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Reviewer: 19-24 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I took this to make my periods shorter, well instead of 5-6 days I got 18-20. I suppose it is effective in not getting pregnant, because you can't have sex. Did not help with Acne at all.
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Reviewer: Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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very pricy. hard to take at same time every day. lots of break-through bleeding with pain + period at end of month. was hoping for relief of irritability and other pms problems but no such luck.
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Reviewer: 25-34 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I had tons of breakthrough bleeding. The fact that a delay (due to over-sleeping or morning food-poisoning) of a few hours could trigger a 10 day period made me pretty uneasy about depending on it for birth control. I always used a condom so I can't say that this was truly effective, unless by "effective" they mean that sex is off limits when one is always bleeding.
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Reviewer: 19-24 Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Patient)
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It is expensive as there is no generic version yet and there is a lot of breakthrough bleeding but that stops after using it for a while and being really careful to take it the same time every day. sometimes being off a little bit of time will cause problems. if you are consistent with it, though, it works great and keeps a very short period.
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Reviewer: Dragonflygirlcc, 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I've never had such bad break-through bleeding as I have with this drug. I took it both for birth control and lighter periods...not to have a constant period for 2 months!
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