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AIBU blaming cerezette?

46 replies

Lonelybunny · 08/10/2013 18:52

I've been on cerezette for about 8 years now , apart from coming off of it to conceive my daughter in 2011 born 2012. I've found it hard to shift my tummy and hip flab as I call it and can only maintain my weight not loose anything. I can only think it's cerezette. I don't eat perfectly but I do walk/cycle 4 miles a day abd eat around 1800 calories a day. But a I wrong I. Thinking this pill is keeping my weight on?

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Wannabestepfordwife · 08/10/2013 18:55

Yanbu I went up to a 12-14 on cerzette and now I'm off I'm back to an 8-10.

I also got pregnant on cerezette so I'm slightly biased to thinking its not the best pill

Wannabestepfordwife · 08/10/2013 18:56

That sounded slightly harsh it's maybe the best pill as I got pregnant with dd

Melonbreath · 08/10/2013 19:06

Yanbu. I spent a year on cerezette and put on over a stone, had 8 months of feeling bloated, sore and pms anger. After gp telling me it wasn't the pill I got very snarly so they changed it. Within 2 weeks my skin cleared, the weight dropped and I wasn't about to stab everyone.
My hair got thicker too.

I got on really well with a low dose oestrogen pill

pinkbear82 · 08/10/2013 19:20

Yanbu I have been put on this pill since having dd 4 months ago and I can not shift weight. It's horrid. Been to gp and 'any pill' is likely to do it. It really is horrid. Glad it's not just me!!

Wannabestepfordwife · 08/10/2013 19:24

pinkbear have you tried the injection? Apart from my brief try of a cerezette I've been on the injection for 10 years never had any weight gain problens

CrohnicallyLurking · 08/10/2013 19:25

I'm on it since 3 weeks pp. at 6 weeks pp I had lost all the baby weight. I had a check up last month (11 months pp) and I have put on a stone! Not overweight yet, but I've gone up 2 dress sizes. I'm going to consciously watch what I eat (to be fair I have been snacking a lot and using breastfeeding as an excuse) and if I have gained again I'm going to switch pills.

Before DD I was on microgynon for years with no trouble, it's just I was told I couldn't breastfeed on it.

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Lonelybunny · 08/10/2013 20:02

Thanks a lot I know my diet isn't great but I don't deserve to b stuck at 14 stone

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Wannabestepfordwife · 08/10/2013 20:34

Have you had your thyroid checked at all. I have Graves' disease and in the first year after having a child it can cause problems with your thyroid it normally goes over active but it could make you under active perhaps?

pinkbear82 · 08/10/2013 20:39

Wanna I haven't, gp seems very reluctant to switch anything until dd is 6 months and the bf starts to die off. I have a skin condition too and that's flared up awful too.

I will keep going back and see if I can get something else, anything has to be better than this.

flipwit · 08/10/2013 20:43

Yanbu! Cerazette made me have the most awful bloating and mood swings. Loestrin 20 far better and I lost lots of weight round my hips. Not great for sex drive though :-( good luck :-)

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Lonelybunny · 08/10/2013 20:54

I can't believe I have wasted my 20's being miserable with my weight thinking it was just because I've had children and that's what happens :( gutted , I am coming off this evil pill immediately , I'm actually fuming it has done this to so many of you !

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PoppyWearer · 08/10/2013 20:59

Cerazette really messed up my hormones, I had to stop taking it. Horrid.

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Lonelybunny · 08/10/2013 21:12

I just never figured it could be the cerezette causing it but I can't think of anything else , I mean yes I have days where we may have a take away but that only once a month if that , I also have a very active job so something isn't right. I will get my thyroid checked too.

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MogTheForgetfulCat · 08/10/2013 21:13

YANBU - I took Cerazette for only 6 days recently, in the space of which I put on weight, bloated up like a balloon, got a faceful of spots and turned into The Psycho Bitch From Hell. Awful, awful experience Sad.

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Lonelybunny · 08/10/2013 21:18

OMG mog how scary! Well I also have suffered depression which I'm wondering is also linked too . And my hair has been falling out like mad too just lately . I look 9month pregnant I'm sick of it! Anyone know how long it takes to get a copper cool fitted lol !

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NotYoMomma · 08/10/2013 21:21

I call it the fat lass pill and had an argument with my gp about it and refused to take it

NachoAddict · 08/10/2013 21:24

I see your thinking of a copper coil, just letting you know I had one fitted to escape taking the pill and now i have to take cerazette too or I just bleed constantly. The doctors aren't really interested, they just keep saying its A hormonal imbalance so keep taking the pill.

Kundry · 08/10/2013 21:26

YABU as I lurrrve Cezarette madly - no bleeding at all, no crippling period pains, no cyclical migraines, depression has got better, hurrah!

And I must admit that although I've put on weight, a pill did not force all the pies in my gob Grin Different pills suit different people but over the years I can see I've had pills I thought didn't suit me but I was blaming for other things going on in my life.

Aside from my biassedness, would it be v harsh to say you are 8 years older than when you started it so fat distribution changes, most people underestimate their calorie intake and hip and tummy fat is by far the hardest to lose?

2kidsintow · 08/10/2013 21:36

I also love Cerazette.

No bleeding.

No mood swings (not that I had any before).

No libido though (although I don't think I had one of those either before - DH would certainly agree.)

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Lonelybunny · 08/10/2013 21:41

I love the no bleeding it's lovely , but in a way I feel that I am bigger then I should be , and I managed all the way through my third pregnancy only a 8lb gain and she was 9lb , so I ended up lighter I then lost a stone and a half after birth only to be slowly creeping up to a nearly 2 stone gain . I would b happy with constant bleeding then pumping my body full of hormones for any longer to b honest.

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Lonelybunny · 08/10/2013 21:43

I also forgot to say I have 3 breast cysts which my GP say are linked to the cerezette too which I'm not happy about. I just want to b my natural self again.

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topknob · 08/10/2013 21:44

I went on cerezette back in Jan and then they changed it to Cerelle in March, I am trying so hard to put on weight and hoped it would help but no :( This probably doesn't help you much.

topknob · 08/10/2013 21:45

As for no bleeding, I wish, Some months I bleed twice then the next will be late and panic for a week or so then have a teeny bleed..would be happy with a regular period or more non at all !

CocacolaMum · 08/10/2013 21:46

the irony of this is that cerazette is the only pill I can take because I am already overweight.. I haven't had much of a libido since I started though hmmmm

CaptainSweatPants · 08/10/2013 21:46

I love cezarette
No bleeding, no wondering will I bleed on holiday etc
No pmt, saved a fortune not buying San pro

& I've been dieting since april & lost 3 stone :)