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bex · Chanel

Seasonale?

halleybird · Hermes

Seasonale is well-marketed, but you can actually achieve the same effect with most monophasic pills. I take loestrin and skip the fourth week all but 3 times a year (my doc says 2 or 3 periods a year are fine...your body really "tells" you when you need to have one). It has been fabulous for me!

Elle · Hermes

I was on Seasonale for more than a year, and even though my insurance 'covered' it, I still had to pay $125 for the 3 month prescription. That gets old, really fast! I was on Alesse before Seasonale and like it just fine, so my new gyn switched me back to it and wrote the prescription for 'continuous use'. She had just gotten back from a conference on all the new BC stuff and said that Seasonale was nothing more than a regular monophasic pill marketed up the yin-yang. If I were you, I'd stick with Alesse and just have your doc switch your prescription to 'coninuous use'.

luckylily · Gucci

quote:
Originally posted by: halleybird
"Seasonale is well-marketed, but you can actually achieve the same effect with most monophasic pills. I take loestrin and skip the fourth week all but 3 times a year (my doc says 2 or 3 periods a year are fine...your body really "tells" you when you need to have one). It has been fabulous for me! "

I Loestrin. I was on about a dozen different pills before my doctor put me on it and it is the only one I haven't had problems with (think a period every 2 weeks that lasts 10 days). I don't even have to skip the fourth week, I just naturally only get a period 2 or 3 times a year on it.

bex · Chanel

quote:
Originally posted by: LMonet
"I was on Seasonale for more than a year, and even though my insurance 'covered' it, I still had to pay $125 for the 3 month prescription. That gets old, really fast! I was on Alesse before Seasonale and like it just fine, so my new gyn switched me back to it and wrote the prescription for 'continuous use'. She had just gotten back from a conference on all the new BC stuff and said that Seasonale was nothing more than a regular monophasic pill marketed up the yin-yang. If I were you, I'd stick with Alesse and just have your doc switch your prescription to 'coninuous use'."

yes,. but did your insurance cover the continous usage? some insurance companies only cover a certain amount of pills per year... i am not sure what mine does yet (it kicks in in May)... that is why i went with seasonale...

Elle · Hermes

quote:
Originally posted by: bex
"yes,. but did your insurance cover the continous usage? some insurance companies only cover a certain amount of pills per year... i am not sure what mine does yet (it kicks in in May)... that is why i went with seasonale..."

If your doc prescribes it that way, it will be covered. Otherwise most insurance companies only let you refill every 4 wks. How much of the Seasonale do they cover? I would have been happy to just stay on that if my insurance covered more than $17 . . .

bex · Chanel

not sure... i need to look that up... i think it is 80% after the co-pay...