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I've been taking yaz for four months.
Didn't take any type of birth control before that. I choose yaz because it helps with water retention and I didn't want to gain water weight and for contraception. I'm 20 years old and I never had acne in my life. Just some small pimples when I was 13 years old on my forehead...
Since I started taking yaz, I'm breaking out on my face (chin and forehead) and upper back. Big cystic acne. Four months feels like a lot of time for my body to adjust to the pill. I'm wondering if:
- I need to change my birth control for something with more estradiol (yasmin)
- or if I simply don't stand drospirenone and should try another type of progesterone, like gestodene, which is neutral in terms of androgens.
I don't want to keep yaz because I can't stand the idea I'm creating a problem I simply didn't have. I'm feeling very sad about this... Also: My eyelashes are falling out. Like five per day. I think yaz is simply very low on estrogen for me...
Would like to hear your opinion.
Thanks 
On 1/22/2017 at 2:04 PM, RubyTricycle said:I've been taking yaz for four months.
Didn't take any type of birth control before that. I choose yaz because it helps with water retention and I didn't want to gain water weight and for contraception. I'm 20 years old and I never had acne in my life. Just some small pimples when I was 13 years old on my forehead...
Since I started taking yaz, I'm breaking out on my face (chin and forehead) and upper back. Big cystic acne. Four months feels like a lot of time for my body to adjust to the pill. I'm wondering if:
- I need to change my birth control for something with more estradiol (yasmin)
- or if I simply don't stand drospirenone and should try another type of progesterone, like gestodene, which is neutral in terms of androgens.
I don't want to keep yaz because I can't stand the idea I'm creating a problem I simply didn't have. I'm feeling very sad about this... Also: My eyelashes are falling out. Like five per day. I think yaz is simply very low on estrogen for me...
Would like to hear your opinion.
Thanks
I'm so sorry this happened to you.
When I took a somewhat similar drug called Spironolactone, my eyebrows and eyelashes also fell out in copious amounts every day. Both Yaz and Spiro are anti-androgens. I believe that for those who do not have truly elevated T levels, aggressive anti-androgens like Yaz and Spiro can work in reverse and cause more harm than good. There are other posts on this forum that discuss the possibility that Spiro, in particular, can have a mildly androgenic effect if the dose is wrong or you don't actually need it to begin with. I can see Yaz working the same way...who knows. Hormones are weird. I wish I had never messed with mine, because I was like you - got acne for the first time on a low estrogen pill, but a high estrogen one [Ortho] just made it explode all over my face.