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My daughter started out on ortho tri cyclen lo to help her acne and regulate periods. The orth lo was horrible for her acne. It made it 10x worse. She took it for 5 whole months and every month it got...

Hi there =) Two years ago I was on BCP and it cleared up my acne wonderfully. I was on a combo of spiro and bcp and using epiduo and finacea gel. I have hormonal nodule cystic acne in my cheeks and ja...

Hey! It seems like you have the same problem as I did. I had horrible hormonal acne around my mouth and jaw. I tried a lot of things (antibiotics, over the counter, vitamins, diet changes) and nothi...

Hi all, I'm about to go back on the bcp Diane 35 (after having 2 kids), and I'm quite excited about trying to get my skin under control again. I've had to let it be while trying to conceive, being p...

Hey all, I'm a 23 y/o female and up to 2 weeks ago, I thought acne was a thing of the past for me. But after looong periods on Accutane and long years of being clear, last week it just appeared out of...

So my acne consists of small, flesh colored bumps around my mouth and mostly my chin area. It's been like this for almost or just about a year now and has increasingly gotten worse. The area where I d...

If your only symptoms are acne and oily skin, I would place bets that your acne isn't from a hormone disorder. But as Brandy pointed out, a doctor (and hormone tests) could rule that out. It may be be...

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...

If your only symptoms are acne and oily skin, I would place bets that your acne isn't from a hormone disorder. But as Brandy pointed out, a doctor (and hormone tests) could rule that out. It may be be...

Horrible. Ortho regular is much better

Well I took ortho tri cyclen a long time ago. Right after it had just been approved to help with acne. This was like 1999 probably. It cleared me up completely with the occasional bump here or there o...

Is it ortho lo or regular?

Yeah, I am going to finish this pack and see where things go. I've actually been okay the last few days. It seems like I had an IB and then it's just been clearing up, not getting worse or anything. I...

My daughters derm said he prescribes spiro all the time he just won't give it to an adolescent. We are going back in December so I am going to ask him why. But her skin still looks 100 times better. W...

Also if you are not afraid to go on yaz or yasmin they would probably be a better choice in birth control for acne. But I have seen the ortho regular work too. But get off the lo for sure.

Get off the ortho lo and go to ortho tri cyclen regular. My daughter broke out like crazy on ortho lo. Her acne got worse and worse for five months. It made her acne go from mild to awful. It doesn't ...

I think you might need to change the birth control. Low estrogen pills don't work well for acne. You need one with 30 to 35 mg of estrogen and one whose progesterone is low in androgen activity or ant...

I am interested to see how you do on Yasmin. My 16 year old daughters friend had really bad acne since 6th grade and started taking Yasmin last year. It almost completely cleared her skin. I mean it w...

What birth control do you take? When I was 25 I started having horrible hormonal acne. I tried everything topical for a year or so. Nothing worked. Finally went to a new OB GYN. He took one look at my...

I can tell you that I use to get those big bumps on my chin like you are talking about and ortho tri cyclen cleared them. I was around 25 when this happened to me. I dint remember how long it took to ...

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...

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...

Im 24 yrs old, I've been on spironolactone for about 5 wks now and boy am I discouraged... I'm breaking out way worse!!! this is embarrassing and all I wanna do is curl up inside my bed covers and ne...

How is your skin doing now? Hope it is good.

I just noticed that you were taking the ortho novum 1/50 before now. I took ortho novum 1/35. That was my first pill at age 18 and it helped with acne, but so did ortho tri cyclen at age 25 or do. Jus...