Contraceptive options symptoms and conditions

I'm glad I found this site as I thought I was being paranoid! I have had the Mirena fitted for nearly 8 months now and have felt constantly unwell. I have gained weight after losing all my baby weight with #3, and can't shift anything now. I have an almost constant terrible mood and hate being a mother most of the time. I have absolutely no patience with my children or husband and now even hate my WAHM business!

I have just suffered two weeks of flu like symtoms complete with aches and shivvers and it coincidentally stopped the moment my period started. The unbelievable tiredness is still here though. I think I've been living on Ibruprofen for the last couple of weeks which has got to be bad for me.

I also get pregnant really easily and get ill on the pill so didn't feel like I had an option. DH won't get the snip and I'd hate to get pregnant again because I'm tired and feel like the worst mum ever at the moment.

I wish I could have the thing taken out.

hi 1concernedboyfriend, as murph said in her previous post please talk to your girlfriend about getting off this pill,there are other contraceptive options that are a much healthier,even another brand of pill if she really wants to stay on oral birth control pills,there is just something very wrong with yasmin,we don't know what yet but it seems to cause terrible mental,physical and emotional problems that can have long term consequences,i have been off yasmin since june 06 and am still suffering mood swings and anxiety.like you my poor husband thought that i did not love him or find him attractive any more,he had to watch his once happy confident wife crumble into this shell of a person who was a wreck,i felt not anxious so much as terrified all day everyday i could not leave the house without a full blown panic attack,i had terrible scary thoughts racing through my mind,i would shake,my teeth would chatter,i could not get my breath. my husband was fantastic and he took over the care of the house and our 2 children because i could not do a thing,i would just shake and cry all day.

hi guest 33998.
you are quite right,you do need to get off it! i never really had what i would call anxiety before. i have always been shy and what i would call "cautious" i did have a few panic attacks growing up but they were very very few and far between and were mainly linked to my shyness! i started on yasmin in jan 05 and by july 05 i was a complete wreck,i was so scared i could not even walk my kids the 2 min walk to school,i couldn't go out of the house at all but i was also afraid to be in the house. it really spiralled out of control.i was not taking any other medication either,i pretty much use herbs and vitamins apart from the odd aspirin here and there! i bought all kinds of programmes for anxiety disorders and while they helped me understand my fears and feelings and gave me some great coping techniques i still did not understand how i had developed an anxiety disorder....until i found this site.....it made sense that it could well be this pill and the synthetic hormones that were causing all the panic attacks and aches & pains. sure enough i stopped taking yasmin 8 months ago and have just been getting better and better...the anxiety is now just a background feeling,barely noticable most of the time,and i suspect it is me that holds on to the feelings as memories and make myself more anxious than i actually am. all the other physical side effects have now pretty much subsided. to me it was like have the worst case of constant pms (the clinical defintion not the oooh i feel a bit pmsie type !) constant sore boobs,back ache,stomach pains,sinus problems,racing heart,palpitations,frequent urination,headaches,hair loss,bloating,pins and needles,shaking,muscle weakness...the list goes on. i would suggest that you come off yasmin,take a good multivit with b6 and extra magnesium and zinc.give your body a good few months to get rid of the build up of synthetic hormones then consider your future contraceptive options when you are feeling back to normal. well done for being able to cope with your anxiety it can be so hard sometimes to deal with but you sound like you cope really well.
best of luck to you whatever you decide to do,if you need any help or advice in the future please come back here,there are so many wonderful women on this site that all know how you feel and will all help if they can.

sarah