pills consistently every night before I went to bed. I am still on this and haven't decided what to do, because this still seems to be a better birth control then the other ones out there, and I've never been pregnant on either. | F | 22 | 8 years | 2/17/2006 | 4 | continued ...... | I never missed a period in my life but have missed one being on the ortho tri cyclen lo and spotted and gotten my period 2 weeks early and 2 weeks late another month. I had pregnany tests and everything and wasn't pregnant and I took my pills consistently every night before I went to bed. I am still on this and haven't decided what to do, because this still seems to be a better birth control then the other ones out there, and I've never been pregnant on either. | F | 22 | 8 years | 2/17/2006 | 1 | Birth control/acne | None | DO NOT EVER TAKE TRINESSA EVER! I took Ortho years ago and totally loved it. After I had my baby and was done bf her I wanted Ortho again but my insurance would only pay for trinessa. ACNE! These big huge, painful horrible pimiples appear all the time ruining my self esteem. I just paid $135 today for a 3 months supply of Ortho and I hope it takes this acne away. TriNessa is NOT the same and should be pulled from the market for being so horrible. | F | 29 | 6 months | 2/17/2006 | 5 | regulate menstrual cycle | I had no side effects on Ortho Tri Cyclin! I took them for 14 years and never had any trouble. | I too was swiched to TRINESSA due to insurance issues and for the last year i have had nothing but problems. i am extremly moody, out of control emotionally unstable, i have had chest pains for the past two days and the least little out of the ordinary inconvienence sets me off into a tail-spin. i have felt like the tasmanian devil for the past year i have been on this medication! I would strongly recommend everyone to stay clear of this med espically since it has been recently recalled! | F | 32 | 1 years | 2/15/2006 | 5 | painful periods/prevent pregnancy | none. Everything was fine with Ortho, my insuranced didn't cover it and they switched me to trinessa. | I've gained 10-15 lbs in the last year and a half since I've been on Trinessa, then in the last month I've gained another 15 lbs. I've been moody, low sex drive, tired, extremely emotional, panic/anxiety attacks and even had to go on anti-depressants because my doctor thought that they might help. Not thinking that it could be my birth control all along. I recently went to get my refill, and they told me trinessa's been recalled, whoa! I found this website and found people with all of the same symptoms as me. The depression and weight gain were the worst, but I also get severe migraines at the time of my period. I'll be going back to Ortho, or looking for another alternative immediately. | F | 33 | 1 years | 2/14/2006 |