I took it for around 8 or 9 months 2 years ago and my side effects were extreme and severe. I would bleed all different times of the month, my hands and legs would fall asleep all the time and painfully so when I was asleep, my hair was falling out at alarming rates, my right breast hurt for last 2 months I took it and the worst was I tried to commit suicide (I am not a suicidal person - quite the opposite) so that was it. And when I called my doctor and told him (or his nurse rather) this I was told I needed to continue taking it and come in. NOT! I just quit taking them and my husband had a vasectomy because my doctor would not tie my tubes since I've never had kids, which I don't want to and have told him this since I was 15 years old, but I cannot believe the things I didn't notice were side affects. My skin is not at dry and I don't break out with zits as much (I'm over 30 years old, too) plus all the other stuff stopped as well - I'm my usual happy self again.