Coming off the pill symptoms and conditions

Hi been off Yasmin for 2 days now, I had 7 days left in my pack but I thought there was no time like the present..... boobs not as tender, I have talked about coming off the pill to my husband, showed him other postings all had the same symptoms as me....he understands the low sex drive thing and hopefully knows i was not making excuses that there really has been a problem....he is glad as he wants his old wife back! Feeling confident that if being off the pill works out I can come off the antidepressants and I really really really hope my sex drive comes back!!! Will keep you informed. Still have the sore stiff neck and the tiredness not sure if it is a symptom that Yasmin has created. I will let you know if this improves. DO NOT TAKE YASMIN - THIS IS MY ADVICE.

hi im a 37 year old women from England with two children and had my first mirena coil fitted about five years ago because i was experiencing very heavy bleeding virtually every day after coming off the pill and my husband having a vasectamoy told by my doctor this was best option to be fair first time round mirena was execellant had no nasty side effects and even better lost loads of weight. in April of lart year i had a new mirena fitted as old one was running out and since November i have had nearly all of the symptoms that you ladies have experienced; thinning of my hair ;bad back;bad cramps in my abdomen;sore swollen boobs;pains in my legs;tiredness so much so that finding it hard to exercise;fluttering in stomach like baby is kicking;bleeding starting again after having none at all;always feeling bloated beem eating activa yogurts like their going out of fashion;have appointment with nurse on Monday 2 go through the option of having this horrible thing out lucky for us ladies in England we do not have to pay for any of these procedures.will post back in couple of months with results of how im feeling

I stopped taking Yasmin over a year and half ago as i was getting thoughts of suicide and migraines, i spoke to my doctor who said that i was having an estrogen withdrawal in my 7 day break so she gave me oestrogen tablets to take in between. I don't usually take any kind of tablets, not even for headache so i thought this was stupid. So after a couple of years of taking it (oh and i forgot to say im from England were this drug hasn't been out long, i was used as a guinea pig, first to trial it at my local doctors) i stopped. Then the trouble began two weeks after stopping i got more headaches and started to itch my head on one side. The result was my hair fell out caused by alopecia, caused by body shock from coming off the pill, after that i developed Telogen Efluvium, which is another form of hair loss. I ended up loosing 50% of my hair all over. I had oily skin and severe acne.
So now i am now still recovering, i take Viviscal herbal tablets at £40 a month, to help my hair growth. But all this dosnt help the fact that i am still recovering, i do however see the light at the end of the tunnel and im just going to be patient.
I if could just get some time with the people who make this stuff and also spread the word, DON'T TAKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi all i have been taking Yasmin for about 3 years now and am so glad i have now discovered this site. Initially Yasmin worked well for me but in the last 2 years or so i suffered the anxiety, panic attacks and depression(which i was then given Zoloft to treat) and decreasing eyesight and weight gain, diarrhea, bloating i never thought it could be related to Yasmin! i have tried to come off it but experienced the most terribly painful periods. i recently went to a naturopath and was given herb tablets(vitex agnus-catus)
to stabilize my hormones whilst coming off the pill. I urge other women to really think about the side effects before taking YASMIN and ask questions if you have any of these symptoms.i hope i get back to normality once ive stopped this pill and hope everyone else does too!

HI MY NAME IS NOEMI IM 27 ,MOTHER OF TWO 1 GIRL 4 YEARS OLD AND 1 BOY 1 YEAR OLD ,I USED THE NUVARING FOR THE TREE WEEKS THEN I TOOK IT OUT,AT THAT TIME I REALIZED I WAS VERY SCARED OF BEING PREGNANT BECAUSE I WAS FEELING VERY WEIRD I HAD THE CRAMPS MY BOOBS WERE BIGGER FEELING LIKE WHEN I WAS PREGNANT I WAS, WET ALL THE TIME SO UNCOMFORTABLE,FEELING SAD TIERED, SLEEPY .THEN I STARTED BLEEDING AND PASSING VERY BIG CLOTS ,THAT REALLY SCARE ME,I THOUGHT I WAS HAVING A MISCARRIAGE,I DID A P TEST IT CAME OUT NEGATIVE,SO I RELAX AND PUT ON THE NEW RING THE BLEEDING STOP ,THEN IT GOT WORSE WHEN MY BOOBS STARTED TO HURT ,I SQUEEZED MY NIPPLES AND NOTICED A WHITE FLUID COMING OUT I GOT SO SCARED I WAS SURE I WAS PREGNANT & DID ANOTHER P TEST ,NEGATIVE RESULT I TRIED TO CALM DOWN BUT AT THAT MOMENT I WAS SO MAD ,DEPRESSED HAVING TERRIBLE MIGRAINES ,TAKING EXCEDRIN 2 TIMES A DAY FEELING EXHAUSTED,SO I STARTED THINKING IT MIGHT BE THE NR I TALKED TO MY HUBBY AN HE AGREED HE SAID HE WAS GOING CRAZY ,NO SEX AN DEALING W A CRAZY BITCH SO I DECIDED TO TOOK IT OFF, AFTER 2 WEEKS ,2 DAYS LATER I HAD MY PERIOD W A DARK BROWN RED COLOR AND VERY BAD SMELL ,CRAMPS AND MORE CLOGS ITS BEEN A WEEK NOW AND I STILL FEEL MY BOOBS ENLARGED STILL FLUID COMING OUT IF I SQUEEZED THEM MY MOOD ITS GETTING BETTER AND I HAVE MORE ENERGY NOW BUT SOME HOW I STILL FEEL LIKE IF IM PREGNANT ,I NEVER ,NEVER GOING BACK ON NR, SO FAR ITS THE WORST EXPERIENCE EVER PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY....

Hi
Again just like many of you ladies out there i am so glad i came across this website. I have been taking Yasmin for the last 2.5yrs. I used to have very think long hair, and was always complimented on it. recently my hair has thinned out, and falls out everytime i comb or wash it. I have reecntly started to experience numbness in the tips of my toes, i have just in the past few days experienced knee joint pains. Last year i had very bad chest pains, and i never thought it would be the pill, but i have been complianing to my family about breathing difficulties too. I do feel nauseous most of the time, and i feel tired all the time, i fall asleep anywhere. I am a pretty healthy individual. I have suffered headaches, reduction of vision, pain just under my ribs near the lungs, especially when i wake up in the mornings, i suffer hot flushes, again like others mostly at night... I used to be a pretty calm person, but now looking back i have had my moments of rage !
Thank God i came across this website because luckily im on my 7day break at the moment, and will probably not take them again ! and try lady comp just like another lady has .... hope this helps

Hi ladies,

I just finished my last pack of Yasmin on Thursday because I felt I was pumped with hormones. I googled "coming off the pill Yasmin" and came across your comments.
I was originally put on Yasmin by my Doctor as I had put on a few pounds. I lost that weight with exercise (can't diet) but I have never lost my DD breasts (I was a C cup before Yasmin) and I've a tummy which when I bloat the week before my period, I look pregnant!
I've been experiencing a lot of the negative side effects of Yasmin over the last year and I was beginning to think I was going mad.
I suffer from very bad headaches, water retention, bloating and loss of sex drive.
In the last 2 or 3 months I'm now suffering with nausea, leg cramps, sore breasts, anxiety and feeling down.
As most of these symptoms have occurred in the last year, I just got fed up. I've been on the pill for 14 years (on and off), and on Yasmin for at least 6 years. I'm now 32, I'm married and would love a child.
I feel by coming off this pill, my body will settling into a routine before I hopefully conceive.
So glad I found your comments and I'm not alone in how my body feels.
Thank You.

I am 26 years old, have a great job, boyfriend, friends and family. Everything was great until Oct. 1st, 2007 - the day I started taking Yaz. The first week, I would get into bad moods for no reason, and by the 4th month my life was spinning out of control. Actually, my mind was - my life was still near perfect. Here were my symptoms during this period: Panic Attacks, nausea, shaking, de-realization and so much more. There was a point where I was scared to live and scared to die. I didn't even want to leave my house. This is when I decided to see a psychiatrist who percribed me Klonopin (a form of Valium to get me through the days.)

I stopped taking YAZ The end of Jan 2008 (after I put 2 and 2 together), so I have been clean of it for approx. 2.5 months now. But the upsetting part for me was I thought the day I stopped taking the pill, was the day I would get my life back. Not so!!! I have been feeling a little better but I cry because I I still do not feel like my old self, which was happy, outgoing and full of energy. Does anyone know how long it takes to feel better? I hear 3 months, but I just want to know how long it took for someone to feel normal again. My anxiety is mostly gone, but now I just feel withdrawn and like my head is in a constant fog w/ extreme fatigue :(:(:(

Girls - I feel your pain. And I also see the other side, with the women that had sucess on this pill. My two closest friends were on Yaz and loved it! But for me, it took many months from my life and I am still not 100%. Thanks for everyone who shared. I think this is the first time I ever blogged on a web-site, and you girls gave me the encouragement to share my story. Please feel free to send me a personal e-mail for support.

I stopped taking Yasmin about 6 months ago. Since stopping Yasmin, I have started to get migraine headaches around my cycle and they are progressively worst. Has this happened to anyone??

i'm 21 and have taken Yasmin since i was 15 to control horrible horrible cramps. i have been so pleased with the Yasmin, it totally made my cramping go down a lot. i stopped taking the pill in june when my insurance stopped covering it. i also wanted to see if my cramps had changed at all while i was off. so i've been off the pill for about 4 months and for the past 3 weeks i've had these weird red spots on my scalp (kind of like pimples - but my scalp has never been oily). i've changed all my hair products and they wont go away. my mom suggested maybe it was hormone related. has anyone else had symptoms like this coming off the pill? or ever?

Hello, since starting yasmin 3 months ago after having a break from my previous pill (Microgynon) for nearly a year, i am having terrible mood swings, im sure my skin has actually got worse, and more upsetting to me, i have put on nearly a stone in weight despite actually upping my exercise regime and starting a healthy eating plan.
I am planning to come off yasmin in a weeks time at the end of the current pack but am really concerned about unwanted hair growth as a result of coming off the pill...im sure it happened last time, has anyone had trouble with this after stopping Yasmin? Thanks for ur help, S

Ive been on Yasmin for exactly 2 weeks now. The first 5 days were fine but now that its propally into my system ive started to feel the side effects. Ive felt nausea, depression, stomach pains and last night i had the worst migraine i have ever had. I couldnt lift my head off my pillow and i could hardly see when i opened my eyes. Im going on holiday soon and im unsure wether to carry on taking Yasmin. Can anyone suggest what they would do?

I truly believe after 4 months of research that the problem is that Yaz Yasmine cause severe anxiety coming off the pill and on the pill and it depleted or altered all of our neurotransmitters.

There are only a couple ways to fix that

1. Antidepressants
2. Alot of time like a year or more
3. Some forms of electromagnetic holistic approach but it takes 4-6 months and I hear very expensive

All I know is Yaz Yasmine changed my whole life and personality

The people taking antidepressants are off the birth control of course.........
I dont know for sure if neurotransmitters replace heal on their own Bitter RN is better without antidepressants as are some of you but it took almost a year.

Its very scary

Hello everyone. Im hoping some of you might be able to give me some advice. I am off yasmin 4 weeks this coming friday, so thankful things are looking a little brighter for me. But the question is when do you get your first period again after coming off the pill. Hope you can help
Marie

Hi Worries

Have stopped taking Yasmin now for only 2 or 3 weeks and feel completely different. My sex drive is compeltely back to normal, my hair is not falling out nearly as badly as before and my mood has lifted considerably so I think for me some of the side effects have been alleviated quite quickly.

The only thing I am finding is that I have had pain in my abdomen for the last week with no explanation - anyone else experienced this since coming off the pill??

I still have the problem of knowing what other BCP to buy as these are bought over the counter where I live and I have noone to ask about a more suitable pill. The GP´s in my country have no interest in discussing them and there is a bit of a language barrier anyway.

I am sure that your daughter will return to her normal self and with continued support from you and her boyfriend she will recover quickly. She has the added benefit of being young too, which I am sure will help.

hi there bitter rn and all

it is now my seventh day of this horrid pill, i took the last one out the packet last sunday and hoped it would be the end but i guess i was wrong.
i started my bleedin on thursday and have stopped today, it only lasted 4 days. i am due to take the pill again on tuesday but obviously i wont, so i guess my real test being off the pill will start then cause my body is used to having the 7 day break, i wonder how my body will react to not having it on tuesday?!
ANY IDEAS ANYBODY PLEAZ HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also this period has been the worst, i have been very anxious, light headed and stressed, althogh today has been better than the past couple of days.

i have been on this pill exactly 1 year and 1 month and the symptoms of depression, anxiety, panick attacks and headaches only started on the last 2-3 months of taking this awfull pill

although i am happy to find out what caused me all these problems i am horrified of what people are saying they experience once they come of this pill.
I AM A VERY SENSITIVE PERSON ANYWAY AND AM SO FRIGHTENED OF WHAT HAS YET TO COME PRE-YASMIN
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

ALSO MY DR HAS PRESCRIBED ME ANTI-DEPRESSANTS CALLED CITALOPRAM HYDROBROMIDE 20MG DAILY. IVE TOLD HIM THAT I WILL NOT TRY THESE UNTILL 2 MONTHS PRE-YASMIN, TO SEE IF I CAN HANDLE THE EFFECTS OF COMING OFF THE PILL WITHOUT MEDICATION.

HAS ANYBODY OUT THEREEVER HEARD OR TRIED THIS MEDICATION???????
MY DR SAYS THEY ARE NOT ADDICTIVE BUT IM TO SCARED TO TAKE ANYTHING AFTER THE HORRIBLE HELL ON YASMIN

ALSO IS THER ANYTHING I CAN TAKE FOR THE SEVER MIGRAINES BITTER RN?????????

PEASE HELP!!!!!!!!

THANKYOU EVERYBODY IF IT WASNT FOR YOUR COMMENTS I WOUD STILL BE ON THIS EVIL PILL
THANKS AGAIN

SOPHIExxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Anyone had HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE after coming off the pill and HIGH CHOLESTROL and if so how long for....
Also anyone taking any supplements and vitamins post yasmin and do they help
Lisa

Has anyone been loosing there hair dramatically?
I have also been having blurred vision on and off.
Has everyne gained weight when coming off the pill??
I am curious, because i would like to know if it is the pill doing this to me?

What a relief to hear that ~I'm not the only one out here who seems to have suffered from coming off Yasmin! The last 3 weeks have been HELL, I've been thrown into the most debilitating depression and anxiety morning till night, with all time emotional lows that sometimes I think won't end. Weird since usually am quite relaxed and happy. Thought it might have something to do with coming off the pill 1 1/2 months ago after 3+ years and now having heard some more am pretty sure, going to docs tomor.Sympathy to all you ladies who might be going through the same.

I have been on Yasmine for 8 months after being on Dianette for years. At first I thought I had found the perfect pill, lost a few pounds, light periods and not as moody as when I was on Dianette. Time seems to tell. Started to notice in the last three months,
I had a few heart racing episodes. Pins and needles sometimes. Muscle spasms now and again. TOTAL loss of sex drive. Sudden bloated stomach and weight gain even though I was on a healthy eating diet and go the gym. AND the biggy, my nerves are shot to pieces. Looking on the dark side and feeling tired with muscle fatigue.
Am I going nuts?
Last week I like some of you went on the internet and it all started to click in. My husband although supportive of me coming off the pill still thinks my symptoms are 'just one of those things'. Well after reading this site and others I'm taking the last pill in the pack tomorrow and lets see. I will keep a diary and after being on BCP for years I know it could take time. Thank you all for taking the time to post, we can't all be imagining it!!

Post your symptoms since stopping Yasmin!!!

Hey everyone it's Kay21 here and I just wanted to post my 3 month off Yasmin update. Because stopping the pill is a hard decision, I figured we should all post are updates here to help/support those who are planning to stop or who have recently stopped Yasmin.

I have been off of Yasmin since April 17. As some of you already know, I was experiencing horrible side effects while on Yasmin for 3 years (particularly stomach problems, vaginal dryness, muscle cramps, increased blood pressure and heart rate and anxiety).

The first 1 month off of Yasmin was okay. In fact, I felt the best I had ever felt in a while. My blood pressure and heart rate decreased and the migraines and muscle cramps went away. But when I hit the 2 month (8 week) mark, I felt HORRIBLE. I was severely depressed and anxious. I was crying all the time and felt a severe sense of DOOM! The physical symptoms also started to become problematic. The acne increased and I started growing more facial hair. The worse symptom, however, was that I started losing a ton of hair. I would lose stray hairs all day (probably about 200 a day). Since I have hit the three month mark, the hair loss has gotten MUCH WORSE! Now I am losing CLUMPS of hair all day. I have seen several doctors about this. Some say it's because of stress and a few (a derm, GYN and endo) say that hiar loss is common after stopping bcp. I have already loss about 1/3 of my hair.

I am also really concerned, because I have not had a period since April 22. So my doctor has put me on provera for 10 days to induce a period.

For those who have stopped Yasmin, what have your symptoms been (i.e. increased acne, weight gain, anxiety, etc.). Has anyone experienced hair loss? How long did it take to get a period???

Thanks...

i started taking yasmin 6 months ago. my ob/gyn prescribed it for water retention . i work out every day and eat very healthily yet over the past 2 months i have managed to put on 10lbs and constantly feel bloated and depressed. nothing seems to help me shift the weight. i will be coming off the pill at the end of this month but hate the idea of trying out a new pill yet again and experiencing more hideous side effects!