Big hug symptoms and conditions

I am SO sick at my stomach right now after reading all of these posts. My son is 2yrs old and was put on Singulair right after the new year. We have noticed a horrible change in his behavior....but we attributed it to his age and the fact that he is VERY strong-willed. However, thinking back, he has had some hallucinations. We had a babysitter tell us that when she tried to put him to bed that he cried and told her that there were monsters in the closet. When she picked him up and took him in the kitchen for a drink he kept reaching at the ceiling trying to grab something. Just last night he told me that he saw his Grammy dancing in the living room....my Mom wasn't even there. He has been throwing horrible fits to the point of gagging himself, hitting himself, kicking, hitting, screaming....you name it. At the end of them, I am usually in tears and we are both exhausted. I am not the only one who has experienced this with him....my Mom has too. He is also on Veramyst nose spray....both meds are for allergies. We have taken him off of both and decided to go a more natural route. We have bought local honey, an immune booster from teh health food store, and have him on a really good brand of liquid vitamins. It is hard as a parent to make decisions about your child. It is even worse when you realize that the decision you made has affected your child in a horrible way. I plan on giving him A LOT of attention tonight and giving him a big hug! I just want my fun, playful son back! Good luck to all of you and God Bless!

Thank goodness for this sight. If you are thinking you're crazy and can't figure out what's wrong while you're on Nuva, scroll down, you will feel like you're getting a big hug!

I am 27 and have been on the NuvaRing for coming on 8 months and everything has changed. At first I had severe migraines with nausea, a day after starting, that kept going and still occur. They will last all day long and I can take 8 of my migraine medicine and nothing will help. The headaches ruin days, make work difficult, and ruin weekends.

Second: I gained weight around my middle, so perceptibly, I thought I was pregnant. The bloat and gas is constant, I'm always popping Gas-X extra strength but the gas doesn't quit. It was funny at first (yes, I'm immature) but now I'm so uncomfortable, and my pants are tight around the middle but nowhere else. Boo!

Third: ANXIETY. I've been the most relaxed, calm person until I started on NuvaRing, and now I have a prescription for Valium just to keep me from having nervous butterflies all day. The anxiety goes hand in hand with depression, which sucks because I got engaged literally 2 weeks after starting NuvaRing and am always nervous, anxious and sad, and I'm so in love with my fiance but our home life is strained! I sometimes wonder if it's cold feet, but I know it's not. Which leads me to:

Fourth: NO SEX DRIVE. Gone. Dead. Zilch. Zero. I have been the horniest person I know my whole life. I love sex. But I am almost scared of it now. I have no desire to have sex, recoil when my fiance touches me, and get butterflies when I think he's going to try to have sex with me. I sleep as far away as possible, never masturbate anymore, never feel sexy and the idea of sex just doesn't even pop into my head. So unlike me. This causes anxiety, too.

Fifth: Yeast infections and pain during sex. I've never had either of these before. I'm extremely hygienic, and my underwear are constantly filled with discharge. So gross and painful.

I'm going off of it in 5 days and I cannot wait!

Just wanted to update everyone reading in. I have been off Singulair for 6 days now and have felt more relaxed and better than I have in a long time. Also, I would like to know how long it has taken for others to not have ANY symptoms after stopping the medication? Just had a bad nightmare. Something I have been having since being on Singulair. Hope this is out of my system soon. Dizziness is still hanging around some too. To the parents with children, please give your child a lot of hugs and let them know how much you love them. I know you allready do, but give them a few more.

I'm a 37 year old female and have severe asthma and allergies and have used pregnisone on and off for 30 years. I believe I am the poster child for the long term side effects. My immune system is shot to the point that my normal medicines for asthma (ventolin, advair) and allergies (tylenol sinus, claritan, visine A) and ezcema (elidel, hydrocortisone, etc. - - NOTHING works!

In the past 6 months, I have developed various infections that the doctors have not been able to identify. My eyes are swollen and red with large amount of white/yellow secretions. Vaginal secretions. Face swollen. Skilled covered in a rash with ezcema out of control. Sharp pains in my back and stomach. Constant asthma. Abnormal hair growth. It is to the point that it is impossible to function and each doctor just wants to prescribe more pregnisone. I feel as if my body is a walking time bomb and it is so full of all the cortisone from over the years and has just decided no more.

I admit that I too readily believed in the doctors when they would rapidly prescribe the pregnisone. Only now am I paying attention to the long term side effects.

Has anyone had tests done to test their immune system and other organs for damage? Thanks and best to our pregnisone club.

I am 21 years old and was recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in my hands, fingers, and wrists. My doctor put my on 60 mg of prednisone at first and then had me slowly go down to 20 mg a day. I have since been trying to go off of it myself. I can't stand the side effects any longer. I have this constant charlie horse pain in my hips and legs, i am so hot and constantly flushed, i feel so depressed ( i am normally a happy all smiles kind of person ) i have done nothing but cry everyday for the past week because I just feel like so many people don't understand or believe anything I am saying. I thought maybe some of this was all in my head until I found this site. Is there any other medications out there that don't have all these terrible side effects? I feel as though the pain from the arthritis is far less worse than this.

I've took a very high dosage of prednisone for 6 years, from the age of ten years old. 17 years later, i still have an extreme moon face. The only thing that has ever helped me was a facial exerciser (a microcurrent devise), but those results can be hard an expensive to maintain. As anyone else ever had a moon face that wouldnt go away even after stopping their prednisone usage after a long period of time? Does anyone have any advice for me, on how i can finally get rid of this horrible extreme moonface? my face and all my facial features are swollen, including my eyelids, this has been goin on for years. I also have suffered for years from severe chronic diarrhea from an illeostomy reversal. Please help me.

Dejay, I was at that point, too, believe me. There were times around starts of 2005 where I just lived from day to day and the only consolation was, that I could end my life by myself if I should feel that I really can't take it any longer and nothing gets better further on.... I really had given up myself totally!! Without any hope for better days and I went through that for about 4 months. On some days my husband didn't know if he would find me still alive if he came back from work in the evening because I was really on the edge.... So believe me, I can imagine how Kim's doing right now!!

But it definitely needs more time than Kim already gave it!! It's not done within about 6 or 7 weeks. That's what everyone around here keeps telling her day by day.

And this should give her some hope: We ALL are still here and got through this all. I've been on Yasmin for very long 5 years and today I still don't know if I'll ever be back to the 100% old me, cause I still got problems durin my period and around ovulation, which sometimes really makes me desperate.

But with only 3 weeks on Yasmin there should be really hope to feel better so much earlier than we all did!! But please tell her not to give up everything that fast as she's doing now. Everything she tries to do against the anxiety needs time and I mean weeks, not only days!!!

Give her a big hug from me over the phone dejay and tell her that she MUST try to finally get some hope in her head. That's the only thing that helps.

Perhaps another thing that helped me sometimes: Everytime I felt the anxiety or got a panic attack I kept telling myself: It's all the Yasmin (and after getting off: It's all the hormones trying to get back in balance) and nothing will harm me, it feels very uncomfortable but it won't kill me!

Out of those words I told my self I took so much consolation and ability to go on still another day.

Kim and Dejay, you will get through this, I promise. And in a few months you both will be here in this forum telling other women the same things as we do now!! I'm so sure!!!

Dear ladies!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!! Remember to stay strong and believe in a better year 2007 that lies ahead!!!

Thinking of you and sending you a big hug!

God's bless,

Silke

Dear kim!!

I feel so much with you, let me send you a big hug over the internet!!

I know how it feels, when doctor's keep telling you "it's all you and not the pill", I've heard that so many times.... But what could be a better proof for the horrible effects of that pill than thousands of women, who know it better???

And I also went through those "ups and downs", one day thinking "hey, I feel better today, I think it will all be ok soon" and the other day hit by a truck thinking "OMG everything starts again". What helped for me is writing down everything in a diary. I've done that since August 2005, just to see, WHEN those ups and downs are happening. Perhaps that might help some of you, too!?? It helps to discover, if there is a correlation between your cycle and your upcoming problems!! In my case I always got worse around ovulation and when my period should start (well, didn't have one for about 1,5 years after stopping Yasmin, until August 2006!!).

I completely understand your problems with your job. I hadn't been able to work, too, but thanks god my boss was very patient and gave me all the time I needed, although I think for him it also was not easy to understand, what is going on. You can't really say "Well, I'm ill, and I have ........" There's simply no name for our illness. And that's what sounds so strange to other people. You can't say "I have a broken leg" or "I have a flu" or something else....

Someday I started calling it "hormonal problems" to everyone who asked me about my illness. And I think that's how it's explained best.

Well, you also told you had tried some progesterone without any help. How long have you been off Yasmin now? After reading hundreds of posts here and in other forums I found out, that it might not be good to interact your hormones again too shortly after getting off Yasmin.

Your body definitely needs time to get its own balance back and I think it might not be good to interact again with something hormonal. I know this needs so much patience but please remember: It's worth it!!

And I'm so sure, that you're daughter one day will get back her mum, just as she was before that nightmare!!!

Keep on posting Kim and everyone. I think that's the only thing that might help!!!

Big hugs to you all and best wishes
Silke

I'm 17 years old, and I have Ulcerative Colitis. I was diagnosed at 15, and was put on Prednisone then for three months. I didn't gain much weight in my tummy that time, but my face swelled to huge proportions, and while ON the drug, my hair grew like crazy but was very dull and lifeless at the same time. The minute I stopped the drug, my hair started falling out. Within a month, I had lost 40% of my hair.

Well, I'm on it again, and this time it's worse. I started out at 40mg back in October, and am down to 20mg now, but it's just as bad as when I started. I'm VERY moody and snap at my best friends, who I am usually the calmest around. I often find myself just wanting to hit and yell at something. Before I started Pred, I weighed 138. I weighed myself yesterday... 150.2. This is very disheartening. I have a moon face, the makings of a double chin, unhealthy hair, I wake up about 5 times every night because I'm restless or I have to pee, I can't focus in school, my knees hurt, etcetera. I'm miserable.

I work out 6-7 times a week because I'm so concerned about my weight. I do 30-45 minutes of the treadmill and/or elliptical, and do all the happy little toning machines, in hopes that my tummy can be a bit more toned. But no. It's a useless blob. None of my favorite jeans or shirts fit me anymore, and this - not the drug itself, but the side effects - make me very, very unhappy.

Oh My Gosh...I'm in tears reading through everyone's posts on this forum. I started taking Yasmin 3 months ago and noticed small changes in my state of mind within the first few weeks. I think you can always expect this when changing pills so reassured myself I would get better. BUT...about 10 days ago, I experienced the onset of depression and anxiety...neither of which I have ever suffered from before...I feel completely detached from life..I'm not necessarily always sad, I'm just completely indifferent to everything and everyone...I feel like I'm being pushed through one day to the next but for absolutely no reason...I feel numb and don't know how I'm going to fill my time... One minute, I feel so blank that I have no emotion about anything...the next minute, I'm crying over the silliest things. I too had the awful feeling that my relationship with my husband was wrong because I felt no better when around him and this made me worry even more. In my more rational moments, I realise that my feelings towards him haven't really changed at all as I do still love him, but that disappears as soon as I am on a low...when I am in that state of mind, I just want someone who has been through this to give me a big hug and tell me it gets better. I have also experienced chest pains, muscle spasms (in my arms and eyelids) and am currently being monitored for my excessively high blood pressure (also something I had never had trouble with before Yasmin) I am in the process of sorting out some counselling for myself but will also stop taking Yasmin as from now. I know that my state of mind could be due to something deeper, but nothing changed in my life to trigger this except Yasmin. Having read everyone else's posts about Yasmin, I am going to come off it so I can rule it out of the equation..maybe it isn't really to blame, but it's a big coincidence if not.
Good luck everyone...I'd love to hear from anyone who can relate to what I have written...

Claire. Leeds. England.

Hey Sherry! :)

Nice to hear from you again. Yesterday I was thinking about you and wondering, how you might be doing with your pregnancy. I hope everything is fine!?

Well, the weight didn't get off yet but I'm feeling a slight change since about 2 weeks. The gaining had already stopped about 2 months ago. That's from where I everyday went up and down about 2 kg (I think it's 4 lbs). But at the moment it looks as if the weight finally starts do go down!! I didn't want to post this here, yet, because I'm not sure, if it goes on like this or if it's just a little break for me. But I'm writing down my weight every 10 days in a book since september 2005. And looking at my notices over the last few weeks it has really changed into the right direction (down!! :)). So I'm hoping and praying, that it will go on like this and perhaps in summer this year I might wear some of my "smaller" clothes again!! :)

And not to forget: As I didn't eat tons of food to go up 20 kg I now don't eat less than before or doing more exercising than before (well, I'm still not fit enough to do that and my band is doing another "carneval"-tour without me at the moment....). So I think there might finally be a proof for the fact, that this weight gain was all just hormonal!! I feel really delighted at the moment... Let's hope it will stay that way!!

Well, would be so nice to hear from you again and how you're doing. All the best and a big hug to you!!

Silke

Hey Denise!!

I understand so much how you're thinking and feeling now and what you're going through and to read your post nearly makes my cry again!! Exactly one year ago I was sitting within the same sh... as you do now! I had to stay the first week of 2005 in the hospital, taking such things like xanax (in germany it's called "Diazepam" or "Valium"), every day, because I thought I couldn't bear those weird feelings of anxiety without it any longer!!

And after getting home again (they gave me enough pills for about 1 week longer or so...) I immediately went off that shit again, because I was afraid of every med and especially very afraid of getting reliant to that stuff, too!!

Well, I know that sounds hard, but you will get through your attacks even without that xanax meds I promise!! The only thing that I had been taking when I felt very anxious again was "baldrian", sorry, I don't know how it's called in usa, but it's a herbal medicine which calms down and helps you to relax again just with natural ingredients. Either to mention that it doesn't help that much and as fast as the chemical meds (like xanax), but it calms you down a bit and helps you to get through the attacks by yourself more easily!! During the hard times there was a package of that medicine just right by my side, even when I had to leave the house for a doctor's visit or such I took the pills with me and a bottle of water. Even just to KNOW that I COULD take it, if I thought I had to, helped me to calm down a bit, when I got anxious!!

Today I'm even afraid of taking some vitamines or such, just because of my experience with that Yasmin sh......!! Sounds weird but that's the way it is. I never want to get there again where I was for very long 1 1/2 years (with about 6 very hard months!!) and still not feeling 100% back to normal again!!

I would wish to be able to give you a big hug right now and tell you, that everything will be fine again and you'll get through this!! Anb believe me, I know what I'm talking about!! All you need right now is strenght, patience and the help of your family and friends around you.

If there is any way I could help you, please post again or write me an E-Mail, I and many other lovely women come around here everyday with an open ear for your problems, no matter how weird you thing they might be!!

Greetings and god's bless to you!

Silke

Hi Chris!!

Don't worry!! I just can beg you, to read through all of the posts here in this forum!! It helps so much, I swear!! This was the only thing that helped me go through this torture the past year!! I even don't know if I still would be alive if I hadn't found this forum and all those women, suffering the same way as me and telling me, that I WILL get better some day!!

And one more thing: It's really normal, that after 3 months not everything brought on by Yasmin is back to normal!! I've been off this stuff for 8 months now and am still not back to normal, as though many many symptoms have gone away or lessened! I even don't get my period normally, the last one I had was on easter this year!! You should know, that everything in connection with hormones can (I don't say MUST but it CAN!) take a VERY long time to recover!! And that is what my doctor says and not only my opinion!!

So please be patient and don't worry, I swear you will get better some day, and if not tomorrow than in a few weeks or months! And you won't die of the symptoms you're still having, because you have been checked at the hospital and everything (well, FOR THEM!!) was "normal". So be sure that there's no heart damage or something else wrong in your body you would have to worry about, but only those (sometimes really unbearable!!) "Off-Yasmin-Symptoms".

And PLEASE read through all of the posts here, there are so many women telling their stories and especially how LONG it took many of them, including me, to feel fine again!!

A big hug to you and every woman out there still in Yasmin recovery!! God bless you!!

Silke

Hi worried!!

Yes, here I am!! And I fear and am sure we both are not the only ones who are experiencing anxiety because of this wonder pill!!

I've been off Yasmin for 7 months (!) now and still have the irrational thoughts and anxiety. It has gotten a lot better than before, but it's still there!! Some days are better, some worse and every month it gets a very little step better, especially if I look back to the last few months.

Every month there was again some time, when I thought I would completely go crazy, then the better days came around again and so on. I think I can say that the feelings get worse and better through a cycle (around the middle and short before my period should start everything gets worse again --> though I didn't have a period since easter this year....!).

For me it feels as if my head has to work very hard getting back to normal feelings since I've been on Yasmin for very long 5 YEARS (!). You have to know, that Yasmin interacts your whole body, especially the metabolism and so it interacts your brain hormones (like serotonine, noradrenaline a. s. o. which are really important to feel good and have NO anxiety), too. So I think we just have to be patient and give our body and brains the time they need to find their balance again.

A few months ago I read a post from a woman who said, that she really needed a whole year after quitting Yasmin to loose the anxiety brought on by Yasmin. Well, I think every person is different and it surely also depends on how long you had been taken this Yasmin poison. In my case I fear it will take much longer to get the 100% old healthy, fit and good figured me back again...

But don't despair!! You're not alone and we will get better, I'm sure!!

Best wishes to you and a big hug to every lady recovering from Yasmin out there!! Don't give up!!

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Definitely YES!! Your hormones have to get back in balance after getting off Yasmin, which can cause such problems as anxiety, depression and many many more!! I know what I'm talking about!!

Even the strange feeling in your head I experienced, too!! In my case (had been taking Yasmin for about 5 YEARS!) there are still some days where I have this strange feeling of fog in my head, but not as heavy as it was while Yasmin and shortly after getting off!!

So be sure, if you give your body time to recover, the anxiety and the other symptoms will get lighter ang lighter and someday go away as suddenly as it came up!! You just need time and patience (seems to depend on how long you've been taking this pill in some cases!)!!

Some women have got such problems after getting off a bcp. That's not just a Yasmin problem, but seems to come up more often under that pill than under others!

Did you have the anxiety already whilst taking Yasmin, too??

Best wishes and a big hug to you!! You'll get better again soon, I swear!!