"okay, so, i&#039;ve been taking this birth control for five years now. it does it&#039;s job at preventing pregnancy. been with my boyfriend for three years, never used a condom, never pregnant. that&#039;s basically the only good thing about it. my acne has been terrible the entire time i&#039;ve used this birth control. my mood swings are insane, cramping makes me nauseous, and i would bleed for five to seven days. i&#039;m diagnosed with depression, and i noticed the week before my period i would get insanely depressed. i&#039;m guessing it was this birth control, considering it happened every month during the last week of pills. switching over to yasmin to see how that works."