Progestogen-only / Mini pill and nausea or vomiting

How our community feel they have been impacted by nausea or vomiting on progestogen-only / Mini pill

Data is taken from self reported Lowdown user reviews

None or not sure

77%

A bit

12%

Quite a bit

7%

A lot

3%

A great deal

2%

Out of the 1490 reviews for progestogen-only / Mini pill, 350 people (23%) reported nausea or vomiting.

Reviewers that reported nausea or vomiting as a side effect

Data is taken from self reported Lowdown user reviews

Used for 18 mo - 3 yr
24 years old
🇬🇧 UK
  •  4 days ago

Not a good experience, lots of weight gain, more emotional/moody. cant wear contacts anymore

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Somewhat negative mood

3 more effects

0 helpful

0 comments

Used for 1 - 3 mo
28 years old
🇬🇧 UK
  •  1 week ago

I'm in months 2 and hoping things get a little better. Pro: No periods or period pain/endo pain! (HURRAY) And no weightgain (which i had on another pill) Con: I'm feeling down, sleep bad, hair loss, forgetful, spotting, BV, vaginal dryness, heart pains and rising anxiety. I want to give it a month extra or so but the side effects are getting me down. This is the 2nd pill I've tried this year. The first one was a combined pill but made my uterine lining super thick and that gave me massive cramps and hurt. So let's see but kinda sceptical.


Somewhat negative mood

1 more effect

0 helpful

0 comments

Used for 12 - 18 mo
21 years old
🇬🇧 UK
  •  3 weeks ago

I started taking the mini pill as the combined was making me cry every single day, it was great for the first year but now I am experiencing absolutely no sex drive and I feel awful! It’s made me hate myself as I know my partner can notice but I don’t know what to do. It seems like every conception has massive negatives so I don’t even know if I want to try another one and go through this again. In the same through I don’t want to come off the pill as my anxiety will go mental if I’m not on anything !!! It’s such a shame because I’ve experienced no other side effects but I can’t go on like thi


Somewhat negative mood

1 more effect

0 helpful

0 comments

Progestogen-only / Mini pill common side effects

Data is taken from self reported Lowdown user reviews

49% of progestogen-only / Mini pill reviewers reported tender breasts

46% of progestogen-only / Mini pill reviewers reported period like cramps

41% of progestogen-only / Mini pill reviewers reported vaginal discharge

39% of progestogen-only / Mini pill reviewers reported breast enlargement

36% of progestogen-only / Mini pill reviewers reported vaginal dryness


Possible progestogen-only / Mini pill side effects

Data is taken from self reported Lowdown user reviews

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