Hcg symptoms and conditions

Hi, I am a 32 year old nurse, and I started Yasmin June 1st 2007 at the end of my period as a means of birth control. The second day woke up with nausea and a bloated feeling. Weighed myself had gained 1 pound. 2nd day, same thing, nausea gained another pound. 3rd day nausea was worse, I had only urinated 2 times the entire day and again gained another pound. By the fifth day, the nausea last all day long and I had gained 5 pounds. I called my doctor and was advised to stop taking it. It's now June 30, I have lost the weight, but the morning nausea has persisted and now I am constipated, having daily cramps, and several symptoms as if I am pregnant including extemely emotional, bloated feeling but my HCG yesterday was negative.

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Well, would be nice to hear, WHO is writing such here in this forum. But it surely can't be someone who read the whole page through with hundreds of similar stories of YASMIN users! And surely not someone who was in this, too! If you never experienced such a nightmare before and just whilst or after taking Yasmin, well, how many other reasons do you expect to be there for all this???

It surely may not be a fault to perhaps see someone to talk to about all this. Maybe it would help, maybe not. Everyone has to try and decide by him-/herself. For some it even might help to take an antidepressant for a while, just to get over the worst months. But it's so clear to me, that we're all victims of that "wonder drug" Yasmin after reading each and every post here for about 2 years now!!

But such posts as the above only make people like Kim feel worse, I'm pretty sure, because I was the same 1,5 years ago. And very miraculous: Without going to a therapist, psychiatrist or taking any other medications, just waiting and waiting and hoping I finally got better and better by myself over the months.

And there is still someone out there telling such stuff out there "it might not be Yasmin"?????? Dear, I'm getting angry about such naive words. Mostly sounds as if even one of those ignorant docs, we all had visited may have written it???

Murph70: Sorry, I don't really know what that "hcg" is for? Is it a hormonal thing or something else??

To that poster who mentioned the two colds in between only a few weeks and sore throat and so on: I know that I'm repeating myself, but please GET YOUR IRON LEVELS CHECKED!! And not only the normal bloodwork, but the "Ferritin" (sorry, don't know what's it called in English). ALL of your symptoms (Soar throat, Chest tightness/ congestion, Fatigue, splitting/breaking nails, dry skin, Feeling down and depressed) sound like and iron deficiency!! If you won't believe me, please check it by yourself over google!!!

Best wishes to you all!! Hang in there!!! You're already halfway and there's really a light at the end of the tunnel!!

Silke

ditto, flowerbabies.
An exact replica of what happened to me with yasmin.
Found the site you recommended and it answered some of my questions.
Looks like i have what is known as a luteal phase defect.
Completely treatable, thank goodness.
Thanks for the advice. Am due to have my first hcg injection on 4th dec. Watch this space. Doctor said it is like my system has gone to sleep and needs to be woken up.
I suppose that is what pills like yasmin do. Suppress your own hormones and replace them with artificial ones. I think it was flowerbabies who said that if your own hormones are balanced anyway this is not good.
The doctor i am seeing now, i trust completely as he does not advocate use of the contraceptive pill for everything including the common cold.
That has been my problem all along. Listening to doctors telling me to persevere with the pill.
Murph70

My first cycle on Repronex, about 3 days after my IUI, I experienced very, very sore breasts, this lasted for about a week. I am not sure if it was all Repronex, or the combination of Repronex, and the HCG injection.
I am also experiencing major emotional swings.