Femcon FE and sleep

I started taking Femcon fe in late December of 08. It's been about a year since I've taken any birth control so I was having problems remembering to take them. I did what the pills instructed when you forget and I took 2 pills on the same day. I forgot again to take them and repeated the same thing for 7 days only. I just decided to stop taking them and start fresh when I get my next period. Little did I know I was going to have a blood flow. I thought I was getting my period, but it wasn't red it was a burgundy color. I've been bleeding for 3 days know and it's getting heavier. Another side effect is lack of sleep. I haven't been able to sleep at night. It's been 2 nights and I can't sleep. Also, I have been urinating much more than usual and having bowel movements much more than usual. Anyone experiencing the same things? Cramps, bad headaches and mood swings. After 7 days all this!!! I will not take these pills anymore!

I started taking this medication at the end of October for birth control because I thought it couldn't hurt to be taking something just in case. Immediately I began noticing changes in my mood. I was always short fused, had little patience with people, was easily frustrated and got emotional over the smallest things.I was sick to my stomach and had a hard time going to sleep. I stopped taking the pill after I completed all the white pills. I never took the brown pills because I had had it with the extreme mood swings and I figured I would start my period anyways. It has been almost three weeks and I have not gotten my period! I am seriously beginning to worry. Has anyone else been in my situation and stopped taking the medicine without getting their periods?

ok, i started femcon this past Sunday and i was so excited because it seemed like a really good pill. the first day i felt fine.. second day i was fine but then i had really bad nausea that night (i have acid reflux so this is normal) so i tried to go to sleep but it kept me up. i ran to the bathroom and spit up.. then the next night i did the same thing. i woke up nauseated that next day and had a little sickness but went to school and did not eat anything.. as i sat there i had chills. i started running a fever. and i just wasn't in my right mind, i started getting snappy with my friends. then Thursday and Friday morning (about 15 min ago) i woke up and had diarrhea and vomiting bad. it scared me and my boyfriend so bad he took me to walmart at 12 Thursday night to get a pregnancy test! i don't know when this is going to end but im over it.. i want to stop taking it but i recently found out i have endometriosis and that is why my gyn put me on this pill.. his office is closed until Monday. ugh. should this be happening after just 5 days?

I am 22 and I just started taking femcon almost 3 months ago. I haven't been on birth control in over 2 years and the first month was ok but recently i have been having diarrhea, stomach pains, headaches, heart flutters, and general aches and pains and extreme breast tenderness. Also, when i started taking it 3 months ago i discovered a nickel size dry patch on my neck and in to my face that is itchy, but it is only in that one spot and it wasn't there till i started the meds. I seem to have normal periods which last about 3-4 days, but they are lighter than normal which is good, but I just don't feel right on this medication. I don't know... it is strange... almost like i am anxious about being on it and i never even read the comments and concerns about this med until just now. I have also had trouble getting to sleep at night as well. I want to quit taking them but i am in the middle of my 3rd month...can i quit now? I need to quit them!

I posted other things about femcon before .I bin taking it for about a week and i hate it .Not only I had the side effect i metchion but i think im lousing weight and i cant sleep . and im break out on other places besides my face.

Ive been on it for 2 1/2 weeks so far ive noticed i cant sleep at night, my face is dry and kinda itchy which im hoping happens before it clears up. Some mood swings, but nothing i cant handle. I started taking femcon because after i had my son i bleed for 2 months straight, so my doctor put me on it 2 days later it stopped, it was amazing! Did the dryness of the face happen to anyone else? Or did your face just clear up? Ive never had acne problems till i had my son! Im hoping this pill clears it up !

I have bad period (terrible cramps, heavy bleeding,...) so I have been on contraceptive since I was 19 (now 31).
Well, in Feb my doctor put me on Femcon fe. It is the worse I ever had. Pain the stomach every single day, heart burn, nausea (I really believed that I had ulcer or cancer), pelvic pain, headache, dizziness, low blood pressure and the more serious: depression. I was so depressed that I stopped to take the pill in May (not because I know it was my problem just out of lost of interest). Of course I felt better but I had a bad period in June so I go ahead and refill my prescription. And I got sicker, I had to go the ER for dizziness and low blood pressure (90/60). I could not sleep and I was tired all the time. I became so depressed that I have to go the bathroom at work to cry, my 5 old daughter and my husband avoided me in the evening when I got home from work. I lost interest in sex and was suicidal. My PcP referred me to a Psychiatrist
Earlier this month I discovered this website in a search and I finally found out that was the pill.
I stop the pill and I am doing fine. No pain, No depression, I get my life back.
This pill to drive a woman crazy. I was about to loss my family.
LADIES BE CAREFUL. ASK MY HUSBAND

OMG!! I am so glad I found this site!! I have been taking Fem Con now for about 10 days and have gained 5 pounds! My face is patchy. My head is killing me and I can't get a good night's sleep. This pill is the devil! I have been bleeding constantly for the past 10 days with no sign of letting up, and don't get my started on my racing heart beat. If a doctor offers this to you--- get a new doctor!!!

I am 44 and started taking Femcon nine days ago to regulate my periods and stop break through bleeding. It did it's part there--but I have gained five pounds in nine days! Five! Everything I own is tight. Also I have been unable to sleep. My whole body feels tense and I cannot drift off. I think I am going to stop taking this pill immediately. I'd rather bleed than gain one more pound!

I started taking Femcon Fe 3 weeks ago and at first I had all the side effects that are talked about in the other posting, but I started taking it at night before I go to sleep and it has helped... It seems like i'm sleeping through the side effects. Well except the sore breasts.. I wonder if that will subside if I keep taking them... My breasts feel like I just had a baby and the milk just came in... They are super sore. But other than that all the other side effects stopped when I started taking the pill at night. Hope this helps someone.

Here's how this pill works...take pill, get the worst acne in the history of mankind, no one wants to sleep with you, voila!-no chance to get pregnant. Seriously, this pill is a nightmare. It's possible that if you wait 3 months the side effects will go away but who cares? You'll be a worthless, fat, sick, tired and ugly wreck for those 3 months. Not worth it!

My doctor just put me on this pill I haven't been on BC in 3 years but I have had my period since March and it's now June he thinks this will regulate my body so I will go back to normal. I have only been taking this since Tuesday it's now Sunday and last night I thought I was going to die. I couldn't sleep because I was soooo dizzy ever time I moved the whole room would spin. It's not as bad since I have been awake today but it's still there and I don't know if I should even take it today or not. Is anyone else dealing with this or is it just me?

This pill is the worst....I am on my second pack, and I keep on having light spotting and I keep on getting yeast infections. The infection will clear up when i start taking the brown pills and it will come back 2-3 days after I start taking the white pills again..I know birth control will give you more yeast infections, but this is ridiculous!!!!!!!...I am bloated and swollen..my breasts are very tender, and I cant seem to go to sleep!!!!!!!! Im going to ask the doctor for another pill. I was on Ortho-Tri-Cyclen for 7 years, and had to stop because my insurance stopped covering it. These pills are much cheaper, and the doctor said they were great. I AM GOING TO GET ANOTHER PILL!! THANK GOD FOR THIS WEBSITE!

Thank God, I found this site.

I have only been four days into Femcon and I have never been so miserable in my life. I haven't been able to sleep at night for days, the stomach pains have been excruciating and my period is heavier than ever...and this was supposed to slow to down!!!

To anyone who is thinking of taking this pill, read the experiences that I and others have had with it. Because of it, I haven't been able to function in my life and I am behind in everything. I'd recommend other pills besides this one and Loestrin. Yasmin, when I was taking it, was really good.

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've had experiences with depression and birth control pills in the past...Femcon Fe is no acception. I am now in the 5th month. After the first month, I was experiencing loss of appetite, and nausea anytime I ate anything. During the day, I could barely stay awake, and at night, I kept waking up constantly. My doctor said to keep taking Femcon and the symptoms would improve...I kept at it. After almost losing my boyfriend to one of my RIDICULOUS mood swings, the symptoms seemed to be at bay. Two months later, almost overnight, I'm back to feeling "crazy." The headaches are back. I'm lethargic all the time, experience a lack of energy, no appetite, don't want to get up and go to work, am BEYOND exhausted ALL day long, have trouble staying asleep, resent my boyfriend's existence for NO reason at all, have sore breasts that have seemingly gotten bigger (let's be real ladies, if the price for bigger boobs is feeling emotionally erratic...it's not worth it!), had HORRIBLE period cramps, oh, and the nausea! The emotional instability is the worst. I feel like I can't get a grip on reality and that I'm completely disconnected with my former self. That's all I want back. I really liked my former self!!! : ( It's not worth it to go through life feeling depressed.

I am on Femcon right now and today is my fist day of my brown pills. I have been nauseous for the past three weeks consistently. The hot flashes during the night started a few days ago and culminated in sleepless night filled with waves of emotional surges such as fear, sadness, and of course anxiety. My mouth has been dry for the past couple weeks. I have not gained or lost any weight, but I am also quite careful of what I eat. I have been spotting for the entire month. I would say my energy levels have also decreased and I have been more irritable in general. I will no longer taking Femcon and feel that I have been given a medication that caused my moderate to great difficultly. I am almost tempted to head up a class action law suit, as I have lost sleep, missed work, and struggled with too many issues to just forget about this. If anyone else is interested, please keep posting. I read the Femcon website and I do NOT see any of these side effect listed anywhere. Did I miss something?

I have been on Femcon for one month and just started the second month. I have experienced many of the side effects that are mentioned in this post, but one other I have it a severe pain in my right breast. It is almost like a burning sensation when I move a certain way. I have been to the Dr. and tested and assured it was nothing but hormonal. The only change is the Femcon. Has anyone else experienced this? I am stopping Femcon tonight and hopefully I will finally get some sleep!!!!

Thank god I found this place, I thought I was alone!

I've been on Femcon for over a year and my side effects were initially mild but have grown progressively worse. I've experienced the constant fatigue, sleep issues, daily headaches and ESPECIALLY the MOOD SWINGS. The mood swings are the worst part, I feel as though I've lost total control of my emotional self.

I began to suspect the pills were messing with my head a few weeks ago when I looked back on what a complete emotional wreck I've been the last 6 months. Like others have posted...I now believe this pill made me a different person. I almost lost my boyfriend because of it (I broke up with him!) but we worked it out, and I've decided I am no longer taking this pill. I'll have to find another way to control my periods. This is not worth it.

I am 21 years old and have never been on birth control before. I went to the doctor asking for yaz but she suggested i didn't take it because of the high level of potassium it has. I wanted yaz because i get severely depressed right before my period. But when i told the doctor about my cramps she suggested Femcon FE. So i said sure why not! I've only been on it for 2 1/2 weeks and I've have breakthrough bleeding for the past 3 days now, and i woke up 4am with the worst cramps in my entire life! i was in so much pain i vomited! finally i was able to sleep...and when i woke up i called the doctor and she said she could write me a prescription for the cramps, but i said no since they went away. Also I've never been so depressed! and this is coming from a girl who has fought depression for years. I'm on my spring break now and i don't want to do anything but cry cry cry! i feel bad for my boyfriend and my mom having to deal with me. Even I'm getting annoyed with myself! I had high expectations for birth control, i thought it would change my life and help out with PMDD. I really hope this changes, I'll let you know what happens cause I'm going to stick it out for the next 3 months! If anyone could suggest another pill just in case i still hate it in 3 months, that would be very helpful!

I was on Femcon FE for a month. During the brown pills I experienced dizzy spells that would actually wake me out of my sleep. This is the only side effect that I'm noticing no one else has posted. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm really curious because if no one posts this same symptom I'll have to go to my doctor to investigate further.

I started Femcon Fe a week and a half ago for irregular periods. I am halfway through the second row and I am DONE. I have tension headaches, insomnia, nausea that wakes me in my sleep, I feel lazy and tired. The worst part is that is making me itch all over my body. I had cholestasis of pregnancy TWICE, and I am experiencing the same symptoms. I also felt these symptoms with Ortho Tricyclen and NuvaRing. I guess I'll just have to deal with the irregular periods.

I tried to be positive... My doctor put me on Femcon because I was spotting thru my 3rd month on a 3 month cycle. Needless to say, I'd rather spot. I have had amazingly horrible headaches. On top of that, I'm exhausted all the time. And I can't sleep. I spotted thru the first month- severely but didn't have a period. I'd rather have my period. Now I've noticed that in addition to those things, I am constipated (tmi, I know). I've taken 6 fiber pills and 4 softeners over 2 days before I had a response. I've gained 4 lbs. I know that's not a lot in the big picture, but I weigh 110 lbs and have for the last 3 years. I split a pair of pants up the rear last week at work!!!! I was on seasonable and Yasmin before this and will gladly go back to something that makes things more stable.

I started taking Femcon FE about 4 months ago. I haven't had a good nights sleep since. Other side effects I have suffered from are nausea (after taking the pill no matter what time of day/night), headaches/migraines, VERY low sex drive!!, insomnia, increased appetite!! especially for sweets, extreme fatigue and severe mood swings. I have however, experienced no break through bleeding and have had a very regular period, 28 days to be exact. I love that about the pill but the side effects for me are enough for me to stop taking this pill. My husband mentioned that maybe this pill was causing my insomnia and after doing some research and reading other comments here I feel that it is this pill. So....thanks to all who post here. You have helped me greatly! Now maybe I can get some much needed sleep.....zzzzzzzz....zzzzzzzzz AND SEX!!!! :)

I have been on this pill for almost a year. Almost all of the side effects that I have read today I totally agree with. I have gained approximately 15 pounds with no diet change which is probably the number one thing that makes me want to quit. I've had a few headaches and some nausea mostly at the beginning of first taking the pill but I have had no sex drive since I have been on the pill although I haven't experienced very many mood swings, I do feel anxious and angry a lot and feel like I never get any sleep. I am always tired. I am currently still on the pill but only have 2 more weeks to go and I will be quitting. I want to see how much better I will feel after being off of it...will keep everyone posted.

Femcon is the most horrible pill I have ever taken. I feel like a old lady going through menopause. I am moody I irritated, can't sleep, all that you can imagine, sex drive is out the window and it sucks. I hate this pill and I don't want to take it but I have no choice.

I think FEMCON is a good pill compared to a lot of others. (I have no cramps, no weight gain, regular period, etc) But I have been struggling with severely vivid and scary dreams. I wake up hot, and I cannot get comfortable in bed for the life of me. I have NO sex drive at all. I am highly irritable and moody. My boyfriend has deemed me the grumpiest person ever. But, I don't want to blame the pill off the bat. I have been on it for a year and haven't had as many problems mentally until recently. I used to get a lot of headaches, but those have gone away. So I don't know what to think about it all. I don't like being on any sort of body chemical altering pill, but I'm not ready for a baby, either. I really want to get off so I can see if I'm just really stressed, or if the pill is playing a role in everything I have been experiencing.

early signs of pregnancy, nausea, mood swings, breast tenderness, back hurting, extreme fatigue. I was told yesterday by my Doc, to take the pill with food, not at 10pm before you go to bed, she sd that's why I'm having bad symptoms, I'll give it another month,
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