Ortho Tri-Cyclen (Birth control) Reviews

Cleared up my acne in 2 weeks :):):):) !!!!

I'm 20 years old and I've been on OTC since i was 15... when I was in high school my skin looked great! I was happy with the pill, but then I started to break out really bad at 19 and I was still on OTC. I went on Dan's regimen and my skin has cleared but I would like to go off of it because it makes my skin sooo dry! I tried switching my pill to Marvelon... BIG MISTAKE!!! It made me depressed and moody and I had a few other bad side effects. My doctor has perscribed me to go on Alesse because she says its lower hormones and that may help my acne?

I started on OTC Lo and stayed on it for 9 months. I switched off it b/c of occasional breakthrough bleeding, but only now realize how great my skin had been while on it. Instead I tried Yasmin, which was great for the first 2.5 months. The 3rd week of the 3rd month I began developing tiny bumps on my forehead. It continued to get worse over the next two months. It spread all the way down to my stomach. My doctor switched me to Estrostep, which hasn't really helped. I've been using every acne wash, cream, etc. possible--to no avail. Am switching back to OTC Lo in hopes that it will work for my skin again...

LOVE IT!!!!

I have been on ortho-tri cyclen for about two years now, and started taking trinesa. I must say that both brands are very effective. neither one of them made me gain weight, or got me pregnant! So either one girls, they work!!!!!

I was on OTC for about a year and it worked wonders on my skin. I never had a major acne problem, only a few zits here and there. Either way, my skin was BEYOND PERFECT for that year. THEN, my doctor told me they came out w/ OTC LO and that it had the exact same efficacy, only lower hormones. She sad that the price for OTC was gonna be upped too. So i took it. Immidiately afterwards i started noticing little tiny zits on my cheeks. They soon developed into HUMONGOUSLY red and painful cysts that wouldnt go away. Also, even if the acne went away, i was left w/ red scars all over my face. This all started 2 years ago. I stopped taking OTC LO a year ago and my horrendous acne persists. I am devistated. I tried all kinds of topical acne antibiotics and even Retin-A. NOTHING works. Anyone else experience something similar?
I wish i never took OTC LO. I LOVED reg. OTC.

I have only been on Ortho for about three weeks. I have noticed some improvement of my skin in certain areas, but i recently broke out. The only other side effects i noticed was that my breasts got bigger. My dermatologist told me it would take about three months to see the effects on my skin...

I'm 19 and i've been on it for about 15 months now. I'd just like to say that so far it has been great. I was on alesse for about 6 months first and it was terrible. my face had never been so bad. I had fairly mild acne prior to alesse but it just made it terrible. my face was covered and nothing would heal. I went on Tri-cyclen and it cleared up. Not instantly, but definitely went down to a few pimples here and there to none at all now. I've also had no other side effects with Tri-cyclen. no irregular bleeding, no major mood swings and my periods are as perfect as I could hope for, no pain and quite short and much lighter than before. I had a terrible time with alesse, my period would be barely there and it would come on the second week of pills(a very weird and wrong time). My doctor switched me to Tri-cyclen and everything has been great! as I said my acne was not severe prior to BC but tri-cyclen definitely cleared it all up.

I took this for about 5 months, a month after i started taking it my face was horrible so i went to the dermatologist thinking that my face was just breaking out bad and thinking they could help. The derm said that it would take 7 months to see improvement and that if any improvement it would be 30%, I thought hey, I'll stick on it and see if it works, well month after month my acne just started to get worse and worse and I started having cystic acne. Well just recently I just stopped taking it and within 2 weeks my face is completely clear!! It is true that everything differs from person to person, so while these are just opinions on what has happened to us, it doesn't mean that it is going to happen to you, it depends on your body! Also if you think that something is wrong from the pill, don't just disregard it, our instincts are usually right! =)

I'm 28. For background info, I've tried accutane, and all topical creams imaginable as well as bpc's. I was on OTC (regular, not lo) twice in my life for about a year each. My memory of OTC is that it cleared my skin better than any other bpc I've ever tried, I'd say 95% clear which was FANTASTIC (other pills I tried were yasmin, alesse (this one was a disaster, acne galore), demulen, diane 35). The reason why I stopped OTC is because I was seeking perfection, I had put on weight, about 7-8 lbs, and got melasma (brown patches on my face), these were the ONLY negative side effects and having had almost perfectly clear skin I decided to pick on these faults and began switching pills. I'm now on Yasmin (a year and 3 months), it's suppose to clear acne and keep weight down. Well, not so great for acne in the sense that it doesn't do enough (5-6 cystic pimples at a time) but just wonderful for weight, lost 12 lbs. I've now combined Spiro to Yasmin, hoping that the anti-androgen effect will work for my skin and still keep my weight down, plus I get no melasma with Yasmin. So I'll stick with this for a while, I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed. If all fails, I'd definitely return to OTC, clear skin is worth the little weight gain and melasma. For melasma, there's always hydroquinone to bleach it away.