Doing something wrong symptoms and conditions

I am a 50 year old women. I had bronchitis that turned into severe asthma.
Could not stop coughing. I have been on Singulair for over a year. Have had weight gain, Hand numbness,Stomach problems. Even had an colonoscopy but turned up nothing. Now I understand after reading all these posts. The weight gain alone was driving me crazy. Limiting myself to 1200-1400 calories, eating only lean meats and vegetables.Exercising and loosing MINIMAL weight over a 4 month period. I felt like I was doing something wrong. Ive thrown my Singulair away after reading your posts. Will figure out something else if my allergies and or asthma flairs. Just not worth it. Will repost after Ive been off a while.

Hello all! :0)

I can't believe I was lucky enough to of found this site. I woke up this morning, again in a horrible mood, a terrible backache (which all this time I figured was my new mattress!!), and my boyfriend again mad at me for not wanting to do anything sexual with him YET AGAIN. This guy is one of the best things that has ever happened to me, and I haven't been able to figure out why I don't want anything to do with sex what-so-ever, for the first time in my life!
I decided to google search any side effects from Yasmin, and found you all! :0) THANK GOD!

I started Yasmin 5 months ago, after having heavy periods with my other birth control pills. The nurse said "Oh, try this new pill, which helps you loose weight, and shortens your period". Well of course that was the winning line for me. Looking back, almost instantly, I had loss of sex drive. This is really unusual for me, especially for being in a new relationship, after being single for over 4 years. The backaches kept me up at night, and in the mornings, I could barely stand. I realized lately, that when I'm on my period, and not taking that week of pills, that instantly, my sex drive increased, I was in a WAY better mood, and the backaches were MUCH better.
The mood swings, I related to being upset with myself, blaming me for this loss of sex drive thing, which in turn upsets my boyfriend, thinking it's him that is doing something wrong. Out of no where today, I told him I was thinking about ending things because of the way I feel, and that's not what I want. I sent him off to work today, devistated, and actually not caring about it, until I read some of these posts, and then....BOOM! another mood swing...I burst into tears, feeling terrible knowing that all this time, all my problems could all of been due to this pill!
I have one more pack of pills, and they are going into the garbage, and the phone call to my Dr. will be as soon as they open, asking to switch my brand. I'd MUCH rather have a week long period, than to live everyday like this.
I want to thank you all for posting such personal information, because it has helped me to realize....maybe this wasn't ALL ME. There's nothing wrong with ME, and hopefully getting off this pill, will be the first step in improving myself. I will keep you posted!
Thanks so much again....

I didn't know that taking a simple BC pill could cause all of these problems and symptoms. I recently started taking Yasmin again after being off of it for a year, and now I am just realizing the changes it makes in my personality and lifestyle. Why didn't my doctor catch this when I was having problems with anxiety and depression a year ago? Instead she just gave me another pill to take (lexapro), which was obviously only to counteract the side effects from the Yasmin.

Now that I am taking it again for the last month, I am starting to get pissy and moody over small things that haven't bothered me for the last year. My libido is completely gone which is causing my boyfriend to think that he is doing something wrong....and I hardly have the motivation to do anything anymore other than lay around. Also my boobs are in such pain that I have begun walking around holding both of them in my hands to protect them from getting bumped!!! How could one little pill cause all of these crazy problems????

One side effect I have not read about though...Has anyone ever noticed any type of musky/fishy odor that only comes right after intercourse? I have gone to the doctor about this and she can't come up with anything that is causing this. I have been tested for all STD's, and given a UA to rule out bladder infections, and she also did a culture to see if I have a yeast infection....all of these came back negative....the problem only started in the last month when I started the Yasmin again!!!

Do you think this pill could be the stinky cause?? I would appreciate anyone's comments being that my doctor can't seem to find the problem and refuses to admit that Yasmin could be what is causing over half of the symptoms I have had!!!!