Fried food symptoms and conditions

I was on 5/10 lotrel, a mild dose over 3 months. I took myself off of the drug and learned to relax more, and have a better diet and exercise more. I felt weird where I could not focus on my priorities, and the way the medication made me feel made me think of it more than I wanted to rather than life. I am normally a no headache person. While on the medication, i had horrible headaches where I had to take Excedrin migraine to get over it. My skin after taking it for awhile became dry and itchy. I had dark circles under my eyes, which was new. My knees and feet and hands became ice cold. I think it is because I believe that my blood pressure the way it was, was what my body needed, and maybe there was not enough circulation with the very low 117/60. My normal and feel good blood pressure is about 140/85. I am happy with that and will keep it. Also wild at normal 140/85 my blood sugar is normal. when I took the medication and it dropped to 117/60, my blood glucose rose. My body was releasing glucose because it was saying, hey something is not okay here. I think the drugs are bad, and now I eat organic vegetables, no coffee, no sugar, protein meats, and soy milk, unsweetened almond milk, walnuts, blueberries, whole grains. No white bread, no sugar, no soda, no fried food, no white potatoes, no white rice. My range is now 120/70 to 140/85 when i am rushing around. That is normal. I think medications change your body chemistry. When my skin became itchy and my extremities cold, and my body started shaking and freezing and sweating, it was from the pills. if you want to know you readings, don't go to the doctor. Buy a self test BP machine, Glucose reader, cholesterol meter. My doctors cholesterol count was 100 over another text i had at a free clinic. Maybe they cheat the numbers, who knows, to make you think you are sick and bring you back. take care of yourself, and get away from the fear and panic the doctors put you in. you are way better to see a natural nutritionist if you need help. Break a sweat every day!...that will help.

Here's the deal - you are all reading about the negative affects about yasmine...WHY? Because when a birth control is going WELL for someone..they usually don't look it up on the internet...they just let it take its course and never have a problem. HOWEVER - when someone is having a bad experience with a particular medication - they naturally look up the side effects to see if anyone else is experiencing the SAME thing. I swear - ANY medication I have ever taken....I've come across sites such as this that have people complaining and comparing the negative symptoms.

If you look up ANY type of birth control - I assure you, you WILL find a website like this. It all depends on the PERSON. Yasmin isn't THAT bad for some people..it just happens to be that 90% of the people it DOES affect..happen to find this forum and want to rant about it..(which I would do the same too)

I, however...so far - have nothing bad to say about it. I've taken it in the past - and I'm taking it now due to Endometriosis..and needing to regulate my period. So far so good!!!! I got my period @ a normal time and cramps weren't that bad. My hormones were out of whack before due to the endo..and now they seem to be back on track!

I don't notice any noticeable side effects...but I do notice that my breasts have gotten noticeably larger. I may have put on 4 pounds (although to be honest...I think it's all the crappy fried food I've been eating lately..and not sticking to my diet/exercise) lol..but overall - I don't have anything bad to say about Yasmin.

For those who are looking into taking it....every person obviously reacts differently -this just happens to be a site where the people who are disattisfied...found...and want to compare. The ones who ARE satisfied..simply haven't made it a point to look up info on a drug that is working for them...I just looked it up, to see if it was TRUE that breasts get larger on this pill lol...so yes..don't fret - give it a shot.