switching bcps and experiencing hair loss?

Question

I was taking Yasmin for about 2-1/2 years. I started having some problems with muscle twitching, so my nurologist suggested that I think about any medication I started taking when the symptoms started. That was yasmin. So I asked my gyn to switch me. She put me on Loestrin 24. I hated it. I had breakthrough bleeding all the time. I was on it for two months and switched to Femcon fe. The first month was good, but now that I am half way through my third month, I have breakthrough bleeding and mild cramps almost every day. Also - my hair is getting very, very thin. I'm freaking out. My gp and gyn keep telling me not to worry and to stay on the pill through the 4th month. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid to stay on it but I'm afraid if I get off of it, it will casue another hormone change and my hair loss will get worse or take even longer to correct itself. Please help. Do I stay on it or stop taking it.

Answer 1

I would get back in touch with your doctor next week (if in the U.S. your doctor may be closed tomorrow as part of being closed for Thanksgiving) to ask about the possibility of a hormone imbalance such as with the thyroid to see if that could be causing the hairloss problem.