"due to my history of migraine with aura,  my doctor suggested i went with a non estrogen birth control. i went back and forth about the copper iud and the pill. i decided against the iud because it isn&#039;t a painless process for those who haven&#039;t yet had children. 
ive been on jolivette for a month now. the first few weeks were difficult. i had breakthrough bleeding  (bleeding between your periods) and quite terrible anxiety. if i had stopped taking it then i would have rated this med a 2 or 3. after about 2.5 weeks in... my anxiety subsided, the breakthrough bleeding stopped and everything balanced. i was even able to decrease the strength of my anxiety medicine. my pmdd and endometriosis have been easier to bare, and so far so good."