Dermotologist symptoms and conditions

I was prescribed Bactrim DS for mild acne. I was told to take it once daily for two weeks and then twice daily thereafter if I didn't have an adverse reaction, as my dermatologist indicated that it sometimes takes a long time for side effects to become evident using this medication. I am still in the one pill a day phase of my treatment and I am going to stop taking this medicine.

When I first started taking it, my lymph nodes in my neck became swollen, yet I did not have a cold or anything else that could immediately explain this symptom. My right lymph node in particular became very, very swollen and tender and was rock-hard to the touch. You could literally see it bulging out of my neck. It hurt to move my neck the wrong way and I could hardly turn my head because of all the pressure and soreness of my lymph node.

I stopped taking it for a few days and the size of the lymph node decreased, but it remained very full feeling and firm / rock-hard to the touch.

In addition, I have experienced persistent headaches and joint pain during the time I have taken this medicine. (I'm 21 years old, so joint pain is a symptom almost definitely linked to the Bactrim.)

I took ONE PILL last night, foolishly thinking it would be okay, and not long after I showered and got in bed, I began to feel a prickly sensation primarily from my groin up. It was a prickling, itchy sensation on my face, scalp, neck, arms, back, and even in my groin area. It was absolutely maddening and I couldn't get to sleep. At the suggestion of my fiance, I tried a second shower and that temporarily soothed it very slightly.

It is the day after that and I haven't taken it again, but I am still prickly / tingly / itchy all over and I believe I am beginning to develop a rash. I have also had a headache since last night, which began about 40 minutes after taking the pill. My lymph nodes are also inflamed yet again, so I have isolated the problem to be a result of the Bactrim. I will not continue to use this medication and I intend to contact my physician to request another course of prescription therapy.

Keep in mind that everyone's reaction to any medication is unique and some of the stories people have written on this site are extreme and unusual cases. Don't rush yourself to the emergency room just because you're taking Bactrim and you read about someone else's serious side effects -- all medicines affect people differently and you might experience minor side effects, if any at all. Call your doctor with any questions and get a second opinion if needed.

January of this year I was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata (spots of hair loss). My Dermatologist has been injecting Kenalog-10 every 4 weeks on my scalp. The hair is slowly growing back but the injected area feels bruised "always", and "yes" I have an indent on my head :(
I have noticed that I've lost about 20 lbs since my 1st visit, irritable & have head & neck pain on a daily. However, since mid April I've been having an abnormal period. (VERY ABNORMAL-Like every other week)
Does this have anything to do with the shot? Has it happened to anyone else? I've been reading everyone's side effects and it seams like it's targets at the bladder.

When a class action lawsuit is filed, let me know....this drug should be taken of off the market immediately. We started all of this with an OB/GYN that prescribed this “miracle pill” and now have had to go not only to our primary doctor, but also a psychiatrist, gastrenologist, college campus counselors, psychologists, psychiatrist, and the campus medical doctors; All the while, accumulating enormous doctor bills. All the doctors say, "No, Yasmin won't cause those problems" (except the college campus doctors..wonder why? Hmm.. could it be that they are not in private practice?)....well, I beg to differ. Everyone needs to give this website to their doctor so the doctors can hear from the patients that have taken this drug, and not listen to the pharmaceutical companies that are pushing this drug to be the "miracle pill". Maybe if enough people complain and go to the media, we can get rid of this drug!
My daughter who is 18 was put on Yasmin because of irregular periods, hormonal imbalance, etc. We were told it was the new “miracle pill”. It will make you loose weight, regulate your periods, clear up acne, you name it, it will fix it. Yeah, right.
She started taking this pill in March 2007. She was off at college but called to tell me she was experiencing horrible headaches, behind the eyes. She complained about her stomach hurting, but we just figured it was the stress of freshman year at college. Then she said she got where she couldn’t eat when she went to a restaurant. When she came home in May for the summer, I noticed a total personality change. For example, she was always a neat freak, and now she wouldn’t clean her room. The first day when she drove home, she started crying she was so mad about the traffic. Yes, she has always had a little road rage, but this was ridiculous.
By June, not only could she not be in crowds, like at a restaurant, but now she is having full blown panic attacks and IBS. We called the OBGYN and they said, “Yasmin won’t cause this, go see your primary doctor”. I knew that the only thing that had changed with her was taking the YASMINE. I knew it had something to do with all of this so I “Googled Yasmin” and this website (http://www.medications.com/se/yasmin) was the first one I looked at. All of her symptoms matched everyone else’s! I am so glad we found this website, it explained everything and I had her to stop Yasmin immediately.
So we went to the primary doctor, explained about the Yasmin and how we thought it was the culprit of everything. Of course this doctor also says, “Yasmin won’t cause that”. We told him to look it up on the internet and see how there are over 3000 complaints on this drug, more than any of the other drugs on the market.
Besides the emotional problems she starting having, her pulse and blood pressure was sky high, so he puts her on medicine for that, and puts her on an anxiety medicine and sends her to a psychiatrist. She is very thirsty all the time, and develops IBS. She can’t eat without having pains in her stomach. So, now we’ve have gone from having just irregular periods, to all of the above, plus a psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist doubles her medicine (and puts her Pamine for the IBS) because the panic attacks are gone, but she still is having a lot of nervousness, anxiety, can’t sleep at night, crazy thoughts, worrying all the time, etc. A month later he changes her medicine again, to Effexor. The first 2 weeks, she does okay, but the packet doubles the strength after 2 weeks. It takes 4 weeks for it to take full effect. Right after she doubles this medicine, it is like her senses are on hyper-mode. She can taste everything that is in her food (chili powder, seasonings, etc…), taste the metal in water, and she can hear someone’s phone vibrating, in another room.
Then she goes back to college at the end of August 2007, and it’s horrible. The Effexor is having bad, bad side effects. We called the psychiatrist that she was using at home and he doubled the dose. That was the worse thing they could’ve done. The side effects were worse than ever. I had her to immediately go to a psychiatrist on campus. She told him the whole story and he believed her! Needless to say we switched doctors. He then lowered her dose back down to ½ a dose and hopefully can slowly get her off of all this medicine.
The newest thing she has developed is being hypoglycemic. The campus psychiatrist sent her to a campus medical doctor and he told her that they would get to the bottom of this. He tested her for everything under the sun. Low blood sugar is the only thing they found. But, she hasn’t taken the Yasmin since May. No telling what the results would have came back like if it was done at the time she was taking Yasmin.
Thank goodness she has counselors and doctors there at the campus that believes that Yasmin can cause all of these problems, and are working with her. From what I have read from the people that have used this medicine, although most doctors do not agree, Yasmin takes like 6 months to get out of your system. I think I am going to believe the testimonials of the people who take this medicine, over a doctor who prescribes it.
If everyone goes to the media, their doctors, the FDA, congressmen, and make them aware of these horrible effects, surely we can get this drug off of the market! Does anyone know a class action lawyer that would pursue this? For my child to have to go through all of this is ridiculous, not to mention costly. What do we know of the long term effects this drug will have if it is doing all of this when you first start taking it?
If you have the same concerns as me about this drug, and would be interested in looking into a class action lawsuit, please email: ****** I would be interested to see how many would want to pursue this.

In order to treat my excema my dermotologist insisted that i should have a kenalog shot. I asked him for the worst side effect and he respomed with "it can get worse". okay, its already bad, why not try it. 2 months later I have a huge indentation on my lower back. It measures 5 1'2 inches wide and it seems to be getting worse. He has no idea whats going on and he has never seen an indention as bad as mine. I WILL NEVER HAVE THIS SHOT AGAIN. OR HaVE ANY OF MY LOVED ONES!!

I started taking Singulair about 3 months ago for mild exercise induced asthma and allergies. I had headaches real bad in the morning for about a week and then they stopped. About a month or so into it, I had severe abdominal pain, enough to get a catscan which showed nothing, chalked it up to my esophogus reflux I have. I noticed I'm starting to wake up during the night and can't get back to sleep (restlessness) and feeling of heart going too fast. Just last week I have some blood blisters to appear on my toes that the dermotologist said was because of too much exercising. I still have the abdominal pain from time to time, but doesn't last. I wonder if all these are connected?

HEY GIRLS,
I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT I AM SO HAPPY I AM NOT ALONE WHEN IT COMES TO HATE'N THIS PILL!! I WAS ON FOR 7 MONTHS. OUT OF THOSE 7 MONTHS I HAD A YEAST INFECTION AT LEAST 5 TIMES. IT WAS QUITE ANNOYING. ALSO, I WAS VERY MOODY ALMOST ANGRY RIGHT BEFORE MY PERIOD. IT TOOK ME SOME TIME TO REALIZE THIS PILL IS POISON. MY HAIR STARTED TO FALL OUT AND FINALLY ONE DAY I THOUGHT I HAD A PANIC ATTACK. IT WAS THE PILL...IT MADE ME SO DEPRESSED AND I HAD SO MUCH ANXIETY. MY SEX DRIVE WAS GONE AND WHEN I COULD BRING MYSELF TO HAVE SEX...I WAS DRY LIKE THE SAHARA DESERT. I'M OFF THE PILL 3 MONTHS NOW AND MY HAIR HAS JUST ABOUT STOPPED FALLING OUT. HOWEVER, I HAD ACNE ON MY NECK BADLY FOR A MONTH. MY DERMOTOLOGIST TOLD ME IT WAS THE HORMONES FROM THE PILL COMING OUT OF MY SYSTEM.

IF ANY OF YOU KNOW A GIRL ON THIS PILL PLEASE TELL THEM TO GET OFF OF IT...NOW!! IT'S NOT A BIRTH CONTROL PILL IT'S A DESTRUCTIVE PILL. GOOD LUCK TO YOU GUYS...HOPE EVERYONE FEELS BETTER SOON.
-LILLI