"i&#039;m so mixed about this birth control. when i first started i had weight gain and such insane mood swings for months that it completely ruined my relationship and my life. i never attributed it to the pill though (but now, after reading all these reviews i see it was the pill), and kept on it, and since then those symptoms have completely disappeared. i hated my period though, and just kept taking the pill without the iron pills, to &quot;skip&quot; my period. it worked for quite a while, but now i&#039;ve been bleeding almost non-stop for four months. i&#039;m probably going to have to go back to taking them normally and having a period."