Microgynon 30 pill reviews

I’ll give a detailed review - started it to help my spots a little, and due to getting in a relationship. I’ve been on it almost 2 months which might not be long enough, but my spots have gotten slightly worse, and had mood swings (such as crying over not being able to chose what takeaway to get for dinner hahahah, compared to me crying once in a blue moon). But the thing that confirmed me needing to change is the fact my vagina is irritated and sore, think it’s thrush, as applying the cream helps… until I decide it feels okay and stop applying it for it to only get sore again :(. I haven’t had the thrush problem with other combined pills I’ve tried - I’ve tried rigevidon, millinette and eloine.

I started microgynon at the start of January 2022 it's now June and I'm in the process of changing to a different pill. Microgynon had massively increased my hormonal acne cross my chin and upper arms, and it has caused me to gain nearly 10kg even though I go to the gym for 6hrs a week and eat healthy. In the last 3 months my period has been starting 3-4 days before I'm supposed to take my 7 day break, and my periods have become heavier and longer in the last 3 months. Absolutely loved the pill when I first started as it made my periods regular, light and pain free, this has unfortunately changed the longer I was taking it. Now I'm switching to marvelon to hopefully reduce the acne and stop the weight gain.

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.

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

This was my first pill, and as someone with generally stable emotional range, I was an absolute mess. I cried all the time and didn't understand why. My poor boyfriend at the time had to live with it. It made me into a soppy, weepy mess over ridiculous things. I'm so glad I realised that the pill was doing this to me and stopped.

This is the first pill I’m taking, and so far (9 months) has been good. My periods are almost non-existent, which really improved my quality of life.

I've been on this pill a long time without having any crazy side effects, however recently I've had to stop taking it as it had started to causes varicose veins. I'm switching to a lower dose pill because apparently too much estrogen can cause this. I'm not sure why it's just become a problem, I started taking this pill quite young so maybe my hormones have changed as I've gotten older. Otherwise I would have stayed on this pill forever. Only bad side effect was very decreased sex drive and vaginal dryness which caused painful sex.

The mood swings were ridiculous enough to get me off. I cried for absolutely no reason. And I cried through explaining to everyone that I didn’t know why I was crying. I was a confused, bitter mess.

I’ve been on the pill for three years now, and have taken time recently to reassess how I’m feeling. I have virtually no sex drive (something which has definitely been a problem and is definitely down to being on the pill). I also really don’t feel like myself, I get incredibly emotional at the smallest things, and I don’t feel in control of myself. Coming off the pill at the end of this pack to try and understand if it’s the pill making me feel this way. Fingers crossed!

Didn’t realise how it was affecting me until stopped taking it