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Originally Posted by cachegirl  After reading your postings, I had a couple realizations. First off, I've been on Yasmin for about 4 years. Strands of my hair falling out + breakage occurs all the time. Thank goodness I have a lot of hair otherwise I woudl probably be bald. I'm considering switching to Yaz. It sounds like some of you had issue with loosing hair and headaches while on Yasmin. For those of you who have switched to Yaz, would you say the overall experience is positive, less headaches, less hair falling out? You have no idea how many doctors I expressed my concerns to about my hair. All of them gave me the same answer "women with long hair shed hundreds of hairs a day." Not one asked me what birth control I was on. Not until I read this did I put two and two together. Thanks for the info. Very helpful. |
I've been on YAZ for 4 months now and for me it was not a good experience.... I was on Diane 35 for 3 years and 2 weeks after taking yaz for the first time my hair started to fall, a loooot! Almost cry one day washing it, I thought I'd go bald!! I've read a lot about it and they say the progestin in yaz in less androgenic, thus causing your hair to fall. But off course, this is my case... many women take it and this doesn't happen to them... as far as I know yaz and yasmin have the same composition, only yasmin has a bit more estrogen than yaz... other than that, i lost some weight, got lighter periods.... mood swings got a little better.... I did have some headaches the last month one day before getting my period.... but anyway, nothing of these good things are worth loosing my hair, so I'm switching to tri sprintec next month.... let's see what happens.... good luck to you!