"you can actually call this birth control because i didn&#039;t want to have sex while i was on it. i had no type of sex drive whatsoever and i&#039;m always in a mood. i had mood swings, depression, and was nauseous all the time. the only thing that minastrin was good for was my period were light and lasted two days and i didn&#039;t get pregnant. i was originally on loestrin 24 fe and stopped. loestrin 24 was the best birth control ever. i went back on birth control a year later because i couldn&#039;t afford to pay for it at the time but now my insurance basically covers anything now. the doctor prescribed me minastrin and it was the worst thing ever. i stopped using it after 3 months and felt so much better."