Definitely wrong symptoms and conditions

Dear Sophie!

So sad to hear, that you're feeling that bad again...
And I know, that I might be telling the same in every of my posts... But at the point of 6 months without Yasmin I felt exactly the same way as you do now!

I really thought it never would get better and I was about to doubt Yasmin as the reason for all this. Every few days I had thoughts like "Well, if it's still not gone it might not be the Yasmin" or "I'm so afraid that it's really all in my head and has nothing do do with Yasmin" and so on...... And only my mother and my husband kept telling me in such times, that it IS the Yasmin and that it definitely takes MUCH MORE time to get that stuff out of my body than a few months...

I think those doubts are pretty normal, because there is nearly NO doc, who's telling you the same. Most of them keep saying, that you have to be healthy within a few months after Yasmin or it was not the reason.

And Sophie: This is DEFINITELY WRONG!!! I found two docs in all that nightmare who kept telling me, that it might last a long time, even until the rest of Yasmin ist really gone out of my body. My family doc explained it that way: The chemical hormones really stick within your tissue and every cell of your body after taking it that long. And it's not pulled out of it and you fat tissue within a few months!!

Some other woman wrote about a few months ago here in this forum, that she even believes, that if the weight you put on during Yasmin goes down again, there are still rests of that artificial hormones released as the fat tissue is slowly catabolizing. And that's exactly how it feels for me!! My weight is going down every month about 2 - 3 pounds. Very slowly though, but it is!! And every few weeks I have bouts of Yasmin-Symptoms again. Well, that might also still be caused by my hormonal balance which is still not where it should be.

Ok, just a few thoughts. Perhaps it can help you a bit Sophie. I wish so much, it would!!

The other one who said "Please take Prozac": Ok, I'm really glad, if it's helping you somehow. But I'm sure enough, too, that there might be problems again, when you try to get off that stuff in a few months. I was on "Zoloft" which is an SSRI, too, and had the worst times of my life within that ONE WEEK on it! Surely not everyone is the same and perhaps you should try it, if you really think you can't bare those symptoms any longer... I stood it for about 1,5 years now and the year before I didn't feel healthy, too, as the problems began to rise there already. And believe me: Those were the hardest times of my life so far! I never thought that you can suffer that heavy way without dying as a result of it!

But you can, and I stood it without chemical medications. The Valerian helped me very much in very hard times, when I felt a panic attack rising or I just felt nervous and anxious somehow. And it gave me no side effects at all...

The other very important thing: I started to distract myself as soon as I somehow felt able to do that! I listened to music again, tried to do some light garden work, played computer games, read books and so on... It's very important to find yourself some things, which you really LIKE to do to distract yourself from thinking about yourself and your symptoms constantly!

My husband started to take me out again to parties or just go for a walk and so on. And even if I had some panic attacks (AGAIN: NOT AT ALL AS BAD AS WITH YASMIN!) or I felt weak and anxious during that things, afterwards I felt proud of my, that I had got through this and was still alive! That's how I slowly learned to get back to life again!! And it was so important.

Today I still have times, when I'm feeling very weak (the last 2 days for example I had again some weak muscles and fogginess in my head, as I'm right around the time of ovulating!!) but I try to not let those days get me down too much! I just ask my husband "Will I be better again tomorrow" and he gives me the answer "Yes, you will, and you know it! It's still just your hormones getting back in balance". And that's all I have to hear to feel better and delighted again!

It's so important to have someone around you, who keeps telling you such things (even if it sounds a bit weird...) and it is sometimes the only thing that really helps!! And THEY'RE so DAMN RIGHT!!

It would be so good, if some of the women, who wrote about 1 - 2 years ago here in this forum, just to hear how they're doing now. That could be another help for people like Sophie (or sometimes even me!!) who are still within that Yasmin nightmare and don't believe in getting better with time!! Please write hear all of you out there, keep us updated on how you're doing.

Sophie I again send you a big hug and all the strenght I have today. Believe me, better days are ahead again (well, didn't you have them already within the last few months!!?? Think about it!!)!!

Oh another thing: I started writing a diary about August 2005 (that was about 6 months after stopping Yasmin!) just to have an overview over my symptoms and especially the time they are rising and then getting less again!! That showed me exactly, that everything comes up again around the same time every month! Perhaps that might be one thing to help you, too, Sophie and every other lady out there still suffering!??

I wish you all the best and stay strong everybody!!!

Just like to tell you another thing: I was a singer in a band for about the last 14 years!! I wasn't able to sing in my band for the last 2 years and you know what!? I'm on tour with them again and will be on stage every weekend in November again!! I never thought I'd be able to do this ever again!!!!

So keep your head up everbody and look into a better future!!

Silke

37 yrs old - Tried OVCON 35 for bc before and ivf cycle and the first 2 wks are pure hell. Just call me Cybil. The anxiety is brutal, chest tightening and just can't function in my daily activities. In second week and now I have severe bloating and brown spotting. Uncomfortable around the ovaries - something is definitely wrong with choosing this method of birth control.