Feel a little better symptoms and conditions

I am 36 years old and have been on Lipitor 40 for about 5 years. Over time, I have noticed it very difficult to concentrate and focus. I am always dragging, and my shoulders, neck and legs always ache. I guess I chalked most of it up to getting old. But recently, I started to get burining, shooting pains in my left elbow area (doctor says tennis elbow). After doing a little research - I was shocked to find that almost every symptom that I have- can be related back to Lipitor. I stopped taking it for a few weeks, and I started to feel a little better. I stopped because I couldn't afford it. Once I was able to refill my prescription- the same issues started again. I think that I am going to stop it for good, and document changes in my body. Hopefully for the better

I took Topamax about 6 years ago for migraines, and experienced no side effects. Just started it up again 3 days ago, and I feel like I am totally drugged and my head is spinning, can not drive, can barely hold a conversation, only started with 25mg, and can say that each day I feel a little better, but the only difference this time is that I am on Lexapro and my Dr. said the side effects could be worse till I get used to it..anyone else take this combination? And how long till I can function again?

I am a 58 year old man. I was started on Lipitor due to slightly high cholesterol levels. Within a few days, I was feeling flu-like symptoms: sore skin, achey neck and shoulders, I felt pretty much the same as when flu is just starting up. Tylenol would usually make me feel a little better. I also think it was causing some bloating. My doctor suspected fibromyalgia but did some research and has switched me to Crestor ... so far so good. I am also taking the Crestor in the morning instead of at bedtime. I was taking the Lipitor at bedtime and would start to feel the worst effects by early evening.

I have been on Yasmin for only 4 days and couldn't take it anymore. At first I was willing to give it a chance but it seemed like every day my nausea was getting worse and worse. I was constantly in bed if I wasn't vommiting and couldn't eat/sleep/work/or go to school I was so sick to my stomach and miserable I had no choice but to stop after only 4 days. I felt extremely dehydrated too because I couldnt even keep fluids down. I'm starting to feel a little better since I haven't took it today and after reading some other messages I'm glad I'm stopping when I am; before everything gets worse. I just didnt think it agreed with my body, because I have took birth control pills before and never been through hell like this. This should definitly get off the market and my sympathy goes out to all those who had suffered from this.

I was on Prednisone for a month. The sleeplessness , yet being so sleepy was awful but not nearly as awful as the weight gain and depression. I am curious how long this stuff stays in your system? I am a week and a half off and I feel a little better but I am wondering about when the headaches and weight gain will disappear? Thanks

hi eryka,
glad i was able to make you feel a little better. i have no idea how long this phase lasts, i was the same as you, doing better for a few months,then started to feel a little worse again,i am now at month 8 without yasmin. it is definately getting easier as far as the anxiety goes.i do still get raging pms symptoms (never had pms before i went on yasmin!) but the way i see it,i would rather have pms for 10 days of the month than be a nervous,tired aching mental wreck the whole month like i was! i do feel that each month i am more and more like my old self,i am able to do most things that i used to do pre yasmin,it's not easy but i get by because i have too much too live for to let this drug take any more of my precious life. i am sure you are the same. like you i am not very keen on western medicine any more. i am going to have acupuncture to see if that will help ease the last of my symptoms and i am also taking a herbal remedy to help balance out my hormones.will keep you posted after i have tried the acupuncture!
best wishes.

sarah

thank god for all of you i was on yasmin for almost 2 years and in sept. of 06 i had heart palpataions then came the panic attacks then came the dizziness, foggy head like as if i was not connected to my body, sweating then freezing , my ears are muffled with strange sounds it has been a nitemare i have been off 8 weeks and s...l..........o....w.............l...y starting to feel a little better i am nervous about the long term effects of this pill and i am disgusted at the medical community for not only not listening but not being aware i had mri,eeg,ent,blood work no answers when i told my gyn she told me its not the pill and tested me for lyme ignorance!!! there has got to be something we can do

hello everyone, silke,

thankyou so so much for your responses, when i needed you.

im really sorry i havnt responded sooner, its just that i havnt been all there the past couple of weeks. ive been so anxious, scared and thought that something really serious was wrong with me and that i was going to die.
its been so scary and horrible, but after reading yor responses ive kept telling myself, "its the yasmin", and its kept me going.
i cant thank you enough for your support.

i feel a little better now, im just scared that it will happen again on my next cycle.

i just want to be normal again.

sometimes i wish i was a wizard, with a wand. i would wave it and make all of us better again. dont we all wish it was that simple.

silke,
thankyou so much, im so glad to hear that the weights coming off.
you wrote in one of your posts about the back and leg pain before your periods, i get that too, before, on and after my periods, it makes you feel like your drained out with no energy. take rest when this happens, it works for me. hang in there you will get better hopefully when your cycle becomes regular.

thanks again everybody
god bless you all

sophieXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

hi eryka,
please don't feel ashamed of your thoughts,most of us that have suffered anxiety either induced by this pill or otherwise have had these awful scary thoughts. the post below this reply makes some very valid points! i too was terrified of being around knives or scissors,i thought i may hurt myself or my children,i kept thinking if the knife slipped and i hurt myself i would have to go to the hospital and they might section me because they might think i was mad. i also had really scary thoughts about harming my children or that someone else would harm them,crazy things like someone would grab the baby pram and throw it over the balcony in the shopping centre. so as you can tell i know exactly how you felt. i also think that these thoughts appear both to do with low seratonin levels and also the fear that you are going to lose control and do something awful,this in effect would be your worst nightmare and something you would never do so cannot understand where these alien thought patterns come from. i don't even like smacking my childrens bottoms if they are really really naughty let alone do some of the awful things that my brain came up with. the previous post is also correct in saying that if you were truly crazy you would not know a thing about it and certainly would not worry about it! whenever i have a scary thought (which thankfully is really rare now!) i physically tell myself not to be so silly,i would never do that or that would never happen then i will purposly think of a really nice happy thought. please feel free to post again if you need any more help or support or post your email and i will be happy to try to help you,i have been off yasmin for 6 months nearly and am doing really well now,i still have the odd day thats not so good but i know i am not crazy and i will get better.
best wishes to you eryka,i hope my reply will help you feel a little better.

sarah

Hello,

I'm 18 and Yasmin was my first birth control ever. I took the first 3 weeks of the yellow active pills, and started having all these symptoms that I have never had before: panic/ anxiety attacks about a volcanoe erupting, fatigue, sick, upset stomach, vomiting, numbness in my arms, I don't like to be alone, I panic when it starts to get dark, I have a month and a half old baby that I sometimes just don't want to take care of so I give her to my mom. I have never been this way before. My mom and boyfriend noticed a change in me so my mom got online and found this web page for me. I'm so glad she did because I thought I was going crazy for a while. I was on my 3 white pill when I quit taking it. Saturday will be a week since I have put anymore actual hormones in my body. I am scared to death of any other bcp and I really don't want to talk to my doctor about it because I know he will just say that it's not the pill...but it is!!! After reading other womens stories I feel much better. I'm not the only one. I've started to feel a little better lately, just today my panic/anxiety attacks have not been so severe. For a while I wanted to cry when I got them, I just wanted to die. I would stand and be rocking back and forth, I would just stare at one spot. Please keep posting your stories. It's what really gives me support and gets me through this.
If anyone knows a way to get this pill off the market let me know...I will help. I really hate to think that other women may have this happen to them. I believe it's the drsp hormone that does this to me...it's awful!!

I have been prescribed Doxycycline 100mg twice daily for suspected Lyme disease. I have never experienced such strong side effects from taking an antibiotic before! The morning dose is the worst by far for me. It makes me feel incredibly nauseous and it makes me feel hot with stomach pains. I feel like being sick all the time for about 3-4 hours after taking it - I have tried lots of water and food but I still feel like crap! After about 4 hours I start to feel a little better then I feel like eating lots and lots!!! My body just seems to be swinging from feeling like I am dying to being very hungry hours later... I take the last pill about 10pm and stay downstairs for about a hour before I go to bed - strangely enough though I have never felt ill like I do in the morning and go to sleep ok. All very weird and I cant wait until I have finished taking this drug (14 day course and I am half way through)

hiya all, silke!

thankyou so much for posting back silke!!

i am sorry i didnt post earlier i just havnt been feeling myself, really withdrawn, needed to be myself and did not want to talk or be around anybody.

i feel a little better now but still not myself, i suppose i have to be patient and take each day as it comes.

one minute i am fine and the next the anxiety kicks in and i feel like crap, i just want to feel normal again.

oh silke, why is this happening i feel like a 80 year old, always so tired and ill all the time.

one good thing this pill has done for me is, its taught me to do my homework before taking any kind of medication ever again and also how hormones can affect the body, if there not in balance they can make you go mad.

sorry again, thankyou and god bless you silke

big hugs
sophie

Hi Guest 20077,

I can relate to all that you had to say in your earlier post, except I had a tremendous amount of weight gain. I went in for an appendecitis and they found ovarian cysts and adrenal cysts and Yasmin was supposed to be the miracle drug to help me. I went through Dr. after Dr. as well as counseling and when I just cried in front of her and couldn't talk I ended up in a Psychiatrists office. I'm a Psychology student myself and can't be a Psychologist if I feel like I'm crazy and have my own life out of control so I would much rather suffer through the pain. Btw: I've had these terrible cramps since I first started having periods, have been in the emergency room becuase I couldn't get off of the floor out of the fetal position as they were so bad and had to be carried to the ER, and have missed tremendous amounts of work over the years because of it, but I would rather go back through that then what has been going on. I have been awful to my boyfriend over the past 8 months and although he has wanted to give up because of it a few times, he understood what was going on and has stuck by me which I am so grateful for. I also have 3 children and they have had to deal with a mom who has been moody/depressed, sick all of the time, just awful and they deserve so much more. We all have medical issues of some sort but I believe that the major medical problems that I have currently are due to this drug as every test that every family dr., gyn, and endo has ran has been normal... it has literally taken over my life. I have quit this week and am hoping for the best. So far, I am starting to feel a little better. I have begun to sleep much better. Although I'm staying up later, I'm also sleeping in later in the mornings and my sleep is finally restful and complete which is really interesting because that is a problem that I didn't even realize I had until I stopped taking it and reading these posts and thinking about it. I wish you and everyone else the best of luck.

Tammy

This week my urologist suggest me flomax.
After i come home i read the side effects.
one day one i feel a little better on flow.
keeping in view the side effects i am scared to continue.
Kindly guide me should i swtich to herbal or continue with flomax

To Julie,

My advice to you is simple....GET OFF YASMIN NOW. Please dont waste any more time and bother seeing out the three months. Take it from me who was on Yasmin for a year before I started suffering heart palpitations, severe anxiety and panic, severe depression (never having suffered any of this before)...I wanted my world to end when I'd always been a positive person who loved my life. The only change was YASMIN.

I stopped Yasmin in Feb this year after making the connection to my 'loss of spirit' and this evil pill. It took me 8 months to feel completely back to myself, with the help of a herbal rememdy called 'Agnus Castus' to rebalance my hormones.

Consider yourself lucky to have experienced these symptoms fast enough to stop it immediately and not have to endure such a long time before you are feeling your old self.

I finally feel like me again now. My family and friends notice the old 'mel' again as well. Every month I'd feel a little better, but it has taken this entire time for the anxiety (panic, horrible thoughts etc) to stop.

Good luck and god bless everyone going through the hell of Yasmin. Believe me, I know what you are all going through/ This site was my life line for a few months when no one else really understood how psychotic this pill had made me, and how long it took for it to get out of my system.

xxxooo

Update on 26 yr old daughter who had taken omnicef after sinus surgery. Returned to her surgeon for followup. Given 5th prescription for side effects. Was told to never take Omnicef again due to severe complications. He said it was a great drug, but it doesn't work well for everyone. Praise God that she is beginning to feel a little better. She said the reaction to the drug was so much worse than the sinus surgery.

I'VE BEEN ON PREDNISONE FOR ABOUT 6 WEEKS. I STARTED ON 60MG FOR 3 WEEKS NOW DOWN TO 20. MY LEGS FELL LIKE IF THEY ARE NOT REAL, MY FACE BROKE OUT, MY ARMS AND LEGS HURT. I WAS BEGGINING TO THINK SOMETHING ELSE MIGHT BE WRONG WITH ME,BUT AFTER READING THROUGH HERE I SEE THAT SOMEONE HAS AT LEAST ONE OF MY SYMTHOMS AND THAT MADE ME FEEL A LITTLE BETTER. ANYONE KNOWS HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR THE MOONFACE TO GO AWAY AFTER YOU STOP THE DRUG?

I was on Yasmin for 1 month only as it was recommended to me by a friend. I was told it was the best pill ever and side effects were minimal. After 1 week everything was fine. In the second week my breasts started to become so sore and they just blew up a whole bra size!!! I wanted to get off Yasmin but decided just to see the month through. When i finished my period i was still getting continual spotting everyday I would bleed a little and i assumed this was normal. I have read a few postings where people have experience the same thing so I feel a little better. I finished Yasmin nearly 3 days ago but i still havnt got my period, just the spotting!! and my breasts are still killing me!!!!
Has anyone else had the same probs and can someone tell me when it will go back to normal???? I cant believe this crap has stuffed up my body totally... pls help!!!

hi again i thought i would let you know what the doctor said well i went last night with my very supported husband bless him putting up with me after being on yasmin

well i said to him about since starting this i have visted him god knows how many times been on antibiotics and admitted in hospiatal coming away with no result everythink ok .
so i told him about my side effects im having and that we think it is this that is causing my 14months of what ive been through.
i said i have been of the yasmin since last sunday and staying of it to see how i go and told him i have been smiling a little since coming off this horrible drug still having side effects but not like they were.
last night i wasnt to good after tea was sick and i felt as if i lost my breath and started panicking its hard to explain but i went to bed and today i feel a little better
well to my surprize my doctor was very intrested in what i had to say he says its a new pill and that there is no side effects in his doctors bible book
so he wrote down what i told him and said use condoms and i will review you in 6-8weeks time to see how im getting on just hope each day carrys on like it is my chest pains have near enough gone just anxity will prob haunt me for a while had to get out the shop yesterday went out for a hour with my mum and couldt hack it need air but i just pray for the day to come when im back to normal will keep you posted on how i am anyone who want to talk then email by all means thaks nicola 22

I have been on zoloft now for 2 years for anxiety and panic attacks. I had all the same side effects that have been describe here in these forums I started out taking 50mg then i asked my doctor to reduce the med to 25mlgs....
Now i went back to my doctor and told her i wanted off so she told me to take a pill every other day for one week then stop so i did now i have those electrical shocks in my head and it mostly happens at night and not during the day.. .
Hum really weird but anyway i have awful nightmares too and they are really scary.. but in the long run i feel a little better i am not tired all the time and lazy .. I also gained alot of weight with this drug especially for me being on such a low dose my doc says 25mg should cause weight gain ... Well thats not true it does. There is one good thing about this drug it took away my anxiety attacks and lowered my panic attacks but trying to get off of this is horrible. I have been off for 3 days now i will keep you all up dated with the side effects of getting off of zoloft and i will let you know about how long for the electrical shocks......

Wellbutrin was increased to 200 SR in a.m. and 100 mg at night. Have experienced gagging sensation. Once this has passed (a couple of times a day) I feel a little better. I have been extremely tired and have no appetite at all. Has anyone else experienced the gagging/nausea feeling?

Thanks.

OK. This is a really weird one. I was taking doxy for a 'suspected' case of Lyme (I won't even go there for this post! Its a whole other story) .I was prescribed 200mgs per day, but all the Lyme patients i spoke with said you had to take a lot more. Just to be "on the safe side" I upped the dosage to 300mgs a day, (the lowest dosage sanctioned by the experienced Lyme docs at ilads.org,) administered 8 hours apart. Four days after upping the dosage I was sitting on the couch when my left wrist felt numb, then my left side of my face momentarily went a little numb. At the same time i got really dizzy and faint. I felt really strange, like everything seemed unreal and glistening. I was rushed to the Er and 4 hours and $3000 worth of tests later (I have a $5000 deductible) I was discharged given the diagnosis of a TIA (mini stroke) meaning all the tests were negative and that's what they guessed. The thing is, I'm only 52, look 44 (objectively) am not overweight, don't smoke , exercise regularly and have low blood pressure. There is no history whatsoever of heart disease in my family. The only risk factor is elevated cholesterol. The point is, I'm a relatively low risk for stroke. My own doctor saw me a few days later. I still was dizzy and out of it. TIA symptons resolve thenselves in 24 hours He was certain I had not had a stroke and thought that all these symptoms could possibly have been caused by aside effect of doxycycline, intracranial hypertension, or in layman's terms, pressure on the brain. Yow...I stopped taking the stuff for a day and a half and felt almost normal. My doc thought i should take one a day and after a couple of days go up to the 200mg suggested dosage, but when I took just one last night, I woke up with similar symptoms, although not quite as pronounced as before. They persisted all day,gradually dropping off.

I have now stopped taking the stuff and am beginning to feel a little better. I have never had a negative reaction to antibiotics before, but after this I will be very reticent to try then again, unless I am dying or something. I am finished with doxy. All in all, a nasty and very expensive experience. (unless of course, I really DID have a TIA!)

No new side effects, just want to reiterate what Levaquin did to me. What I resent is that no doctor involved ever mentioned problematic and painful side effects of the drug, yet when I had to be admitted to the emergency room for severe muscle and joint pains, the first thing the ER doctor said was "Levaquin causes painful, swollen joints and severe muscle and tendon pain, including rupture of the Achilles tendon."

Amazing that an unknown ER doctor, who had seen my case for less than 5 minutes, immediately caught and explained the cause of my problems. Thank God I hadn't forced myself to exercise, which I had considered doing, as I have now read on this website that exercise exacerbates the problem and could have caused ruptured tendons.

My main symptoms, which gradually grew worse as I continued the drug for 10 days, were metallic taste in my mouth, feeling of tiredness and heaviness in my body, increasing muscle and joint pain, especially in my knees, eventually spreading down the back of my legs toward my ankles. When I finally gave up and went to the Emergency Room, I could barely walk in; had to hold on to walls, chairs, etc. just to stay upright.

The ER doctor stopped the Levaquin and started me on Ibuprofin to combat the inflammation of the joints. (yet another drug??) So far it has been 24 hours since I stopped the Levaquin and I feel a little better - can almost walk again. I hope and pray the side effects will go away quickly, but I'm concerned since reading other people's lingering problems.

Thank you for this forum; I wish I had discovered it sooner!

I took a 500mg dose of Levaquin last night and experienced many of the very negative symptoms mentioned above. I have taken Cipro in the past with only minor side effects. It started with hallucinogenic type dreams that woke me up. Once up I could not get back to sleep and I was severely chilled. For the rest of the night I had spells of being severely chilled followed by overheated. I also have a headache although that could do to the sinus infection I have. I also experienced bringing in the ears, shaking, extreme thirst, muscle pain, and anxiety. It has been about 14 hours since taking the first pill and I am starting to feel a little better. Obviously I will never take this again!

i was taken off zithromax and put on levaquin for a severe upper respitory infection. i have felt weak and dizzy since i started taking it. i can't stand up for long periods of time or even sit up. i feel a little better but can't leave the house because i feel like i am going to pass out when i walk around too much. i am nervous and anxious and have been having trouble sleeping. i get hot and cold flashes throughout the day as well. don't take this medication...