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I'm on ortho cyclen and under doctors orders take it constantly for 3-4 months, so I only have a period 3-4 times/year. It's pretty sweet - if you go longer than that, though, there's a lot of breakthrough bleeding, like with depo. It's also hard to keep the weight off but when I exercise and eat well I stay pretty constant.
I'd love to be off the pill, though - been on it for like 12 years now, and I'm not thrilled about being on hormones for that long. I know all the benefits -decreased uterine and ovarian cancer, blah blah blah, but there are side effects and (this is probably bad math) I feel like the longer I'm on them, the more likely I am to eventually have one of the really bad things (blood clots, accidental pregnancy) happen.
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