ANyone on Yaz Birth Control?

Anyone on Yaz Birth Control?
Feb 04 2008 16:34 Edit | Delete

my dr says i might want to consider it but im afraid i will gain weight and feel icky like the others affect me. Anyone using it? What is your experience?

 Are there any that help regulate hormones that dont cause weight gain?

YAZ made my best friend crazy.... she was manic and then would lash out... very moody and weight gain.

I was afraid of hormones all together and went with an IUD and have had it for 6 years now and love it!

If you dont mind the hormones- which is what most likely leads to weight gain... then there is even an IUD with them.

Just a thought,

Plus there are soooooo many brands out there talk to the Doc.

It really depends on the person, all the BC I've ever been on has made me lose weight since my stomach is super sensitive and it makes me nauseous, some have made me crazy, etc. It just depends on what works for you. And most of the weight you would gain on BC would probably only be a few pounds from water weight, it's rare anyone gains more than that. But like the above poster said, talk to your doc if weight gain is a huge concern and they can probably steer you the right way.

I wish my doctor would give me an IUD (says I'm too young) they put me on about 4-5 kinds of birth control and I hated them all, never Yaz but a lot of them.  They tend to effect everyone differently but eventually I had to give up birth control all together (only hormonal of course) because they each had their own lovely spectrum of side effects.  There's no way to know for sure how it will hit you until you've tried it, but look at the side effects listings on the website to get an idea of the possibilities.

Loestrin 24 made me crazy and gain weight.

Yaz made me sane (or at least back to normal) and successfully lose weight.

But it's different for everyone.

it depends on the person completely.  i've tried 4 different pills and had different affects on all of them.  they say ortho is the most popular one and everyone does great on it but i did horrible on it!!!!!!  they say alesse is good for not gaining weight and i ate like a horse on it!!  i'm on loestrin now and i love it, it's the best one for me.  but you are really going to have to do your own trial and error before you find one that works right with your body, there's no real way to tell before hand and what works for one might not work for another.

 

I also agree, everyone is different. I have been on the pill since I was 14- I am now 27. I have tried pretty much all of em.... Yaz gave me migraines. However, I did lose 5 lbs.... I am now on Yasmin,which is the same hormone as Yaz just a different dose, and I have had terrible mood swings. Needless to say I am getting the Paraguard (copper IUD) as soon as I start my period... I really want to see what I am like without hormones since I have been on the pill SO long. Good luck with your search!

like everybody else said...talk to your doctor. i've actually heard from several doctors that its not the birth control that causes weight gain, its supposedly a "mental" thing that people expect to gain weight and eat more. i don't know about all that though.

i was on ovcon for two months and it was HORRIBLE. pretty much anything that could go wrong did. then i was switched to yasmin for over a year with no problems before i stated having really bad bloating and cramps. i was then switched to loestrin and was basically on my period all month.

so for now i'm goin au naturale and it seems to be working out for me. (at least so far)

I recently went off Yaz because it made my normally perfect blood pressure spike up to hypertensive! I'm 28 and otherwise very healthy. As soon as I went off the Yaz, blood pressure went back to normal. I had problems with it from the start (spotting, headaches), so should have followed my body's cues and went off it after the 3rd month, but stuck it out for almost a year.

I have an IUD, too, but went on Yaz to help with PMDD, which it was WONDERFUL for. I felt great on it mentally and even lost weight! It helped slow down my heavy periods, too. Not worth damaging my arteries, though. If you do go on it, make sure you go in for normal dr. checkups to keep on top of any bp issues, etc. Good luck!

Yaz is great if your body is sensative to hormones.  i've taken a few types of BC, and gone completely crazy. Yaz has a very light dosage of hormones, so i dont feel like they effect my body whatsoever. 

also, if you're super sensative to hormones... another good option is the NuvaRing.  i was on the ring for about 6 months, and i loved it... no pill to take, it was easy and convenient, and i didnt experience any negative side effects.  however, the dosage was so light... that my body seemed to become accustomed to it, and i started spotting towards the end of the 6 months, which is why i went on yaz!

Some say it's a myth that BC makes you gain, others personally disagree.  Thus, I strongly believe it depends on your body.  I for one love Yaz.  I tried Ortho Tricyclin Lo but it made me (and my sister also) break out like crazy.  Been on Yaz for about 1.5 yrs now and I can't complain at all

Also, you most likely won't gain water weight w/ Yaz because it includes a light dose of a diuretic, to help w/ PMS bloat and such.

As others have said though, and IUD may be good if you're really concerned about the hormones an such. 

I'm on yasmin, and I love it. Best pill I've taken, no weight gain, improved my skin a lot, and I don't think my PMS is any worse than it has been previously. I've tried: diane/brenda (horrible weight gain/bloating), loette, mycrgynon/levlen (made me sick), trifeme (weight gain again) and I can't remember what else. It's the hormone in the yasmin (and yaz if they're the same) that is actually a mild diuretic, they don't add anything else to it.

I have had a friend who tried it and didn't like it, as with all hormones, you can't really predict how it will affect you, you just have to try it and see. The worst thing that will happen is you'll feel a bit crappy for a month or so. You won't gain weight if you stick to eating healthy, but depending on how your body reacts you might gain some water weight (bloating). If you do, it'll come right off when you stop taking the pill that caused it. 

thanks all. Exactly what I thought!  Appreciate the replies..

 

 

I have been on Yaz for almost a year.  I haven't gained any weight.   I think it really depends on you. 

I'm currently taking Loestrin 24 and thinking of switching to Yaz too because my PMS has gotten horrible.

About 2 years ago my OB recommended a Mirena IUC, and it was the worst experience of my life!  I kept having all these crazy issues that my OB said couldn't be related to the device, but they all started happening almost immediately after I had the thing "installed."

I wish my husband would just get fixed.  We're done with the kids, and I would love to be off of everything.  I wonder half the time if the hormones in the BC are what's making it so hard for me to lose weight (could just be my love for beer though ).