Funny things symptoms and conditions

I started getting panic, palpitations, anxiety, bouts of crying, no sex drive, odd taste in my mouth. I only had the taste and lack of libido since early on but felt fine and than whammo the crying and palpitations and anxiety hit. I asked the doctor if it could be the Yasmin even tho id been on it for a while, i got the royal fob off and some lame comment about 'us girls doing funny things sometimes' whatever that means!!!!! It got worst, i couldnt stand to be in the college where id gotten the palpitations to start with so dropped out and i couldnt understand why, but i was cool to still work nearby the college, I had some odd behaviour tho, like i suddenly couldnt park on the ground level for fear of the levels collapsing, i was scared of dying, of freak events, of flying and i LOVED flying, the syptoms waxed and waned and then a few months lather while still having intermittent anxiety a stressful period popped up and that was it i was gone, worst time of my life, allergies, nauseus, paranoia, depression, nightmares, horrific mental images and distressing thoughts, suicidal thoughts. Crux of it was it sucked big time!!!! That was 3 years ago and im still trying to put myself back together! The original syptoms did get better with time but ive never been quite the same.

Hi Everyone,
I am a fourth year medical student and recently I started having horrible panic attacks, I feel like crying all the time and I actually feel depressed. I am a "hypochondriac" generally (I guess it comes with the territory of knowing about different diseases out there), but I have been feeling like I am going crazy. I started Yasmin in November of 2006 and I was fine for a few months. Lately, with stress at school and exams, I started feeling like I've just crumbled. I get anxiety/panic attacks (the latest one was at the movies), horrible heart palpitations, nausea, I am sweating, I can't sleep, I feel this knot in my stomach. It's horrible. I thought it was me cracking under pressure, but I was never like this before I started Yasmin. Recently, I was placed on an antidepressant because everyone assumed it was depression, but after reading this post, I really think it might be the pill. I got off it a week ago, so I hope I will see a difference. Thanks guys!!!

WOW!! I am so glad I found this site. I started on the NuvaRing last August since then I have beeb consistantly gaining weight. I exercise 5-6 days a week 1 1/2 hours a night. I was getting so frustrated because I would jog and jog. Instead of loosing weight I just kept gaining. I started dieting (didn't eat very much to began with ) still gaining weight. I was at 117 when I started now 140!!!. I have experieenced the bloating. My breasts doubled in size literally. I have many other of the side effects mentioned by other women on this site. I have just gone off of it tonight. I sure hope this goes well. Has anybody suffered any side effects coming off of it?

ambien is great! after my last back surgery i was having trouble sleeping because of leg spasms (i am paraylzed from the stomach down) so my doc prescribed this drug, i get the greatest feeling about 20mins into taking the pill im all relaxed and calm, then i fall right to sleep. yes i experience memory loss (BIG TIME) i check my out-going calls in the morning and dont remember having even picked up the phone! its pretty amusing really, people always have funny things to tell about what i had done the night before. my mom was getting worried about me because i am only 18 so she wanted to switch me to the natrual stuff, i took three of those things the other night.. and it didnt do a thing, i couldnt sleep at all! i took 2 days off of ambien and im all gittery and anxious. i cant wait to take my pill tonight!! i may be addicted... but its not doing any harm to my body, so i dont see the problem, ive asked my mom (who is a nurse) if there are any long term effects of taking it and she said no, she even takes it herself. i am confindent in saying that if there were any long term side effects i would abruptly stop taking it. until then. LONG LIVE AMBIEN! :))