DESOGEN Reviews (DESOGESTREL; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL)Average Rating: 2.6 (572 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DESOGEN with similar:
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| 2 | birth control | complete loss of sex drive, mood swings, recurring yeast infections, nausea | switched to desogen after ortho-tricyclen lo. ortho was causing horrible depression and lack of libido. desogen is better at keeping me happier, but i have no desire for sexual activites, even making out sometimes repulses me. and i've gotten yeast infections in the past, only once or twice before birth control. only a couple times on ortho but on desogen it is a neverending cycle for me, again adding to my complete loss of libido. i'm going to switch as soon as i get back into town and speak to my doctor. | F | 20 | 4 months | 6/2/2007 | 1 | Birth control | Weight gain, depression, emotional instability, pregnancy and stroke symptoms | Since I've been taking desogen, I've gained weight,(eaten like a pregnant woman), I've been on an emotional roller coaster ride, I often times feel very depressed, and I've had several other strange side effects. I wasn't warned about any side effects that this pill may have so I've been on it for a little over a year. When a friend of mine pointed out that my weight gain and depression may be a side effect of the pill, I decided to look it up online and found this site. I'm incredibly upset with my doctor at this point... this pill messed me up severly.I almost broke up with my fiance, over NOTHING! I've gained weight and I'm never happy. I'm off it this weekend and I'm finding something else! | F | 19 | 1 years | 5/26/2007 | 3 | birth control | severe depression, some nausea at the beginning, spotting | I think I am going to switch because of the horrible depressed feeling I have from the BC. I almost want to end my relationship with my loving boyfriend because I feel constantly pissed off and upset for no reason. I don't feel like it is worth the pain I am going through to be on Desogen. | F | 17 | 4 months | 5/25/2007 | 3 | birth control | depression, difficulty concentrating, absentminded, anxiety, getting angry over nothing, general apathy for everything. I used to be so motivated and outgoing, no interest in usual hobbies or being social at all. | This pill worked fine for me for a year, then the last three months have been hell on my mental status. So as of yesterday, I quit. Let's hope I don't get pregnant! I have noticed in the last three months that i feel sane for a week a few days after i start the blanks. So what does that tell me? My insanity is from the pill. I have tried a total of 5 different pills before desogen, and each one has some wacky mental side effect on me. My doc said some pills bring out underlying medical issues, and she made me feel like I am crazy. I'd rather have terrible cramps, nausea, and swollen breasts than feel mentally unstable all of the time. It has robbed me, my boyfriend, my friends, my family, of ME! | F | 32 | 15 days | 5/22/2007 | 1 | To prevent ovulation (PCOS) | 'Mild' side effects include: fuzzy-mindedness, a feeling of being constantly sedated, weight gain, dry mouth. Serious side effects: palpitations, breathlessness, fatigue, migraines, complete lack of sex drive. | There must be something better out there? I have been sterilised but need something to stop ovulation and PCOS and to stabilise mood swings. Can anyone suggest anything? | F | 37 | 15 months | 5/21/2007 | 1 | birth control | headaches, muscleache | this is the 1st bc i try and i was ok the first 3 days but then i started getting bad headahces, i feel like my eyes are heavy and tired, and also my right hand feels kinda numb. My legs, tired as I was working out. For now no mood swings but im going to stop taking it before it gets worse since i read s many negative comments about it. HOpefully im making the right decision | F | 20 | 7 days | 5/20/2007 | 3 | prevent pregnancy, and medical | extremely emotional for the first month, odd sleep patterns, breakthrough bleedings for over 2 weeks, nausea, especially in the morning, weight gain | I started taking it mainly to help w/ cramps abnormal bleeding, I had always had extremely bad menstral cramps and had bled for 18 days straight for no known reason which led them to prescribe it to me. At first I was an emotional mess, I cryed over movies, my boyfriend teasing me, etc, which is not the norm for me at all. That did go away after the first month. I also had weird sleep patterns, like jerking awake in panic throughout the night, but waking up feeling great (both NOT normal). And during this last pack (my 2nd) I bled for 2.5 weeks, which irritated me since I am taking this to prevent bleeding constantly. I am on my 3rd pack and things should settle in a month or so (my fingers are crossed). As far as preventing cramps the pills are magic, I think any side effect is better then the pain i would get once a month, for severe cramps I'd definately recommend! P.S. I noticed a lot of ppl mention depression, oddly I feel great since taking these pills, I have always had | F | 20 | 2 months | 5/19/2007 | 1 | for safety | headache, diziness and nervouseness. I feel like I gotta get everything done in seconds. Really impatient. Mood swings. Im stopping it before it gets worse | M | 19 | 5 days | 5/18/2007 | 5 | Birth Control | None | I recommend it | F | 18 | 1 months | 5/13/2007 | 3 | Birth Control | One bad migraine; Mood-swings; Easily Irritated; Lack of sex drive; Loss of Appetite | I'm on my 3rd week now. I'm not going to warn you against it since the doctors specifically say, "You will be an emotional wreck for the 1st couple months." Just, warn your partner before taking it that he will have to deal with a different you until your body adjusts to the hormones. My relationship isn't in jeapordy right now simply because I had him read over the side-effects before I took my first pill. The stress is no doubt due to outside factors beyond Desogen. However, I have noticed an "I don't care" attitude that I never let show before. I can usually cover for myself if I'm irritated, but I now have no problem letting people know they've pissed me off. This is not a good thing to me. I spent a huge portion of the day crying because I couldn't find the extension chord for the vacuum cleaner. This coming from the girl who says she never cries because emotional tears contain protein and a girl who doesn't eat a lot of meat can't afford to lose her protein | F | 18 | 3 weeks | 5/12/2007 | 1 | Oral Contraceptive | Dizzy dizzy dizzy, loss of balance and equilibrium. Extreme moodiness/irritability. Fatigue and headaches. Raised blood pressure. Weight gain 12 lbs in two months. The longer I took it, the worse the symptoms became. | I'll never try this one again. It definitely isn't the right pill for me. I've had worse side effects with Desogen than any other of the four different pills I've tried (which I'm going back to since I didn't have any severe problems with any of those). Stuck with it for over 2 months to see if body would adjust, but quit into 2nd week of third pack when I couldn't handle side effects anymore. | F | 32 | 10 weeks | 5/8/2007 | 2 | contraceptive | weight gain of about 10lbs.,(back to usual weight in couple of months) increased appetite, mood swings, sleepiness, occasional dull headaches, vaginal irritation, muscle aches especially in legs, arms, dark spot on face, mild acne did clear up, and periods became shorter | The muscle aches were scary. Dr. assured it was not a blood clot. I stopped taking this medication after about 4 months of use because the aches kept getting worse, and the other symptoms were just annoying. Not worth it to me. I felt like I was poisoning myself. | F | 35 | 4 months | 5/4/2007 | 1 | Birth Control | DEPRESSION!! Mood swings! 13 days on period! Zero sex drive! | I would not reccomend this to anyone. This is the 2nd birth control i have tried and its messed me up horribly. I've been on my period 13 days now! Its nearly ending my relationship with my boyfriend, i hate everything right now and im usualy a very very happy person! Im ending to very soon. But hey my boobs did get bigger. lol. | F | 19 | 13 days | 5/2/2007 | 5 | Birth Control | eye sensitive to bright lights | i'm on my third pack of desogen and before that I was first on orth tricyclen, lutera, levlen, and now desogen. I hated lutera and levlen, and have had no problems with desogen. no wait gain, I actually feel reversed and less hungry on this pill. no loss of sex drive, no vaginal dryness, no migrains, no breast tenderness. I wrote light sensitivity as a side affect but I have had that side affect every sine lutera.... Birth Control pills effect every women differently and at every age. Therefore I won't recommend this pill and I won't NOT recommend it, you'll just have to find out for yourself! But It has been great for me! | F | 21 | 2.5 months | 4/30/2007 | 2 | Birth control | Depression and mood swings. HUGE change from my normally "happier" self. Getting off this as soon as I finish this packet. There's better stuff out there. | F | 23 | 6 weeks | 4/29/2007 | 1 | No period at all, contraception | Headaches that just won't go away, no sex drive at all, crying at anything, constant mood swings, severe panic attacks, anxiety attacks, depression, feeling totally hopeless and that I was doing something wrong all the time. | I have been taking April and Desogen for the past 7 years. I started taking it because my body wasn't making enough estrogen or something like that. Basically I didn't have a period at all. It finally all clicked together when I read these reviews that everything that I was going through is being caused by this medicine. I'm an emotional mess. I even cry at tv commercials. Especially the puppy chow one where the dogs are at the pound and they say that they are good and don't know what they are doing there. I'm allergic to dogs and just seeing that commerical makes me cry and want to go an adopt a dog. My relationship with my boyfriend of 5 years is suffering because of my lack of sex drive and my constant mood swings are holding us up from taking the next steps in our relationship. I just don't understand why my doctor didn't tell me this when I was put onto the pills. I have an appointment at the doctors next week and I'm going to switch right away. I'd stop taking it all | F | 22 | 7 years | 4/28/2007 | 1 | Pregnancy prevention | Weight gain, increased moodiness, odd colored discharge, long periods, leg pains | I 100% DO NOT reccommend this pill. I switched to Desogen after my clinic stopped carrying Ortho-Novum and I hated it. It made my periods irregular and I was a moody mess. DO NOT TAKE THIS PILL! | F | 21 | 4 months | 4/27/2007 | 3 | pain asso with PCOS, acne | Negative: complete loss of sex drive, vaginal dryness, severe headaches during period, moderate depression, bloating, constant stomach-aches Positive: decreased acne, light periods, no pelvic pain from ovarian cysts | I have taken Desogen (generic Apri) off and on for 12 years, going off of it to get pregnant and breastfeed. I know how good I feel mentally and emotionally when I'm off of it compared to how unbalanced I feel while taking it. I should add that I have tried other pills over the years, and the Desogen made me feel the LEAST psychotic of them all. The loss of libido is especially frustrating. However, Desogen keeps me from ovulating which eliminates the pain of my polycystic ovaries. It's a shame that so many of us have to choose between having a sex drive and feeling happy or living with excruciating pain everyday. I got tired of dealing with the negative side effects, and I recently stopped taking Desogen. The positives for this drug are great- it really does its job, but the negatives have finally outweighed the positives for me. Not to mention the FDA has been petitioned to pull this drug due to the number of bloodclot related deaths linked to the desogestrel in Desogen. | F | 30 | 12 years | 4/26/2007 | 2 | To not get pregnant, reduce cramps | Tired all the time, bigger breast(the only thing I liked about this pill),severe depression, huge appetite, tired all the time, weight gain. | I was on this pill for 10 years. I first got on it to help out with cramps and then stayed on it to keep from getting pregnant. When I first started it, I gained about 5 pounds and my breast went from a 34c to a 34d. I got off it about 3 months ago. I never realized how much this birth control effetcted me until I got off of it. For years I have battled severe depression. I have had a HUGE appetite and cravings that I have had to fight for years by constantly dieting and yo-yoing. I was constantly tired and didn't know why. I took all kinds of blood tests and they could never tell me anything. I got off birth control 3 months ago to give my body a rest and what do you know...NO DEPRESSION at all. For three months I have felt wonderful! I am not as tired, I am happy, I actually have energy to work out and I enjoy life a lot more. And as for the huge appetite...it is gone! I don't have those cravings for fried foods etc. Infact...I push food away because I am not interested and/or am f | F | 27 | 10 years | 4/26/2007 | 2 | pregancy prevention | weight gain(about 10 lbs) which I dealt with by being more active, increased appetite, sleepiness, mood swings after the inactive week, after 3 months-mysterious joint and muscle aches, dark spot on my face (pure shea butter helps, occasional dull, mild headaches | I used Desogen (reclipsen is the generic)10 years ago for about 2 years with very little problems, just mild headaches. I started taking it again about 3 months ago. I immediately felt more hungry and therefore gained 10 pounds. I guess once my body got used to the medication, I went down to my usual weight. Just recently, muscle/joint aches, mostly legs but also arms, back, hands, neck, thighs, Dr. said it was not a blood clot. Decided to stop taking them. Not worth to me. | F | 35 | 3 months | 4/26/2007 |