Household symptoms and conditions

I am a 36 year old African American Female. I have been on Toprol for 4 years. I take 25mg a day. At one point a dr. recommended I take 50mg a day. That was horrible. All of my side effects were worse. I decided to break the pills and stay at 25mg. The lower dosage is better. At 36, I look like I am in my early 20's! Most people guess my age at about 24. I don't feel like it at all. I am always tired, I don't have orgasms ( which is bad when you have boyfriends in their early 20's all the time) and I have anxiety and depression. I love to have fun but toprol keeps me depressed, uninterested and I cry for no reason at all. I just feel severely sad for no reason at all and cry. It is horrible. I was prescribed toprol for rapid heartbeat and mildly high bp. That it works for, but the side effects are gruesome! I tried another med for a month and I thought my heart was gonna jump out of my chest. I have 2 sons: 10 and 16, I can't be depressed and crazy all the time. I am very attractive and I want to enjoy life now that my kids are older. I'm getting off toprol!

After taking Topamax for six months, I found my self different person.... I started feeling this way just in the first few weeks after I started the medication, but the simptoms incleased with the time....Anxiety, nervousness, panick attacks, negative thinking and depression....crying, making up problems from nothing, hair loss also....I decided to stop it, slowly and without any concequences I thought I am out of it....But just a couple weeks I stop it is I noticed some red spots on my skin on the lower legs, soon they became more and stronger..... Two months later I was in abnormal stress that I am going to be sick from a terrible desease... Read so much on Internet.... I can explain how terrible I felt and even though I did blood tests (everything was in normal range!!) and spoke with so many doctors, nobody could tell me what exactly is wron with me. One Dermatologist named the skin problem as Progressive Pigmentary purpura and gave me a cream for that. Thanks a lot for that because the spots started desapearing, but it may come again.... nobody knows for sure.... I think this is another side effect of Topamax, that nobody had before..... Please tell me if somebody else had the same situation... I will feel much more relieved....

**Update** on my 17 year old son, 7 years Singulair use. He has been in a therapeutic boarding school for 2 years because of serious behavioral issues quite possibly because of side effects of Singulair. He wrote me a letter the morning he went off Singulair, March 29. In it he wrote about being very depressed and sad and told about how he had been struggling with it for such a long time. It was very upsetting. I got the letter this morning. Coincidentally, we had a conference call about 20 minutes after I read the letter. He has been off singulair for 4 days now. I asked him how he felt. He said "Excellent". That he was feeling a lot better, not very depressed and really feeling good about himself. I have not heard him describe himself as "Excellent" in a long, long time. I am cautiously optimistic that removing Singulair from his system will have a dramatic effect on his well being. He sounded incredibly upbeat today. It was amazingly good news! I have reported online to the FDA his symptoms and sent my comments to CNN. The FDA needs to issue a BLACK BOX warning about Singulair. It's quite possible that this drug has caused my family to live a nightmare for 7 years.

OMG! I am so glad I came across this web site. The posts are amazing! I never would have connected all of my side effects with the Mirena. I thought only my bizarre bleeding was due to Mirena and now all my other problems make sense. First of all, I had the Mirena installed in June 2007. I thought it was awesome and even recommended it to my friends (just like the other person--SORRY!) Anyway, for about the last 4 months I don't bleed red, only brown. Yes, only brown! At first I didn't really care but now it is to the point that whenever I have sex (which like the others I don't really want) I bleed brown. Right now it has been 3 weeks of brown bleeding! So, by the time this stops, I will get my period. So, my husband and I are averaging sex about 1 times a month. I also have the rash under my wedding ring, which I never would have associated with Mirena, but a previous post did. I have been getting dizzy and lightheaded lately and figured it was either my sugar or BP, but both of those are fine. I also have the worst hip pain ever--hip pain?? What, am I 90 years old! I sure feel like it. I am always tired- I even take naps with my kids! My mother, who is 60 runs circles around me. She helps me so much that I can't even use the excuse that I am tired because of running a household. At least I am not depressed, however, I do go through some pretty tough mood swings. I also have a weird smell coming off of me, not a bad smell, just weird. It is coming out of my skin. I have swollen ankles and my fingernails look like crap. I used to grow such long beautiful nails and now they break and split. I don't want to blame everything on Mirena. I am sure that the way I eat and lack of exercise have a lot to do with it. I am overweight and until now I have blamed my symptoms on my extra 50 pounds. However, the bleeding I am sure, is due to Mirena and that is reason enough for me to have it removed. I am going to call my doctor today and have it removed..I am done with it. I will post back in a few months and let you know if there have been any changes. Thank you everyone for letting me know that I am not crazy!

Thanks for all these posts! My 4 year old daughter has a history of allergies which have in the past led to sinus infections and bronchitis. We used Xopenex and Pulmicort with the nebulizer along with Vazobid and Delsym and cleared up the bronchitis during Christmas 2007, but her pediatrician suggested her taking Singulair as a preventive medication for her allergies. This medication has turned our household upside down. She has taken it every night for 3 weeks and the side effects are the same as others have posted.......aggressive behavior, severe defiance to simple tasks, nightmares, stomach cramps, wetting accident at school (first time ever), weight gain, bruising, and vomiting. When told "no" she replies with wanting to kick me and tells me she doesn't want me as a mom anymore. The devilish behavior is intolerable. She was never like this before she started taking Singulair, and I am so thankful that I found this website quickly enough to put 2 and 2 together, and I am taking her off of it TODAY!!!

Hallelujah, its OUT!

I got mine out today!!! I made sure to take ibuprofen before I went in and thank heavens the removal was NOTHING like the insertion! Quick, easy and pretty painless!
I sure wish I could go "au naturel' at this point but my husband and I just can not risk pregnancy right now. I am grudgingly going to start on a low hormone pill on Sunday...

I will post in the future to share what changes happen now that the thing is gone!

Good luck to all you ladies!

I have been on lisinopril, 10 mg., for about six weeks now. Two days after initiating treatment, I noticed that my tongue had a white coating. I have never before been bothered with thrush or other oral oddities until now. Now I don't know if one is related to the other or not, but it's strange with the timing. I also want to add that I, too, have had that dry, tickling, unrelenting cough...especially bothersome at night time. No one in my household can sleep. Also, over the last 2 days I have began crying at the drop of a hat, for no good reason. Extreme fatigue, dizziness also. As of this A.M., I am off this med. Good luck to all.

Hi Sophie!

Different than the last post I don't think that your life is really in danger... Don't worry (sounds very weird, I know.....). But, YES that's exactly the way I felt, too, under and even about 3 - 4 MONTHS AFTER Yasmin!! And so much times I was really about to call 911 (well, though here in Germany it's 112 ;).

The Valerian you can get in every pharmacy / drugstore. It's a herbal medicine which helps you to calm down a bit. In my worst times I had them with me every day. It's not as dangerous as all of the chemical antidepressants or sedatives, which I would refuse to take, if I were you, as long as I could!!

And if the panic attack gets that heavy, that you think you REALLY can't bear it anymore, there's always the chance to call 911 to perhaps give you a slight injection or such to just help this one attack.

You should always keep in mind, that those attacks won't be there every day of your life!! I swear they will get lighter and lighter every month, I definitely KNOW what I'm talking about!!! Today I'm nearly free of them (well, I feel a change every few weeks, when my period "should" come or so, which is because of the hormonal changes a body goes through within a month!!)

Sometimes it helped me also just to hear some music, that I'm really keen on or just read a little bit or even watch TV. You should try to not stress up yourself to much with other things (doing your household or anything). Everything is unimportant besides your health at the moment!!

And you're definitely NOT bugging me, Sophie!! I see which phase you're in and I'm feeling so much with you, because I remember me sitting in the same sh.... as you do now about one Year ago!! And I know that the only thing that can help a bit at the moment is someone who understands you're problems and someone you just can talk with about that agony!!

And another thing, which I guess you are feeling, too: I always thought, I will never get through this and this is the way things will stay for the rest of my life and I always was afraid to completely loose my mind over all this!! And look at me now: I didn't loose my mind and everything is nearly completely gone!! I'm working again, going out again, today my husband and I will do a little shopping tour, which I thought I would never be able to do ever again in my life!!!

Sophie, if I could I would like to give you a big hug right now (My thoughts send you a big hug right now!!) and tell you, that it's just a phase you have to go through now until that Yasmin poison has completely gone out of your system and you're hormones finally get back in balance. And I swear, the sun will shine again for you, too, in a few months!!

Stay strong and hang in there, you have the strenght to get over this, I know!!!

Big hugs and god's bless to you!!

Feel free to E-Mail me or post here again if you're in need for help!!!

Silke

I have been taking Toprol xl 50mg for about a year now, and I feel so tired and depressed. My antidepressant seems to have stopped working and it is hard to function and get the things that have to be done, done...Everyday it just seems to get worse, seems I just can't get caught up on job and household. It's hard just to get out of bed and get dressed! Major effort! What an awful feeling! My legs hurt all the time, I thought maybe it was just aches and pains from aging, I am 51. I want to get off this medication. Please help.

Hi Ladies!

It's me again, searching for a little advice.

I'm 7 months off Yasmin now and still sometimes got this nervousness and blurry vision again. I started working again 2 days ago (I hadn't been working because of my Yasmin illness now since december 2004 - I really wasn't able to do anything even in my household or such!! I'm working for a lawyer, typing his correspondences) and I feel, that I don't get on even with a little stress like I used to before in my whole life!! I was a very strong person who could do 3 things at one time if I had to!! And now I feel overwhelmed just with typing those correspondences which I did with no problems during my whole life before Yasmin!!! :(

I feel so desperate and anxious again, that I perhaps could never be the old me again in my life and this pill has caused some longterm damage in my body and brain!!

I should mention, that I had been taking Yasmin for very long 5 YEARS (!) before getting off in February this year and that my hormones are not back in balance again at all!! My first period off Yasmin and same time my last until today was at easter this year!! My whole body is completely messed up and I'm having a hard time getting everything back to normal since then. Very much of the symptoms have gone away, but sadly not everything and not completely!!

So please tell me: Is there someone out there still experiencing the same or similar symptoms after this long time off Yasmin???

Anyone out there, who's finally totally back to normal and if so, how long has it taken you to get there???

I'd really need some pep talk!! Thanks in advance and all the best to everyone!!

I think my eight year old son is having behavioral side effects from taking Singulair. He has become extremely emotional and cries at everything! My husband and I were sorting through our old clothes to give to Hurricane Katrina victims and our son started crying about it. He said, "Aren't you going to miss your old clothes?" He also cried hysterically when we wanted to throw his old sandals away because they were not fitting him properly. He is now afraid to grow anymore because he doesn't want to part with his things. Our household hasn't changed in the least, there doesn't seem to be any reason for this strange behavior. He was a very happy-go-lucky kid before he started taking Singulair. I'm taking him off it now and I'll see if his behavior changes.

My eight year old is having similar side effects with his behavior. He cries at everything! My husband and I were sorting through our clothes in the closet to give to Hurricane Katrina victims and my son started crying about it. He couldn't understand why we would be giving our clothes away! He said, "Aren't you going to miss those clothes?" He also cried because we wanted to throw his old sandals away because they were not fitting him and now he's afraid to grow anymore because he loves his clothes and shoes and wants to keep them forever! Is this weird or what? I took him off the singulair and hope that it solves the problem. He never used to be this emotional before and there are no major changes in our household.

After only 4 days of Prednisone treatment for a painful facial rash that could not not be diagnosed by the doctor I feel like two of the dwarfs .... Grumpy and Jumpy. If I had an oozie I would kill the universe and I am a pacifist! The slightest motion in the house sets me off. My cat, who I love dearly gets on my nerves when he sits on my lap and purrs. I know about the predicted weight gain, so I just am not eating, but am taking medicine to make me sleep as much as possible. The rash is clearing but it is still painful. Today is my last day of the treatment. How long will the side effects last? I am trying to just be silent because no one in my household deserves to be jumped on by a crazy woman.

Just stopped my Lipitor 40mg yesterday (after 3 years on it).

I've been getting knee & muscle pain, especially in lower legs. Also have had slightly slurred speech & extreme moodiness. I have become "a real snark" in the words of the household.

I'm on 2000mg Vit C per day and cutting down on meat. I can't wait to see what happens.

Cheers,
Rob :o)