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I went to my doctor last tues 'coz of shortness of breath. She found nothing & told me maybe i have anxiety. Told me to continue taking Singulair however since taking it last Saturday until now I still have the shortness of breath plus i couldn't sleep at night, i felt that I'm going to cry. After reading some of the experiences in this site I will stop using Singulair tonight & see what happens.

I posted a story on January 16 about my 16 year old daughter who turned out to have Factor V Leiden. She went on Yaz and nearly died a few weeks later. Factor V Leiden really is very common. Especially if you have Scandinavian blood or red hair. But it affects all races and ethnicities at lower levels. If you want to read more, the New York Times had a good article on February 24, 2008. It was about the decision whether to get a genetic test before going on birth control. B. A.

Anyone else experienced weight gain and swelling of ankles and legs when taking Lisinopril? I've gained 15 pounds in the past 9 months even though I'm not eating anymore than usual. And in the past 4 months, the swelling in my ankles and lower legs is worse then when I went on the drug. My blood pressure is consistent at around 120 over 70 but the side effects have me worried. Is there an alternative?

I have been on 20 mg Lipitor for years, and as I also have Rheumatoid Arthritis, all my symptoms have been blamed on that. I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and put on Lyrica because of the muscle aches and depression. My lower back, hurt in a car accident when I was 17 years old, had gotten so much worse that I had 12 steroid shots in my lower spine a couple of years ago. They didn't help my back at all, but my blood sugar went from normal to diabetic levels, and I am now on Byetta to try to lower it.
I am a 56 year old woman who was the math specialist in a school district until last December when I had to retire early. My back pain was so severe that I could no longer go from school to school carting materials. I could barely make it from the parking lot to my office. Mentally I was not ready to retire, but physically, I was (and am) a wreck. I have severe muscle pain in my shoulders, sometimes one or the other, but always present. I have tingling in my right hand, especially in my fingertips, and have trouble gripping and drop things easily. In the last few months the pain in my right thigh and calf has gotten unbearable. I thought at first it was sciatica, but I have had sciatica before, and this isn't the same, although there is tingling, burning , but the pins and needles is so deep in the muscles I have just sat and cried, or wanted to scream. I have wished I could just cut my leg off. And...I am on some pretty heavy duty pain killers for the RA: a small dose of prednisone plus Enbrel, Methotrexate, and Vicodin, and this pain is cutting right through all these meds. I get severe headaches, I went off Lipitor for 5 days and seemed a little better, but then went back on, and it came back.
Since I no longer work, I sleep longer, am exhausted ALL the time, have terrible mental fog, am clumsy, cannot stand for more than a minute or so without wanting to scream, cannot walk more than a few yards...just getting to the car is an ordeal. I tell people that I can only shop in shoe stores and furniture stores...the only stores with places to sit down.
I no longer cook or clean, cannot play with my granddaughter, even holding a book to read can be too much, and I love reading. I feel I am just dying bit by bit as I lose parts of myself.
My doctor is really into lowering cholesterol, and has put me on Zetia in the past few months...and it has been in this time that the pain in my leg has gotten unbearable. He wants my cholesterol to be between 50-60, and has said that the Zetia along with the Lipitor will do that. Is this normal or in any way reasonable??? I am having a full blood workup done tomorrow morning, and I want to go off the Lipitor starting the day after.
I came across this web site tonight while looking up Lipitor side effects, and I am shocked. I have so many of these symptoms, and there are so many I had no knowledge of at all. I knew about the muscle aches, but that's all. I hope someone can help me with what supplements and vitamins I should be taking. I started taking CoQ10 a month or so ago. What else should I be taking for my health? I know vitamin C and fish oil, but don't know how much or anything else. Right now I am just stunned with the thought that all of these problems that have left me unhappily retired, exhausted and in constant pain can all be caused from a drug I have been taking to help me be healthier.

15 years ago, at the age of 35, I had a major heart attack. After testing, the doctors decided I needed a quadruple bi-pass operation, followed by Lipitor, among other things. I was taking 20mg (the doctor ordered 40mg), but due to financial reasons I took only half. Everything was just great for 15 years. During a routine annual physical this year, my doctor noticed that my liver enzymes were off the chart high. He immediately had me discontinue the Liptor, but stay on all of my other medications. One month later, my liver enzymes were normal, and so was everything else; however, my cholesterol had climbed to 204, and I eat no meat, eggs, or other dairy products. They say my liver damage is permanent. Having had 4 lumbar surgeries and 1 cervical surgery to fuse disks in my spine, I have always attributed my back and other muscle pains to that. Now that I have been of the Lipitor for 3 months, I have not noticed in decrease in pain in these areas.

Is loss of sex drive a problem when you are on Topamax? Also, does the weight loss stop?

My wife is getting really skinny. She pops off at me when I ask her a question....and I have given up on sex.

She's free of migranes though and I guess that is all that matters. She's been on it for about a year.

i take it for SLE too....and depression is starting to hit me too. I was crying for two days in a row and my boyfriend thought i was going crazy coz i was screaming at him for no real reason. i think its driving him up the wall coz he doesn't seem to understnad what is going on with me. Till yesterday i was feeling like nothing could comfort me and today i feel like the sun couln't be brighter.

hey ladies... i've been on yasmin for a year, had all the effects - i went from being a 34 c, now a 38c/d... i gained 3 stone, in part due to the yasmin, had really teary times, id cry for no reason, and wonder why i cried the next day...

anyway... i came off yasmin - my partner realised that i had headaches at the same time each month - a day or too after comin off the yasmin, until my period started, felt like my vision was... flickery wi the headaches...

so when i last saw my partner - he wrks, an im stil at uni - on the 15 oct, wen my last period started, i decided, no more yasmin...

but today, i woke up feelin crampy, and have had to put a pad on, coz im bleeding! not sure if its jus break thru, or a period, or a withdrawal bleed from the yasmin? any ideas?

also, ive had SO MUCH probnlems wi doctors - one suggested to me this was just "mental issues" i was experiencing - didnt go back to him... ive had coutless blood tests, coz they think i may have an underactive thyroid, goion in for another one, and coz i was originally put on the pill for heavy crampy periods - wen i was 11, thats 9yrs ive been on the pill now, im scared that they will be as heavy and crampy as they used to be - an i may have investigations, swabs etc to see if im alright inside, to see what makes me so crampy... n then, i may be put on the mini pill to stop the cramps!

wish id know how yasmin does make you feel - some drs will not prescribe yasmin, others think its amazing...

its the most expensive contraceptive on the nhs in the uk...

but for me, its not the best for my body...

sorry for the long post, but it needed to be said:)

any advice anyone?

emily

I met my ENT doctor today. He checked my throat using laser technique and said that my throat is as such a textbook throat..its perfect no problem whatsoever. No acid reflux, no post nasal drip yet my sore throat is the same. So finally he agreed that it might be related to hormones. And told me to wait coz my gynaec has also told me to wait for 6 months and do a hormone levels test again. my hormone levels were not slighlty different that normal about a month back. Hope this helps some other ladies out there who have had sore throat after taking yasmin.

hi all..

coming of yasmin is feeling like hell right now.

i had taken yasmin for only 1 cycle before i realised the side effects so i stopped.

now everytime i have full fledged PMS symptoms. a week before period i get a bad sore throat. doc tells me to cut down on salt a week before period. coz the throat lining swells when estrogen is produced more just before the period.

right now my throat is hurting so bad that i feel like STRANGLING MYSELF AND ENDING ALL THIS.

my eye twitching starts again in this time and currently i am desperately waiting for periods to start so my throat will get better.

Samp

i have been taking libruim for 10 yrs and 5 mo 10 mg daily capsules and now the DR says its time to do a change so he put me on 5mg libruim and 25 mg od Zoloft as of yesterday i want to kno what the effects may be during this change if any and after being on 10 mg Libruim fir 10 and 1.2 yrs i want to get off the Libruim but with none or little side effects. coz after being on Libruim all this time. I feel like I have been on them that long its a kinda bad feeling.

I have been taking Seroxat for about 6 years now, for panic attacks and mild depression,at first i didnt like the feelings i was getting, but stuck with it ,glad i did coz they turned me into a very happier more confident person,very rarly get a panic attack now and i can even go out and get drunk without thinking im going to die,did not effect my sex drive at all,started remembering dreams for the first time ever. I have lost hair and i have put on a lot of weight but this could be put down to getting older and drinking ? who knows ,
I would like to stop taking Seroxat just to see if i lose weight , but I cant coz I know, after forgetting to take tabs for a couple days the cold turkey is horrible ,

Paul

i took it for like 4 months coz i was stressed due to my exams
and now i have bad night mares even when i take it .. i feel very disoriented and dizzy when i wake up .. has anyone had this problem before

thanks for all the informative posts. i started on yasmin 3 days ago and have been so tired i'm asleep on the couch by 9pm, also started getting dizzy today. my doc put me on yasmin coz it's supposed to have less side effects than most other low dose pills.