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Ortho Tri-Cyclen is used to prevent pregnancy or to regulate your menstrual cycle. Certain brands of birth control pills may be used for treating acne or as a morning after pill for emergency contraception. Consult your doctor or pharmacist. Use of Ortho Tri-Cyclen does not protect you or your partner against sexually transmitted diseases (e.g., HIV, gonorrhea).
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ortho Tri-Cyclen
Uses
Ortho Tri-Cyclen is used to prevent pregnancy or to regulate your menstrual cycle. Certain brands of birth control pills may be used for treating acne or as a morning after pill for emergency contraception. Consult your doctor or pharmacist. Use of Ortho Tri-Cyclen does not protect you or your partner against sexually transmitted diseases (e.g., HIV, gonorrhea).
Storage
- Store at room temperature between 59 and 86 degrees F (between 15 and 30 degrees C) away from moisture and sunlight.
- Do not store in the bathroom.
Overdose
- If overdose is suspected, contact your local poison control center or emergency room immediately.
- Symptoms of overdose may include nausea and vomiting.
- Females may experience vaginal bleeding.
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How To Use
- Take Ortho Tri-Cyclen with food or immediately after a meal to prevent stomach upset.
- Try to take Ortho Tri-Cyclen at the same time each day.
- This may help you to remember to take it.
- Learn proper use of your particular brand of medication.
- Follow your dosing schedule carefully.
- Be sure to ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions.
- Use a supplemental form of birth control during the first week of taking Ortho Tri-Cyclen since it takes a while to be effective.
- Follow your doctor s directions exactly if Ortho Tri-Cyclen is being used as a morning after pill.
Side Effects
- Ortho Tri-Cyclen may cause dizziness, headache, lightheadedness, stomach upset, bloating, or nausea.
- If these effects persist or worsen, contact your doctor.
- Notify your doctor if you experience: severe depression, groin or calf pain, sudden severe headache, chest pain, shortness of breath, lumps in the breast, weakness or tingling in the arms or legs, yellowing of the eyes or skin.
- If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
Precautions
- Before you take Ortho Tri-Cyclen, tell your doctor your entire medical history, including family medical history, especially: asthma, high blood pressure, kidney disease, liver disease, heart disease, stroke, history of jaundice (yellowing skin/eyes) or high blood pressure during pregnancy, excessive weight gain or fluid retention during menstrual cycle, blood clots, heart attack, seizures, migraine headaches, breast cancer, high blood level of cholesterol or lipids (fats), diabetes, depression.
- Depending on strength, Ortho Tri-Cyclen may cause a patchy, darkening of the skin on the face (melasma).
- Higher strengths are more likely to cause melasma.
- Sunlight may intensify this darkening and you may need to avoid prolonged sun exposure and sunlamps.
- Consult your doctor regarding use of sunscreens and protective clothing.
- It may take a long time for you to become pregnant after you stop taking birth control pills.
- Consult your doctor.
- Do not smoke cigarettes.
- Birth-control pills slightly increase your risk of strokes, blood clots, high blood pressure, heart attacks, gallbladder disease, vision problems, and liver tumors.
- Cigarette smoking (especially 15 or more cigarettes daily) and age (women older than 35/smokers or 40/nonsmokers years of age) further increase the risk of stroke, blood clots, high blood pressure and heart attacks.
- Ask your pharmacist or doctor for a copy of the patient labeling which explains these risks in more detail.
- Consult your doctor for any questions, including possible use in nonsmokers over 40 years of age.
- If you are near-sighted or wear contact lenses, you may develop vision problems.
- Also, your tolerance of the lenses may decrease.
- Contact your eye doctor if these problems occur.
- Before having surgery, including dental surgery, tell the doctor that you take birth control pills.
- Ortho Tri-Cyclen must not be used during pregnancy.
- If you become pregnant or think you may be pregnant, inform your doctor immediately.
- Ortho Tri-Cyclen passes into breast milk.
- This may affect milk production and may have harmful effects on a nursing infant.
- Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Missed Dose
- Missed dose advice differs and depends on the brand used, and the number of doses missed.
- Refer to the product package information for advice on missed doses.
- Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions.
Drug Interactions
- Tell your doctor what prescription and nonprescription drugs you are taking.
- Drugs that may decrease the effectiveness of the pill include: griseofulvin, many antibiotics (e.g., penicillins, macrolides, tetracyclines, sulfas, cephalosporins), chloramphenicol, many seizure medications (e.g., phenytoin, barbiturates, primidone, carbamazepine), dapsone, rifamycins (e.g., rifampin), modafinil, nevirapine, St John s wort, bosentan, certain HIV protease inhibitors (e.g., amprenavir, nelfinavir, ritonavir), troglitazone.
- Ask your doctor if you should use additional birth control methods while taking any of Ortho Tri-Cyclens mentioned above while taking birth control pills.
- Also tell your doctor if you use: thyroid hormone drugs, certain benzodiazepines (e.g., diazepam, chlordiazepoxide), prednisone-like drugs, certain antidepressants (e.g., tricyclics), beta-blockers (e.g., metoprolol), blood thinners (anticoagulants such as warfarin), insulin.
- This product can affect the results of certain lab tests (e.g., thyroid).
- Inform all laboratory personnel that you use Ortho Tri-Cyclen.
- Birth control pills may significantly intensify the effects of alcohol.
- Consult your doctor or pharmacist about this.
- Do not start or stop any medicine without doctor or pharmacist approval.
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Sex:
F
Age: 37
Time Taken:
1.5 years
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| Reason: Birth Control |
Date:
7 July 2007 |
Side Effects
Weight gain, nausea, headaches, fatigue, anger/irritability, depression, lack of motivation, breast enlargement, breast tenderness, night sweats, dizziness, insomnia.
Additional
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I have been on birth control since I was a teenager. As an adult, I was on OTC for a long time before being switched to Trinessa about a year ago due to insurance reasons. The OTC worked great for me. The Trinessa, on the other hand, has been terrible. I never know what I'm going to get from month to month. Some months are fine, with a little water weight gain like clockwork about 10 days prior to menstruating Some months, however, are OUT OF CONTROL. Headaches that won't go away or intense fatigue...having to sleep and sleep and sleep, or no desire to go anywhere or do anything or see/talk to anyone. This month I had breast enlargement from almost the very first pill and have subsequently gained about 10 pounds in two weeks. This is unheard of as I work out *daily* and watch what I eat. It simply feels like the hormones in Trinessa are off, from month to month. With their recall last year, they certainly don't seem very reliable. I am throwing it all in the garbag
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CONDITIONS OF USE: The information in this database is intended to supplement, not substitute for, the expertise and judgement of healthcare professionals. The information is not intended to cover all possible uses, directions, precautions, drug interactions or adverse effects, nor should it be construed to indicate that use of a particular drug is safe, appropriate or effective for you or anyone else. A healthcare professional should be consulted before taking any drug, changing any diet or commencing or discontinuing any course of treatment.
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