Going insane symptoms and conditions

I was on Singulair for about 5-6 years and I rarely had an asthma attack. I had the vivid dreams that are common with Singulair, but that didn't bother me. I also had the occasional earache, but it was tolerable. My last 3 months of taking this drug, I started "seeing things." I would see shadows darting out of the corner of my eye. At the time I was waitressing and I went out to wait on a table that I thought was there. When I looked up to take their order, there was no one there. One night I almost got into an accident because I thought a car was behind me that was tailing me when there wasn't one. It was at that point that I really started to freak out. I thought I was going insane, possibly schizophrenia. One day I was flipping through a magazine and happened to see an ad for Singulair. I read through all the fine print and saw that a rare side effect was hallucinations! It all made sense at that point and I knew I wasn't going crazy!

I stopped taking Singulair and then started to have breathing problems (I wasn't taking anything for my asthma at that point). I went to the doctor and he laughed when I told him about the hallucinations being from Singulair. He told me to go back on it and see if it happened again. The second or third day I started to see shadows again. I lasted about a week and then just stopped and went to Advair. It doesn't help much.

It makes me really sad that Singulair did this to me. It was the only time in my life where I didn't have to worry about breathing. Now I have to take prednisone about twice a year, which I never had to do on Singulair. I just wanted to write this in case anyone else was experiencing anything similar.

The first few times taking this drug I had extreme nausea even though I had tolerated most previous antibiotics and pills pretty well up to this point.
I thought it was a little odd, but that it would pass.

The nausea finally did pass, but for the past two weeks I have been taking it I've been doing almost nothing but sleeping, and having extreme spells of tiredness.

Gradually every day has just gotten worse and worse than the next while on these pills. I don't want to get out of bed and lately have looked at the clock to see that I've been in bed for twelve hours at a time.

Now, I'm also in very advanced college courses. I initially attributed my sudden inaccuracy and inability to focus on the fact that I was just nervous about the courses, the material, but each day my concentration got worse, and worse and worse. It feels like I have ADD or something, which I've never had.
I felt like I was going insane when I could not even get through a page of material without wanting to jump up and shake myself around (also because of the numbness I got in my legs and arms). Not like me at all.

I have been dizzy, weak, incredibly tired and cold all the time, and entirely unable to focus all since I've started taken these pills. Unlike many of the other people's symtoms posted here, I've experienced severe chills and cold/ numbness in my whole body rather than heat? Except when I go in the sun, which then feels like I'm burning up.

Today was the last straw when I couldn't even get up out of bed, drive normally I was so dizzy, could not normally read one page of material, and the sun felt like it was burning my eyes out.

And reading some of the even worse symptoms others have had, this drug is not worth all the pain and possible permanent damage just to kill a few of these pimples.

EVERYBODY REPLY TO THIS Let's see exactly how many women have had negative side affects from Yasmin. Just reply with the sideaffects. I see lots of posts and was wondering how many women are out there sharing similar problems. So me.... migraines, extremely horrible mood swings all from taking yasmin for 8-9 days next..........? lol

Okay, I recently made a post on July 26th about how I loved Yasmin and have not had a problem with it. I would now like to revoke that post. Since I wrote that I have been feeling totally crazy! I snap at my 2 year old son, my fiance and my coworkers. That is not me! I do not do things like that. I'm usually a very happy person and very strong emotionally. Lately the most stupid stuff has me crying my eyes out. I seem to pick fights with my fiance, which I don't do. We never fight. And it was only last night that I sat down with him and told him that I feel like I'm going insane. We thought about it and the only thing that has really changed in the past 6 months is the fact that I started taking Yasmin. We discussed it and I have decided to stop taking this BCP for at least a month to see what happens with my mood. I'm hoping it works. If anyone has any suggestions about how to do this smoothly, please let me know. And good luck to you all!

I was on 30 mg of remeron for 7 months for depression. This drug is a nightmare! Severe cravings for sweets, and an unsatified hunger that nothing seemed to please me at night, munched about anything. I gained weight and slept through about anything at all. 3 months ago I developed a constant anger/rage feeling, and I was ready to take on anybody who crossed me. Sometimes I even became violent, I would break things, scream and yell at my BF for no reasons at all. BF left a few times, and friends stopped coming around. I felt like I was going insane. I would be happy one minute, and then either angry or sad and crying for no reason at all. I have started to ween myself off this drug for 8 weeks. I DO NOT recommend remeron.

In brief, I am a 35 year old mother of two. I have been suffering with endo since I am 14. I had a span of 4 years with no symptoms at all and in Sept. 05 I had a total hysterectomy for endo and cancer cells on my cervix. I recently spent a week in the hospital for 2 endometriomas which are on the one and only ovary I have left, they are both bleeding and my doctor whom I trusted and his colleagues recommended a 6 month depo-lupron injection treatment before they do surgery to fix up the endo, they are reluctant to remove the remaining ovary due to my age but I will INSIST until someone listens. They did not tell my husband or I about any side affects and because I was in a tremendous amount of pain and because I trusted Dr. Shine so much I accepted the treatment, they faxed my husband the prescription at his work and he had to go find it when he did finally found it he brought it to St. Marys hospital and the nurse injected me and 2 days later I went home, I was sent home with celebrex, iron pills and morpheine pills for the pain...well I was back in the ER 3 days later because the pain was unbearable, my blood pressure was high and I was going insane, I met with the gyno on call and she expressed her disgust with her colleague for not telling me about the side affects of lupron and how the drug worked. My first shot was on the 13th of April and today is the first day I am feeling human, I have little endo pain but let me tell you the hip and back pain are killing me slowly. I am a very active mother and wife and I play sports but even the thought of that now hurts. I have not been able to work and will not return until I feel good, I am REALLY scared of getting the next injection which will be on the 11th of may and my new doctor told me to go through with the treatment for the next 5 shots because even though it will not be easy she insists that it will help me and once I am done they will perform surgery, I have set-up 2 other appointments with specialists and my Family Doctor is the only one that has been there for me, he follows me daily and has set-up a bone density test. Is there anyone with similiar situation that can help me out. I have other side affects but the hip and back pain are the ones I will never forget, I think I would have 10 more births drug free then to have to experience the pain again after the next shot...

I started taking yaz 10 days ago and have never felt so weird i my life...I thought I was going insane.My vision is blurred I feel faint and on edge.I even went to hospital thinking I was dying as I felt on the verge of passing out all the time.I have just worked out its this pill as its the only thing Im taking and my symptoms started the very next day...Cant wait to feel normal again.DONT TAKE THIS PILL ITS NASTY!!!!!!!

Happy New Year to all

Hi there i am officially one year and 2 months off yasmin and i can tell you all its hard and each day is hard as you go through each and every symptom and every anxiety attack and every pain that you think may be leading to a heart attack/stroke/blod clot etc, and i am still here 14months after finishing this damn pill but i can tell you ITS GETS BETTER. to the new ladies to recap i was on the pill for almost 3years and yes i went through every side effect and struggled each and every day to the point i thought i was losing it even having a heart attack and life was so hard with a job and three young children and i felt like i was going insane and then i stumbled on this site and found silke and all the girls.
the first three months were horrendosu and the symptoms were so severe and i struggled immensly but then as i approached month five it slowly began to get better each and every day and i had everything high blood pressure huge weight gain massive anxiety heart palps i had to quit my job i was not coping and yet every day i came to this site and after a long six months i was getting better and better, i just want you all to know to hang in there i took it day by day and i know thats so hard when you are going through it but guess what i have been there and its gonne be ok. I took magnesium, vitamin c, a good multi vitamin and flaxseed capsules and i think these helped immensly, I have just been diagnosed with low iron so am on an organic supplement and my liver is not working as good as what it should so my naturopath will give me something for that in late january and thats why he thinks i have massive weight gain so lets see if what he gives me helps.
take care all and remember all of us who have travelled the road and still are are here to help you to realise you are not going insane and that you are on the road to recovery even though you fell like its a battle you will never win
take care
LISA

Dear Silke,sarah and all new comers.

Well on Nov 9th i hit the 12month mark off yasmin and to all the newcomers i owuld like to say i have been reading these posts for the whole year and you are all where i was and in some ways still am. Do not get me wrong I HAVE RETURNED TO WORK, I CAN LEAVE MY HOME, i do not get someone to ring me at 7am every day to see if i am still alive as i truly thought i would die in my sleep and all that was my anxiety.Sarah i too got charles linden tapes and they helped me a great deal i ordered them over the net one night when i was desperate and i was so thankful. take each day as it comes and i know that is so so hard i remember last xmas being exactly where you all are, silke telling me i was going to be ok and as i served xmas lunch i was pooping into my computer to read posts to reassure myself i was not going insane. I have come so far and so will you all. Some things are still there, i still get heart palps sometimes and Bilberry is great for the eye floaters i got it in a health shop and its great, I gain weight like no tomorrow and my gp is a woman whom agress with everything being said here and this week has ran all the relevent tests again to see where i am at. I am also seeing a chranio chiro whom changes out seratonin levels and he is running a urine analysis of he hormoes and metablics so stay tuned to that result. I just want you to know that its so hard but its gonna get better i gave my job up i was so full of anxiety etc and now i am back at work and loving it, Silke do you still get the bloating as my face is puffing a lot lately and the chiro is waiting for the results to get me something
sorry for rambling
take care,and merry xmas to all

LISA

Four years ago I weighed 105 lbs.; was happy, vigorous, energetic, positive, adventurous (skiied, sang, gardened, backpacked, roller-bladed, ballroom danced. Dr. prescribed Toprol for moderate/high BP (140/90). Now: 155 lbs., majorly depressed--don't care if I live or die--terrible fatigue, everything HURTS--bones, muscles, joints, irritable, never sleep more than 1 hr. any time. Sometimes think I'm going insane...fade in and out of awareness and don't even care...even having trouble concentrating to write this--like adult A.D.D. Bad case of tinnitus (high-pitched electrical noise inside my head; at one point, thought I was picking up Morse Code from somewhere! No kidding. I KNOW I'm not nuts, but wondering what's happened to me. Female, age 60; IQ 160+ and NOT a goofball, but feel like I've died and been reborn as a monster. I suspect the Toprol, since I'm not taking anything else. Is there an acceptable substitute without these ghastly side effects?

I've been on Prednisone since February of this year. I started at 60mg/day and am currently weaing from 40mg/day to 20mg/day. For awhile I thought I was losing my mind. First I will say I am on this medication after being diagnosed with Sarcoidosis. The Prednisone has decreased the number and size of granulomas in my lungs making breathing a lot easier and has also gotten rid of most of the chronic pain I was in. I used to wake up barely able to drag myself out of bed. Here is a list of my side effects: increased appetite, indigestion, nervousness/restlessness, dizziness, flushing of facial and neck skin, burping, SWEATING, mental confusion - inability to think clearly, memory loss, tinnitus, irritability, mood swings, muscle cramping in legs and arms/fingers, weight gain, sodium/fluid retention, increased hair growth on facial areas. I had daily headaches for awhile but those seem to have dissapated to infrequent headaches. I'm grateful for this drug for what it's done for me but the side effects are making me feel I'm going insane.

Hello everyone!

I am so glad I found all of you! Now I know that I'm not going insane. I am currently on Yasmin and I have concluded that it's the WORST birth control ever and it's side effects, detremental. I started taking Yasmin in December and began to get ridiculously over-emotional over the stupidest things! For instance, if my boyfriend didn't call me at a certain time I thought the world was over! In Februrary it got to the point where I was so frustrated at my reactions that I began seeing a therapist. That still didn't help though. Before taking the pill I was a completely strong and happy person and I know my reactions to things just aren't normal right now. I'm the type of woman who NEVER cried before but now I literally cry my eyes out over nothing! In fact, last night I cried so hard that my eyes started to hurt! I've also been experiencing anxiety, especially around my period. This has gotten progressively worse. I think the severe moodswings are the worst though because they just don't go away...it's like the tiniest thing sets me off and I can't control myself. Then I get even more frustrated and guilty because I KNOW this isn't me!! I called my doctor and I have decided to get off of Yasmin...I may try something else but it seems like these damn pills just aren't agreeing with me! Please be careful if you are on this! Much love!

im so glad i found this page. i wasnt sure if my extreme mood swings and short-temper could be from birth control. i originally started out taking the patch for about 8 months (i was 17) and then my mom told me about its recall. i asked my doctor and he said it was nothing, but i insisted that i change my prescription. i have been on yasmin for about 6 months and the first few months were fine, then i started to get cramps and EXTREME depression. i would cry so easily and i would start to shake, and id cry so hard that i couldnt breathe. i honestly thought i was going insane. im so glad to find out that i was not the only one. i noticed that some people mentioned hair loss and dandruff....i havent noticed any hair loss but i have had a lot of dandruff.

I have a question for Lupron users:
I got my 1st shot of Lupron for Endo 8 days ago. Since yesterday I am crying at everything, the slightest thing sends me to tears, sometimes sobbing. I am not really a "crier" and feel like I'm going insane. Does anyone have advice or experience similar emotional side effects ? Any comments are greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

to the last posting....

i just wanted you to know that i suffered and am still suffering from heart palpitations too! i have been off yasmin for 5 months and for the first 2 months it was terrible i really couldnt cope. im only 23 years old and i felt like my life was falling apart... this website is wat saved me from going insane.

now i have noticed a pattern 5 months later and i realised i only get the palpitatinos when im ovulating and the week of my period.
i also get the migraines too and such sharp pains in my head... very strange... my head itself feels very foggy you could say at times..

also i used to feel extremely tired all the time but then at night i could hardly sleep... i lost my apetite for a while and my sex drive aswell but this came back after a couple of months....
i really noticed a lot of improvement around 4 months coming off yasmin...

thanks for your posting i know a lot of girls and myself will really appreciate it...
lots of luck to you for a full recovery.
chrissy xox

Started two weeks ago. Started a terrible cough that mainly hits while lying down. Can't sleep, cough meds do nothing. Dr says it will pass. Going INSANE.

This is the drug from hell! Nothing really happened after my first one-month shot, just a few mild hot flashes. My doctor had wanted to give me the three-month shot, but I insisted on the one-month to see how my body reacted. A month later I was given the three-month injection. The hot flashes increased dramatically. About a week later I started to feel like I was truly going insane. I was having serious panic attacks, I could cry over absolutely nothing, and I had this wierd disconnected feeling. Couldn't sleep, was exhausted yet had nervous energy, palpitations, feeling of unease all the time. This was pretty intense for a few days and was quite frightening. I had severe headaches, and I am not a person who gets headaches very often. Worst of all, I have had SEVERE joint and muscle pain. Twenty years of fibromyalgia was NOTHING compared to this. I had never had neck and back problems before, and now I'm experiencing pain all the time. I get weakness in my arms and legs, and often I feel a strange twitching feeling in my legs and neck. It has been over two months since I had that three-month injection. I'm due to go back for another one in early July, and I've already decided against it. The hot flashes seemed less intense for a little while, but now they're increasing along with night sweats. Nothing helps with the vaginal dryness, so my sex life is non-existent (not that I really care since this has killed my sex drive anyway). I had read about some of the scarier side effects before going through with this and asked my doctor about them, and he brushed my concerns off, saying that this stuff doesn't happen, I would likely just get some hot flashes. I'm very upset that I was pushed into having the three-month injection because now I'm stuck with this poison in my body. I think the pharmaceutical companies push the three-month injections. They got paid by my insurance company, that's all they care about and there's nothing I can do about this now. Anybody know if the doctors are getting kickbacks for pushing this on patients? For me this was follow-up treatment after having surgery to remove endometriosis and to remove one ovary that was severely affected. With that ovary gone I don't even know how necessary it was to follow up with Lupron. I'm 42 and will probably be going into menopause in a few years. Despite endometriosis I was able to have a baby at age 37 and was then free of endometriosis for almost four years. I will say I would probably think this was all worth it if I was going to try to get pregnant again, but I'm not, so I think this was all an unnecessary risk to my health. Anybody with similar experiences or info on Lupron, please feel free to email me at ****** Good luck to all!

I started taking prednisone for 6 days, starting with 24 mg, 6 tablets, then 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I'm on an anti-depressant and mood stabilizer and thought I was going insane. I needed to take it because I'm having sinus surgery. Does anyone know how long it takes for this crazy drug to get out of your system? My med doctor told me its the worse drug to take when your on anti-depressants our any other drug for depression or anxiety.

I would advise any woman to not take yasmin. I am in college and getting my work done has been a challenge. I have struggled trying to study and keep my grades up in the midst of all this pain. This birth control pill from hell almost ruined my life. I began taking this pill back in November. By December, I was rushed to the emergency room with chest pain so bad I thought I was going to die. I was given a steroid, and it went away....for a while. Meanwhile I started haveing dizzy spells so bad that I was scared to drive. I became very emotional and often wondered why I could not stop thinking about certain things. It was like I could not control my own mind!!!! This was the anxiety kicking in. Later, I began to have panic attacks, but it wasn't until this month that I knew what they were. Life for me had become hell. Things that used to make me happy did not anymore, and I could feel on top of the world one minute and like hell the next. The reason it took me so long to link these things to yasmin is because there were so many factors such as college, etc. that I thought could take a toll on me. I was ignorant to the fact that bcp could do this to me...until now. Now, I will never take another bcp in my life! It's not for me. I can't speak for all women, but I personally have thought I was going insane or losing my mind. Even when I had no physical pain, I still felt sick on Yasmin. Since december, I have been to the doctor more than 10 times, mostly trying to find the source of my severe chest pain and heartburn. I have had an echocardiogram, EKG, Chest CT Scan, Upper GI endosopy, blood drawn, and two chest x-rays. Every doctor tells me I am perfectly healthy, even though I feel like death is around the corner. From my first doctor's visit in december, I asked if Yasmin could cause my pain, and I was convinced by every doctor since then, appox 6 doctor, that Yasmin could not be the source of my issues. Three doctors have tried to put me on anti-depressants such as Prozac, paxil, and zoloft, but after reading the horrors of these drugs I decided not to. You cannot solve a problem with a problem. If you find yourself on an antidepressant, stop the birthcontrol, give it three or four months and see what happens. Many of the anti-depressants have side effects similar to the ones we are complaining of. Don't let a doctor convince you that you're crazy if you know in your heart of hearts that you are not. I have been off of Yasmin for three days now in addition to seven days of the white pill, and I have began to notice that not only do I have chest pains, but I have random aches and pains all over my body. They are very sharp and move quickly. Sometimes they tingle. Mentally, I feel so much better. My life is mine again. Now I just have to get rid of the physical symptoms. So far women have had strokes, blood clots, parts of their lung removed, gallbladder removed, and contemplated suicide. What will it take for us to see that man-made hormones don't mix well with most women's bodies. I, for one, am ready to be free. Before Yasmin, I was stressed, but I am now a different person. I can't wait to get back to normal. Don't listen to doctors if it doesn't coincide with your heart. Also, if you are taking this just for acne, look in the mirror, I am sure there is a beautiful face there. Don't go through all this hell on the inside just to look good on the outside. I am taking my life back one day at a time, and I hope you do too. To decrease my anxiety I have drastically cut my sugar intake and my caffeine intake as well, this may help you. Also, exercising regularly will help you destress when anxiety/depression seems to set in. A friend of mine also recommended that I not eat over-processed foods. She said that simpler foods are easier on your digestive system, and they don't have that draining effect on you. So far I have lost approx 5 months of my life. Good Luck ladies.

I stopped taking Yasmin 7 weeks ago (after being on it for about 15 months). My depression has lifted completely, as have my heart palpitations and dizziness. The only effect I can still 'feel' is a general sense of anxiety (i.e. I still worry irrationally and feel levels of self doubt). I am trusting that this will go also, as the 'rational' part of my brain becomes stronger.

Every body is different and the time that Yasmin has been in your system seems to be reflected in the time it takes to start to feel better. The difficulty is that when you have been through such 'hell' whilst being on Yasmin, it's very hard to trust that you are getting better and that how you are feeling is NOT you, but the drug still in your body.

Remember to TALK to friends, family etc I have been spreading the word (sending emails to every woman I know and asking them to send them on to everyone they know etc etc). It makes me feel better to be open about how I'm feeling and I have been inundated with people who have read my email and realised that they too were worried they were 'going insane' when they were infact going 'Yasmin induced insane'!!!

I'm sending a huge mental hug out to everyone, who like me have endured the worst time in their lives thanks to this poison.

Better times are ahead for all of us!

I began taking Yasmin just a few days ago. I am slowly realizing that this is DEFINITELY NOT the bcp for me. I have been experiencing severe depression, paranoia, drowsiness, mood swings, nausea, complete lack of patience in every way, etc etc etc... When I came upon this site and read some of the testimonies given by other disappointed yasmin users, I instantly felt relieved. For a while, I convinced myself I personally was going insane. Thanks to this website I was able to reason with myself and now do something about it - get off Yasmin ASAP. Sorry to my sweet boyfriend for putting up with me since I have been on it.

I sought treatment for ADD like symptoms and, although my doctor agreed that I have ADD, he said that I also have depression and that he wanted to start treatment for that first. So he prescribed Zoloft. All I can say is that I'm very unhappy, worse now than before. It has increased the ADD brain fog, which is the reason I'm depressed in the first place! I've always felt so stupid. I'm known as the office idiot because I make so many mistakes, I'm so out of it. I hoped that with treatment that might get better. Zoloft is by far making it worse. My memeory is even worse than it was prior to taking this medication. Not only has the ADD gotten worse, but now I believe it has morphed into ADHD!!! I'm restless, can't sit still, become "very" uncomfortable when I have to sit still, yet at the same time I'm lethargic! I have this internal restlessness that will not let up, but at the same time my body doesn't want to move! It's SO uncomfortable I think I'm going insane. I wanna jump right out of my skin! I'm having terrible mood swings, and yet I feel numb mentally. I can't cry anymore for real reasons, though occasionally I have crying fits for no reason. I'm irritable and agitated, have no willpower to do anything and am losing my temper more and more. I feel very out of control. Angry, moody and restless, yet numb, unfeeling and lethargic. I've also gained a LOT of weight in the 2 months I've been on it. The thing is, I'm not hungry. Zolft has completely taken away my appetite, but at the same time has caused major carb cravings which completely overpower my lack of appetite. I'm not hungy, but I eat and eat and eat and I can't get full, ever, can't be satisfied. Confused yet? So am I.

I was put on an inhaler called Servent, I guess it is the British equivalent to Advair, contains salmeterol xinafoate.
I have been on it for only two weeks and I have noticed so many of the things you all have. I don't think I have had more than 4 hours sleep a night since I started taking it, and that has been disturbed. Emotionaly I am a wreck, up and down, no control over my feelings, I thought I was going insane. I also have a stinging tongue all the time, can't stop shaking and my voice, which used produce some nice dulcet tones even if I do say so myself, sounds awful now.
Having said all of this, I am so glad I am not alone, at that there is a possible reason for it all.
Did you all just stop yourself or talk to your doctor first?
Thank you all again.

Iam so thankful for all these comments, I thought I was going insane. I have been on Yasmin for 12 days (just quit it last night) and have experienced ALL these symptoms listed
weird headaches
nausea
blurred vision
moodiness
and the list goes on...... I really thought I was going crazy, thanks to all of you for writing and letting me know it is the pill.....IM DONE!!!