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Really negatively affected my mood - Made me terribly anxious and depressed and made me really hate myself for no reason 

Microgynon 30 pill-review-id-788bb24e-2249-47d1-90f2-64831b72e976

Had no issues when stopping Microgynon. Sex drive increased a lot. 

Negatively affected my sex drive a lot! It was basically none existent. Caused a few spots but nothing major and kept my periods regular, light and painless. 

Microgynon 30 pill-review-id-bc2e3d0a-0998-4e1c-8eee-458edb9e486c

3 years after stopping the pill, I have suspected endometriosis which may have been masked/kept at bay by the pill for 10 years.

Negative: my skin got dramatically worse for 18 months and my periods were irregular for 2 years. 

Positive: my mood improved significantly and my libido increased (had been very low on pill). 

It was convenient and pain-free, but after I stopped taking it, my partner and I both noticed that I felt less depressed and my libido increased. I am considering restarting the pill due to suspected endometriosis to help reduce pain, but I'm worried that I will feel more depressed if I do. 

Marvelon pill-review-id-0d13820e-943c-47af-9f19-03e32b64df1d

Since I wasn't on it very long everything went back to normal quickly. 

Context: I was put on Loestrin in 2014 as an attempt at controlling my endometriosis. I'd had a tubal ligation a few months prior so wasn't using it for birth control.  

Within a month of starting it I wound up in the ER with severe abdominal pain. When I say severe I mean it felt like a cross between gallstone attack and labor pain. A CT scan showed that my small intestine was severely inflamed and the docs said it looked like Crohn's disease. I was given antibiotics, steroids, potassium, and pain meds and it started to get better. 

Two weeks later I was back in the ER again with the same symptoms and was asked if I had recently made any changes to my diet or taken anything new that could have caused it. I never even suspected it could be the pill until I realized that was the only change I'd recently made. I stopped taking it and started researching and found that there is a link between hormonal birth control pills and intestinal issues and Crohn's. My gyno said it was a very rare side effect and agreed I shouldn't take it anymore. 

Lo and behold, I don't have Crohn's and haven't had any issues since, nor have I bothered with trying to control my endometriosis with any kind of hormonal birth control after such a miserable experience. It's just not worth it.

Loestrin 30 pill-review-id-4611a93e-109f-4f01-bd2f-fbbfb8f99550

I went on this for better skin and because of heavy periods. My periods have stopped but I get bad headaches, skin has gotten worse but I will give it another few months to see improvements. Also I've been getting cramping in my leg and arms which is concerning me, I'm not sure if its a blood clot related issue but I have never experienced this until taking this birth control pill.

Millinette 30/75 pill-review-id-3b831568-9440-4127-ba61-f1deeae7de64

It took a really long time for my periods to return and I was told by the doctor I had a 'sleeping ovary'. When they did  return properly though, they were regular and 28 days. One key thing I did notice was that when I stopped taking Femodette it was the first time in around eight years that I had been completely pill-free. I distinctly remember being in the car one day and suddenly feeling what I can only describe as an emotional lift, like a grey cloud had disappeared from above my head and I immediately felt better and like myself. I realised I'd spent the best part of a decade feeling varying degrees of sadness, anger and anxiety. 

I went on Femodette after using Microgynon and I immediately noticed a few improvements. Mental health-wise I started to feel more like myself again within about a week, and my appetite went back to normal after being constantly hungry on Microgynon. However, my sex drive completely disappeared, my breasts hurt constantly, and while my moods were nowhere near as low as they had been on Microgynon, after coming off Femodette I realised that it had still made me quite angry and emotional.

Femodette pill-review-id-dcbdc261-d4ad-497e-a75d-809f47ffa9d6

My doctor put me on Femodette (which I also didn't get on with, but it was much better) and within a week I felt a huge lift in my mood and felt more like myself. My appetite also went back to normal

I started taking Microgynon when I was going through a difficult time in my life which meant it took longer than it usually would for me to realise the catastrophic effect it had on my mental health. I went from someone who is naturally very calm, resilient, and happy go lucky, to extremely angry and sad. I felt like I was constantly under an oppressive grey cloud. I was also constantly hungry, distractingly so, and gained a stone in weight within about two months. I had less periods because the pill enabled me to skip, however I had undiagnosed adenomyosis, so when I would have a period it was extremely painful. 

Microgynon 30 pill-review-id-301cf1ac-647c-4b39-b263-8562cb6f8fd1

I actually got on pretty well with this pill for the first three years of taking it. Had terrible hormonal spots during first 3 months but following this my skin cleared up. My weight did increase but it was very incremental over the 4 years I took this pill and didn't bother me too much. Had to come off it when I started experiencing ocular migraine symptoms-GP strongly suggested birth control was a likely factor in this.

Microgynon 30 pill-review-id-8c23f6fe-d347-450e-97c6-97bcbefe681d

At first it's was good for the first 8/10 months of using this pill. After the first year I noticed a dramatic difference in my mood and down there being sore quite often. Had cystitis twice and thrush was a pain to get rid of. Currently still taking it but I want to stop using this as it's done me no favours. 

Marvelon pill-review-id-36593588-7bdc-4d9f-9e4b-022046176bb7

It was very good for me I just didn't like having to remember it very day. I was only using it until I could get another form which I couldn't get straight away

Rigevidon pill-review-id-c00b229c-4c8d-4f2b-8979-e5cff5e079a8

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