ORTHO EVRA Reviews (ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; NORELGESTROMIN)Average Rating: 2.5 (592 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ORTHO EVRA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ORTHO EVRA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Birth Control | Tender/enlarged breasts/better mood. | This is the second time I've taken Ortho Evra. The first time I was 18 and took it for a year with no side effects. I'm 26 and have been on it for 2 weeks with only three side effects: tender and enlarged breasts and better mood. I had to take this because BC pills caused bad nausea,dizziness, mood swings and weight gain. I would recommend the patch only after you have looked at other options and read all the reviews. | F | 26 | 2 weeks | 12/28/2009 | 4 | Birth Control | I have been on the patch for about 1 month and half; side affects include cramping and loss of exercise and nauseated sometimes. I LOVED my exercise but all of a sudden I just got lazy, so I gained weight. Other than that, along with a condom, it worked great for me. It's my first birth control and I would recommend it to first time birth control users, especially college students (like me), it's so much easier to remember. | F | 18 | 2 months | 12/23/2009 | 1 | Pregnancy prevention | Large tender breast, serious mood swings, sudden panic attacks and anxiety, migrain headaches, weight gain, stomach bloating, irregular/missed periods | This is the WORST birth control ever. I thought I was experiencing early menopause!! I first started to have large tender breast, no clothes would fit me. Then the weight gain and bloating started. I gained a total of 15lbs in one summer! Next, panic attacks and mood swings started. My boyfriend said I was a completely different person. When I started missing periods we assumed I was pregnant. I went to the dr and took several pregnancy test that were all negative. Finally my dr said that all these symptoms were from the birthcontrol. I stopped using the patch in September. It's now Dec and the symptoms just started slowing down. My period is FINALLY regular. My entire year was flipped upside down from this prescription. I do my best to WARN everyone I can from taking this birthcontrol. | F | 31 | 7 days | 12/22/2009 | 3 | Birth Control - Pill made me sick | Positive: Very easy to remember, didn't make me sick like the pill did. No problems staying on - had a bigger window to take/change it. Negative: Awful mood swings. Crying one minute, laughing the next. Crippling cramps, worse than ever. Got hives on my forehead, maybe from the severe anxiety attacks. Also had a rash on the site of the patch. | Overall, I liked it - until I realized that my constant fights with my boyfriend were because of my nutso mood swings. School looked a great deal more stressful and difficult to handle because of the anxiety attacks. I would suggest that you try it because each person reacts differently. | F | 20 | 4 months | 12/19/2009 | 1 | birth control | extreme anxiety and panic attacks; depression; longer periods; mood swings. | I was on the patch for about five mons before I started noticing any side effects. Everything seemed fine up until one day I started getting extreme panic attacks and anxiety which seemed to come out of nowhere and would last mins to hours. I've been dealing with this for three mons and in that time I've felt like I've turned into a different person. I'm a generally happy and optimistic person but I feel like I've transformed into someone else. The extreme anxiety is something I deal with on a daily and sometimes hourly basis, it never goes away. I would STRONGLY advise all women to avoid this drug it has ruined three mons of my life, thank god not more! This web site was so comforting to me because up until I read all these reviews I thought I was going crazy and did not link my problems to the drug. PLEASE report your experience with this drug to: www.fda.gov/medwatch OR phone 1 800 332 1088 | F | 23 | 6 months | 12/16/2009 | 2 | Birth control | Swelling of boobs(can't fully complain about that!), Cramps like I'm having the worst period ever, and moody but I am a girl so the last one doesn't fully count! Not thrilled on this patch thing, plus it leave the sticky crap on you. Nuva ring is so much better...I'm switching back! | I wouldn't suggest trying it to anyone but I'm not saying it doesn't work...I have never had side effects with the nuva ring though! | F | 23 | 2 weeks | 12/7/2009 | 1 | Birth control and period control | I have been on the patch for about a year and a half now. I loved it for the year that I was on it but after a year I started getting really bad anxiety which I have never had before. My heart flutters and feels like it's going to jump out of my chest, I get scary panic attacks, shortness of breat,etc. At first I thought something was wrong with me but after reading other peoples comments about how some of them had bad anxiety really opened my eyes to tell me that I need to stop taking this medication. | F | 23 | 2 years | 12/3/2009 | 1 | I just took off my patch after being on it for a week. Over the first week, I had increased acne, irritability, I feel bloated, and nauseated every day. It is not worth it at all. I am going to throw away the rest and get on the pill soon. | Research it carefully, it has many dangerous and lethal side effects. | F | 29 | 7 days | 11/28/2009 | 1 | Birth Control | Migrains,Mood swings, weight gain,body aches, fatigue,Serve PMS | I had been of the Nora-Plant 5 years the Depo shot 3 years had no problems.My doc took me off the Deo because of a bone density test and put me on the pacth.This was 4 years ago. The first week was fine. The 2nd week mood swings started, then weight gain, and i was fatigued all the time. My first period on the pacth was the worst i had ever had. I went off the pacth after 2months. I never had migrains until the pacth. All these years later i am still having problems. The migrains are worse, mood swings are a little better, no sex drive, and no matter what diet and exercise i do i cant lose any weight. I have been unable to get any answers or help from doctors. If anyone has some info to help me i would appreciate it. | F | 38 | 2 months | 11/26/2009 | 2 | birth control/endometriosis | horrible morning sickness the first week which then became constant motion sickness, patch does not stay on, have to worry about whether it came off or not | F | 21 | 2.5 months | 11/16/2009 | 1 | birth control | This is only my second patch to wear and I am already experiencing side effects. I feel extremely nauseas, diarrhea, extremely tired, aggravated, random crying, body aches, and loss of appetite. Of course none of these help the fact that I have a sinus and throat infection, and I am already diagnosed bipolar. Even with my medication, I'm still in a very low depression, only after 6 days. I now understand why my Dr. asked me to consider the NuvaRing if I didn't like the patch. I will definitely be calling to get a prescription for that instead, with high hopes that it may help. | F | 18 | 6 days | 11/16/2009 | 1 | To prevent pregnancy | Mood swings, irritable very quickly, pain during intercourse, weight gain (15 lbs in less than a year), headaches, allergies, leg and feet swelling, cramps even after period, nausea, waves of dizziness, hair loss, bacterial infections, trouble emptying blatter completely, fatigue, sleep-loss, no interest in sex with husband, just always feeling ill. | I don't recomend it, I loved it in the beggining because I was awful at remembering the pill, but these side effects are driving me nuts..literally. | F | 21 | 3 years | 11/8/2009 | 1 | birth control | I have been taking this for about 6 months now and it is terrible. At first it started out alright. Worked great. After a few months, I started getting really, really bad migraines throughout the whole day, my breasts started hurting all the time, my skin under the patch and around it started to itch all the time, I'd start crying for no reason, and become crabby for a while and suddenly be in a great mood. I used the patch a few years ago switched to the pill. Then 6 months ago went back on the patch... and I would never recommend the patch to anyone. BAD experience for me. | F | 26 | 6 months | 10/27/2009 | 2 | Birth Control | In the beginning, I loved the patch. As many others, I despise taking and especially remembering to take a daily pill so the patch seemed perfect. My Dr. who put me on even told me she had been on it for years so i went in with high expectations. Everything went fine the first month, besides my cramping which worsened. Otherwise, i was pleased; My breasts even got bigger, so i LOVED that. :) The second month was different story. I became depressed an didn't fully realize it at first. I am a very optimistic person, natually but the patch changed my outlook on everything. To be honest, at times i felt like i was posessed. I know thissounds crazy but this is just one testimony of what the patch did to ME. Everyone is different. I've had the patch off for a few wees now and i feel dramatically better. I would never recommend it to anyone due to the severe depression i faced. I truly felt like a different person while on the patch. I suggest, if you decide to get on the patch, to have some | F | 18 | 62 days | 10/26/2009 | 5 | birth control, treating acne | none. | I love ortho evra. It's midly helped my acne, and I've had little weight gain, only in my boobs which is a plus. I would strongly reccomend this product to first time birth control users like myself. | F | 15 | 2 weeks | 10/19/2009 | 3 | Birth control & to regulate period | Depression Anxiety Randomly crying (even at work) Major mood swings (i'd be crying one minute and jumping the next) Anger Always arguing Ruined my relationship | Do NOT take this. I've been on Ortho for about 5 months now. I recommended to everyone because I thought it was great! I hate taking pills so this was perfect ! I did get increase breast.. But it made me be someone I'm not. Turned me into the devil. I've been off of it now and im happy and normal... I'm trying Nuvaring to see how it is because it contains less hormones. My boyfriend said im his worst nightmare with the way I am acting...its horrible ! Again, everyone is different, do try it...but I won't recommend it after what I went through | F | 18 | 5 months | 10/18/2009 | 1 | pmdd | like many others are saying...by my second day i had severe nausea! i put it on the sunday after i started my period. the next day i had nausea off and on, and by that night i was up all night feeling like i was going to throw up! i also have severe anxiety and of course that just made my anxiety worse. i felt like i was being poisoned in a way. the second day i couldnt even eat i was so nauseated. and i just didnt feel like eating. i had bad migraines and cramps. so i had to take it off. it was not worth it to me. | F | 28 | 2 days | 10/7/2009 | 2 | birth control, regulating my period | severe nausea/vomiting on second day, feeling of general malaise/nausea, increased anxiety, breast tenderness, severe menstrual cramps | I'd first like to say to people who have been diagnosed with GAD or any kind of panic disorder - ortho evra may not be right for you. As someone who has suffered anxiety my whole life and has been on and off medications, I'm very aware of how external circumstances affect my anxiety. Two days after I put on the patch, I noticed a definite increase in my anxiety and I had to increase my medication and still had trouble sleeping and stomach troubles. As for the nausea - per my doctor's instructions, I put on the patch the first day of my period. That first day, I was totally fine. The next day, at about 10am, my menstrual cramps suddenly became unbearable and the nausea started. By noon, I was vomiting. I vomited every 20 minutes for the next 4 hours, then fell into an exhausted sleep. After that, the cramps and vomiting diminished. The nausea, however, stayed with me every day I was on the patch. With the nausea and the increased anxiety, I made an executive decision about two weeks after I first put on the patch to pull it off. I'm really wary of any medication that affects the hard work I've put into controlling my panic disorder and it just didn't seem worth it. | F | 27 | 14 days | 10/6/2009 | 1 | birth control | migrains,nausea,tender breast | I feel really bad right now i have a major migraine my mom thinks im pregnant because of these side effects it the beginning of my cycle today i have a major migrain and i have been taken motrin for three days and nothing worked. | F | 16 | 3 months | 10/6/2009 | 2 | Change from Implant | Weight gain, migraines, severe breast tenderness everyday, spotty skin, loss of sex drive, moodiness, couldnt lose weight on it! | I first started the patch 3 months ago. Since then I have put on about 12lbs in weight and no matter how little I eat and how much I exercise, I CANNOT lose any of the weight-total nightmare! I literally tore it off myself yesterday morning after my weigh in...I had put UP a pound after eating little or nothing all week and exercising fanatically! Then there was the migraines for the whole patch free week. Very hard to function with these. My breasts were so sore I always had to wear a bra for the support. I was always blessed with clear skin, even in my teenage years until about a month ago...I have a spot now about 3 weeks that wont go away!! I agree that it might work for some people which is great but ill def be looking for another form of contraception asap!! | F | 26 | 3 months | 9/26/2009 |