Horrible effects symptoms and conditions

I took this garbage for four days until I had to go to the ER for shortness of breath, chest pain, stomach pain, pins and needles sensation in limbs, hot flashes (felt like I had a fever) and blurry vision. The worst was the complete and utter mental breakdown, I became suicidal and had just horrible images coming through my brain.

It's been a week now and while the depression/suicidal thoughts have subsided, the anxiety, exhaustion, shortness of breath, and stomach pain remain. I'm curious how I can still have these horrible effects taking into consideration the half life of this drug. It should be out of my system now.

Any idea of how much longer this is going to last?

Another update:
It has been 16 days off the prednisone and I still have the puffy face and the hives have returned. The Dr. said they could not send me for allergy testing because the prednisone would interfere with the tests for a month or 2. Wow, I had no idea this stuff can stay in your system for such a long time and I only took it for 7 days, so my heart goes out to all of you who have been on this drug for months or years. I can't even imagine what you must be going through. I was put on this drug for hives, but some of you are on it for far more serious conditions so I have no idea if it would be wise or unwise to discontinue this drug for those of you in that situation. Talk with your doctors tell them you want off and to advise another alternative to at least try. I see that the prednisone is no cure for hives it just treats the symptoms and as soon as the prednisone was stopped the hives were still there. In my case the chance of this drug damaging my body for just a moments relief from hives was not worth it. How wonderful for those who are able to tolerate this drug but for most people it seems to have horrible effects on the body. May God help you all to make the right decisions.

I have to comment..... look at how many entries there are showing side effects.. so many people have the same symptoms. does this not open the eyes of others to accept that it can be a real problem to some people, admittedly not all, but it obviously doesn't agree with all of us. I could not believe my ears the other week when the local GP said that it's rare there are side effects, then 4 hours later a DR. in a hospital emergency department stated that statin drugs are very common for muscle problems, in particular one named brand (need I say more??) Couldn't wipe the smile off my face after hearing someone finally admitting it..
Come on professional people, start listening and accepting that people do know their own bodies and can see and feel so many vast changes in their day to day activities. Maybe guide people to a better understanding of diet and lifestyle before dishing out meds. so quickly. Give us some credit......some of us exercise regularly, we want to live healthy too and all this has done is put a stop to that luxury.
I have to add, I posted earlier this month, I AM getting much better each day, clearer thinking, vast improvement in mobility, so please stay positive and take care of yourselves, obviously we all need a little patience, hard to do after some long term suffering i know, we want overnight fixes just to feel normal again.. :-)

I have been on Zoloft since June of this yr. I was depressed, had anxiety attacks that felt like heart attacks, racing thoughts, felt unnecessary in this world, cryed alot and felt like I was going to be fired at my job all of the time.
I feel better on Zoloft. My moods are more even. I work nights now and am alone from 5p to 11p. I have had headaches alot lately. My dreams are pretty vivid and I wonder if I lived it or if I dreamed it alot now as well. I asked my doctor about this product causing weight gain and she denied that it did. In fact she blamed the steroid shot I had for allergies this winter for the hunger I have felt. Maybe so, but I was eating before that and now that I have found this site I am afraid that it is the Zoloft afterall. I am on 75 mg's. I have felt a bit dizzy at times, blamed allergies, now I am not so certain. Also, after I eat I have been feeling nausea too. Zoloft? I do not know. Is there anything a person can take or do that will remove the anxiety, racing thoughts, depression etc without feeling other horrible effects to feel better? Now I am afraid to go off of the drug. I certainly do not want to return to the way I felt, or the mean mood swings or the pains that felt like a heart attack. I also sweat alot at nights while sleeping. Thought it was menopause? Don't know. What do we do? Other than the dreams, sweats, overeating, stomach upsets, racing to the rest room etc. I feel okay. HA.

I am 16 years old and i have been on YAZ for almost a year now. I have had horrible luck with it. In the beginning my mood completely changed! i was really mean to all my best friends and parents. I felt like i was bipolar. Im not a mean person and felt horrible about the way i was acting to everyone at the time. i would say "ITS NOT ME, ITS THE PILL"

about 6 or 7 months into the pill my mood swings changed and i felt normal again. but i kept getting constipated, but i never thought it was the pill. i also started to get headaches, but didn't think it was a side effect.

now i am extremely constipated and get severe headaches everyday! i never can think straight and it effects my school work. Being constipated was the worst part of this pill. i ate TONS of fiber and nothing worked. I looked online for symptoms for YAZ and only a couple said they were also constipated. I would be constipated for 1 or 2 weeks straight. this was way worse then period cramps!!!

i also had nausea almost once a week. Its hard to sleep, i sometimes wake up 3 or 4 times a night. I also get sharp shooting pains up and down my legs and arms. (which is a little scary)

Tonight i have desiced to stop taking YAZ. I would rather deal with my periods then have to deal with the horrible effects of this birth control!!!!

hi, please can someone help me :-(
I'm 17 and this is my first time on any pill, I was on mefenamic acid to deal with painful periods but had to stop after I used them incorrectly.
I started Yasmin 6 days ago, and since my period stopped I have had constant pain in the left side of my back, headaches, am very tired and constantly feel like I'm about to be sick.
Is this normal? My parents don't seem to understand how much it's affecting me and I can't keep missing school.

well, i guess i am not alone. this is the second time i have been on it. i weighed the pros and cons and figured that the migraines were worse than the depression, mood swings, and the inability to compute simple math. well, i feel differently now, and i think i am going back off of it again. my sex drive is also gone, but i have had a problem with that and the depression for years, just not this bad. i feel i have yelled at my children way too much lately, cuz it is making me so crabby, and i don't think that it is worth it. after reading some of your posts, it has helped me make the decision to go off of topomax for good. i could deal with tingling, bad taste, and weight loss (the only good side effect), but not the other horrible effects.

I've posted before about the horrible effects this med has had on my daughter. Two months off and she's doing much better.
I received emails from ****** published by web md, it gives reent ifo in the world of medicine, recent studies etc. I just received one and there was an article comparing the long term side effects of varios asthma treatments for children. Of course singular was one of the meds mentiones. Think it said anything about the real side effect, of course not, only focus was on it's ability to control asthma. It makes me so mad, this article doesn't give any indications that doctors shouldn't prescribe it to kids.

I would like to let people who are new to the Lamictal "experience" that it was VERY uncomfortable for me during the first few months also. In fact even at the very low introductory doses, I did not think that I could ever function in society.

The extreme confusion, the memory problems, the spaceyness, the feeling of detachment from everything that surrounded me... at the time I felt that I would never be able to function as a worker, a friend, or as a social being.

As time went on though, things did clear up for me. It took a few months, but I'm guessing that my brain function/chemistry finally somehow regulated itself, and my side effects did clear up. I am at a dosage of 600mg per day now, and yes, I do sometimes feel detached, but I certainly can function. My memory has also improved. It sometimes takes me a second or two to find the "right word" during my conversations, but a simple, light hearted mention of the problem resolves the issue for the person that I am speaking to.

If you are just getting on Lamictal, try to be patient. I have found that in time, it has helped me much more than the side effects hurt me. It did take a few months to get used to, and I did have to explain to others at work that I may be acting strangely for a couple weeks because of it... but the overall effect is quite nice now.

Lamictal now helps control my seizure problems almost completely, and has the added benefit of making me feel much more confident, and balanced.

This is my story. My daughter 14, the most precious child ever born. She has a wonderful disposition always happy, loving, and determined to succeed in whatever she does. She just brightens everyone’s world.
She suffers from severe seasonal allergies and mild asthma. She takes approximately seven allergy/asthma medicines a day during peak season. Over the past two years she has been taking Singular as one of her medicines. Being 14, sick of taking medicine she would not take the Singular on a regular basis. Approximately four months ago “MOM” says, if you take nothing else take your Singular it will work both for the seasonal allergies and your asthma. She has been taking this regularly four the past four months.
She became paranoid, she became a compulsive eater and bites the skin on her fingers. She would eat and chew on her fingers at the same time, until she choked. She had so much anger, she could not even go to the mall without temper tantrums.(As a child she never had any tantrums ) Always afraid. Severe depression set in. She would cry at a moments notice. She would say, I have a very sad life, sad very sad, nothing makes me like this, I’m just sad. She felt she should go live with the homeless people. I asked her why, she didn’t know, she felt maybe that’s where she belonged. Nightmares and sleepless nights.
She needs help quickly. Before calling the Doctor, I went on the internet and entered Singular and depression and I found 1900 entries, all people telling me what I was experiencing. Could this possibly be the answer for us? I called her Dr and told him what I thought, he said he has never had anyone that this has happened to. He hoped it was the answer, but really didn’t think is. He said if it wasn’t the answer she would need therapy, mood stabilizer and Prozac.

Its day four off Singular, she smiling, no tears today, no temper tantrums, looking forward to school next week, wants to play volleyball next year, singing in the car,
I hear that happy voice again.(Hi, Mommy!!!!!!) Every once in a while a glaze comes over her face. She isn’t a 100% back, but I know it is coming.

To all the people that don’t have the happy ending, I will pray for you and hold you in my heart forever.

June 2, 2008

It saddens me to read all the horrible effects this drug has caused. My husband took Levaquin back in August 2007and after 2 days starting have aching muscles, joints, drenching night sweats, high fever, rash. He took this poison drug for days(for a swollen lymph node in groin) and the side effects would not go away. He too was a very healthy 43 year old who worked out 4-5 times a week and very physically fit. This went on for months. He was tested for TB, AIDS, Lyme disease, I think every infectious disease and lymphoma, all came back negative. In Oct. 2007 he was hospitalized for 6 days and we were told that he had a very rare disease called Still's Disease. (google it and read about it please) I with all my heart and soul feel that LEVAQUIN brought this disease on. There is very little known about Still's but it's scary to think that doctors are giving this poison to patients. My husband has been on daily injections of Kineret, Methotrexate and Predisone since October and thank God these meds have given him relief. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE LEVAQUIN and tell all you family, friends and co-workers about it!

I am really hoping someone can help me with the side effect issues I am having after taking Prednisone to cure a tumor on my larynx.. I was on the drug for six months.. taking 60 mg a day. It saved my life and at the same time it was just about to kill me, I am not kidding. The horrible effects it had on my body was really worse than the tumor that was taking my life. It would have almost been easy to die.
But today I'm very grateful for the miracle it did on my throat. I did not have a voice for many years.. today I can sing and that makes it's a great gift.
I was wondering, after being on it for so long and coming off nice and slowly, should my joints be in this much pain? My body aches are horrible.. all the muscles hurt and that never seems to go aways. Is this normal?

I'm 34 years old. I've only been on lupron for one month so far. My hip was sore for several days from the injection site. I began to have a smelly vaginal discharge for a week, very tender breasts and then started bleeding and have not stopped for two weeks now. I get my next shot in one week. I haven't had any other side effects. I exercise several times a week and eat very healthy. Don't know if that makes a difference, but it certainly can't hurt anything. So sorry to read about all of the horrible effects others have had from it.

"Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God I Am Free at Last" - That was my first thought as after two months, the horrible effects of Levaquin finally left my body. Don't give up hope, although with no support for doctors, it is hard not to! I just don't know why they are not interested in how bad the side effects can be with this drug - I received the same story - "out of the millions of prescriptions written, how many people have had adverse reactions"........well, with as severe as a reaction as I had with every joint, muscle and tendon in my body aching as though I had been hit with rheumatoid arthritis, and from all the other testimonials I have read, someone ought to be doing something about the toxic reactions to Levaquin. I was prescribed 750mg for 20 days and threw it in the trash after the 10th day. Honestly, after reading all the postings with people with similar symptoms, I cried not knowing how long this was going to last. I have posted previously that I don't know if it was a time coincidence or the fact that I went to a health food specialty store and was told to take Zyflamend A.M. & P.M, liquid magnesium and another liquid Cal/Mag/Zinc drink. I also took the largest dosage of Fish Oil (Omega 3) that I could find. I did this religiously for at least 3 weeks, so you may want to give it a try - one of my doctors said that it has to "work out of your system", but I can't think that the magnesium based products did help and they are godd for you also.

I am not a person inclined to sue anyone, but if there is a class action suit ever instituted against Levaquin, I would happily participate in the suit - this drug does things that I would never imagine an antibiotic would do.

Make sure to get on all you medical charts that you are allergic to Levaquin and related drugs in this category.

I also thank the day that I found this website as it relieved my mind to find out what was ailing me - I guarantee you that it would be a rare instance to have a doctor concur with the side effects!

i went to my alergy doctor because i had some serious allergic reaction a while ago.. anyways I told him the drugs I was taking and I said lisinopril and that i was taking a 5mg tablet (after cutting it in half). Wow he got pissed.. he said to get off of that junk and that it has alot of horrible effects and its a horrible drug.. I guess my 5mg along with my very low blood pressure must of lead him to believe that id do fine whitout it.. He actually seemed like a doctor that cares about people.. not like my other one (drug dealer trying to prescribe everything). He was trying to get me free samples of my allergy medicne and gave me 50% off and stuff so It seems like he really cared about my health and not the money.. So im officially going off lisinopirl... Originally i went on it because my blood pressur ewas about 10 point shigher on the dia..

From this experience it has thought me that lisinopril is not a good thing.. I also started the DASH diet after seeing it mentioned on this board... wow i lost 10 pounds in about 2 weeks and my blood pressure was lowered about 8 point so far...I think if you are strong willed and are able to cut your sodium you should try it instead of taking this horrible medicine... Ill update all of you if my side affects finally go away. Right now its just some strong heart pumping and stomach pulling.. im still gonna do a stress test in a week just to make sure im safe.. id advise no one stop taknig their medicne just like that unless you take a few precautions like second opinions and other heart monitorings..

Dear kim!!

I feel so much with you, let me send you a big hug over the internet!!

I know how it feels, when doctor's keep telling you "it's all you and not the pill", I've heard that so many times.... But what could be a better proof for the horrible effects of that pill than thousands of women, who know it better???

And I also went through those "ups and downs", one day thinking "hey, I feel better today, I think it will all be ok soon" and the other day hit by a truck thinking "OMG everything starts again". What helped for me is writing down everything in a diary. I've done that since August 2005, just to see, WHEN those ups and downs are happening. Perhaps that might help some of you, too!?? It helps to discover, if there is a correlation between your cycle and your upcoming problems!! In my case I always got worse around ovulation and when my period should start (well, didn't have one for about 1,5 years after stopping Yasmin, until August 2006!!).

I completely understand your problems with your job. I hadn't been able to work, too, but thanks god my boss was very patient and gave me all the time I needed, although I think for him it also was not easy to understand, what is going on. You can't really say "Well, I'm ill, and I have ........" There's simply no name for our illness. And that's what sounds so strange to other people. You can't say "I have a broken leg" or "I have a flu" or something else....

Someday I started calling it "hormonal problems" to everyone who asked me about my illness. And I think that's how it's explained best.

Well, you also told you had tried some progesterone without any help. How long have you been off Yasmin now? After reading hundreds of posts here and in other forums I found out, that it might not be good to interact your hormones again too shortly after getting off Yasmin.

Your body definitely needs time to get its own balance back and I think it might not be good to interact again with something hormonal. I know this needs so much patience but please remember: It's worth it!!

And I'm so sure, that you're daughter one day will get back her mum, just as she was before that nightmare!!!

Keep on posting Kim and everyone. I think that's the only thing that might help!!!

Big hugs to you all and best wishes
Silke

I am a healthy,active 25 year old woman. Here is brief discription of my experience with the drug.

About 2 weeks ago, i was seen in the Er for a kdney infection, they immediately startedm me on IV levaquin, as well as an oral dose and an NSAID (which can cause a severe reaction). I was not given much literature on the drug, and the pharmacy printout was BLANK. The only warning I recieved about this medication was drug interactions (which they gave me in the hospital) and typical allergy stuff. They mentioned nothing about joint pain, or any of the other horrible effects of this medication.

3 days later I naoticed a little pain in my knee, and my back hurt. I thought nothing of this because I have had a previous minor injusry to that knee, and just thought it was another flare up. The next day, the pain was in both my knees and my ankles. I didn't know what to thiink.

I then researched the symptoms, and was shocked that the medication was causing this.

Now my right arm is pretty much useless(too much pain in my fingers,elbow and shoulder) And I have suffered a TIA (which is a mini stroke) No ease in the pain os of yet, and I just hope that I live throught this.