Embarrased symptoms and conditions

I started taking prednisone when I was only 12 years old and I was on it for about a year and a half. At the age of 10, I was diagnosed with glaucoma, uveitis and cataracts and for about 10 years now I have had all these illnesses. My experience with prednisone had been HORRIBLE. Within two months alone, I gained 50 pounds, my skin started to get really really thin, I started to develop stretch marks ALL over my body with the only exception of my face and hands. I started to get the chipmuk cheeks to the point that my family was afraid that I was going to literally explode. My liver was damaged. My kidney was damaged. The vertebrates in my spine where being chipped away. There was a point in that year and a half where the doctors told me that there was a 70% chance of me going blind. The bottom line was that PREDNISONE WAS BRINGING NOTHING FOR ME EXCEPT RUIN. On top of that, I was constantly depressed. Kids at school would point at laugh hysterically at me. And if people weren't laughing, they were struck by fear and were trying to figure out what exactly I was. I remember this one instance in my school cafeteria where one girl stood up on the lunch table, pointed at me and screamed SHE'S AN ALIEN!!

I was and still am scarred physically and emotionally. My arms and stomach are really saggy because the skin is soo thin. As I said my entire body is scarred with stretch marks. I can't show the slightest bit of my body to anyone because I am so ashamed, embarrassed and afraid of peoples judgments. I am afraid that no one will ever want to be in a relationship with me.

All I can tell you is that though I stopped using it about six and a half years ago, this dreaded drug has truly ruined my life from the very start of my childhood.

I just was prescribed this medication after going to a new dr twice and having very high BP. My last reading was 170/110. I've been on it 3 weeks now. The dr NEVER once mentioned the cough as a side effect.

I noticed it started 2-3 days after I started the medication and thought it was my allergies since I have severe allergies. The cough kept getting worse and worse, as did my tiredness. I'm up ALL night coughing my brains out from this crappy drug!

I'm 27 yrs old and now am wetting the bed thanks to coughing so hard at night!! I'm embarrased to have to sleep with a towel underneath me because I'm coughing so hard (even in my sleep) that I'm leaking urine.

I went back to the dr yest thinking I was sick because of the severe coughing and horrible sore throat. Not until I found this and many other sites did I realize it was the Lisinopril! The kicker is that yest my BP was just as high as it was pre-Lisinopril! I'm going to stop taking it as of tonight, especially if it's not even working!

How long did it take to have an effect on your BP? 3 weeks should have been enough time for it to work if it was going to IMO. I can't stand the coughing anymore! Even the codine cough syrup my dr gave me isn't helping me sleep. Now I just hope the cough won't linger for weeks like I've heard it can.

Hey Girls,

I've put several posts up here before, I am starting my fourth pack of Yasmin today. The first pack I had breakthrough bleeding, the second pack I didn't, the third pack I had it again. So, I wonder if the breakthrough bleeding will subside now? Not to be gross, but my periods are shorter, but they are absolutely revolting! It's just nasty -- clotting and things like that, for a few days it is so heavy -- has this happened to anyone else? Also, now that my period is over, I have strange discharge, it's really thick and gross too. It's not an infection or anything, I asked my primary care doctor one time if birth control changes discharge, and he said it usually doesn't -- but I think it can? I don't know. I feel embarrased to even attempt intercourse because it's just gross. Speaking of intercourse, I've either had a yeast infection or breakthrough bleeding -- so I haven't even been able to take advantage of this pill for almost 4 months, I'm glad I have an understanding boyfriend.

My mom was on the pill for about 9 years and said she had these same problems that I'm having. Then she got an IUD, but she had complications with it because it grew into her uterus. I don't know what to do! Is there anyone that has tried an IUD?

Just let me know through here or through my email if anyone has any ideas. Have a good day!

~Aaron~

I am so thankful that I found this site. Usually I wouldn't post something like this but I have found that it is so important for people to realize that it was the Yasmin because of what it did to me.

I started on Yasmin about 9 months ago and it was great. I had no side effects but only mild moodiness which I just attributed to my ultra sensitive personality. But all of a sudden a month ago things got really bad. I suffered the worst depression and I honestly thought that something was seriously wrong with me because I had never had issues with any sort of depression in the past. I would cry every day, I would not want to talk to anybody (including friends) except my mother to whom I would cry nonstop. I had anxiety and my heart would race. I also could not seem to control my mind. I was petrified because my mind would race and I would be paranoid and worried about the most ridiculous things and I simply could not get under control. I lost 10 pounds in a month because my appetite became non-existent so that I would eat maybe once a day, and not much at that. I would wake up 3 or 4 hours earlier than usual and not be able to get back to sleep no matter how hard I tried due to the anxiety and heart palpitations I was having. Honestly, for all of this to hit you all at once out of nowhere is a terrifying experience, and I was so embarrased that I didn't want to say anything to anybody.

When I found this site it was like one thousand pounds were lifted off of my back. I realized that it was a hormonal imbalance and that I needed to get off Yasmin right away. I threw away the pill pack right in the middle. It took 2 weeks, but like magic, 2 weeks to the day that I stopped taking it I was miraculously a new person. I had never been so happy, partially because this burden was lifted off of me, and also because I didn't feel like I couldn't control how I felt anymore. I realized all of my friends who I had alienated because of my behavior that at the time I didn't care about.

This took a huge toll on me, and thankfully I figured out that it was the Yasmin before it continued for much longer. Thanks you to all of you who posted and for those of you reading, nobody deserves to feel this way and you are not crazy. Thanks again!

Unfortunately I found this website years too late but maybe my entry will help someone else and prevent them from the misery and altered life that I now have.

I am 38 years old and I have had excema since I was a small child. When I was in my early 20's my Doctor prescribed for me what I thought was a miricle drug. I live in Atlanta and in the hot and humid months I couldn't stay outside in the heat or I would develop a severe rash from the excema on the insides of my legs. Once I started using the medication the doctor prescribed my rash would disapear. It was actually regular lotion that had Triamcinolone AKA kENALOG injected into the bottle. I would use it each time I got out of the shower while I was still wet per my doctors instructions which just made it get into my skin even more. The bottle had no warning label and needless to say over a short period of time I begin to develop stretch marks on the insides of my upper thighs. I was newly married and very embarrased and had no clue that it was caused by the lotion that I was prescribed. I hid it for a while thinking that I was just getting overweight and that was causing the marks but the damage was already done. In a short period of time the marks were down to my knee and spreading to the inside of my calfs. The stretch marks are 3/4 of an inch wide and some of them are 9 and 10 inches long and dark purple. I went to doctor after doctor and had test after test just not my dermatoligist tryiing to find out what was wrong with me and when I realized that it was the lotion I was just horrified. I went into a shell and had a very difficult time dealing with it. I couldn't talk about it or show anyone my legs. I thought I was a FREAK. Needless to say I waited too long to pursue a medical malpractice against the doctor but it has altered my life greatly. I don't go out in public in shorts or even a skirt. I can't go to the beach or anywhere in public in a bathing suit because I am so self consious about my legs. I have a wonderful husband and fortunately he loves me for me and not my looks but I can't tell you that it has not altered his life as well. My children don't understand why their mom doesn't wear shorts and things like other moms.

This drug has altered and changed my life in almost every aspect pysically and emotionally and I will never be the same but hopefully my story will prevent someone else from having to deal with all the pain and misery that I have had. I was told I was past the statue of limitations in Georgia to pursue anything legally so hopefully I can help you on a personal leval before this happens to you. DON'T USE KENALOG OR ANY TOPICAL FORM OF IT!! Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or if I can help you in anyway.

What drives me crazy are the things that involve my brain. This includes speeking, thinking and comprehending, and memory loss. When I go to talk, instead of saying "vinegar" it comes out "vigenar" for example. People have to tell me things over and over and most of the times very slowly until I have it correctly in my head. It frustrates me so. However, the memory loss is the worst. It as if I have become an amnesia patient. I am currently dating a man that I dated a few years ago. We go places that I think we have never been before. So I start telling him about the place and what I like about the place and I go on and on and then it dawns on me that we have been there together and I feel like an idiot and become so embarrased. Or I start to say something like, "Did we ever go to such and such a place?" and he might say, "No, why?" Now, in my head I'm thinking it was him and actually it might have been another guy, but I can't remember so I have to cover for myself so I say, "Oh, it must have been a dream I had of you." Now the doctor who checked me in for my last hospitalization said, "Well, if you can stand the confusion for a little bit longer and lose some more weight, why not stay on it?" I don't know if it's worth it....