LoEstrin : Oral Contraceptive

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White tablet
Active Ingredients:
1 mg Norethindrone Acetate and 20 mcg Ethinyl Estradiol.

Inactive ingredients:
Acacia, lactose,
magnesium stearate, starch, confectioner’s sugar, and talc.

Brown Tablet (placebo)
Inactive Ingredients:
Ferrous fumarate, microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium
stearate, povidone, sodium starch glycolate, and compressible sugar.

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August 25, 2010

Pros:

-Clearned up body acne significantly
-no weight gain
-loss of cramps/pms
-no noticeable side effects

Cons:

-cleared up facial acne a little bit but not enough for me to want to stay on it
-major breakouts after stopped using it
-high cost

probably would work well for light-moderate acne. The cost eventually was too much, i wasnt satisfied enough to keep taking it. Started around 30 dollars a month, and the last few months I was on it it was 50 dollars a month. ridiculous!
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October 6, 2012

Pros:

Bigger Boobs
Weight Gain(Im tiny)
Lightest periods EVER!!!

Cons:

Hungry way too often and I mean you will eat a meal and ten minutes later you will be hungry again.

First of all there are many versions of this pill. I tried Loestrin 24FE LO last year and the best part is that your period will only be for about three to four days max. It didnt stop acne completely but it was ok for me to go out without wearing makeup. This year I went on Loestrin 24FE and HORRIBLE. I was spotting all month long and the worst breakout of my life. It was huge hormonal cystic acne especially on my chin. The day I stopped taking the pills was the day I stopped breaking out. It all depends on the person and how much hormones you can take. Remember the more the hormones the more the side effects including more initial breakouts. Acne wise this birth control pill is not the best.
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February 20, 2012

Pros:

lighter/regulated periods
no weight gain
effective birth control

Cons:

terrible initial breakout
takes a long time to adjust (i essentially had a light period for 3 months straight)
deep cystic blood pimples

for birth control, loestrin is great for acne, it sucks i had experienced cystic acne before, but not like the acne loestrin has caused me loestrin gives me deep, painful, dime sized blood pimples, and consequently i have crater-like scars too the ones i dont pick shrink down in size but still reside under the surface of my skin i had hopes to grow out of my acne before taking loestrin but now my skin seems ruined for life if you're acne is not that bad, i would recommend loestrin as a bc, but never as an acne cure
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February 6, 2011

Pros:

- No weight gain.

Cons:

- Acne got worse.
- Fatigued.
- Horrible cramps.
- 2 week period.

I am hoping to change before this pack is up. I do not like it, but it could be good for others since everyone is different.
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October 14, 2011

Pros:

regulated periods
periods were short and light
less emotional side effects

Cons:

didn't really help with cystic acne
worked fine for regular acne

I have been on a lot of birth control. For me, I think i broke out more on loestrin 24 fe. Although I did like the relatively non existant side effects of this pill it didn't help as much as other pills did in clearing my acne.
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