Dianette : Oral Contraceptive

I've never had amazing skin, but at the age of 23 I developed full blown acne out of the blue. I tried several courses of antibitoics and creams such as benzyl peroxide but nothing worked. After much convincing, I managed to get my Doctor to put me on Diannete, even though I'm classified as obsese. I was so depressed about my skin I decided to accept the risks and go for it anyway. It's been three months now and I've noticed some change, although I'd still my acne is still quite bad. I've noticed that my skin goes through spells of being really clear and then really bad. I'm not sure if anyone else found this? Anyway, I'm going to stick with it as I don't want to go on Roacutane and hope that in time my skin improves. Fingers crossed!

I have only been on this pill for 2 1/2 months, there was a slight improvement in my skin (i only suffer with spots on my upper back), however when i stop taking the pill for the 7 days whilst i have my period my spots come back worse! My Dr said it can take up to 3 months to see an improvement. I hope they clear up before my wedding next year!

Dianette takes about 6 months to work and clear your skin up so just be patient! My skin is spot-free now! Just a little worried about the consequences when coming off the pill.

I was put on Dianette by a Dermatologist for 3 months after trying numerous antibiotics and every produt under the sun. Wish I'd done some research before hand, but never thought I would have a problem with weight gain as I'm a health freak and work out around four times a week. Within he first couple of weeks my skin had become less oily and started to clear up a lot more compared to previous medications I'd tried. I did however gain around 10lbs in this 3 months despite watching what I ate and regularly exercising, and my boobs increased a cup size. The weight gain severley lowered my self confidence and made me a bit depressed too. As an acne treatment, It's proabably the best I've been prescribed, but personally the side effects were too much to handle...3 months was more than enough!

I'm thinking about quitting on this pill. I was advised to start taking it for my acne by my doctor. If anything, my acne has gone worse and I have very sore red spots on my cheeks and around my jawline and chin. The spots are really painful and hard and if I squeeze them I just get grease coming out and they end up worse! I have been using the Clear Skin starter kit from Selfridges which is supposed to be America's best selling acne traetment and I have still not got any improvement in skin appearance. I'm also loing my temper at the smallest things and feeling utterly depressed when I should be feeling fine. This is the worst pill I have ever taken and I'm not sure whether to persevere in the hope that my side effects will calm down and my skin will improve or whether to cut my losses and stop taking it.

Ive been on this a couple of times over the years and didnt like it. Whilst it did help with acne ( stopped huge cystic spots but wasnt a miracle ), I gained a huge amount of weight, depression, blinding migraines on the same day every month and complete loss of sex drive. But then again, Ive found this with most forms of Pill. Spots came back each time after stopping use so I didnt see the point in suffering!

I have been on this pill for over 6 months and it hasn't done anything to help my skin, if anything it has made it worse! the only good thing about it is it made my boobs bigger and helped me put on weight as i was anorexic before. even though it hasn't helped my skin, i feel very dependant on it and am afraid to come off it.

Only a week on it my skin isnt clear yet but i have to say its improving so fingers crossed, hopefuly it will clear all up! Just cannot wait to walk proudly with no make-up on my face !

I was on dianette for 6 years, had you asked me a year ago would I recommend it I would have said yes purely because it cleared up my adult acne completely. I came off 9 months ago and my skin is worse than when I went on it, my periods are irregular, and I'm getting hair growth under my chin and on my chest. Have been trying to conceive for 9 months now.

I was a anti pill advocate for most of my adult life due to worry over their use and ones health long term but after suffering with acne for so long, I have finally relented.I'm 32.Life is precious tho and if there are any concerns i wouldn't hesitate to come off it but girls girls for the first time in my life my moods are steady, it's just amazing. I wake up each day with complete happiness and stability in mind, this month there was no major mood changes b4 my period was due. I've also gone from waiting on that rare hormonal tip once a month when I would have an increased sex drive to now feeling that I want my fiance all the time,ALL THE TIME! my sex drive and my emotions are a hundred percent better. I guess it balanced out my hormones and for once I feel normal emotionally and sexually. I have only taken it just over a month so no real change with the acne yet but I remain hopeful for impoved skin in the next couple months.