Cerazette- experiences and side effects
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Has anyone else ever been on the contaceptive pill Cerazette? I'm taking this for 3 months before I hoped to have the implant (ive just finished my first one month pack) but i'm finding the side effects really hard to put up with. Since I started Cerazette i've had pretty much constant bleeding, from spotting to a long period and its also really affecting my mood. I've been much more emotional and close to crying many times at random things, its also been making me really moody which is just horrible! I feel really sorry for my bf who is particularly on the receiving end of this 
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to cope? I would think about going back to the doctor's to switch pills but I know exactly what the dr will say: that I need to stick with the pill for more than one month to see if these side effects are temporary and go away. The dr pretty much forced me to take cerazette against my will before going on the implant (i'm lactose intolerant and Cerazette has lactose in which she said was irrelevant), so I doubt she will take me off the pill.
I've also have quite a few spots come up recently which is a problem I don't normally suffer from.
Help!
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to cope? I would think about going back to the doctor's to switch pills but I know exactly what the dr will say: that I need to stick with the pill for more than one month to see if these side effects are temporary and go away. The dr pretty much forced me to take cerazette against my will before going on the implant (i'm lactose intolerant and Cerazette has lactose in which she said was irrelevant), so I doubt she will take me off the pill.
I've also have quite a few spots come up recently which is a problem I don't normally suffer from.
Help!
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It sounds as if your doctor is being unreasonable. My doctor put me on cerazette for 9 months, even though I would frequently go back and ask to be taken off it and be given the implant. I was told the implant was "too expensive" to give to me - needless to say, I was livid!
I persevered with the pill and was still having the same problems with bleeding that you've talked about. Eventually they put me on the implant and I haven't looked back.
If I were you I would go to a different doctor and put your foot down. Only when I got stern with them would they give me what was best for me.
Best of luck
Thanks for the reply. I hope you don't me asking but did you not have any negative side effects when you were on the implant? I thought cerazette and the implant had the same hormone in them so i'm a bit worried about whether i'd get these side effects on the implant too
I was really worried I'd fiddle with it all the time as it seems like such a novelty at first! But after about a week you forget all about it, as you can't see it but you can feel it under your skin which can freak some people out. It's about an inch long and a few millimetres wide (think the size of a small match stick".
My periods vary; sometimes I can go 6 months without having one, then will have a normal cycle for a couple of months, then back to nothing. I mentioned this to my GP and she said that it's very normal, and if people get regular bleeding or continuous bleeding on the implant they sometimes give them the pill to take as well, so they get no bleeding at all. Luckily I haven't had any problems like that with it. The only thing I'm worried about is when they take it out!
When I first started taking it I bled for two months solid, which I was told would happen. Then things settled down and I haven't had a bleed since other than the two occasions I had a break.
I've experienced no side effects at all. I used to be on Dianette and I prefer this one loads.
I had this exact same scenario... I was on it for about 4 years with no bleeding at all, took a 4 month break over 2 years ago and have been horribly irregular since with almost continuous spotting etc- I'm going to the Dr next week to see if I can be put back on Mercilon which I had better luck with.
I got spots the first week and i have been really emotional.
I am going to stick the 3 month pack out but i am worried my periods wont go back to normal.
Didnt notice anything unusual re. Moods etc either.
However, when coming off i had bad problems restarting ovulating. had to go for tests etc.
I too would suggest a family planning clinic as opposed to GP. Also, cerazette is a LOT more expensive than most other Pills so the dr must have a valid reason for putting you on it? I kind of had to fight to go on it, cos i suffer from Focal Migranes.
Are there any pills that generally most women get on well with? and don't cause mood swings?
I had the depo provera shot instead, but am on day 20 of a bleed, so not happy with this either.
I feel sorry for all the people who have had bad side effects.
I've been absolutely fine for the three months I've been on it. Had a strange taste in mouth for the first few days, and had no bleeding since.
I was beginning to think me and my mum were the odd ones out with our lack of bad side effects!
Isn't it amazing how something can have such vastly different effects on people?
I'm hoping I'll be able to have the implant at my check-up.
Very odd. I'm just glad I'm one of the lucky ones.
Aren't you meant to take cerazette without a break anyway?
It's odd how everybody reacts differently to pills, isn't it?
Anyway, the baby is now 8 weeks old and I am sending my husband for the snip. At 41 years old i do NOT want any more surprises.
I'm not sure? Whenever I go to get a repeat prescricption, they always ask me if I take it without a break or not, so I assumed you can take it with a break.
I was told by the nurse that if you miss a pill by twelve hours then not to have sex.