18 years old symptoms and conditions

I am 18 years old and finishing up my 3rd pack of Aviane this week. I have tried other brands of birth control and had to stop after only a month of taking them because I had severe depression. My mood swings were horrible the first month but now they are less frequent. I just started college and there is a change in my diet so all weight gain I know is from my pattern of eating and not the pill. Since I've been on this pill I have never gotten my period during the 7 "reminder" pills, I get it 7-14 days earlier and experience pms symptoms for about 5-7 days before that time. On top of that, my periods are lasting 7-10 days on this pill. I feel like I only have about a week where I am not pmsing or on my period. I have noticed a lot of hair loss as well, to the point it's starting to embarrass me. I also get randomly angry for no reason.

Despite these major down points, I am doing better on this pill than other pills. I am less depressed than on other brands, I have no problems with my sex drive, and my mood swings are less often compared to other brands. I can at least tolerate these side effects. But in all honesty, I'm frustrated. This is the third brand of pills I've tried and I don't know if I should switch because I feel like I'm always pmsing or on my period. I feel like I have to choose between emotional side effects or physical side effects with birth control. I do not know if I should consider trying another brand or just accept that this is the best experience I can possibly get while on the pill.

Hello! I have been on Yasmin since I was 18 years old (I just turned 22), but in the last 6 months I started getting panic attacks. I have always been very self confident and have never had problems with anxiety ever. I never thought to check into my bc pills because I have been taking them for some time and have never had a problem. But now that I look back I did stop and start them again 5-6 months before the symptoms started. So Im not sure if this would be from that, but Im desparate to find some type of solution.

Hello everyone!
I have only been using yasmin for two months (i've just started my 3rd strip). I had been using dianette previously for treatment of polycystic ovaries. i had been using dianette for three years since i was 18 years old and had no problems with it whatsoever. (i decided to change because my boyfriend thought it was making me grumpy, but after a short spell of not using any oral contraceptive, and now being on yasmin for two months, we have both come to the conclusion that i'm going to be grumpy forever!!lol!) Anyway, since starting on yasmin, i have had severe "period cramp" in the first week of taking a new strip and have several SEVERE bouts of diahorrea during my cycle. has anyone else noticed these side effects? these are the only side effects i have experienced (so far).
thanks everyone!

Chloe
Newcastle Upon Tyne
England

I've been on prednisone for a few months now for severe ulcerative colitis, I'm 18 years old now, and the disease started when I was fourteen. So far, it's the only thing that seems to work. I've experinced increased acne, and occasional soreness in my shoulders in back. But the worst thing is that lately I've been just explosively angry. I raise my voice to the point that I am screaming my lungs out (which I rarely did before). I feel like I'm losing the ability to see what's going on when I get angry. I hate depending on other people to know when I'm out of control, but I'm beginning to think I can no longer tell. Does anyone else feel this way? Thanks.

It took doctors and nurses approximately 7 hours to get me to come out of the effects of Anectine. When I first came to realize I was aware of my surroundings, I was completely paralyzed and was on a respirator. While I laid in recovery after I became aware of my surroundings, a nurse would yell my name and rub my shoulders extremely hard to make me feel pain so I would come out of the effects. Once I did, I gagged on the respirator and it was removed, however, I was groggy for several days and stayed in the hospital. By the way, I was in the hospital for a 15-20 minute surgery to have my throat scrapped (tonsils grew tags or were not removed completely at age 8). I was 18 years old at the time. Talk about a raw throat with a respirator being pulled out of it. I didn't eat anything for 3 weeks. My children are not allowed to have Anectine either, because there is no test that can be performed to see if they would have the same reaction as I. It is not an allergic reaction, but one that is brought on by one gene from my mother and one from my father that caused me to react as I did. I was told if I was to be under an anesthetic longer than 20 minutes and Anectine were used, I would die.

Mydaughter is 8 and in second grade. She has been diagnosed with adhd. We have been taking adderall xr for about a month and a half. While the school day goes well for her, the afternoons and ugly for us. She is very agitated, cries for nothing and irratic for about 1-2 hours. We also have a hard time getting her to sleep. Her doctor prescribed Lunesta 1 mg, but it takes a long time for her to go to sleep. We start around 9:00 or10:00 and it takes a good 1 1/2 hours to get her to go to sleep. She does not sleep thru the night either and has never been a good sleeper. ALong with this add she also has hydrocephalus. While this works great for her attention problem in school, it is very exhausting for me in knowing how to handle her moods, outbursts and the sleep issues. Any advice on either? Thank you

I am in total shock. I cannot believe I found this site.
My son is 18 years old, and has cold induced asthma. He has been on singulair for many many years. Since taking the drug, his outbreaks have been only once a year, and just this year he has not had any flare ups! I was a huge believer in singulair, until now....something has happened to my son...I watched a video of him last night when he was about 10...he was happy and patient and loving. He was always a straight A or A-B student. Within the past 4 years, he is so mean that I am at my wit's end. He can hardly stand his dad, and despises his younger brother. I'm not too high in his book on some days either. Of course, you would think it is just teenage hormones, but I've never seen anyone that is so hateful of everyone as a teen. He is a star baseball player, and doesn't like his coach, and doesn't like most people! I have sat her and just cried my eyes out reading about everyone else....I don't know if I can stop him cold turkey, but I'm going to call the Dr. and then not tell anyone and wean him off his singulair, and see what happens. To think my boy will be going to college in the fall and he has had to suffer all these years! Why in the world has someone not told us about this? (I guess I shouldn't have watched Erin Brockovich last night! I'm ready for a fight! LOL). My brother is a nurse and laughed me to scorn when I asked him if singulair might have some side effects that would make my son so irritable. I am SO excited, and pray that this is the cause of his anger.

This site is amazing but scary! I have been taking Yasmin for about 2 years now and am thinking about going off of it. These side effects scare me to death!! especially the weight gain. I have PCOS which made me gain all of this weight. Then i started taking yasmin to regulate my periods and hoping to shed some of the weight i gained. I havent lost weight and i cant seem to lose any weight. This is why i now dont want to get off the pill, the FEAR of gaining more weight. Weight gain has been the main focus of my life it seems because i am always thinking about it.

I never connected the symptoms i was having with this pill. I had the terrible nausea in the morning for about a month or two when i started to take it. Then i have noticed the hair lose and i am only 18 years old! And the leg cramps are bad. I get them during i sleep and i have to shoot out of bed and walk around to get rid of them and then i wake up and my leg is sore.

I am also very emotionally and cry often, i am even crying now thinking about all the symptoms i will experience getting off of this pill. I have 3 more yellow pills left then the week of my period. I want to stop but i dont know if i have the courage to. I dont want to gain weight now when i am already at the worst shape of my life. I just started college this year and that has been a big adjusment for me. This is the time i want to experience life and try to improve upon myself, not make myself worse.

Please, if anyone can give me some words of encouragement and help me get off of this pill it would be so wonderful.

Six weeks ago, I took prednisone for ten days for joint pain and swelling (both hands, both knees, both feet etc. ). the swelling subsideded the fourth day. I lost 5 pounds of fluid weight gain. Ten days after stopping predisone, I had a second onset of swelling and pain with 5 pounds of weight gain. I took 40mg two days and lost the 5 pounds and severe pain. I also lost depression that has been with me 45 years. I experienced elation sustained for the first time since I was 18 years old. I am 63, retired, blessed with a good life within a prison of secret depression. I cut the dose to 10mg per day and saw a rheumatoligist who ordered 15 blood tests today and continued the 10mg dose. the elation continues and is joined by high energy. Is this a gift from God or what? Fred

I am 18 years old, anyways I have bronchial pneumonia.... prescribed levaquin..... is the most god awful drug there is! I am not only having troubles with terrible and uncomfortable side affects such as dizziness, stomach issues, and COLD-WET-NIGHT SWEATS... my skin feels like it is ice, i feel like my blood veigns have turned into slushies.... its something else... HELP!

I'm 18 years old and I have uterine fibroids that were causing my periods to be almost unbearable. So my gyno put me on the pill in August. I never had any negative side effects except weight gain, but I'm not even positive that was from the pill.
But my fibroids have grown so my doctor switched me to Yasmin. I'm in the third week of my second pack of pills.
In the past month or so I have had the worst migraines of my life, frequent loss of appetite, terrible nausea (but no vomiting) and a rash that appeared to be an allergic reaction (because my face was swelling also) but I didn't do *anything* different so I can't imagine what I was allergic to. I've also had terrible leg and foot cramps and the worst mood swings. One moment I will be so depressed I can't stand it, and then a short while later I'll be in the best mood ever. I'm also not as interested in sex as I normally am, even though I'm in a very new relationship.
I never thought that any of this was due to yasmin until I discovered this forum and now I realize they are probably all due to yasmin. I'm going to the gyno soon and I am going to tell him I'm not taking this pill anymore.

I'm 18 years old and I have been taking high doses of prednisone for over 3 years for a blood disorder known as hemolytic anemia. At one point I was taking 80mg a day. I am now on 30mg a day. It is unknown whether my body will ever be able to function without the steroids and chemotherapy has even been suggested by one doctor. The difficulty of having massive amounts of weight gain (30 lbs. in 3 months) during high school was virtually unbearable. In addition to that, I now have to take 2 antidepressants to counter the mood swings and depression that the prednisone causes.