"if you are taking birth control to help with your acne absolutely do not take this pill. i was put on birth control to help with acne when i was 16, i was on loestrin which helped my acne but i never got my period so when i got to college i switched to junel and my acne got worse than it was before i was put on loestrin. i had huge pimples that were extremely painful. i barely even wanted to go out in public i was so embarrassed. recently i was taken off junel and put on violere. my skin cleared up in a week!"