August 3th
2008
10:07 AM
I think Fosamax KILLED MY MOTHER. My mon was previously healthy with no known medical problems. No hypertension, no high cholesterol, no diabetes...nothing. She was taking Fosamax for osteoporosis prevention. She developed an acute liver failure. There was no viral, bacterial, or cancer linked to this sudden onset of liver failure. She received a liver biopsy and within one week was dead from bleeding from the biopsy site. I have recently found some journal articles linking Fosamax to acute liver failure. MY HEART IS BROKEN. Do not take this drug without doing in depth research on its side effects and discontinue it immediately if any side effects occur. God Bless.
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June 27th
2008
9:50 AM
I have been on the Nuvaring for 7 weeks now and out of disgust and frustration I pulled it out. Will never take it again. I was supposed to have the Nuvaring in for 3 weeks then put another in for 3 weeks and then another 3 weeks after that THEN have my period. The dr. said you don't need your period soo often. Well I had my period every 19 days (instead of my 28 days) and the lasted 10 days!!! And very very very heavy with large clots. This ruined my vacation. I had to wear a pad and a tampon and change it every hour for 5 days. Horrible. Never again
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April 21th
2008
1:16 PM
I am almost in tears finally knowing that I am not alone. I had the Mirena inserted in December 07. Over the past 16 months since then I have only had about 60-90 days (very few of them consecutive) bleeding/spotting free. I am cramping constantly at various intensity. At times, I wondered if I was somehow pregnant and having contractions because of the type of tightening I felt. I have been an emotional wreck as I see-sawed within minutes between congeniality and disgust. My sometime-y migraines happened all too frequently. My acne has increased exponentially. I gained 30 lbs! After each child I successfully managed to lose the weight yet maintain a modest, healthy few pounds extra as I embraced my motherly curves. Almost 4 years after my last child, I gained all of this weight during my Mirena saga. I have been living a nightmare!
I am 34 w/ 3 children (14,6,5). I thought this would be one less hassle for my already life. I have never felt so out of control of my health and well being as I have the past 16 months. I saw may doctor 4 times over the past year wondering what I should do. I took birth control pills for 3 months to control the spotting. I took estrogen for 2 weeks. He knew how much I wanted it to work and told me to wait it out if I could. I feel so betrayed. I kept asking him if this was normal. He told me that it would get better.
I can't lose a pound (30 occurring during the 15 hell-ish Mirena months). I am fatigued to the point of uselessness to my family. I am depressed and inexplicably anxious.
Thank you for sharing and letting me know I'm not crazy. I thought it was all in my head because I couldn't find any validation for my feelings. I have sneered and balked at the amount of trust and worthiness all too often placed on message boards, blogs, and websites. While I am still cynical, this site has renewed my faith and spirit in that each of your testimonies has resolved my indecision to have this shackle removed from my body.
I am overcome with so much emotion right now (possible Mirena related) that I am now speechless.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
-- By luvmy3kidz | Reply | (2) replies | Private Message me
March 26th
2008
11:40 PM
please don't take this birth control. I'm a 21 year old girl who spent most of her life being very stable. i started this birth control along with a new relationship and i can honestly say i spaced out a thousands times and i completely lost myself. i suffered from a panic attack. i felt depressed and anxious all of the time. i felt a sense of doom and disgust. and i lost all motivation to focus on my boyfriend and my school work. thanks to yasmin, i'm now single, and failing college! yay yasmin! you fucking suck!
-- By megan109 | Reply | Private Message me
March 10th
2008
10:57 AM
Just to put my two cents in as well... I began NuvaRing three weeks ago and it crept into my life like a disease.
~ My co-workers thought I was constantly mad at them.
~ I had a look of 'disgust' on my face all the time.
~ I haven't smiled for the past three weeks.
~ I CAN sleep all day--> no question about it.
~ My sex drive is gone.
~ I was having extreme leg cramps.
~ I could eat everything on the face of the earth.
~ I feel fatter than ever before.
~ I felt constipated for three weeks...as soon as I took it out for 'the week
off' I had extreme, severe cramping diarrhea.
~ I have had the uncontrollable desire to drink alcohol excessively (??)
~ Yesterday I wanted to kill myself and the world--> It was best for all
mankind that I lock myself in my bedroom
Next month I am going to switch to a different kind of BC
-- By happidaisy | Reply | Private Message me
January 16th
2008
12:07 PM
Stated Adderall in December to help with my add- the side effects were immediate---- racing pulse.. elevated blood pressure-- but i did have the energy to actually stay focused and get my house and my other stuff done.. since then I have noticed new side effects that at first worry me as to what is going on with me? panic issues.... stomach pain,,,, ears popping and sharp pains.... headaches.....twitching eyes......and the newest one that really had me concerned is the burning sensation trough out my chest and throat area...
I found this site and through ready all of the descriptions I am more at ease with knowing that I am not alone with the feelings I have been suffering...
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May 1th
2007
9:04 PM
In brief, I am a 35 year old mother of two. I have been suffering with endo since I am 14. I had a span of 4 years with no symptoms at all and in Sept. 05 I had a total hysterectomy for endo and cancer cells on my cervix. I recently spent a week in the hospital for 2 endometriomas which are on the one and only ovary I have left, they are both bleeding and my doctor whom I trusted and his colleagues recommended a 6 month depo-lupron injection treatment before they do surgery to fix up the endo, they are reluctant to remove the remaining ovary due to my age but I will INSIST until someone listens. They did not tell my husband or I about any side affects and because I was in a tremendous amount of pain and because I trusted Dr. Shine so much I accepted the treatment, they faxed my husband the prescription at his work and he had to go find it when he did finally found it he brought it to St. Marys hospital and the nurse injected me and 2 days later I went home, I was sent home with celebrex, iron pills and morpheine pills for the pain...well I was back in the ER 3 days later because the pain was unbearable, my blood pressure was high and I was going insane, I met with the gyno on call and she expressed her disgust with her colleague for not telling me about the side affects of lupron and how the drug worked. My first shot was on the 13th of April and today is the first day I am feeling human, I have little endo pain but let me tell you the hip and back pain are killing me slowly. I am a very active mother and wife and I play sports but even the thought of that now hurts. I have not been able to work and will not return until I feel good, I am REALLY scared of getting the next injection which will be on the 11th of may and my new doctor told me to go through with the treatment for the next 5 shots because even though it will not be easy she insists that it will help me and once I am done they will perform surgery, I have set-up 2 other appointments with specialists and my Family Doctor is the only one that has been there for me, he follows me daily and has set-up a bone density test. Is there anyone with similiar situation that can help me out. I have other side affects but the hip and back pain are the ones I will never forget, I think I would have 10 more births drug free then to have to experience the pain again after the next shot...
-- By tigerrs4 | Reply | Private Message me
December 20th
2005
3:06 PM
Hello, i found that taking most birth control that my hormones went out of whack and that I would fly off the handle with either anger or sadness without control. Needless to say I stopped all forms. I then tried Yasmin. I haven't seemed to have that problem, however I have, since starting it, found that I have a strong disgust for sex. I'm uncertain if it's the Yasmin or just me, but i went from craving it on a regular basis to wanting to have nothing to do with it, and not just not desiring it, but physically feeling disgusted with the very notion of it. At first it was somewhat of a welcome side effect (if that's what it is) however I am seeing some one who is getting slightly frustrated with my frustration at his advances, so I'm searching around and contimplating trying something new.
-- By elorian | Reply | Private Message me
December 19th
2005
7:58 PM
hello, i am new here so this might have already been posted. i just started college and yasmin at around the same time, and have had some annoying side effects and no one knows what it's from. they include:
~HUGE decrease in appetite
~ Disgust of food, if that makes sense
~WEIGHT LOSS- going on 10 pounds in a few month
~ Nausea
~ Fatigue, general sense of weakness as well. Don't want to do anything
~ Slight headaches
~ Malaise, just feeling sick or under the weather
granted a lot of this could be due from something else, but the doctor's don't know what it is and suggested possibly it's yasmin doing it. but the weight loss seems so drastic, as well as an extreme dislike of food in general. and i LOVE food! now i don't want to look at it or smell it, and that isn't really healthy (obviously). what the heck do i do? the first few listed symptoms are the ones i'm most concerned about, as i didn't really see anyone else list them.
any help out there? is there something ELSE wrong with me? the effects lasted even on the week off the pill, too, and i don't know if that should be happening.
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Yasmin (3) NuvaRing (2) Lupron (1) Adderall XR (1) Fosamax (1) Loestrin 24 Fe (1) Mirena (1)
September 14th
2009
9:59 PM
I am 17 years old, about to be 18, my fiance is my first and only sexual partner, and I am beginning to HATE loestrin. I have been on the pills for approximately a month and a week. When I first started them I would get extremely hungry and the more I ate, the hungrier I got. It was like a bad case of the munchies, not that I've ever smoked pot. But I was seriously eating anything and everything, even foods I didn't like. My stomach felt a little weird for the first couple days, but nothing too bad. Then I started taking the brown pills, and all hell broke loose. There were the cramps. Horrible, HORRIBLE, cramps, which I am still having 3 days after going back on the active pills. Cramps all through my lower abdomen and stomach, and the feeling that at any given moment my right ovary might drop out (which might actually provide some relief) I actually doubled over crying with the pain in the shower yesterday, and would have fallen and surely hurt myself if my fiance had not been in the shower with me and caught me before I hit the ground. Intense hunger. Followed by bought of nausea, that make me want to puke, but I can't. I am very, very, sensitive to smells. Perfumes, food, cologne, things that I formally found the smell appealing, now disgust me. My lower back, is KILLING me! I get dizzy spells, and lightheadedness frequently, and feel like I may black out. Most of the time I can get myself to a spot where I can sit down and let my body sort things out before I actually black out, but I'm waiting for the day I can't. I have been getting terrible, awful headaches that stay with me through most of the day. Sleeplessness. I had my "period" 3-4 days early, if you can call it a period. It was nothing more than a day and a half of light pink spotting and brown discharge that only showed up when I wiped, I didn't even need a pad. Now, we did start having unprotected sex (with the exception of the bc) at 5 or 6 days instead of 7, and I forgot to take my pills until 9-12 hours after I was supposed to a couple of times. Couple that with the lack of a normal period and all the side effects that could also be the side effects of early pregnancy, and I'm pretty worried. I would love to be a parent, as would my fiance, but I would have liked to have graduated high school first. If these symptoms turn out to be just the pill *** with my body, I would rather just take my chances either with a condom or no protection at all. Sometime in the next week or two I will probably be taking a pregnancy test as I am afraid to wait for my next period and continue the pills because if I am pregnant I know that it can cause damage to the fetus. If anyone has wound up pregnant while on loestrin fe please email me and let me know how you found out, and how things turned out. My email address is ****** Thank you so much for any help you can give a scared teen.
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