Hello,

I started using birth control about 2 years ago shortly after my boyfriend and I started having sex. It has been a roller coaster, and I feel as though I am running out of options.

I started with Ortho Tri Cyclin Lo. It was great, except for the first week of pills (the white pills with anyone who is familiar with the pack). During that one week, I was an emotional wreck, getting irritated at nothing, crying over spilled milk, those sorts of things. I

My doctor then put me on Yasmin. On this pill, I had a 7 day period every month(not to mention, it was horribly painful). I also sweated uncontrollably, even when I was not hot. Even clinical strength deodorant couldn't help it. The mood swings went from one week a month to every week of the month.

I was then put on Loestin 24 fe. This pill was great for the first month. It chilled out my mood, I was never hysterical or anything... but I was never happy either. I reached this emotional state of constant blah, almost depression. I had absolutely NO sex drive, no wetness down there, and it started to wear on my sex life. I went on birth control to have sex safely, not to kill my sex drive.

I have just been put on Yaz, and I am telling you, it's the worst out of the four. I have had constant mood swings ever since I have been on it. I have been snapping at my boyfriend over the dumbest stuff, and I have had NO energy and NO sex drive and NO wetness down there. I have had horrible nausea and headaches (and I have been taking this pill at night to try to avoid this, but it wakes me up in the middle of the night). My boobs have also been in HORRIBLE pain, and no growth seems to have taken place, it's so painful my boyfriend cannot touch them.

SO, I don't know what my other options would be. I do not feel safe simply using condoms (not to mention it would be very difficult to go back to condoms permanently). I have stopped taking yaz as of today and have decided to take a month off the pill to rid my body of the hormones and such.... then I will make an appointment with my doctor and start from scratch again.

Does anyone have any idea what my other options would be? If anyone knows about the hormone content of these pills, maybe there is a line that can be drawn between these four pills that suggest that I should be taking something completely different? I just want myself back. And my sex drive. I am usually a very sexual person and I havent had the desire in about 8 months..... yeah it sucks.