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[fianna.livejournal.com]

Holy god. this is my first month on Loestrin. they put me on it to help with the heavy HEAVY flow and cramps. my period before this would last 4-6 days until it was all the way gone. i have only been having my period this month for 2 and a half days and i think it is almost completely gone!

is this really normal? sounds too good to be true.

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[deathchicken.livejournal.com]

loestrin was great when i took it, actually, once i got the right dosage to stop the breakthrough bleeding. if only it didn't MAKE ME PUKE ALL THE TIME. *grumbles*

[fianna.livejournal.com]

did you take it for longer than 3 months?

[deathchicken.livejournal.com]

aye. five.

[fianna.livejournal.com]

eww 5 months of puking not good! :(

Hmmm...

[lunahalo.livejournal.com]

As with all meds, it takes a little bit for your body to get used to them. This is a med that's made to affect your menstrual cycle, so your hormones and female organs are going, "Wait a minute! This is something new!" Sometimes, it takes a week, up to 3 weeks I've heard, for a birth control, hormone replacement therapy, or any kind of female medicine to take effect. If it's really becoming a nuisance, the best advice I can think of is to talk to your doctor.

Hope it all works out for you!!

lunahalo

Re: Hmmm...

[fianna.livejournal.com]

oh it's not a nuisance at all ;-) i really like this 2-3 day light light period instead of the 6 day pain from hell flood of doom. :)

Re: Hmmm...

[lunahalo.livejournal.com]

I hear ya!! But, not to worry you, keep a close eye on it, as that could be dangerous!! Every woman's body is different, but just a precaution!!!

luv
lunahalo

Re: Hmmm...

[fianna.livejournal.com]

how is it dangerous? this is what the pill was supposed to do and i am on my placebo pills so i am supposed to be having my period. ?

Re: Hmmm...

[lunahalo.livejournal.com]

The lining of your uterus is "shed" when you have your period, right?? That's what all that tissue being discharged out of your body is. If women don't have that, it gets built up, and can cause a lot of problems.

Re: Hmmm...

[fianna.livejournal.com]

yes, but it *is* shedding, there just isn't as much as usual but that is supposed to happen for me becaue my periods were *too* heavy and *too* crampy. I know that it is even common for people on the pill to miss their period some months. Since I am on the pill I am not ovulating which would not give the uterus as much reason to build up as much i would think, becaue the hormone levels are so different in my body now.

it is not really nessacary that all women have their period. women who go on the depo shot never have their period a lot of the times, and i know a lot of women on the shot who do not have problems.

Re: Hmmm...

[lunahalo.livejournal.com]

I've tried depo once, didn't work out for me. I'd heard all this stuph about "you don't have a period on this, it's great!" I guess I didn't give myself enough chance to get used to it. :-(

As for the current situation you're in, you've got a good point there. Didn't think of that part. Sorry. :-) I do hope it continues to work out for you.

[urania.livejournal.com]

well, everything i've heard says that for any sort of hormone medicine, different people react to it differently... could be this is "normal" for you. hope it continues to go well!

[fianna.livejournal.com]

hehe yeah, it was more of a statement of disbelief, because this pill worked so well in alleviating the pain and excess grossness from my period ^_^