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lo estrin haters??
Hi all....lurker/occasional poster here.....
Anyone else use lo estrin and have majorly out-of-whack periods? like, one that comes 2 weeks early, then spotting the next month? i've been on it for a year and thinking of giving it the boot (love everything about it besides unpredictability). Officially haven't had one in 38 days and don't know if it's from pill being dumb, stress from school finals or...the other thing.... Yeah, will probably go to freaking rite-aid tomorrow after work. sigh.
Anyone have this problem with lo estrin???
thanksssssss 
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Re: lo estrin haters??
I hated loestrin. I still got cramps every month and after I was on it for over a year, I stopped getting my periods (which made me, and DH who was then just my boyfriend, very nervous.)
FYI - to fight cramps ladies, my trainer at the gym said to take a calcium pill everyday with a meal. I have to tell you, since I started doing so, and stopped taking BCP - no cramps!
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FYI - to fight cramps ladies, my trainer at the gym said to take a calcium pill everyday with a meal. I have to tell you, since I started doing so, and stopped taking BCP - no cramps!
I take calcium and my cramps haven't been as bad as they use to be but I just assumed it was my period changing, not the calcium. Hm. Food for thought. (I'm not on BCP either.)
I was on Lo Estrin and had to be taken off of it. Every other month my period would last for about 8 hours which was awesome. But on the other months it would start on Thursday of my last week of active pills and then last the entire week of sugar pill and finally end on about Tuesday of the first week of active pills in the next pack. When I called the docs to tell them this they decided I needed to come in for an appointment. They switched me to Lutera which I love. It's also a low dose and I have had no problems with it.
My compliant is that my OB/GYN prescribed me what seems to be a "trendy" BCP!
I've been on the pill for years and was on a higher hormone level BCP( Ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel) and thought it would be best to try something with a lower hormone dosage. I trust my OB very much not to be a cookie cutter doc and trusted her decision to change me to loestrin fe.
Within the last months I've noticed that my best friend, my mom, my little cousin, and just about every young woman I see in my practice as a nurse is on this BCP. I feel as if I fell trap to the drug rep panhandling his choice drug to the doctor, and have less faith that my doctor thought this was a good choice for me, instead of the bonus she'd receive for prescribing all her patients loestrin. I do not want to be a patient of someone that prescribes medicine in that way.
Call me a skeptic, but being a nurse I see that medicine isn't always about the patient (as it should be), its a business.
One place I worked I swore the Doc got a kick back from a certain company because of the number of clients all on the same med.
I just went off the pill but I was on Luttera (also known as Aviane) and loved it. It is a low dose and not very well known, every time I told a medical professional I was on it I had to tell them it was BC. So definitely not a trend.