Coincide symptoms and conditions

I have been on Yaz for about 3 and 1/2 months. It has not made me gain weight and my acne has pretty much cleared up entirely. I do seem to cry a lot more, but I would not say that I am depressed. I usually just have a good 5 minute cry about something and go back to the way I felt before. The biggest side effect that I have noticed is that I am extremely tired when I get up in the morning. A couple of times, when I didn't have to work, I slept until 1:00 in the afternoon. I cannot say that this is because of Yaz, but it does coincide with when I started taking it. However, after I do finally get out of bed, I don't feel so tired throughout the rest of the day. Would it be considered a "side effect" if my lethargy only occurs in the morning?

I notice that more people have negative things to say about Yaz than positive. I am still trying to decide if I am in the small percent that it actually helps. It definitely lightens my period, which is why I started taking it, but my cramps are the same. I am going to give another couple of months.

I have had numerous side effects from Yasmin that seem to coincide with many that I've read here, but a few different ones as well. My anxiety level has been over the top and I have been having panic attacks related to really bizarre things such as feeling like the rings on my fingers are too tight and choking me. I felt the same thing when having an armband place on me while attending a carnival. It felt tight and constrictive and I felt an overwhelming flood of panic, as it seemed to make me smother, until I removed it. I feel extremely bloated and my back aches constantly. I have been sleepless for the most part and when I do sleep, suffer crazy and bizarre dreams. I have had a sore area on the back of my tongue for about 2 weeks. It feels as though my tastebuds have been scrubbed with sandpaper. I am also having problems with facial hair growth and have had stomach pain. I was on Ortho Novum 7-7-7 for 5 years and loved it. I had no side effects from it and my weight remained stable unlike with other pills I've experienced. The doctor took me off of them and refuses to put me back on because she says they are too high estrogen of a pill for someone my age (I'm 33) and since I am a smoker. Any advice?

I have been taking Omeprazole for about 2 months and since the start of taking it I have had stomach cramps that range from slight discomfort to buckling pain that is almost unbearable, my hands and feet swell weekly and it was substantial enough for my wife to notice without question, also I have been experiencing nausea more frequently and more severe the longer I continue to take the medicine, I have occasional joint pain most often at night making it sometimes impossible to sleep, I've struggled with depression before and am not sure if the medicine is causing it or not but my wife says she has noticed a change in my attitude since being on Omeprazole, As far as other side effects I have developed a rash on my inner thigh that seems to coincide with starting the medication, also I have had sharp headaches behind my eyes probably about twice a week lasting anywhere from ten minutes to half the day

I am a 55 year old male, active and mostly physically fit. I have been taking Singulair for 10 years and my asthma has been reasonably well controlled most of the time. Already after 6 months of taking the drug I noticed a tendency of easy bruising, fragile skin and bleeding but my doctor never thought this had anything to do with Singulair but rather because of my prolonged usage of steroid creams for my eczema. However, the bruising never seemed to coincide with the areas of my body where I had mainly used steroid cream. About three weeks ago I decided to stop taking Singulair and I also discovered that bruising and bleeding are mentioned as possible side effects of the drug.

After I stopped taking Singulair I have not had any further bruises and my skin seems stronger.

I have been taking adderall for over a year, but for about 10 months ago, I started taking wellbutrin also and since have had chronic problems with my ears, It's actually getting worse. Not so much ear infections, but the pressure is actually pushing inward. So i feel light headed just funky all day. Kind of like a head cold without the cold. I can't figure out which one is causing (i think wellbutrin) since that's when it began. But it could be the combination. Just wanted to know if anyone else is experiencing this. I am 35 female.
thanks pam

Total lack of sex drive on "The Ring". Emotional. Depressed. Sleeping more than usual. Gained weight. Can't say for sure that all these things are due to NuvaRing but they do coincide with its use. I'm getting off of it.
(Been taking it for about a year)

hi eryka,
don't worry i am exactly the same with the anxiety,i feel loads better than i did on yasmin and most days i feel pretty much normal,when i am ovulating i start to feel a bit more anxious and the same when i am menstruating. it still throws me now and again if it comes out of nowhere and does not coincide with my monthly cycle,i start to think maybe i am crazy after all and that i really do have an anxiety disorder instead of it being the yasmin,but i am sure it is the yasmin otherwise i would not have improved once i stopped taking it. just keep in mind that it will not hurt you and that it will get better,just laugh it off if you can.if you are prepared for it it is much less scary!

best wishes to you.
sarah

I have been on Toprol XL (25mg) for about a month and a half. It was perscribed because I was getting more frequent bouts of rapid heartbeat from mitral valve prolapse. After taking this drug, the immediate first effect was tiredness. Then after about a week I had more pain in the right calf area of my leg. I had some pain in the leg previous to this, so I didn't think much of it. But it got rapidly worse within a couple weeks. In addition, I started to develop severe pelvic/hip/buttock pain on the right side. I was having trouble getting up from a sitting position, getting in and out of cars, and trouble standing on my feet for more than 5-10 minutes. When I asked the cardiologist about it, saying that these symptoms seemed to coincide with the beginning of taking Toprol, he told me that it sounded like sciatica and had no correlation to the medicine. So I went to a different doctor who perscribed anti-inflamatories and physical therapy. But none of it helped, and, in fact, the symptoms got worse. After about a month and a half of all of this, essentially alot of pain and not being able to walk, I decided to wean myself off of this drug (a week of 1/2 dosages). The pain is virtually gone and I can now stand on my feet and walk again (all within the span of a couple days).

I've been on Yasmin for about six weeks, as an alternative to my long-time favorite, Ortho-Novum 7/7/7, which started giving me vaginal dryness at 41. The sexual problem cleared up instantly with Yasmin, such a big relief, so I felt I could live with the 2 1/2 weeks of breast tenderness I had the first month.

Now, in my second month, I am troubled with crippling insomnia. I have always been a poor sleeper, but this is really different, only 2-4 hours of sleep night after night for two weeks. I have tried various sleep patterns (with my history I'm pretty adept at manipulating my sleep), but nothing works. I really can't go on like this. No wonder sleep deprivation is often used as a torture device.

Other symptoms include unusual fearfulness (not quite physical anxiety attacks), irritability, weepiness, and foggy brain, amounting to loss of function so bad that I really worry about driving my kids around. My refrain has become, "Another lost day!" I thought all of those were triggered purely by the sleep problems, and I've been working up to asking my primary physician for sleeping pills, a first for me in all my years of being sleep-challenged. But after reading most of the posts on this site, I believe Yasmin may be causing those emotional problems directly.

Meanwhile, just 3 pounds of weight gain has caused me to go up a full pants size (it's ALL on my belly, basically overnight), and I hate to think where that is heading. I do have somewhat increased appetite some days, but I've increased my exercise sufficiently, which is a struggle in this state of sleeplessness. Yes, I know that growing belly fat is part of being over 40, but I'm very aware of and careful about my diet and exercise and this undeserved weight/belly surge does coincide with starting Yasmin.

Two questions:

Has anyone gained weight BOTH on and when going off Yasmin? I've read both situations, but from the same person?

Has anyone had insomnia early on with Yasmin that went away after a couple more months of continued Yasmin use? Can those of you who have also had this kind of serious insomnia, and who have discontinued Yasmin, report on how long the insomnia specifically took to subside?

I've just made an appointment with my gyn for a couple of days from now. I just want a different pill or no pill--I don't intend to let him talk me into continuing on Yasmin over my increasingly serious concerns. However, if others on this site have had experiences like mine that then got better, that would be more persuasive.

I have been taking 20mg of Lipitor for several years and could only get my cholesterol down to about 230. Now I have a new doctor and she has doubled the dose of Lipitor. I have several of the symptoms that are mentioned in the other postings. My hands and feet are affected more than anything. I have some ringing in my ears. I have also had two readings of increased pressure in my eyes. I tried going off of the drug for about 6 weeks and nothing much changed. I am about ready to go off of the drug for at least 3 months to see if anything changes. I hope this muscle damage I have been reading about is not permanent. One other symptom I have is an increased popping in my thumb joints along with increasing pain in the arches of my feet and palms of my hands. They seem to coincide. Please e-mail me if you are having any of the same symptoms! I am going to quit taking the drug as of today and see if I can re-gain my old self!