Apathetic symptoms and conditions

I am posting again about nuvaring. I am taking it out tonight. I hate feeling so depressed and apathetic and like I can't get through anything anymore. This month has been the worst ever in that regard. I did bettter on Yasmin and will probably go back to that. I also have been feeling shorter of breath since taking this. I thought I was getting asthma possibly. Reading some of these posts at least helps me realize the ring could be causing this. I think I am just going to tell my doctor to put me back on Yasmin. Besides, I don't really trust these fancy new things they are coming out with these days.

by maria's husband. Doctor has told her to exercise, I have told her to exercise. She has walked a little less than a mile once and has felt better. Other times fresh air makes her feel better but has to be around 30 minutes, yet she refuses to exercise with me. I bought an indoor exercise stepper machine to exercise her legs I have frustration 'cause have trouble with her talking to me, discussing her illness and other matters. She takes most everything I say in a negative light, misunderstands my intentions, questions my motives, etc. Communication with her is extremely difficult for me. I try to help her but her mood, bodylanguage, etc. indicate to me that she does not want my help. Yet, she wants all the privileges. She doesn't recognize that I try to help her and at times vehemently chastises me about it (this always in a passive manner). Her tone is soft and gentle but she uses cutting words. Three sons, one daughter and I read the Bible, memory verses, go to church, but she refuses all these. Married 15 years, gone to church with me/us less times than that. (RE: Two older boys from previous marriage: No TLC for them by maria. I feel really bad for them. She very despondent with them.) They've always defended/protected/stood up for her when I'd get upset over her behavior with me; but now that they're older they don't want anything with her but they still defend her. She says because of her depression. Apathetic in bed, No feeling. Sometimes I don't think so. I have a hard time getting her to even keep me company for more than a few minutes. Five minutes at a time would be excellent for me. I feel unloved, unwanted, by her. She says she feels the same. I feel at the end of my rope. I wonder if I have depression. So much more to say. Thanks for this escape valve. HELP!

Worked up to 50 mg. for depression/anxiety with a noticeable improvement in my mood and only a few minor side effects the first week including intestinal irritation. Then after 5 months it seemed to make me tired/apathetic all the time. I weaned myself off but couldn't handle the fogginess during this time. Went back on just 25 mg. but again after about 5 months I felt lazy all the time and again am now weaning myself off. It has been a week and I am trying to make it through the spaced-out feeling and dizziness. I'm researching St. John's wort now and may give it a try.

I am 45 years old and am taking Toprol because I have a severe cardiac arrhythmia. I am comforted to read this website because I see that my side effects are fairly common. I too feel lethargic, apathetic, and "heavy" all the time. There is an emotional disconnection that is disturbing. I feel kind of achy and elderly. I have had some memory problems over the last few years (they appear to have increased together with my arrhythmia) but they are much worse since I started medication. I am also bloated and can't seem to lose weight. It is a relief to know that these are typical symptoms, but I am afraid to discontinue the medication.

Thanks to all of you for sharing.

Thank god for these posts. I've been taking Yasmin for almost a year. My previous dr switched me to it because I was getting cists from my previous pill. At first, it was great, my periods went down from 7 really heavy days to 3 really light days, my mood swings and cramps settled down and I was happy.

Then it all went wrong. I started noticing my sex drive fade and blamed it on being tired from work. Then I noticed that I was gaining weight, and again blamed it on work. I quit my job and then noticed I was getting more and more apathetic and tired. I blamed that on not working. When I got a new, ACTIVE job, it seemed all of these issues multiplied to the point where I had NO sex drive at all, I was always either bawling-my-eyes-out depressed, or completely apathetic or flat-out viscious to everyone!

I am NEVER happy. I am gaining weight like crazy. I am always hungry. I am so tired that I can barely force myself out of bed, and even after a full night's sleep, I still can't make it through the day without a 1 or 2 hour nap! I'm constantly broken out, my eyes are messed up and I get headaches every day. My skin is super-sensitive to touch, it's to the point where if my boyfriend tries to touch my breasts, it makes my skin crawl and even the lightest touch on my hip makes me feel like I'm being pinched. My nails won't grow anymore, my hair is dry, my skin is oily and I get joint pain. And to top it off, now my periods are up to 8 days of nasty sticky, thick mess and my pms is back with full force. And I feel like I am never going to be happy again.

I'm 26 years old, for gods sakes, and I feel like a re-animated corpse. After examining everything else in my life that has changed I can only put the blame on Yasmin. I've done everything short of committing myself to the local psychiatric hospital to get myself out of this aweful place and had a feeling it had to be the Yasmin. I even told my boyfriend it had to be the Yasmin and he didn't really believe that such a tiny little pill could have such a massive effect on so many aspects of my life. Then he came here and found all these comments and immediatly called me. "Every side effect you've mentioned is listed by these other women! I read one and thought you had written it! I want you off this stuff NOW!"

We are calling my gyn in the morning and I am switching to something, ANYTHING else. I'm horrified that a pill that's supposed to help me is doing so much physical and emotional damage to me and I was never warned about it! I'm just relived that it's not all in my head.

gained weight i have been on it for about eight years now has done little to help my depression, made me apathetic