anyone taken Femcon?

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Registered: 03-25-2003
anyone taken Femcon?
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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 11:51am
My doctor is switching me to Femcon fe and was just wondering if anyone here has taken it and how they liked it. She's switching me from Loestrin 24 to this because I have really bad mid-cycle pain. I loved Loestrin, but need to do something about the pain. So if any of you have any experiences with Femcon please let me know how you liked it.
Thanks,
Jennifer
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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 1:04pm

Hi jennifer815, welcome!


      Jill

    

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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 3:35pm

The posting link in Jill's response is to my previous posting. I have took Femcon for less that two weeks. I had depression, gastro distress and bad acne breakouts. I've been through depression before and could not stand what the femcon was doing to me. The gastro distress was enough to send me home from work. Also I don't know if this is because I was in the first pack or not but but I missed my pill one night, remembered it the next day around noon and have been bleeding ever since. One thing that may or may not be from the femcon was that I had a major muscle spasm in my thigh. I stopped taking them and will be going back on ortho tricyclen lo.

Susan

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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 10:58pm
Oh goodness Susan, I hope I don't have as much trouble with it as you have! I hope everything gets better for you. I'm a little nervous about taking it now, but I know we're all different. I do tend to get depressed from pills and it's been a problem with other pills I've tried and I have bad skin (Proactiv is a Godsend!) so we'll see how it goes for me. I was hoping my doctor would put me on seasonal because I don't want to have a period at all, so I kinda hope it doesn't go well.