2 steps back symptoms and conditions

to lisa,

yes the first 3 months are the heardest.... trust me its gonna get better io can promise you...
sometimes i would think "oh yes im finially ok now" and then it was like it would start all over again.... its kinda like 3 steps forward 2 steps back...
you feel like ur getting nowhere but really you are.... even now i still get the symptoms and im not fully recovered but its nuthing like it used to be...
i guarantee you in 3 months time you will be feeling a million times better.... i know it sounds like ages away but you'll get there...

to Nina your very lucky you found the symptoms early... my heart used to pound in my chest aswell and its very frightening - smart idea throwing away the packet!

lisa please be positive ok.... its all gonna work out you'll see...
its just a cycle ... you'll get your good weeks and your bad days too but eventually the bad days will ease up and become more controllable...
please take care
luv chrissy xoxox

Hello All,

Some recent posts have asked about experiences/symptoms post (i.e. after getting off) Yasmin. Well, it has now been 7 and a half months for me, and it has taken this entire time for me to feel 'mentally' well again. Each month DOES get better, but it is a very slow process and will get worse around ovulation and before your period. You will have good days and bad days, and often feel like you're taking three steps forward and 2 steps back. Thankfully my good days are becoming more and more often than my bad days. In these last few months I have experienced horrible, terrifying irrational, obsessive thoughts, anxiety and panic attacks. I stress, this has gotten better.....but it has been a very long journey back to sanity.

I had been happily on Yasmin for over a year, until almost overnight I suffered from severe anxiety, panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts and accelerated heart rate. I have no predisposition to these symptoms, having NEVER experienced any of them in my life (very happy, outgoing, positive person before Yasmin). After fearing I had a late onset of mental illness, I began seeing a therapist and lived in complete fear. Then I was blessed by above to find this website and realise Yasmin had been the poison ruining my life. I stopped Yasmin at the end of January this year. As I say, it has been a long hard road back to sanity, and I have my family and friends to thank for their never ending support....especially when my irrationality made no sense to them (or me!).

I recommend women getting off Yasmin to see a doctor that specilaises in womens health to do a full blood test to look at your hormone, potassium and magnesium levels. Yasmin stuffs these all up. Natural hormone therapy can assist in re-balancing these issues. I am only doing that now, and wish I'd done it earlier....the benefit of now being able to 'think straight'.

I now have so many reasons to smile again. Prayers for all those getting off Yasmin. It is NOT worth the destruction. Find another form of contraception.