Femcon FE and severe headaches

this pill is awful!!! i am anemic so my doctor thought giving me pills with iron in them would help but it made me sick all the time. i took it for two months and i was still getting nauseous and having severe headaches so i quit. i would not recommend this to anyone

I am going into my 3rd week of my 2nd pack of Femcon Fe and am having a horrible time. I am extremely bloated and nauseous most days, very moody and paranoid, so emotional I cry at the drop of a hat, no energy yet I cannot sleep at night, night sweats, severe headaches, back pain, diarrhea and the list goes on. Please tell me that others are experiencing this too. My gyn will not take me off until I have tried them for 8 weeks due to large cysts on my right ovary yet I am so worried and anxious about what I am experiencing that I feel like I cannot get a grip and that the life has been removed from me. WEIRD.

I am on my first week of the second month with femcon, I am undecided about this pill, I used to never get severe headaches, now I am getting about 1 per day. I am nauseated unless I am eating for about 10 hrs after taking the pill. My doc prescribed this pill for me because I was having hot flashes. (i am 25, to soon for hot flashes) I feel like I did when I first starting taking my first pill years ago. Bloating the week before my periods starts, on my old pill the week I was having my period I would have diarrhea when I ate, with this pill it seems to be the week after my period. The nausea is really like it was when I first started on the pill (7 yrs ago). I normally do not have a squeamish stomach but now....I am going to give this pill the 3 months to let my body adjust. Then I may be requesting a new pill. We will see

I have been on Femcon for just about 1 year and have had relatively few symptoms throughout this time. I occasionally get severe headaches and mild nausea but the last 2 months, I have not gotten my period when i was supposed to and i am concerned. My last active pill falls on a Sunday and I normally get my period the following Wednesday (2-3 days later). Last month I did not get my period at all. I took 3 home pregnancy tests because, naturally, I freaked out thinking that I was pregnant, and I went to see my gyn who also confirmed that I was not pregnant. I started a new pack of pills on time hoping that I would get my period this month and that last month was just a fluke but alas... still no period! I plan on taking another pregnancy test later today to confirm that I am not pregnant because not only am i very diligent about taking my pill on time each day, but my boyfriend and I religiously use condoms as a backup, despite my being on the pill. Has anyone else had an experience similar to this??

I started taking Femcon last week and immediately had side effects. I had a hysterectomy last year, but the doctor leftt my ovaries in since I am 34 and still need to have my ovaries. Why? I dont know, since I have had 3 Ovarian cyst surgeries. Anyway, he put me on the pill to help shut down my ovaries, but all that has happened is severe headaches including two migraines and severe nausea as well. I have breast tenderness and my legs are so sore! I have also put on 8 pounds which really stinks since I have just recently lost 40 pounds! I sure as heck don't want to start climing upwards again! This is absolutely rediculous! I think I would just rather go through another surgery and remove the one ovary then keep going through this! I do not reccomned this pill to anyone!

I have been taking this drug for a few weeks and it is horrible. My Doctor gave it to me to improve my painful periods, however, it has only made my daily life worse! After two weeks on the pill I thought I was going crazy, as I suffered from many of the side effects other women have described on this site. I was anxious, nervous, paranoid, shaky, moody, had severe headaches, felt constantly nauseous, had elevated blood pressure, and got easily depressed. I have stopped the pill, but the side effects have yet to cease (hopefully they will soon). I do not recommend this pill, as it has only made my life much more difficult. I will be switching back to the ortho evra patch as it had very few side effects... .

After reading all your comments here on this website, all I can say is "Thank God, I'm not the only one!" I thought I was going crazy or something. I was on Yasmin for a couple years & loved it! Then I lost my insurance & my doctor gave me some free samples of Femcon Fe. The first month I got acne, severe headaches, moodswings, was terribly nauseous & had trouble keeping food down. Now I'm on the final, 3rd month & I can't eat enough! I'm always hungry (especially for chocolate), I've gained 5lbs, still have acne & headaches, I've experienced random spotting during the month, and now this month my period's late. Ugh! I asked my doctor to switch me to another birth control- she's switching me to Tri-Sprintec. It's offered at the Walmart Pharmacy for $9 a month, which is a lot better than the $45 I had to pay for Yasmin a month. Let's hope this Tri-Sprintec works better than Femcon Fe !!