Help - Pill Hell!

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Registered: 05-16-2004
Help - Pill Hell!
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Sun, 05-16-2004 - 3:41am
Hi everyone!

Please help me out of pill hell. I have tried several pills with bad luck. Without hormones I have very acne-prone skin and very bad cramps but am at a normal weight, and with hormones I have a tendency to gain weight and be moody and tired. Have a little better luck with norethindrone.

Also, when I take .35 of estrogen my face is very swollen in the morning due to water retention (when I was on Ortho Novum 777 and Ortho Cyclen I had to use ice on my face before I went to work beyond 6 cycles). So I am on my 1st month of OTC-Lo and have started breaking out ALOT worse than normal, but my face isn't swelling up much and I'm not super hungry. I also feel more flu-like than I expected, is this normal? For a while I was on Lo-Estrin 1/20 and it was the best so far but it did made me hungry. Mircette was bad for my appetite AND my mood AND my skin. All the pills helped me with my cramps.

Thanks so much in advance.


Edited 5/16/2004 3:56 am ET ET by girlnumber2

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Registered: 01-04-2004
Sun, 05-16-2004 - 10:17am
Have you tried Yasmin? I had alot of different problems with different pills and since I have begun taking Yasmin they all went away.

Maybe talk to your gyn about it.

Good luck!