Experience pain symptoms and conditions

I was reading your post and had to reply to it!! I have been on toprol xl for about 10 years or a lil longer! Started out at 100mg a day now take 200 mg a day. Am a 37 year old female,feeling like a 90 year old female! For the past 3 years or so experiencing numbness started in my toes, now my left foot to right below my knee is completely numb,right foot and leg getting that way!My hands stay real tingly also! When they are not numb they hurt me so bad. I just couldn't believe your post when I read it! Been to neuro telling me I have severe nerve damage in arms legs and feet? I am like from what? Had all kinds of tests and MRI, nothing.... Thank you for your post,printing it out and taking it to my doc! Maybe we have finally got a diagnosis!!! Sounds like it is the meds to me,Not to mention I am also on 3 other bp meds! Just scared me saying I might have M.S. More like toprol xl huh? How is your numbness now? Was wondering if u experience pain w/ the numbness? Thanx T.

other than the bleeding that I've had since insertion (a month ago) .... everything is okay with me. There was no serious pain upon insertion, but my doctor advised me that because some people do experience pain, i should take some advil 30 minutes prior- which I did. I experience the hair loss, but mine is extremely thick and therefore unnoticeable and I would like it thinner. As far as the acne, I've noticed that my face has cleared up and it's glowing. Not sure if any of these women have ever used birth control before.... sounds like they haven't but there are side effects. My sex drive is not affected, so that accounts for my mood swing (desire + bleeding= frustrated woman)

I have been taking Lotrel for about 3 years and I have a tingling and burning sensation in my hands and fingers, especially when lying down at night. When this occurs I usually wake up after 2 or 3 hours of sleep. I also experience pain in both shoulders.

I started using the NuvaRing about 14 months ago to help with acne, cramping, and PCOS. I have always enjoyed the convenience of the Ring, as has my husband. No worries about a missed pill and the scheduled insertion and removal have always been key for us. The first few months I didn't notice any changes--good or bad--and I had a noticeable decrease in ovarian cysts right away. But over the last several months, I have noticed several changes in my body that I think may be related to the NuvaRing. I have gained 21 pounds since January.

I eat very healthy, and am mild active. However, nothing changed in January to cause such consistent weight gain. I get terrible and painful acne while I have the ring in, but it disappears within days once I remove the ring. While my face clearing up is a relief, I spend days feeling terrible and VERY moody. My poor husband doesn't know how to handle me those days. So now, in place of mood swings from PMS, I get them even worse during my period while the ring is out. I also have a very decreased sex drive, and experience pain from intercourse during and after. I have abdominal cramps most days that are similar to menstrual cramps, and extend into my digestive system, causing nausea and stomach cramping.

I just started Ocella (generic form of Yaz) two days ago, in hopes of decreasing these symptoms. I did warn my husband that he may be doing a lot more condom shopping in the coming weeks if I don't notice improvement. He says he actually welcomes using a condom if it eliminates all of the moodiness and crying over my weight and acne, even if it isn't as pregnancy-proof as BC.

Best of luck to all of you ladies!

I cannot stand for even a couple of minutes without my feet tingling/burning for the rest of the day. Walking seems to help therefore I thought it was circulation but vein docs say it is not. Symptoms got seriously worse during ivf treatment (3rd ivf, 3rd baby), and now one year later I have a baby but symptoms are worse. I thought drug effects are short term but maybe they are not. I am suspecting lupron but i could not find much info on its long term effects and how to counter those effects, or it could be something else. Saw neurologist who wants to do nerve conduction study but that just sounds very painful and not necessarily helpful.

if you have any feedback, would love to hear. thanks

I had a hysterectomy and developed nightsweats and hot flashes. The doctor gave me the Vivelle patch and I was fine for 3 months. I took it off for about 4 months until the hot flashes returned. I went back on it for a month and out of no where I started to have mini black outs. I also had neck pain, numbness and a dull headache. I was rushed to the ER after an episode and was checked out from head to toe. They could not find anything wrong with me. I had put a new patch on one day and noticed the symptoms getting worse. I have taken it off since and everyday feel better. The doctor's are not convinced it is the patch but I know my body and feel it is the cause of all my symptoms.

was put on toprol 25mgs. one year ago by my heart doctor, for tachycardia which only happened after stress. soon thereafter i developed a numbness in the toes of both feet. i saw my my intrenist who didnt know what it was from. i left the country and was livinf abroad until aug 07. while ther the paresthesia of my toes got worse and started traveling up my foot and half of my calf. saw my internist and was advised to see a neurolgist. he put me thru a series of blood test and an emg. all came up negative. went back to the internist and asked her to review my records from sept 2006. first thing she noticed was that i had been started on toprol. she told me one of the side effects is paresthesia of the feet and or hands, and advised me to cut the dose in half for a few weeks and then in half again in a effort to wean me off of it. its been only 3 days since i began to cut down and already the numbness is starting to decrease. has any one else experienced this? does it go entirely away? please write. hopefull

I have been taking 200 mg of lamictal for about 3 years. I am on no other medication. I too have the dry hacking cough that never ever goes away. All day and all night. Dry hacking cough that sometimes leads to gagging. It is terrible. I have had chest xrays, breathing tests and no one can find a reason for the cough. It started about the same time I started this medication and I believe it is the cause. I also experience pain in muscles, it's a roving pain that seems to show up in different places daily, sometimes muscle spasms. My stomach is always nauseated. Very little short term memory, runny nose all the time, constant feeling of having a cold, blurry vision, sensitive to light, little red bumps that appear on my skin, itch, then when they disappear, a scar is left like a cigarette burn. I am reducing the amount of lamictal I take as of this week. I am now only taking 175 mg and will for another week then go down to 150 mg. I am hoping some of these side effects will go away, if not I have to get off of it altogether. It's funny, because I didn't have all these side effects when I first started taking it. Seems the longer I take it the worse it gets. Just can't handle it anymore. wf

I'm glad to know that there are other women out there with similar problems as me. I recently became engaged, sexually active and with that, became a new user of the Ring. It was reccomended to me by two family member s who love it and would never go back to all the other methods they'd tried in the past. I, however, am not as lucky as they are. I put it in on the first day of my period, as directed. My period lasted about 8 days when it usually lasts five and I had brown spotting for the rest of the month. Intercourse became very painful for me from the get-go. It was like a burning sensation and it was horrible enough that my fiance and I have not done it for two weeks. I went in to my gyno and she said I had a yeast infection and that the Ring was healthy for the vagina because the vagina LIKES the hormones in it and that the Ring should improve the atmosphere in the vagina, if anything. So, I've had two UTI's and a yeast infection since putting it in, bleeding after intercourse, maddening headaches, cramps, ACNE (which it is suppose to clear up), and severe mood swings. But, my doc won't switch me to the pill because she thinks that my body will adjust. I guess I'll just give it some more time and, if it doesn't straighten up within another couple of weeks, I'll demand something else because this just is not working for me as I had hoped it would!

I'm so glad I found this sight!! I knew the ring wasn't for me, but my OB said I was crazy, and that my experiences were more stress based rather than birth control based. My sex drive has diminished, I experience pain during intercourse, I've had 5 UTIs this year, I have extreme mood swings - especially the week before my period, and I can not lose any weight - no matter how much I exercise or how healthy I eat.

I KNOW that the Nuva Ring is the cause of this and I won't stay on for another month. I will be giving up convenience, but my marriage and family is more important.

i was suffering from severe allergies the past week. my dr. gave me singulair, in addition ro the usually effective allegra . the allergies started to go away quickly within 2 days. with just slight sneezing and runny nose. but after being on the medicine for 3 days now, i have started to experience pain when urinating. i have to go frequently and it burns slightly. i just wonder if anyone else has experienced this? i have taken allegra many times with none of those problems. so i assume it is due to the singulair. please any help...there was no mention of urinary type side effects on the medicine info. thank you.

I have been on yasmin for nearly year with a break of 2 months. I was on spironolactone for a year but my periods became erratic so I went on yasmin to try and control my acne. In the last 6 months I have started to become bloated and get stomach pain and be really gassy.This is quite constant but especially after I eat. I have a really good diet, no wheat,dairy or sugar or fizzy dronks, but still I experience pain. My skin is clearer than when I am not on it but i don't think I want to be in constant pain.
I also feel lethargic and get tired easily and have put on a bit of weight, but that's quite normal as I have PCOS, so my weight fluctuates constantly.

I took a 2 week treatment in January for a bronchial infection. At the end of the 1st week I began to experience pain in my right elbow and forearm. It is now mid May and the pain has spread to include my wrist joint and the back of my hand as well as the initial sites. There have been periods of as long as 4 days when I have felt no pain and then it returns without injury, mis-use, or over-use. If ever prescribed by a medical provider again I would refuse Levaquin citing SEVERE negative side effects.

It is amazing that a drug with the these side effects is presrcibed so easily. It seems to affect many people in so many different ways. It addresses the symptoms it is prescribed for but its side effects can be painful and uncomfortable as well as dangerous.

I started a ten day course of prednisone to aleviate lung inflamation due to allegy induce asthma.

Day 1 80mg
Days 2,3,4, 60mg each day
Days 5,6,7, 40mg each day
Days 8,9,10, 20mg per day

It worked well,I was breathing much better the second day and felt good overall.
On day seven I awoke to pain in my left foot. The pain persisted throughout the day. It was not until my girlfriend looked at and felt it that I realized the severity of the situation. She said it was cold and it appeared very white.
I decided to go to the outpatient emergency room, for fear of having a blood clot. They gave me a blood thinner and pain killers and also made an appointment for a arterial specialist. for the next day. I went home that evening and took a lortab and went to bed. Before I fell asleep the pain in my foot became excruciating, and I decided to take another pain reliever and was able to fall asleep for a couple of hours before I was awoken, again in pain. The next day I went to the Arterial Specialist barely able to walk the hallway to his office(it was now affecting both feet).
A sonogram was done on my legs which indicated no clotting.The doctor felt my feet and toes and said they were like ice cubes and noticed the right one was now purpleish blue at the toes as the left had been the night before.
The doctor agreed that the prednisone side effect may be causing my pain. He suggested an angiogram for further diagnosis, but I declined and left assuming the symptoms would lessen over the next few days. I have not taken the prednisone in 5 days and still experience pain and numbness in my feet, pain in my knees and hips and cannot stand or walk for any length of time without pain. I don't know how long this will persist and it seems doctors and people posting to the site can't say either. It would seem the length and severity of the symptoms is as varied as the symptons themselves. It appears to me after reading the postings that individuals are all affected differently (also dosage length of time on prednisone) In my opinion that makes its unpredictability a real risk for any individual.
Still waiting for normal.

I am in so much pain right now...am considering going to the emergency room. I've been on Lipitor for 4 or 5 months and have recently began to experience pain in my side from about the middle of my ribs in my back to my hip bone. It has been coming and going and tonight it is almost unbearable. I thought it was just that I had been turning wrong or had pulled a muscle. I was fine this morning when I got up...then I took my medication and within an hour was almost unable to move. The medication is Lipitor. That's when I decided to check out the side effects of Lipitor, because it feels like the pain is in my liver. And I found this site. I am calling my doctor in the morning, that is if I['m still here. I am praying right now the damage isn't too severe to heal on it's on.

I HAVE BEEN TAKING YASMIN FOR TWO MONTHS NOW. BEFORE TAKING YASMIN I TOOK ORTHO-TRI AND FOUND THAT IT CAUSED PERSONAL DRYNESS DURING INTERCOURSE. I DECIDED TO TRY SOMETHING NEW. BUT IT WASEN'T UNTIL I WENT DOWN TO THE PHARMACY AND BOUGHT ANOTHER PACK OF YASMIN DID I REALIZE IT COULD BE THE CAUSE OF MY MOST RECENT PROBLEMS. I HAVE BEEN DEPRESSED EVER SINCE I STARTED TAKING THE PILL. I HAVE GAINED WEIGHT AND SUFFER FROM HEADACHES DAILY. I ALSO EXPERIENCE PAIN OR DRYNESS IN MY EYES. AFTER READING THIS WEBSITE AND WHAT OTHER WOMEN ARE GOING THROUGH OR HAVE GONE THROUGH WITH THIS PILL, I HAVE DECIDED TO STOP TAKING IT IN HOPES MY SYMPTOMS WILL GO AWAY. ONE OTHER QUESTION THAT CONCEERNS ME IS WITH ORTHO TRI YOU CAN STILL BREAST-FEED BUT NOT WITH YASMIN, WHY IS THIS?

I was precribed levequin on March 5th 2005 and begun my treatment on the following day for sinus infections. This is the worst i ever felt from being on some sort of prescribed medication. This drug made me feel like i was not in touch with the wrld and i felt like i was on clound nine all day. I sat in a daze in my office trying to figure out what was going on. I begun to experience pain in my neck and unrest and nauseua. Today will be the last day that i take this medications. I just hope that i did not wait to long to stop taking it.

I had the unfortunate experience of taking both avalox and Levaquin to treat a case of chronic sinusitis. I received Levaquin for 10 days at 500 mg / per day. After four days I began experiencing extreme pain in my knees, soles of my feet, and hip joints. The pain became so severe I could barely get out of bed in the morning. I contacted my doctor who advised me to stop taking the drug immediately and prescribed another drug in a different class. It has been almost a month since stopping Levaquin and I continue to experience pain in my knees and soles of my feet. This website was a Godsend. I suspected my cotinued pain was caused by this drug but couldn't be sure. Thanks to you all for sharing the side effects you've suffered as well. This is definitely a case in which the treatment can be much worse than the illness.

I've been on Yasmine for over two years. I had no problems in the first year. I had switched to Yasmine from Leveln because Levelen was making me very bloated. Anyhow, within the past year I've begun to experience, pain in my shoulders, increased UTI and Yeast Infections, migraine heachaces, and Cold Sores in my mouth. I also have to use the bathroom a lot. I will probably change pills the next time i see my OBGYN.

Started taking Levaquin July 9. Ten day supply of 500 mg. On the 8th day woke up with little control over legs. Pain in knees (especially left knee) and difficulty walking. Still experience pain and fatigue in legs - as though there is nothing holding the knee joint together - although there is improvement as time goes by. Also experienced other symptoms described -- night sweats, difficulty sleeping, frequent urination, etc. - but since I also have IC and CIS it is difficult to know what these symptoms are ascribed to. Will be seeing my urologist this week and visit about it.

Just to concur with other side affects. 47 YO Male. After 4 doses I started to experience pain in my left foot that eventually radiated up into my leg. I have had similar pains before but not to this extream. After 5 doses I am walking with a cane. Not planning to take the 6th. I will see the Dr. today.

To Guest MD: I cannot believe your audacity in stating that Levaquin could not be the cause of our problems, and I think you are a coward for not leaving your name. I was given Levaquin in June of last year, and within 3 days began to experience pain in my joints and muscles. By day 5 I was in so much pain, I literally could not get out of my bed. I also experienced severe headaches, insomnia, and tremors. In the following 3 months, I developed tendonitis with no preceding injury, elevated white blood counts with no infection, so many complications that they are too numerous to mention. Prior to taking Levaquin, I lead an active and fulfilling life. Now that life is nothing but a memory, and my doctor said IT WAS THE LEVAQUIN. The sheer volume of the research material documenting fluoroquinolone adverse reactions simply highlights your inadequacy as an MD. I sincerely hope that none of your patients have been harmed because of your ignorance and lack of compassion and understanding of adverse drug events. How you manage to maintain your license and patient base is beyond my comprehension! All I can say is I am truly grateful that you are not my physician!