Help...starting the pill

[SweatChloe]

hey ladies, need some adivce.
i am suppose to begin using the birth control pill this sunday. (2 days from now).
HOWEVER, i have been like reading for days about the pill throughout the boards and it looks like the one my doc gave me sucks and causes you to gain weight.
this is my huge concern....weight gain.
he gave me ortho tricyclen. as i read, i hear yasmin may be the one. can anyone offer any advice? (i tried calling my doc to get a new prescription for yasmin but they are closed until monday!)

thanks!

 

[Night Fly]

I was on Ortho Tricyclen for a while and really liked it. I did put on a few pounds...but I was working out extremely hard, too...so it could have been muscle weight. I noticed that I wasn't bitchy on that like I had been on Estro-step (a lower dose estrogen pill like Yasmin). Talk to Starfish. She is a big advocate of Yasmin, though. I never had any problems with the Ortho, though.

 

[starfish]

I'm thinking about starting Yasmin.

Next week, I want to see if I can use it to stop having a period for awhile. I get bad migraines with PMS.

It will suck if a BC pill has negative effect on working out though.

 

[starfish]

For Sweat Chloe



http://www.yasmin-us.com/home.html

 

[VeggieLifterChick]

chloe,

Different pills affect people differently...I don't think there's any real way to predict how a given pill will affect you if you haven't got any experience to compare to. I think Ortho Tri is the starter pill for a lot of people...the one doctors tend to put people on first. Don't know why that is.

www.fpnotebook.com/GYN105.htm

That site may be helpful to you.

 

[SweatChloe]

thanks a lot for the help ladies. i am just also going by what i hear from other girls. a friend of mine loves yasmin and never gained any weight on it and never broke out from it. she told me she didn't like ortho tricyclin. thats the only reason why i asked you guys.
i am suppose to begin the pill tommorow, but maybe i will hold off until i get a different prescription for yasmin instead. i mean, all that work...working out, eating right and then not seeing results?
that sucks.

 

[Ceebs]

I've never had a positive experience with any hormonal birth control. That said, I could cut on every pill I tried, but without fail, my lower body would lag (moreso than usual), while my upper body lost fat at an acceptable rate.

Three cheers for estrogenic fat! HIP HIP, HOORAY! HIP HIP --