"i recently went on trinessa after being off of birth control for several years. i explained to my doctor that when i took bc pills in the past i always had taken the low dose orthtricyclen. he prescribed me the normal dose of trinesaa anyways. needless to say, i will never take these pills again. i was given a 90 day supply, and the first few days of taking it i was constantly nauseous. then after about a month i noticed a five pound weight gain (i am a soldier in the us military so i work out five days a week and nothing else could have caused this) which, by the time the prescription had ran out had ballooned up to almost fifteen pounds! after roughly a month i started having horrible mood swings. never again will i feed myself hormones."