 Yaz for a few days and Ortho Cyclen (generic Sprintec)
When starting my bc, I was put on Yaz by my endo (consider I am only 19 years old and completely doing this for pcos symptoms). The first day I was on it, I felt like I was going to die. Whenever I would exercise, I would have to lay down or else I was gonna pass out. When getting up from laying down, I would get cases of vertigo and would have to rush to get some sort of food in my mouth. Numerous times I had trouble breathing. After four days on YAZ, I switched bc cause I knew I couldn't take it. My endo then switched me to Sprintec, which is the generic ortho cyclen.. YAZ cost me 50 dollars a month while sprintec cost me only 18 dollars a month...When I first started taking sprintec, I could immediately start feeling the antinflammatory effect..At first my skin broke out a little during the first month because of the change in hormones...I would wake up to a small, manageable cluster of little pimples with heads on my chin and my nose would get little clogged pores on them. But after the first month, I would notice that when my period came my skin would be at its best. After three months on sprintec, I lost a lot of weight, my body was feminine (large hips and tiny waist), and my face had a more feminized look to it. My skin was blemish free except for the week before my period. I got so many compliments on my new look and I have been off sprintec bc for 6 months now and I miss it =( I took Vitex to manage my hormones after getting off and my acne never came back THAT bad until I stopped taking vitex a few weeks ago...I'm about to get back on sprintec to control these hormonal issues im dealing wiht but I highly recommend sprintec....I was a little emotional on it, but i expected to be on any bc....I had no sex drive as you can imagine, but the point is i felt like myself while i was on it and had no heart or breathing problems like i did with yaz..it really depends on how your body accepts the drug and so for the most part bc is personalized but i had a good experience with ortho cyclen....Hope I helped you!!! |