LO LOESTRIN FE Reviews (ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; NORETHINDRONE ACETATE)Average Rating: 1.9 (257 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LO LOESTRIN FE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LO LOESTRIN FE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | To not get pregnant | Its truly hard to peg if something Im experiencing is due to Lo Loestrin Fe, but something I had noticed about a year in of taking the pills is extreme fatigue, which also results in irritation and lack of energy. I got blood work and sleeping tests done and nothing. Ive altered my diet and did the whole30 to rule out foods possibly doing this to me but nothing... beginning to wonder or messed up hormones from these pills are causing it. | After about a year of taking these pills I stopped getting my period all together and get it about once or twice a year now. Ive been sexually active the entirety of being on the pill (I take it religiously every day at the same time) and have had no pregnancies. | F | 25 | 2 years | 6/25/2020 | 1 | Prevent pregnancy | Dull headaches, major depression, very snappy, emotional | I've been taking this for about 2 weeks and side effects hit me fast. Wish I would of done my research 1st. Do not recommend at all! | F | 23 | 10 days | 6/24/2020 | 2 | Regulate periods/prevent Pregnancy | Felt crappy in beginning but waited it out. Then went a couple months with no period but when I did get it, experience bad anxiety. Missed a pill and now I have insomnia and horrible anxiety/depression. I'm about to get off of it. | I would really like to hear from others and your bad anxiety stories / how getting off of it helped you. Email me if your interested to share your story! | F | 23 | 1 years | 5/28/2020 | 2 | Prevent pregnancy/lighter periods | I really wanted to like it. At first everything was ok but after three months, depression and rage came out of nowhere. Previously I was taking tri-lo-marzia and then sprintec before that. Lo loestrin fe is giving me the same results as tri-lo-marzia. Always sad (just cried for 2 hours before writing this), pissed off at the world for no reason, anxiety through the roof, EXTREME fatigue, migraines, low sex drive and no changes in my period. I know everyone is different but I wish I read reviews earlier. It does what it's supposed to do but I'd rather keep my happiness and deal with heavier periods than to be a demon 24/7. | F | 27 | 3 months | 5/26/2020 | 3 | Heavy period | Weight gain 10 lbs on 2 months (not happy about that) Migraines, eye ball pain sensitivity to sun light , Tiredness ,depression 2 periods in 1 month. | It work to keep my period short and my flows aren't heavy any more but 2 periods in 1 month is not ideal either . I don't like the way I feel I really hate the weight gain I worked so hard to lose 50 lbs and just gained 10 lbs like nothing I lift weight do lost of cardio eat healthy and nothing | F | 30 | 2 months 1mg -10mcg | 5/23/2020 | 1 | Birth control, heavy periods | Extreme fatigue, horrific cramps, period every 2 weeks, 15 pound weight gain in 3 months, nightmares with extreme sweating and cold chills. | F | 34 | 3 months | 5/17/2020 | 1 | To protect against pregnancy | I have been taking this around 5 months. The first 2 months i didnt really notice any side effects. Now i am depressed, i have anxiety, suicidal thoughts. I will snap and have major anger issues. Im never happy. I literally just want to cry and die all of the time. No sex drive AT ALL. | I have been feeling terrible mentally and physcially and had no idea it was this until i finally decided to research it tonight. I am stopping it immedietly and i really hope everything goes back to normal. Life is miserable. | F | 29 | 5 months | 5/6/2020 | 1 | Pregnancy prevention | Fluttering in chest, anxiety, paranoia, calf pain, blurred vision | Did not in any way work for me. The 2nd day of taking this I started experiencing chest fluttering, which put my anxiety through the roof! Then the next day my chest just felt heavy and I would get lightheaded when working out. Also noticed it was harder for me to focus on things, as my vision was all over the place. I stopped the pills 3 days ago and still have some lingering effects. It really does depend on the person, but this did not work for me. The side effects were just too much. | F | 28 | 7 days | 5/3/2020 | 2 | To prevent pregnancy | The only issue I had with this pill was the non-stop spotting. But that has been an issue with the last birth control I had which was the Nexplanon implant. I hope I can find something that works. | F | 25 | 4 months | 4/23/2020 | 1 | Birth Control | Major hair loss, acne, anxiety, no menstrual period at all, headaches and nausea. | I started taking Lo Loestrin Fe because I changed jobs and no longer had insurance to take the brand of birth control pill that I have taken for six years. My gyn gave me Lo Loestrin for free until my new insurance kicks in. The first side effect I began to notice was the major hair loss. I am losing so much hair and it is making me depressed. I can’t even run my fingers through my hair without so much falling out. I also have acne on my face now, specifically on my chin where I never got acne before. This pill is horrible. I am stopping it immediately and going back on the brand I was on before. | F | 31 | 3 months | 4/18/2020 | 1 | wanted to have more control over BC | Extreme fatigue. No energy, feeling tired after just two hours after waking up from a full 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Feelings of weakness especially in the legs. Cloudiness of the mind. Sadness. I just don't feel like my normal, happy, high-energy self. | F | 28 | 7 days | 2/2/2020 | 1 | Heavy periods/thickened endometrium | I was on taytulla for a month then stopped bc of depression, moodiness and rage. Then waited a month and started this. I hate life now, I’m raging, angry, have a short fuse and want to die. I have insomnia now, don’t want to go to work and no libido. I will gladly bleed a river than feel like this! I only have the placebo pills left. T | will make existing things that bother you 100x worse, your mild depression will be major depression. | F | 46 | 28 days Loloestrin | 1/25/2020 | 1 | Birth control | So for some strange reason my insurance stopped covering the birth control brand I’ve been on for years, and I was randomly switched to this one. One week in to taking this I started noticing symptoms. I’ve had nausea, bloating, upset stomach, and the worst of it all is the depression and anxiety I have constantly felt since. I get anxiety every now and then, most people do, but not like this. This pill has made me experience depression so bad that I am having suicidal thoughts. After reading these reviews, I see I’m not alone, I also didn’t realize that it basically makes you not have a period, and sure if that’s what you’re going for that works, well I had no idea of that. Don’t take this poison | Don’t take it, ever | F | 24 | 1 months Low dose? | 1/16/2020 | 1 | To prevent pregnancy | I felt terrible while taking this bc, dull headaches, restless, anxiety like nothing I’ve experienced before. Made my cycle weird and I would spot in the middle of pack pretty much all the time. | Would not recommend | F | 36 | 1 years 5mg | 1/2/2020 | 1 | contraception | missing period, reduced sex drive, insomnia, depression, anxiety, acne in different areas of the face, lack of appetite, hair loss, and a general feeling of uneasiness with life. This was a terrible medication. I would not believe this actually got a high efficacy rate when they did their medical trials. How is it possible to sell this and have medical professionals willy nilly prescribe it? Right after I stopped taking this drug, I felt a great mental and physical relief. My skin cleared up from the unusual acne on my jawline (an area where I've never gotten acne before), my mind became free from anxiety and clear of unease. | I do NOT recommend taking this medication. It prevents pregnancy but the price to pay for it is too high emotionally, mentally, and physically. | F | 38 | 7 months 1X day | 1/1/2020 | 2 | Fibroids,Ovarion Cysts | I was put on the low dosage Lo Loestrin Fe 3 months ago and I feel like I'm in a really dark space. I've always had underlying issues with depression, anxiety, but since starting this I feel like my mental illness has exasperated. I have tears in my eyes now because I have constant ruminating thoughts, feel anxious at work, paranoid that coworkers can see that I'm so fragile, depressed, agitated, and when I lash out on loved ones I feel extremely guilty. It has also lowered my sexual libido, I have no desire to even think about sex. As far as the birth control helping with my heavy periods, I have yet to see a change. I was due to get my period in 5 days, noticed some heavy spotty yesterday and experienced the symptoms of a period(headache, cramping,discomfort,etc) so, I'm not sure if this is my period and it's just lighter or if I will still get my official period in 5 days. If I do get my normal 3 pads every hour,staining the bed at night period in 5 days, I will discontinue this friggin pill, because I'll be damned if I'm taking something that's not even helping my symptoms, while making me feel like I want to jump off of a cliff. | F | 34 | 3 days | 12/10/2019 | 1 | Suspend periods to reduce back pain | Awful. While it did what he was meant to do.., suspend my period, I slowly gained pounds, about 5 in 4 months! My sex drive disappeared completed and even the emotional interest in it, my mood initially was good but after two months was worse. I decided to stop it and decided drive was back as normal after 2 weeks off this pill. Hoping the weight gain can be reversed!!! Afraid my metabolism got messed up as a result. 5 pounds for a small pedir woman is a LOT!!! I’m so frustrated. | Educate doctors that these side effects are a possibility and what to do to reverse them. Often doctors will say it is weight gain for other reasons but I know my body too well... | F | 44 | 4 months 1x per day | 11/25/2019 | 2 | PMS/birth control | Ok at first, took it the Sunday following my last period as instructed by my doctor every night at 845 pm on the dot. This was my second time trying it and it exasperated my anxiety and gave me basically all day everyday pms (depression) normally don’t have on daily basis and moodiness, very brain fogged and isolated. Nauseas, but water retention causing big stomach! Unmotivated, loss in interest of usual hobbies ;( sucks. | Yuck ! Trash | F | 31 | 2 months 1xD | 10/26/2019 | 1 | Pmdd | This is literally a nightmare. I just called my mom bawling due to weird and depressing thoughts. DO NOT TAKE THIS! | F | 28 | 8 days 30 | 10/19/2019 | 1 | Birth control | Headaches- had a migraine (first one in my life), felt stressed all the time, anxious, not relaxed, bothered by everything, black cloud hanging over, horrible thoughts when nothing bad was going on. Constipation, and then horrible stomach upsets, lost weight as a result of not being able to eat much, think had hair loss, extreme tiredness - went to Dr. for blood workup thinking I was low in nutrients, checked out totally fine, had to be pill, felt like I took tranquilizers daily during last 2 weeks of pack, had to nap during the workday. | Haha uhh... Worst ever. Had to switch to this because they stopped making Ortho-trycyclen lo, which was perfect for me. Went on this as alternative low-dose BC.. Couldn't take any generics of any kind, so tried this brand. No good. It's garbage. Happy for those who aren't affected by this one but its killer. Couldn't have been worse, I powered through because my gyno said I was out of low dose options, or Id have to try IUD.. didn't want to do that. So suffered through months just to be on something, I finally just stopped it! Anything will be better than on this pill. | F | 35 | 11 months 1X day | 10/18/2019 |