Seasonique

I've taken it before, but didn't like it.

I didn't take Seasonique.....but my doctor prescribed a generic birth control for me to take the same way, so I would only have 4 periods a year. I stopped taking them because I didn't feel like "me" anymore. I was having major mood swings and I still had a lot of breakthrough bleeding.

I've been off of birth control for about a year now. I started having problems with my periods again after I stopped taking it, but now that I'm losing weight, I'm not having any issues. I feel a lot better.

Everyone reacts differently - I hope it works for you!

I take a form of Orthocylen the same way. Except, I never take the placebo. I never have a period. WONDERFUL! I had one Dr tell me that I needed to allow myself to at least once in awhile. When I told her, no. There was no medical need to have a period when your on birth control. Either I do it my way or we schedule for an ablation. She agreed. No need to have one as long as I am happy with it and its working for me.

I was on seasonique (well, started off as seasonale) for almost 7 years (obviously take some time off for my two pregnancies). I, too, was put on it because I had EXTREMELY painful periods, like, blacking out at school from the pain, painful.

I loved it while I was on it, it made my periods super light and only 3 days long (whereas before they were 7-8 days and very heavy for about 5 of those days!), it definitely stopped the horrific cramping.

I recently stopped it because it was starting to affect other areas of my life (tmi ... s-e-x drive totally disappeared). So, now I'm back to regular TOM's, heavier than when I was on the pills, but not as much cramping as before the pills, so that's good.

Good luck!

I was on it for 6 months and HATED it and stopped taking it all together! I usually would get migraines right before my TOM when I was on orthotri (thats pretty much how i knew it was coming) and the migraines were terrible so my obgyn was like "we'll put you on this so you have less migraines". Yea not so much! I had more migraines than before, my blood pressure was through the roof and I had to be on medication and went back and forth to my general practitioner and did all sorts of tests and they wanted to test me for sleep apnea too. I realized the only change I had was the seasonique so I stopped taking it. About a month after I stopped taking it my blood pressure was normal, I didnt have to take any more medication for it, didnt have migraines, didnt have sleeping problems (so I didnt have to take the sleep apnea test) and felt much better. My cycle was not regular for over a year though and a different doctor had to give me medcine to jump start it and get it regular.

Personally I hated it and it did not work for me, but then again I know a friend that hates orthotri and makes her super evil and moody and break out and it doesnt do any of that to me.

I was on it for 6 months and HATED it and stopped taking it all together! I usually would get migraines right before my TOM when I was on orthotri (thats pretty much how i knew it was coming) and the migraines were terrible so my obgyn was like "we'll put you on this so you have less migraines". Yea not so much! I had more migraines than before, my blood pressure was through the roof and I had to be on medication and went back and forth to my general practitioner and did all sorts of tests and they wanted to test me for sleep apnea too. I realized the only change I had was the seasonique so I stopped taking it. About a month after I stopped taking it my blood pressure was normal, I didnt have to take any more medication for it, didnt have migraines, didnt have sleeping problems (so I didnt have to take the sleep apnea test) and felt much better. My cycle was not regular for over a year though and a different doctor had to give me medcine to jump start it and get it regular.

Personally I hated it and it did not work for me, but then again I know a friend that hates orthotri and makes her super evil and moody and break out and it doesnt do any of that to me.

I just had a similar realization! I had been having horrible headaches and migraines, dizziness, nausea, and felt really congested all the time. I went to my doctor 3-4 times, saw an Ear Nose Throat specialist, had a CT scan, saw an allergist twice, and they never found anything wrong. Finally started tracking the symptoms and realized they were the worst a few days before TOM. Told my doctor and he said it was due to low estrogen levels, so he prescribed me Seasonique. I haven't started taking it yet, but it will be the next one I try.