Seasonale - i'm ballooning!
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| Mon, 10-18-2004 - 3:40pm |
I searched the recent threads on seasonale and found that most of them deal with btb issues, which i guess may be something i'll have to deal with in the future! However, right now i am 4 weeks into my first packet and i am suffering different problems. I feel like i have packed on at least 10 pounds in the past month and have gone up a size in clothing. Also, for the past 5 days or so i have had a lot of breast tenderness. I was previously on ortho-tri for over ten years and never had these problems. I haven't made any other recent changes in my lifestyle that i think would cause these changes. I am just wondering if there are more people out there suffering these same side effects? (I just want to make sure it's the seasonale that's causing it before i switch back to ortho). Anyone?

sorry, i don't have any advice for you. i'm just starting seasonale this week and i'm a little alarmed to read your post. i hope that you are able to get some answers.
take care,
mary
Julianne
Proud mommy to:
No doubt about it, it's the Seasonale. I also had tremendous ballooning and weight gain from Seasonale. Within 2 weeks there was 7 extra pounds. I wasn't willing to stick out the 3 months and see what happened after that and stopped, allowed myself to have a period and then went back to Yasmin. I did not like Seasonale at all, the weight gain being a major contributor but I also felt like it added to acne, whereas Yasmin actually helps acne.
Hope that helps.
As soon as I went off the Seasonale within a week or so I felt "normal". The bloating and weight gain came off within that week. I also found it difficult to lose weight also and maybe it was my imagination but I could swear by appetite had increased as well. I'm much happier on the Yasmin and have actually lost weight. I also noticed from the Seasonale that my stomach was more like a bowling ball than ever and now it's not. But in a short time after getting of Seasonale I was fine. Hope that helps... Nicole
Thanks for the light bulb moment!