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Tell me it hasn't been over 3 months since I posted an update!!! Job sure takes a beating out of me. I wanted to do a little 'final' update for all of you who are watching out for me and others in t...

Any updates? How is your skin?   Hiya, thanks for keeping up with this and reminding me to post an update! To keep whoever is following this up to date, I am currently on my 3rd Pack of Name B...

Hey! I just read your log and I was wondering how your skin has been doing? I was on the name brand OTC for two years and my skin did really well on it. When I switched gynos, she put my nuva ring a...

Hey! I just read your log and I was wondering how your skin has been doing? I was on the name brand OTC for two years and my skin did really well on it. When I switched gynos, she put my nuva ring a...

Hey girls, I'm about to start my 3rd week on my first pack of the name brand. So far, nothing horrible.   I did experience a slight initial breakout since this is a new med, but nothing like the...

Hey girls, I picked up my 1st pack of Ortho Tri Cyclen name brand at the pharmacy yesterday, took my first pill yesterday. So far so good.     Funny thing is, when I went to pick up my pack...

hey girl. just wondering how your skin is doing now? still following your thread. i actually just got prescribed ortho tri cyclen brand name. my cousin is a pharmacy tech and was able to get it for me...

How is your skin doing now? Hope it is good.   My skin has not been the same since I skipped 1 week after Pack 4/Before Pack 5. To everyone, it takes the full 3 months to get clear on this pill...

Month Six, End of 2nd Week My skin has been better this whole past week. I've been waking up to nothing new, and everything is flattening and healing. I think my hormones have finally normalized, ...

Month Six, Middle of Week 2 Boy how I've missed you self‐tanner!!!!!!! I am sitting here in bed, I've just applied my St. Tropez bronzing mousse to my face, neck and chest because I'm going out tom...

I think you may have messed up your hormones by forgetting to have your pills filled and missing that first week. Hopefully they will level out soon. The derm gave my daughter some clindamycin lotion ...

Month Six, End of Week 1 I guess I'm back to doing updates again since my skin seems to have returned to a breakout state unfortunately....damn pill lol All I can say is thank God for Revlon Colors...

Ok I have another update, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS DAMN PILL? The last post I wrote 2 days ago, about not having any cramps is totally wrong....It is the last day of my period for Month 5, t...

Anyway, that is when I made the connection between birth control and clear skin. My daughter took the ortho lo for 4 months and had a bad initial breakout in month 2. Then we thought it was getting be...

Hey girls, it's that time of the month again! Update! So right now I'm nearing the end of Pack 5, I did something really stupid at the end of pack 4, and I skipped an ENTIRE WEEK because I didn't h...

god im sooo happy for you!! it was definetely an initial break out you were experiencing in the beginning. As for your scars, you can try some TCA peels. I bet that can help with your scarring since y...

^ Thanks HopefulStar, How's the progress going???????????? So I got Daria's message so I figured I'd update. Haven't been on acne.org in a MONTH which is a GOOD SIGN lol I've been so busy getting b...

Ok guys I have taken down all my pictures because I think I'm finished with this log and I HATE looking at my skin in those pics from before...I just *cringe* Month 4= definitely when the hormones s...

Great improvement. Things are definitely looking up. Whats your ethnicity if i may ask? I was wondering if you noticed any real scarring. I know if my initial breakout is like yours, I'll for sure get...

Great improvement. Things are definitely looking up. Whats your ethnicity if i may ask? I was wondering if you noticed any real scarring. I know if my initial breakout is like yours, I'll for sure get...

Dont skip pills! Maybe thats why your results arent as good as they should be!   lol you guys don't understand me~ I'm not skipping pills (well not with Tri Sprintec, with Yasmin/Ortho Novum I ...

Oh... Idk about that but as far as not getting pregnant you're not okay lol   lol Betsy read what I said to Hopeful, I'm not using it for sex protection, just the acne haha. I skip pills all t...

Hey is it ok that you dont continue your pills continously because thats what im scared for if i dont get my next pack in time   well it depends if youre using it for what it's intended for or ...

I'm on my fourth day of fourth week. I just started today and no I didn't get any cramps or anything out of the usual. So idk.... I did when I had my first pack but nothing crazy. Are you on the place...

Oh that topic is recent. I was prescribed it last year and they recently were just informed that it was discontinued so maybe thats what happened. IDK mannnnn im so sad right now my face looks like c...