Dianette : Oral Contraceptive

i havent actually started using dianette yet the prescription is still sitting in my drawer as reading reviews really has put me off. i have suffered back and chest acne for 3 years and the last 6 months really bad facial acne my doctor prescribed me this due to failed courses of antibiotics however i am dissappointed and shocked that he just gave it to me with out telling me anything about it bearing in mind i am only 18

In the past decade I've done three stints of Dianette, or Co-Cyprindiol as it's now called. The first time, back in 2007, it worked a charm and I was on it for about 5 years. However, when I came off my spots returned, but not badly. In 2015, it cleared my spots again but made my skin dry and flaky. When I came off, my spots returned worse than ever and I started getting thick hair growth on my top lip, arms and legs, which eventually evened out. Just a week ago, I started it again, and now I've broken out in the worst cystic acne I've ever experienced. Seems to me, although it works while you're on it, after each stint your symptoms return with a vengeance. My advice? Never start on it

I'd never recommend this pill to anyone, it's very dangerous. I have PCOS and took the pill for 5 years. I went from moderate acne to perfect clear skin in two months. My nightmare started when I noticed varicose veins in my legs and other side effects like headaches, mood swings, anxiety, depression, grumpiness and low libido. Also, once you quit the pill your acne will come back worse than before.

Works for some people but I came off this within two and a half weeks of taking it. After the first week I began feeling very low and just mentally unwell. It was a hard feeling to explain but depression is often hard to describe. I stuck with it for a further week and a half but I couldn't take the depression any longer. I gave it a go and it didn't work but that doesn't mean it won't work for other people. I had suffered from depression in my teenage years and depression does run in my family so maybe I am more prone to feeling like this. Who knows? But I knew pretty quickly it wasn't for me.

Basically at first i was impressed but i would advise people NOT to take it, i couldnt wait to get off them, i was so unhappy and i felt i had lost who i was! It may react differently to different people however my friend started taking them and she had been feeling exactly the same as i had after just 3 weeks,so girls take my advice and please dont take it, believe me you will be happier off them than on them. NOT worth it.

DIANETTE IS EVIL!!! Took dianette for 9 months and i did nothing to improve my skin, if anything it made it worse. i also found myself getting angry/moody over everything and crying for no reason. made me a really horrible person to be around. it also made me gain lots of weight :( even though i was still eating the same amount as before. I have now been taking yasmin for 2 months and can see my skin slightly starting to improve already and no mood swings either!!

hi everybody i started to take dianette around 2 months ago and was prescribed roaccutane aswell i have put up 1 stone in a month, ive never been so depressed cos im getting rid of 1 problem and getting another, did any1 else find any of these side effects?

its a temporary fix that certainly isn't worth it; you might fix your skin but you'll end up self-conscious about your weight when you gain 15 lbs. Then, when you stop dianette your acne will come back worse than ever. If you don't stop taking dianette (as some women do for years and years) you run the risk of infertility, ectopic pregnancies, miscarridges etc as your body has stopped ovulating for so long. Stay away from this drug and other birth control pills. If you need birth control whilst on roaccutane, do your body a favour and just don't have sex for 6 months.

Where do I start, have been on the contraceptive pill since April 2011, I went on the pill as my periods were awful, and I mean sometimes on going non stop on for a month, the doctor said it seems I have mild scale of pcos ( polycystic ovary syndrome ) he put me on a pill to help correct my periods and apparently the pill is good to go on If you have pcos . I started off on microgynon which I was on for 6 months, unfortunately it made me very moody, emotional etc, I then went on femodette which I have actually been ok on and have been taking up until two weeks ago, I spoke to a gynecoligyst who said I should in no way be on femodette as it is not good for pcos. ( I also explained to him how I always feel weak, lethargic, exhausted, tired, groggy and I can't lose weight, not over weight but would like to lose a few pounds) I've had various blood tests trying to find out why I always felt so weak, lethargic and groggy ( as in greasy, sluggish etc, and I eat very well & excercise so I didn't understand why I felt this way! ) blood tests showed no results as to why I felt weak 24/7! ( I'm only 18 ) so, the gynecoligyst told me to come off femodette and go on the evil dianette ( BIG MISTAKE ) I started dianette after my week break having my period, I started dianette on the 14th of August and I can honestly say its been the worst pill I have been on. I have felt 10000x worse than before!! emotional, 100x more greasy, 100x more weak than I was before, hugely bloated, so so exhausted, tired, lethargic, light headed, HUGELY Increased my appetite. It also interrupted with my sleeping! I couldn't even sleep at night,my body would never shut off properly and go in to full state of sleep no matter what. I felt miserable and It caused me to have severe headaches too. I heard pills high in oestrogen can cause fatigue ( tiredness etc ) which this pill has. So I call doctor friday 23rd because by then ive had enough of the way I feel, she says if I THINK its the dianette pill causing this,to just stop taking it until I see her next week, I was 50/50 on whether to stop taking it suddenly or wait until ive had the rest of the pack. I wasn't sure if to take the rest and see how I go. But I decided that friday morning to not take it. Friday evening I had an amazing sleep for the first time in ages! I slept all night long! next day ( saturday ) I had work all day which I dreaded as i thought I would feel weak and lethargic as always.. Well guess what, day two off the pill and I felt NORMAL all day! I could actually work! no weakness, no tiredness, no tears, no headaches, I felt good! Happier.I have put it all down to the pill, & dianette was 100x worse, So this pill certainly is NOT a pill I recommend at all! Maybe my body does not like the pill no matter what one it is, but dianette I can honestly say made all my problems 100x worse. I have heard this pill is one of the most high risk pills too. No no no!