Thread: info on Micronor....?

I have been on Camila (generic Micronor) since July. I really do not like it - I have not had a 'period' since being on it. You have to take it at same time EVERY day. It has 5% failure rate, especially the first year, which makes me paranoid, so I use contraceptive film as backup. In September, I got really sick - waves of chills, fever, dehydration. All kinds of tests were run, and it came back a severe kidney infection. I attribute this to the film, not the Camila. I just miss taking the ortho-novum, but my age and blood pressure make taking that impossible now. Last month my husband got snipped, so we are waiting on two sperm counts of zero and I am kissing Camila goodbye.

I developed migraines with aura while on Yasmin so I was on Micronor a few months back for two months and then I had to stop because I could not take the side effects adn I also was extremely paranoid about the 5% failure rate. I too did not have a period while on it and when I stopped it I did not get one either for another two months. I was extremely bloated to where my clothes would not fit and I was in pain most of the time. I also started having severe dizzy spells a few weeks into it. I tried to go the three months to see if it would pass, but by the end of the second month I was a wreck. I am now on Loestrin which which has been much better for me and has even low estrogen than Yasmin. I think it was the lack of estrogen that was bad for me.

I'm glad I found this thread. I have been on Errin (generic for Ortho Micronor) for over two years now. I have had had only ONE instance where I could say I had a period, and I would barely call it that. I had spotting for a few days, very LIGHT spotting. And that's it. Other than that, it is easy for me to take it at the same time every day, in the morning, before work and on the weekends I always wake up at that time also-give or take a half an hour. So in general I do take it at the same time every day, within an hour. My fiance and I are sexually active and I haven not become pregnant.

Overall I love not having a period (in two years!) and both doctors I have seen said this is okay. I'm due to go in again here shortly and will ask again. Other than the lack of a period, I experience no other side effects other than maybe a slight loss of sexual appetite, which could be due to other factors.

Originally Posted by countrygirl49

I experience no other side effects other than maybe a slight loss of sexual appetite, which could be due to other factors.

I used to take Errin as well, and I didnt get a period for over three months. It totally freaked me out. Also, i stopped wanting to have sex at all, not even by myself and when I did I was super dry.

I couldnt take the fear of pregnancy, especially since these pills stop the only reassurance u may have which is your period.

Now im trying the copper t iud...dealing with infections but thinking i might just wait it out cuz otherwise i dont know what else to do.