"i love this! this is my first form of birth control and i have only been on it for about two and a half weeks, but i have to say that, so far, its great. i usuallly get terrible cramps, pains, nausea, etc. on my period; when i started using this on the first day of my period this month, it all went away. this was my first time not throwing up during my period, and i stopped getting those terrible cramps. even my bloating went away. plus, for some reason, since i started using this b.c., my occasional pimples have disappeared and stopped showing up. it&#039;s all really great and i feel so much better after taking this!! the only problem (though it&#039;s really not a big deal) is that i may have put on a pound since i started using it."