Diane-35 : Oral Contraceptive

I am taking Diane 35 Daily together with Duac Gel for almost three months now and it looks like it's working, because my face looks - this last three weeks - better than it looked this whole year.

i'm taking diane for 1 year and i have no more acne and my blood test were good, nothing wrong so i'm lucky :D

I have been using it for 4 days and i am already seeing results.

I had horrible acne, my face was covered, I mean I had 5 to 10 big red painful spots all the time. From when I was thirteen until I started this pill (i am 20 now), and i cannot even count how many products i tried. The first couple months i didn't notice much change, but now i have been taking it for about 6 months and i haven't had any thing, except for those pesky red scars which will take a while to heel as i have very fair skin. This is the first week since i discovered concealer that i have had the confidence to leave my house without makeup on. As for blood clots, this is an issue with most forms of birth control, but my doctor just had me get a blood test before i started this medication to see if blood clotting would be an issue, luckily it isn't. I read the other reviews on here before i started this medication, but so far i am just glad to finally be able to jump in a pool without worrying about my makeup coming off. P.S. If your Canadian, my prescription is covered on both Greenshield and Blue Cross

The first month I took Diane35, I already felt good. I saw a big improvement in my skin - a glowing face and no acne on my back. Plus, my breasts seem to "swell" a bit more, I don't have mood swings or depression due to PMS, and I don't see any weight gain. I'm happy that I have a reduced sex drive as well because I am single currently and do not wish to have too high a libido ;) I'm on my second month now and happy. Note: on the first month, I had spotting (irregular bleeding),but now it totally stopped.

I started taking Diane 35 a couple of years ago and I was amazed at how quickly my skin cleared up - maybe a couple of months. I was taking it for a combination of acne and folliculitis, and my skin was so crazy I didn't even want to go out in public sometimes - I even called in sick at work once in a while if it was really bad. I was in my mid-thirties and had had great skin all my life and then SUDDENLY got this weird acne, and I was very self conscious about it. I tried all kinds of treatments for it - laser, antibiotics (both oral and topical, for the folliculitis as well as acne) but in the end NOTHING worked except for Diane 35. I stayed on it for 6 or 8 months, and I'd say the effects lasted for a year or so, after which my skin got slowly worse, and now I'm back on it. Right now I'm in the phase where my skin is pushing all the gunk to the surface, so I'm getting little painful whiteheads all over the place - even my back, where I don't normally get zits. Hopefully it will clear up soon! I feel very pukey, but it's worth it. I didn't get the weight gain that a lot of women do, but I work out a lot. If I start to gain weight, I'll exercise more, or I'll even put up with the extra weight. Who's prettier - a pudgy woman with great skin, or a skinny hardbody woman with bad skin? I think that whether you gain weight or lose it, whether you experience hair thickening or loss... all depends on your hormone balance you start with. Women who gain a ton of weight probably end up with estrogen levels that are much too high, whereas women who don't probably have acne caused by excess androgens, and Diane 35 balances them out nicely. (I gave this a 5 out of 5 despite the nausea - nothing is perfect, and women have to suffer to be beautiful.)

For the first month and a half, Diane 35 gave me cystic acne on my face. But that cleared up quickly and now i havn't broken out once and I am up to my third month! I didnt gain weight like alot of the other reviews said, I actually lost alot. I would recommend this to anyone (females only obviously)

I needed an oral contraceptive and wanted one that would help me with my moderate acne. Yasmin, which is what I first went on, did nothing and broke me out in places on my face where I had not broken out before. When I switched to Diane-35 (that's what it's called in Canada) I didn't get sick or gain weight or get strange mood swings. Instead, my skin slowly stopped breaking out. My skin has been clear for 2/3 months now. I saw definitive results around the 6th/7th cycle (6months). I've been on this pill since Sept. 09. For all the girls who've been struggling with acne and have acne (whether mild or severe) that has affected their self-esteem GO ON DIANE-35. My best advice: SIMPLE face routine, NO EXFOLIATION (eventually irritates and damages your skin), and plenty of natural oil moisturizer (like jojoba oil, sweet almond oil or emu oil or something) My biggest mistake was thinking I didn't need to moisturize my skin because I had acne and oily skin and I thought moisturizing my skin would break me out. However, moisturizing your skin whenever you wash your face is a MUST. And please stay away from the chemical stuff. ONE MORE THING: WHEN TAKING A SHOWER, DO NOT FACE THE HOT WATER. Rather, use mild water (not hot and not cold) and gently splash the water in your face while using a mild face wash.

Not really using it for it's intended use. But seeing as how medical treatment is being denied to me because I have been labeled as having conversion disorder, it's the best thing I could come up with that could be easily prescribed by a random GP to control problems that seemed linked to my menstrual cycle.

I had moderate to severe acne on my face, chest, and back. I was on diane 35 for about 10 years, and i thought it was about time to come off of it seeing as tho i was 24 at the time (and i thought i had already had grown out of acne). Well boy was i WRONG!! i broke up sooo bad 3 months after and my skin has never been the same. 2 years later, I've tried everything to get my skin clear without using bcp's with no luck. i've used every skin product out there and i'm seriously considering getting back on diane. but i haven't conceieved either yet so i'm trying to decide whether my skin or a baby is more important to me right now....