Noriday pill and periods to stop

I have PCOS, so don’t get regular periods and take the mini pill in order to balance my hormones. However, I don’t feel that it truly does balance them; I frequently get break through bleeding, feel bloated, have very low energy and experience cramps even when not on my period. As there is no breaks in this pill cycle, I never know if bleeding is a real period or an effect from this pill which concerns me. If I forget to take this pill, it can trigger a hormonal migraine.

In comparison to the other combined pills I've used, this one caused less noticeable effects on my mood. It still went down, but not to full-on depression. The periods became quite irregular, coming after only two weeks and lasting a full 7 or 8 days, sometimes there was some spotting. On the last month my period disappeared completely and only returned when I stopped taking the pill. My breasts grew about 2 sizes, most of the time they were quite hard and painful. I gained about 5kg from my normal weight, despite none of my eating or workout habits changing, and it has gone down since I stopped the pill. Stopped taking it after 3 months as the side effects were not worth it, and will not use hormonal contraception in the future.

I changed to Noriday after having severe mood swings on Desogesteral. Best change ever! No side effects, that I could tell. It did however make my periods lighter and irregular to begin with sometimes longer and sometimes shorter. But it did it’s job very well and I would advice it to anyone wanting the mini pill. The one thing I will say is make sure you are very consistent with taking the pill like to the exact time and everything as I wasn’t and experienced an extremely rare side effect that only occurs if your inconsistent. I won’t go into details as it’s gross but know it’s very rare and well didn’t even hurt was just strange tbh. Stay safe ladies xxx