"after being on the pill for years, i decided to try the implanon for two reasons. 1: you don&#039;t have to remember to take the pill every day and 2: it is so much cheaper than the pill in australia. the implanon was about $30 once off for three years and the pill costs me $75 for three months. at first i thought it was great because i didn&#039;t my period for the first two months. then it became once a month, which i thought was still fine. but a year later i had it taken out because i was bleeding about 50% of the time in an almost 1 week on / 1 week off pattern. in addition, my skin broke out on my back so badly that my doctor put me on minocycline. so i had to remember to take daily medicine anyway, and i&#039;ve never had acne before."