August 15th
2008
1:51 AM
I wonder if you realize you are talking to over 4000 users will all the same or similar symptoms....when addressing a mass of people who agree upon the negative aspects of this Synthetic HORMONE. Just wait until the time when you start getting the palpitations, (as a completely fit young person like me) Then tell me how great you feel. if this wasn't serious and in suspicion, we wouldn't have googled it and made an account just to be able to contribute to complaining. if we wanted to attribute our negative health issues to something rather than owning up to them, we surely wouldn't reach out to strangers to do it, but rather be satisfied with that idea in our head, as our reasoning, as you suggest. Say what you wish about Us complainers, I can only THANK GOD that I had enough side effects to become fed up with it truly enough to say goodbye AFTER 6 YEARS of troubles including tiredness, weight gain, depression, anxiety, palpitations (scary flip flop ones ...and super fast out of no where ones....exercise ones and sitting in my bed ones....Irritability and lack of interest in life in general) This is my first month off in 6 years and i had no period, so i came on to google it....and come to find out there are zillions of women having trouble on LOTS of sites if you type it in google. I hate to tell you dear, but just because you are having a great result with it in ONE aspect after a short time, doesn't mean your hair wont fall out too when you finally decide to stop like the rest of us. I can only hope mine wont. and again, I reiterate, this many people cant be wrong. I hope the best for you and for gods sake, get OFF the shit.
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August 14th
2008
8:57 PM
Wow you are all a bunch of complainers who try and blame XYZ on Yasmin which probably have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the pills. I have bee diagnosed with PCOS and have been on hormone therapy since age 15, first zovia, which worked well enough but did not get rid of a lot of my symptoms, only lessened them somewhat, so now I am on yaz. My depression has completely subsided, I feel GREAT and only had some nausea which almost EVERYONE gets when taking a hormone therapy birth control pill. Trust me, if you are going to have SIDE EFFECTS it is not going to happen 4 YEARS LATER, please.... grow up and take responsibility for yourselves, rather than trying to blame a pill
-- By anjamaka | Reply | (6) replies | Private Message me
June 25th
2006
2:56 PM
Hi ladies...
I am new to the board and am absolutely having problems with yasmin. I was on estrostep for three years and switched over to yasmin because i hardly ever got my period while on it. Anyways ive been on yasmin for 2 months.. going on the 3rd month & i have been so sick. The sickness doesnt happen until Im suppose to start that week of placebo pills. I will get diarehha horrible & also get nausea so bad i cant even hold up my head. I will also get pretty bad cramps as well. During this time.. im not even spotting. The rest of the month is alright. I will be very moody & sometimes have no sex drive, although sometimes my sex drive will flip flop and i will be really in the mood. You know what im saying... let me know
Thanks Ladies
Heather
February 21th
2006
5:26 PM
I was on effexor for a year to treat dysthimic depression and general anxiety disorder. My dose started low but was upped every few months until I was on 150 mg.
The side effects I experienced were:
- Dizziness
- Inability to sleep soundly at night (I would wake several times and have difficulty falling asleep again)
- Inability to stay awake during the day (probably as a result of the previous side-effect. this was so bad that i even fell asleep once while i was standing up!)
- A "fuzzy" mental state; everything looked cloudy, I had no concentration, poor attention span
- Frequent vivid nightmares
- This weird sensation that happened every couple of minutes. It wasn't quite like dizziness...it was more like my brain was doing a flip-flop in my head.
- I was ALWAYS exhausted
- My libido disappeared
The withdrawl affects of the drug were similar but also accompanied by twitching, nausea, increased dizziness, more frequent "brain flips", and occasional fainting or blacking out.
Worse was that I had to take the drug at the same time every day, or else I'd enter withdrawl almost immediately. If I took the drug at 7:00 AM every morning before school, and then slept in until 10:00 AM on the weekend, I would wake up in withdrawl, even though i was only a few hours late!
When I tapered off the drug, the withdrawl affects were almost unbearable for a couple of weeks, but eventually I returned almost to a normal state, except that it took over a year for my libido to return, and even though I've been free of the drug for a couple of years, I still have difficulties in that area sometimes.
-- By flossie_and_the_unicorns | Reply | Private Message me
December 23th
2008
4:21 PM
HEY I JUST STARTED TAKING THIS MED AND IT SUCKS BUT MY DOCTOR WON'T GIVE ME ANYTHING ELSE I FEEL SO SICK AND MOODY I FEEL LIKE MY MOODS FLIP FLOP I CAN'T SLEEP AND I AM ALWAYS CONGESTED I HATE IT !!!!!!!!!!!! IS ANYONE ELSE HAVING TROUBLE SLEEPING ????????
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