Anxious feelings symptoms and conditions

Wow, I never thought that some of the health problems I experienced in the past few years was related to Yasmin until I read this website. I had been on Yasmin for 5 years, I just went off of it in late August as my husband and I would like to have children next year. I found this website because I wanted to know what sort of side effects I would get by going OFF the pill. Well, let me tell you, by being ON Yasmin for 5 years, I experienced the following:

-major migraines (never experienced these - 4 were blinding where i had to just lay down because i couldn't hold my head up)
-weight gain (a lot of weight, for virtually no reason)
-shortness of breath (when i've never had that before)
-high blood pressure (when i've never had that before)
-heart palpitations (when i've never had that before)
-anxious feelings, especially in work situations
-loss of energy - inability to work out for no real reason

i am 31 years old with no health problems before going on Yasmin. now that i have been off it for almost 2 months, i feel 10x better both physically and mentally! i hope to lose the weight i gained while on Yasmin. i just got my blood pressure taken this past weekend it was normal-low. the last 2 times i had it taken while i was on Yasmin, it was high.

if you are taking this pill, please go off of it ASAP. Tell your friends not to take it as well.

I was prescribed Lexapro to deal with OCD, at 20 MG's a day. I took it for 3 1/2 years and going into the fourth year I was absolutely done with this medicine. Thinking about it now, I am surprised I stuck with it that long. While it did make me relax with the anxious feelings that were linked to my OCD, it pretty much made me not care about a lot of things. I think I could describe it as I would sort of detach from things I was doing. Also, weight gain was a huge side effect. When I decided to stop taking it, I stopped taking it all together and suffered from awful head aches, dizzy spells, and nausea, but I guess that's what happens after you have been on a medication for that long! It was over in about a week.

I have been on 10 MG of Lipitor for almost 3 years. Since I began taking it I have had recurring issues with an anxious feelings, my lower GI is constantly churning and I feel like I am stressed out. I have a low stress job, a stable happy family life and yet I feel nervous all the time. I sleep for 3-4 hours and then wake up and am unable to get back to sleep. I have been forced to take a nap ever day after lunch just to get through the day. Additionally, I developed tremors in my hands and was diagnosed with something called Benign Essential Tremor and put on another medication to control the shaking.

Yesterday I decided I had enough of this and went to see my cardiologist to discuss the symptoms. I stopped taking the Lipitor on my own 2 days before. The doctor told me that none of my symptoms were related to Lipitor! I replied that I was convinced that they were all in fact caused by this drug. He suggested I stop taking the statin for 2 weeks and see if the symptoms stop. I am now on day 4 without lipitor and am already feeling less anxious.

I went to the Nuerologist 2 weeks ago and got her to discontinue the anti-tremor medication. I am going to get all this crap out of my system and hopefully get my life back.

I just started my first pill of loestrin24fe and am very scared from some of the comments i read on this site like worse acne, no sex drive, hair loss, weight gain, etc. My gyno put me on this pill because of my endometriosis. But I have hormonal acne and I really don't want it to get worse.

Sarah you still around??

I typed in several posts today.
Well as you know I was only on Yaz for 3 weeks and been off 7 weeks and Iam a mess still cant do anything much.

I cant believe I took the damn pill to begin with!!

Is there anyone who got better quickly or who didnt keep having the anxiety or anxious feelings quickly??

My pharmacist today told me to stop the Lexapro and see what happens but Iam scared dont feel good on it either though!!

Dejay and I talk everyday and she feels normal again and is out and about after only a month on the lexapro??? She responded well to it.

I want to be normal!!!!!!

hi everyone,

just wanted to report in on my experience with yasmin and getting off of it...

i was on it for over a year with no problems. i went off for a little bit, and then back on and a couple months later (last january) i had my first panic attack. luckily i found this website within a week and figured out that yasmin was to blame. and luckily i ignored my doctor who disagreed with me. i had always been an upbeat, positive person, with not many fears. then suddenly out of nowhere i was panicing about everything. i couldn't really drive, being on elevators freaked me out, being in large crowds freaked me out- it was horrible. before taking yasmin i felt pretty fearless- i had no problem traveling by myself and taking all sorts of risks. i quit taking yasmin right away but it was many months before i felt completely better. it's a very slow road, but to those who are just getting off of it, or who have been off for a few months and still don't feel back to normal- please be patient...you will feel better with time. and like many of you have described, the anxiety was worse around my period and when i was ovulating. knowing that made it a little better because i knew to expect it and not freak out as much. i also cut out caffeine and cut way back on sugar and i felt that made me slightly less anxious.

my doctor gave me xanax, which i kept with me because it made me feel better to know i had something i could take if things got really bad. i would occasionally take 1/2 a pill. i never felt addicted to it, and experienced no side effects from it, other than some general grogginess. it did make the panicy feelings go away. so, i found it helped me to be able to keep up most of my daily routine while waiting for my hormones to readjust. but i am skeptical of taking drugs and was very resistant at first.

i'm now sitting here drinking a cup of coffee with no anxious feelings at all. it took about 9 months for me to feel completely better. i know that seems like an eternity but it will get better. the progress is very slow (at least it was for me) but it is there. the anxiety i experienced from yasmin was definitely the worst experience of my life. there was one night in particular where i felt so out of control, depressed and confused that i was nervous i might do something really stupid. i felt like i was going crazy. but now that i feel back to normal again, in some ways i'm glad i had that experience, because it makes me so empathetic to people who experience that sort of anxiety all the time. i feel lucky that it was temporary, because it truly felt like a living hell.

well, i'm rambling. just wanted to share my experience in hopes that it can give someone a bit of hope. hang in there. it sucks but it will get better.

mary

I am extremely relieved that I found this website...I could finally link my recent issues with anxiety to my two months on Yasmin. I was on it for about six weeks, when I began to get fairly severe anxiety attacks, racing heartbeat, a general sense of confusion, unable to make sense of the world around me...instantaneously! I have never had issues with anxiety in this way--other than the normal anxious feelings when an important event is coming up, etc. I'm a healthy, active 25 year old that, as of yesterday reading the stories of anxiety/depression and Yasmin, am throwing away the rest of my supply. My boyfriend saw me balling over the computer screen, and promptly went and tossed my remaining pill packets. NO way can this be a coincidence....that I all of a sudden begin not being able to cope with mild stresses, to the point that I am fearful of being "crazy"--I am the most even-keeled woman!!

If you type the word Diuretic on the internet you will see all the unwanted side effects that you girls are having, including myself when I was on this. I am CONVINCED thats the problem with this drug FOR SOME of us. Try another pill because if you are having mood swings anxious feelings panic attacks then this is not the drug for you and your inner turmoil will dissapear as soon you are off it.

I was on Yasmin for almost 2 years. I thought during that time that I was really losing it. I had anxious feelings, stomach/intestinal issues CONSTANTLY, depression, headaches, etc., etc.!!!!

I went off of this pill about 6 months ago, and began Ortho TriCyclen. Things have been a lot better than they were on Yasmin. I consider that pill to be a virtual hell...