Gone mad symptoms and conditions

hi,dejay78.
my heart goes out to you. i was exactly the same with the same fear that i had gone mad and was going to end up institutionalised. i also have 2 children. i started taking yasmin after i stopped breat feeding my youngest. i fed her for 1 year and did not have a period in that time.my doctor suggested yasmin to get my hormones back into whack,in fact it did the complete opposite but i didn't realise it at the time.i was on it for 6 months and all seemed fine.my skin cleared up,i lost a little weight and my periods were light and regular. Then i started to need to pee more.i had major IBS symptoms,then the panic attacks started,then came the constant anxiety,i was terrified all day every day. i had terrible unthinkable thoughts. i became scared i would do something awful like hurt one of my kids,i knew i never ever could but the thoughts in my head made me think i was mad and unstable. i couldn't go out and became scared that i would be raped or attacked if i left the house. i couldn't sleep or eat or function at all i just cried. i had aches,pains,numbness & tingling,i thought i had a tumour or cancer or something horrible. My doctor told me i had an anxiety disorder,i thought that was odd as i had never had a problem before but i accepted his diagnosis,i asked whether my pill could cause this as nothing else had changed and he just laughed and said no. the pills he gave me for the anxiety made me worse to the point that i actually wanted to die,i had had enough as i thought i would never recover.......then i googled yasmin and found this site and it literally saved my life! i read as you are now about all these poor women with the same experience as me. i stopped taking yasmin and started to feel better within a month. i have been off it now for 7 months and while i am not 100% yet i am well on my way there. The anxiety gets less and less every day,the scary thoughts are a thing of the past as are most of the other problems. i promise you dejay78 you are NOT going mad,your hormones are just so messed up that they are making you feel that way. take a good multivit,some B6 and some magnesium and think positive thoughts always! distract yourself,keep busy,sing dance and laugh.i know you don't feel like it now but it will get better. if you need any more help or advise or just someone to share this awful pain with you are always welcome here,there are so many wonderful women on here that will support you and understand you.

i wish you all the best.

sarah

! have been on yasmine for a little over a week and am only thankful I could recognize it's effect before it was too late.

I knew, as I drove to work going 70 miles an hour and thoughts of driving myself into the cement wall ahead were sounding appealing, that I was having severe depression. I had not felt depression that severe since my teen age years! I pulled over and cried for 20 minutes straight, then puked. I have missed work everyday this week due to extreme stomach cramping and nausea.

In the last 4 days my world has turned upside down. My poor 10 year old is probably ready to run-away and my partner is ready to tie me down and lock me up. I cannot even speak to either one of them without snapping, screaming and thinking they must be the stupidest people on earth. Worse is that as soon I unload on them, I am apologizing profusely becuase I don't really mean it. I am quite aware I am not myself, even more so they recognize it. It was almost comical at first, now I am just a wreck! I want to die and it is not like me in the least. I am a peaceful, soft-spoken person gone MAD!

The worst part of it for me is I have very few options besides this. My doc is requiring me to be on it because I take another med that if for some reason I got pregnant, it would cause such terrible birth defects that she refuses to risk it. I am thankful for her concern, but what do I do? My only other option is Ortho-Evra...has anyone here switched and preferred the patch?? I am most concerned for depressive side effects.

Lastly, if your thinking of going on Yasmine, only buy a one month supply and if you see these effects I recommend you try something different. REGARDLESS if they will fade. I almost committed suicide and I am one of the most cheerfull, happy, blessed people I know.

I have been on yasmine for a little over a week and am only thankful I could recognize it's effect before it was too late.

I knew, as I drove to work going 70 miles an hour and thoughts of driving myself into the cement wall ahead were sounding appealing, that I was having severe depression. I had not felt depression that severe since my teen age years! I pulled over and cried for 20 minutes straight, then puked. I have missed work everyday this week due to extreme stomach cramping and nausea.

In the last 4 days my world has turned upside down. My poor 10 year old is probably ready to run-away and my partner is ready to tie me down and lock me up. I cannot even speak to either one of them without snapping, screaming and thinking they must be the stupidest people on earth. Worse is that as soon as it comes out I am apologizing profusely. I am quite aware I am not myself, even more so they recognize it. It was almost comical at first, now I am just a wreck! I want to die and it is not like me in the least. I am a peaceful, soft-spoken person gone MAD!

The worst part of it for me is I have very few options besides this. My doc is requiring me to be on it because I take another med that if for some reason I got pregnant, it would cause such terrible birth defects that she refuses. I am thankful for her concern, but what do I do? My only other option is Ortho-Evra...has anyone here switched and preferred the patch thing?? I am most concerned for depressive side effects.

Lastly, if your thinking of going on Yasmine, only buy a one month supply and if you see these effects I recommend you try something different. REGARDLESS if they will fade. I almost committed suicide and I am one of the most cheerfull, happy, blessed people I know.

My seven month old son was prescribed Omnicef for an ear infection four days ago and it was the worst experience we have had yet...worse than colick and worse than reflux. My son who is normally extremely happy and easy going became a monster. He wouldn't eat, wouldn't drink and wouldn't sleep. He would throw a tantrum and swat his bottle out of my hand he wouldn't let me rock him or put him in the bed. He acted like he had gone mad and was very aggressive. It was a horrible experience. I called the doctor back after only one day of being on the medicine and they told me that these weren't side effects of the Omnicef and it was probably just his ears hurting to give it a couple more days. This behavior continued until today when I refused to give him another dose and told the nurse so...she asked if he was on any other cold medicine etc...and he wasn't so they prescribed him augmentin which is what we normally take and have never had a problem. I will never give this medicine to my child again and am not sure I will ever take it myself for sinusitis again either. He also experienced red looking stools but I can't swear that it was bloody but it was definitely a rusty red.