Ortho tri cyclin-Lo?????
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Ortho tri cyclin-Lo?????
| Sun, 03-21-2004 - 12:56pm |
Just wondering if anyone has tried Ortho-tri cyclin Lo? Is it any different from Ortho-tri cyclin and does anyone like it? Thanks I am switching to this pill soon.
<3<3danielle
<3<3danielle

-Mel
Melissa
Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo is the same as Ortho Tri Cyclen EXCEPT that Lo has 25mcg of estrogen and OTC has 35mcg.
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Thanks
<3<3danielle
I have had mild-to-moderate acne my whole life, and have never noticed any pill I was on to make that any worse or any better. But then, I don't care about how bad my outbreaks are so I never pay any attention to them. Some of them have had *other* skin side-effects, though. The nordette I was on for years made me grow a moustache! Not coarse like a man's, but definitely more upper-lip hair than I was comfortable with. Now that I've switched, it's gotten noticeably better. Hopefully, DH won't have anything to tease me about there in a couple of months more.
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Well, this thread just shows how every single woman reacts to every different pill...differently!
I went on OTC Lo at first, because I knew that I'd been soooo sick during prior pregnancy, and my OB thought maybe I was estrogen sensitive. But I felt like a crazy deranged lunatic on that pill! AND my face broke out badly. I thought it would help, but it only made my blemishes worse.
I switched to OTC regular and my moods leveled out noticably, thought not completely.
The thought was that perhaps OTC Lo's particular ratio of progestin to estrogen was simply not good for me.
Now I am on Micronor and I feel pretty good. I'll be avoiding combination pills that contain synthetic estrogen from here on out. I am just mental on them. LOL (oh, and my DH can attest to that!)