Bla symptoms and conditions

Hi ladies as u may know i did get my "friend" mirena inserted aug 08 and all ur problems i had.Today i went 2 my Dr. just for a regular check up since he has been making excuses for not taking it out.Well today he was not expecting what he got.I sat at his office and i once again complained bout da pains and he said mirena don't cause no hair loss,headache bla.. bla.. bla.. and i told him"Dr. its either you take it out now or i will not leave ur exam room"he said it is expensive and i said i dont care.He said do u want mirena out now as we speak n i said yap.He said no second thaught?I said nop.He decided to get it out.Yeeeeee Ha! He ask do u feel da rope and i said nop.It had gone way up into my stomach and he had to dig in to get it out.It was an awkward moment but i was determine to say byee to my long dangerous pal mirena.I only felt a little back pain and no bleeding yet.I feel great and i dont care wats gonna happen as side effect later cuz i know it will not be worst than wat i had with mirena.So ladies quick advice tell your Dr.if you don't feel the rope when you put your hand there.It may have gone up to your stomach and will not be doing the right job for you.I hope you all become free as I am right now.I wish u all da best email me if you need more details.I will re-post as I go on mirena free.Yaaaay Me.Am so happy.

I'm a 47 male and took Crestor for a year. I experienced muscle tremors, constant fatigue and muscle soreness. Not just a little sore but as if someone had hit me so hard as to leave a muscle bruise in both arms. One night my left arm and leg began to tremor and it was as if they were too heavy to move.

What I noticed was that all of my little aches and pains became severe aches.

I experienced blistering on my hands, a common side-effect of your liver rejecting the medication but my doctor didn't pickup on the symptom. Instead, he gave me a steroid-based topical cream that actually eliminated the blisters but they would return within weeks.

I experienced lapses in my memory and I started to forget words. I would forget the names of things and I found myself substituting the word 'thingy' when I could remember what something was called (like a phone).

I visited the hospital 4 times and my doctor countless time. Each time my doctor treated the current symptom and not the person as a whole.

It became too much to bare when I started having chest pains that felt like something was crushing my chest. At this point I started to do some research and found forums like this one.

During my time of the worse pain, I felt like I was actually dying. I started to get my effects in order and finalized my estate.

I stopped my Crestor about a year ago, after about 3-6 months my muscles began to feel better. After a year, I am finally starting to feel like my old self again (not that I was all that well before).

Statin affect people differently, but there is NO DOUBT that these drugs can have adverse effects on people. Listen to the commercial for Lipitor, "contact your doctor if you have muscle fatigue or weakness"......

I'm 29, have been on birth control pills for 10 years, and switched to Yasmin about 2 years ago. I a small varicose vein in my right within 2 months of switching, but didn't think a relationship between my vasculature and the pill existed. I can now trace the entire vein from my right hip to my ankle. In the 2 years since starting Yasmin, my ankles and lower legs swelled heavily...but at very random times. It often began at the start of the 7-day sugar pill regime and finished by the time I started a new pack. I assumed that the estrogen withdrawal going into the sugar pills was too much for my body to handle and that the diuretic effects of Yasmin were obviously absent during that time. I also noticed leg cramping, heart palpitations, and I started waking up in the occasional hot sweat in a drenched bed.

So, after making sure that my heart and kidneys were healthy, my gynecologist prescribed continuous hormone Yasmin and claimed it as the "ultimate solution". For 4 months, I have skipped the sugar pills for each pack and started new packages immediately. I have not had a period since, and the edema has continued (still at random) and has become exponentially worse. In the last few weeks alone, the vein in my right leg has become massive, my legs are so distended by the end of the days on which they swellI that I can't fit into pants which are otherwise loose, I am noticing other large veins "surfacing", little veins are breaking everywhere, and I can now see most of the blood vessels beneath the skin in both legs. My primary care physician told me I have chronic venous insufficiency...a diagnosis I'm not okay with. I'm very worried...the changes and ensuing damage have happened way too quickly to be venous insufficiency. I am going to ween myself off of the pill, but don't know what the next step should be. Endocrinologist? Another OB/GYN? Anyone have ideas or similar experiences to share....

Hi Everyone,
I have been taking Topamax 25 mg for 1 week. I can't stand it. Today I am to up my dosage to 50 mg.I am not sure if I want to do that. The side effects suck.. I think I would rather just deal with my migraines, at least I know how to do that since I have had them for over 25 years. I have tried everything and nothing has worked so the Dr. and I thought we would give this a try.
I am trying to keep my place of employment happy with trying to cut down on the migraines but nothing works.
Most days I just want to give up.
Hopefully we will be able to figure something out.

I can't stand the pickhands and feet, the stumbling like I am drunk( and I dont' drink) nothing tastes right anymore, I have the shakes and I ache.
And all it does is makes me sleepy and like I am in another world.
I went to work today and made it half an hour before I came home because I stumbled and almost fell over. And when the boss talked to me it was like I wasn't there. So I came home. I don't know but I don't like it at all.

I have nausea. I ended my period Friday, started another pack of pills Sunday and now feeling bla. Is this normal? I called my OB/GYN lsst time I felt this way and she said it couldn't be from the Yasmin. I also called the pharmasist and she said I shouldn't be feeling sick after being on it for 4+ months. Who's right? All I know is that I have nausea and I think it from Yasmin. Maybe I'm reading too much about Yasmin

Has anyone ever taken the mini pill? It has pregestins only. No estrogen. I'd like to get feed back if anyone has ever tried it.

Thanks gals!

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