Skin clearing symptoms and conditions

I've been on ortho tri-cyclen lo for 4.5 years, and I haven't had any negative side effects. I can't blame any weight gain on the pill, because over that time frame I've been able to lose weight by exercising and controlling my diet When I slack off from exercise or eating healthy, I gain weight--sounds pretty normal to me. Also, I used to have problems with cystic acne, a few a month but enough to make me self-conscious and now (at 28 years old) my skin is what I consider perfect. I don't have to wear make-up to cover anything up. I also I started Proactiv at the same time though, so I'm not sure which one is contributing more to the skin clearing up. I was thinking about switching to Loestrin 24 FE, but I guess if it's not broken....

My boobs are hurting bad right now actually its 5 days b4 my peiord. Goog luck w/ your skin clearing up it never helped mine. Ive been on Yasmin for 3 years but then again my skin isn't to horrible luckly I can easily deal w/ it. I use Murad face wash with the pomagrant its a nice face wash and toner at a great price. I have headachs often, dizzy, and i'm a personal fitness trainer and alway have took excellent care of myself so if your not as healthy know thats not your reason. I dont drink much Caffinee and never any sugary drinks including juice. They tell you that will help but it sure hasn't I have bad bloating and i'm always fatigue i have to push myself. I was alright when I was on the Ortho Cyclens but then again I'm afraid i just forgot the side effects while on them.

i am interested in anyone who has advice/experience with breaking out or skin clearing up with this pill. i was on depo and bad effects. it made me break out in addition. then i was on otho evra and that made me break out the first two weeks. it's wreaking havoc on the skin. i am going to try yasmin but the facts seems to contradict the experiences of people. i know everyone is different but there seems to be more people bothered by it than loving it. thanks. email me at ******
best of luck to all!

I've been on Yasmin for about 2 years. It cleared my skin up really well, but gave me serious joint pain. At month 2, I went back to the doctor and he said that the side effect wasn't reported by anyone he was aware of and that the symptoms were probably unrelated. He said to stay on it a few months, and if it didn't get better, see a rheumatologist. Anyway, I stayed on it and didn't go off because I was pleased with the skin-clearing effect. The joint pain continued to get worse and my hair started falling out in clumps (it was just so dry), and last month I just got tired of it and started taking Alesse instead. In the three weeks I've been off Yasmin, my joint pain has almost completely disappeared, my hair is more healthy, and I'm sleeping much better (it's hard to sleep when your joints ache constantly!). Other than the severe joint pain and hair/skin drying, I didn't have any problems...but those side effects were severe enough to me that I probably will not go back on Yasmin again.