birth control
"I've been on Loestrin 24 FE for a year and my new doctor emphatically took me off of it today.  Yes, the pill did it's job (no baby - yay!), but I also experienced increasingly light/missed periods, frequent spotting in between, and most recently, recurring ovarian cysts which grow so large that they rupture and cause the most excruciating pain I've ever felt.  I was afraid that I had a problem with my ovaries, but my doctor thinks I'm fine and that the pill is to blame.  I'm 27 years old and in the past I have taken three other brands of birth control pills (Yaz, Yasmin, and Aviane) and have never had a problem."