second month on the pill and breaking ou

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Registered: 10-12-2010
second month on the pill and breaking ou
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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 12:11pm

I started taking the generic form of alesse 2 months ago I am on my last week of active pills for the second month and am breaking out something fierce!! If it's from the pill wouldn't I have broken out sooner? Has this happened to anyone else? I am getting married next mounth and wanted to have great skin!!!! :(

Jen

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Registered: 12-30-2003
Fri, 04-21-2006 - 2:17pm

Hi jenrvt79, welcome!


Congratulations on your upcoming marriage!


Side effects, if any, from starting or switching hormonal contraceptives usually appear sooner rather than later, but not always. Typically it takes about 3 cycles on a new pill for your body to adjust to the hormones to see how you will do on a particular pill. Often BCPs will help with acne but some times for some women a particular pill can make it worse. At this point you don't know if your complexion will clear up when you fully adjust or not and you don't have time to adjust to a different pill if you switched.

      Jill