Hysterically symptoms and conditions

So glad I found this site. I have tried almost every BC product on the market and they all had side effects that were disconcerting enough to make me stop taking them. I have dismennorhea which means horrendous cramping so bad I have been prescribed Darvocet (heavy muscle relaxer). BC has always seemed to help this in the past which is why I began using the Ring. I have noticed that my breasts are so tender I dont even want to put a bra on in the morning and the constant spotting is driving me insane. I have literally thrown out 20 some odd pairs of underwear because they have been ruined. I think I could deal with it if it was just this but the emotional side effects are tearing my relationship apart. I have cried every single day for absolutely no reason and pick fights on a near daily basis. My boyfriend, who is so supportive, is suffering because of my insanity. I cannot stand a single thing he does anymore, whether its the shirt he decides to put on or not taking the garbage out the instant I ask him to. Eventually I lose it on him and then end up hysterically crying because I realize how insignificant the thing was that set me off. I have said things so hurtful I didnt even think I was possible of conjuring up. The symptoms I am having are akin to how I felt taking the Depo shot, and they did NOT GET BETTER!!!! My last option is a non-hormonal IUD but my doctor is unwilling to prescribe it to me because she does not like them. I guess I am out of luck!!!

I was wondering if anyone has experienced very irregular periods since coming off of Yasmin. In high school I was extremely regular and could almost tell you to the hour I would be getting my period, but I had killer cramps that usually resulted in nausea and I would not be able to do anything. I went on a birth control pill that I would bleed through for 2 weeks every 2 weeks. I got off that pill and was put on Yasmin to regulate my period. Yasmin regulated my period, but did nothing for my cramps and didn't shorten my period either. I was on Yasmin for about a year and I just couldn't take it anymore. The first month I started taking Yasmin I became very depressed and cried all the time. I decided to give it a few months to see how my body adjusted. My emotions got so out of control that I would find myself crying hysterically during commercials or if someone looked at me the wrong way. I was living with one of my best friends at college whom I never fought with prior to using this pill and we had many blow out fights. I did not feel like the same person I used to be. My period has been so irregular ever since I got off the pill. I know they say it could take a few months to regulate again, but I was just wondering if the same thing happened to others.

I am 33 yrs old and using BC for the first time to regulate my periods and also for acne. I have been using Loestring 24 FE for a month and a half. I did get my period after not getting it for three months. However, this drug has been causing me chronic insomnia. I wake up every night at 3am and cannot go back to sleep. I feel super accelerated for much of the day. I too have had bad nightmares since I have been on this drug. Some of other cons are: vaginal dryness and major mood swings. I can be upset for no reason and then be crying hysterically. I am waiting to make the 6 month mark to decide if this is working for me or not.

So I'll refer to today as Hell Day, the day when all the horrible symptoms of my birth control pill attack me at once and I literally cannot take it. I had this exact same thing happen when I was on the nuvaring, and I stopped it immediately. I'm willing to sacrifice having 100% safe sex if it means I don't have to feel like I'd rather shove a knife through my brain than exist. It's only my second month of Yasmin, and I'm feeling more fatigued than ever before in my life. I feel so horribly depressed. It's beautiful outside and I was lying on the grass, thinking only about being DEAD. I'm not one to be depressed. The only other time I've felt this awful was my third month into the Nuvaring. I specifically asked my doctor for something that wouldn't make me depressed, nor gain weight. Well, I gained about 5 pounds that won't come off no matter how hard I try, and the depression is just getting worse and worse. I'm stopping this pill tomorrow.

Other symptoms included:
*Initially: a sharp breathing pain under my left lung
*Weird, small rash on my leg
*Would rather be in bed than do anything
*Overwhelming feeling of loneliness, questioning self-worth, etc.

I've been on Topamax (for seizures) for almost 2 years now, gradually increasing my dosage from 150 mg/day to 400 mg/day when I learned that 150mg is a migraine sufferer's dosage and not a Epilepsy dosage. I mention that because at 150mg, the side effects were present, but tolerable. I had the tingling fingers, eye twitching that was only behind my right eye (seems everyone only has it behind their right eye...why is that?), I can't find the right words in conversation, memory loss , constant sleepiness, backaches, depression, etc. At 400mg, I was an emotional wreck...I could not handle my emotions anymore. I would cry hysterically when talking for no reason, I couldn't concentrate on my work as an analyst, I had to read and re-read instructions in order to understand them, and sometimes read them out loud....and this is the kicker...sometimes when I'm buying something and at the check-out, it'll take forever to do something as simple to count out change. I have given the wrong change to cashiers a few times and then told them something to cover up my embarrassment like "Oh, I thought I gave you a quarter!", when in all actuality, I thought I gave them the correct change.
I feel like a moron pretty much all of the time. I used to pride myself on my intelligence and speaking ability but on Topamax, that is seriously diminished.
I don't know if this is related, but because of my inability to concentrate, I lost my job in Nov. '06. I thought I lost my insurance too, so I made the decision to stop my seizure meds, thinking that I was "cured". Well, I had another seizure in Jan '07 and am back on Topamax...depressed, twitching eye, the whole gamut. But you know what? The entire month of January, before my seizure...before Topamax...was the happiest I've been in sooo long. It's not worth losing a few pounds for.

Hi

I have read Kevin Tredeaus book and was a follower of him prior to this experience. I almost or did have a nervous breakdown from taking Yaz I tried to deal with it for 5 weeks on my own taking natural things Kava and St Johns Wort valerian walking swimming, I almost killed myself by not taking anything so be careful to scare women on here against taking anti anxiety meds.

Its a case by case situation.

I never took tylenol or nothing before this

Now Iam on lexapro I was one step away from having to be admitted to a hospital Dejay was locked in the bathroom reading to hurt herself she and I both treid on our own to solve the anxiety ours was horrible. I couldnt sleep bauseated lost 15 lbs crying hysterically in and out of the ER 7 times.
The anxiety was so horrible I cant even dscribe how horrible I felt. I still dont feel good on the Lexapro yet but Dejay is back to her old self shopping going out and is sleeping well but only after 3 weeks on Lexapro it saved her life.

Just be careful telling people not to take them someone could take their life by reading this forum and being too scared to take them.

Again I would of never of in my wildest dreams thought I would take one I didnt own a pill but I was at the brink of maddness.

If I could of done it without a pill trust me I would of.

Iam still shakey as I type my stomach is so torn up I cant eat well half the time cant work cant go in stores not doing well

iam using Calmfortay with the Lexapro tried it last night it is very soothing and homeopathic.

I wonder what Kevin Tredeau would do if he took Yaz or Yasmine and felt like us???

Kim123 - you poor thing, I will have you in my thoughts.

My main side effect has been SEVERE panic attacks and anxiety that of course comes with insomnia, nausea & chest pains.

I am trying very hard to recover without further medication and I'm trying to do it on my own. Sarah, another lovely lady on this site, has been very helpful in regards to this and has suggested some helpful tips.

Have you tried perhaps going to a homeopathic doctor? I tried that and he gave me some teas to help with my nerves, I just started yesterday and I think I need to give them about a week to find out if they work.

I also have an overwhelming feeling of sadness, for no reason at all. I'm just hoping it passes soon. I have been off this pill for three months, and I also took it for three months - so cheer up your recovery time may be less than mine.

All the best kim, and my advice is to distract yourself, keep busy doing things like washing dishes. I know sometimes you feel there's nothing that will help at which point all I did was cry hysterically and cry and cry, after that believe it or not I did feel a bit better.

If anyone has completely recovered, please let us know how many months you have been off yasmin.

Good luck ladies.

Claudia.

This question is for Sarah (Flowerbabies)

I have been off this pill for almost three months, but still get anxiety/panic attacks. My doctor sent me to two different psychotherapists to deal with my anxiety and they have indicated I follow an anxiety disorder workbook to overcome my disorder. I have panic attacks in public, where i start crying hysterically and vomitting, the last attack was yesterday at a mall, it was so bad that people wanted to call an ambulance. The reason I believe this is the pill and not me is because I never experienced these attacks before nor did I experience anxiousness. I was a very calm and collected person before all this. My friends and family saw me as a pillar of strength, now they're afraid to tell me anything in fear that I'll have another attack.

My question to you is, what did you do to cleanse your body of Yasmin? Is there anything I can do to speed up the process? Now of course I'm afraid of another panic attack happening at anytime, and it is embarrassing.

Please help, Ihave been off this pill for three months and I don't seem to be getting any better.

Help me please! I was on Yasmin for only three months but it has changed my life dramatically. I realized it all when a cop stopped me and my driver's licence was taken away. I reacted by crying hysterically, for over two weeks, vomitting everything I ate (I lost 10 pounds in two weeks) and feeling drepressed. I went off the pill right away and now almost three months later, it happened again. This time it is job/career related and I am at work and all of a sudden I burst out crying and my chest hurts and I feel such a failure and extremely depressed. After being off the pills for almost three months, is this normal? or am i officially going crazy? Will I react to every stressful situation with extreme anxiety attacks? Please help!

I have been taking Yasmin for about 2 years. I had past experiences with anxiety and mild depression and my doctor told me that Yasmin would actually make my moods "better". I took it with no noticeable side effects at all for the first few months. Then I noticed PMS symptoms appearing 2 weeks before my period and each month they were progressively worse. I had cramps, mood swings, bouts of crying, depression, lack of energy, insomnia. Before taking Yasmin I really never had any PMS except for slight discomfort the first day of my period. Now, after 2 years, the symptoms have gotten to the point where I feel psychotic, hopeless, crazy and depressed for a week or sometimes 2 weeks out of the month. I would literally spend the better part of 2 days crying hysterically and I had no idea why. It has effected my relationship with my boyfriend and my children (I get very angry with them and have NO patience at all during the "PMS"). It has effected my job; I've taken many days off because i was so immobilized with severe anxiety and depression that I could not even leave my house for days at a time. I've also broken down into tears IN FRONT OF MY BOSS, just dealing with the normal stress of my job. I have felt very much NOT myself since being on Yasmin. I have always been very active physically, I love being outdoors and enjoying the sunshine. The last few months I have had to struggle to have enough energy to exercise, I hardly ever want to go outside, or anywhere. Some other less serious symtoms that I have experienced are night sweats, contact lens intolerance, insomnia, lack of concentration, forgetfulness and nausea. I'm sure that not everyone who takes this drug will experience what I have experienced, but I think it's important for women to know that this does happen. I was at the end of my last pack this past week and I will not continue to take Yasmin or any other hormone bc pill.

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.

i have been on it for a week and i feel so depressed.... thoughts i would get upset about before, i could get over quicky, but now i have been crying like all day.. i have been with my bf for almost a year and we get along great, like i love him to death, and all of a sudden within the time i starte taking my novaring, i got upset about us and i started feeling like he wasn't even like my bf anymore, and i have never felt so upset aver a thought like that ever, i mean i have thought about us not being together before, but not to this extent, i didn't understand what and why i was feeling sooo depressed, it was as if it felt like i wasn;t even going out with him for soo long, i just started feeling really really wierd... more different than i have ever felt about him or anything before.. and i started to freak out and cry hysterically! im 19 and i have no idea why im feeling so wierd... but this all started about i started taking the ring. Thing that would of bothered me before didn't effect me or grasp me like they all of sudden do now, its like im freaking out over something now, that i never freaked about before, its like my whole mind changed and moods changed on how i thought or felt about things....

has anyone else experienced stuff like this, if so let me know by just typing your side effect.. thanks everyone for makeing realize, that i was acting hysterical over little things, and just severs depression!!!

feelins changed for certian things, crying hysterically, getting more upset over something that normally i wouldn't get that upset about

YASMIN IS POISON!!!!
IF YOU HAVE HAVE BEEN EXPERIANCING EXTREME PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY THAT LEAVES YOU GASPING FOR AIR, HEART PALPITATIONS, DIZZINESS AND CLOUDINESS IN THE HEAD, EXTREME MOOD SWINGS, HEAVINESS IN THE CHEST, DEPRESSION, AND ABSOLUTE HELL READ THIS!!!!!!

Hello All,
Like some other ladies who have posted their stories on this site, I feel it is important to repost my story to alert new readers to the hell caused by Yasmin....

After being on ortho tri cyclene for about a year, I began having some mood swings so i decided to switch my pill. Because I attend college about 3 hours away from my home, I made an appointment at the end of my winter break last year to see the nurse practitioner at my gyno's office. Without any warning, she handed me the Yasmin and told me that it was such a "wonderful pill" that causes little or no side effects. I took her word for it and i was on my way... the next day I left to return to school...

About a few weeks after i returned to school, I began having EXTREME PANIC ATTACKS and ANXIETY to the point that I was constantly GASPING FOR AIR and was even taken to the hospital. I was constantly DIZZY, and horribly MOODY. Every day I felt PRESSURE IN MY CHEST and HEART PALPITATIONS that made me feel like I was going to have a heart attack. I literally was gasping for air every single day while in class, and walking to and from class. Even when I returned to my dorm, I would do nothing but sit in bed and gasp for air.... I felt like I was dying.

I would call home every night crying hysterically to my parents because I had no idea what was going on with my health... I had ABSOLUTELY NO HISTORY OF HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE PAST. My mom called my doctor and a therapist (who I would call at least 2 times a week from my school because I could not cope- i would see him on the weekends when I would ocme home from school but I had to be driven there because my panic was SO BAD that I COULDNT EVEN DRIVE!!!!!!), who told her that I was probably just under stress from being in premed and having a large workload.....we knew that this was not the case because I have always had a very heavy workload and I had always managed to be VERY OPTIMISTIC and capable of handling stress.

As the semester went on..... my symptoms worsened and became UNBEARABLE. My dad was driving to my school every weekend to pick me up because I COULD NOT COPE with the extreme anxiety, chest pains, and dizziness. Every weekend I was comming home and doing nothing but sitting home suffering through the Yasmin symptoms. My boyfriend would come over and sit with me because my panic attacks were so bad that I refused to leave the house because I was afraid of getting another wave of panic. At that point, I considered dropping out of school because I couldn't take the gasping for air and dizziness that made sitting in my bed difficult, let alone sitting through whole days of classes. My parents convinced me every weekend to go back and finish out the semester... I continued perservering.

I had no idea what was going on with my body... aside from feeling like I was about to DIE. I was consdtantly crying because I felt so aweful... my parents thought that I was bipolar... and even my roomate knew that something was SERIOUSLY wrong with me. My hair and skin became very dull, and I was missing so much class due to the panic and the other syptoms that even the teachers would ask me after class if everything was ok with me.

Finally, with one day of finals left to go, my mom called me and told me that IMMEDIATELY NEEDED TO STOP TAKING YASMIN. After doing much research about possible yasmin side effects, she told me that she came across this forum and was COMPLATELY SHOCKED about how similar my symptoms were to the other women who wrote in. My mom read the stories to me.... for the first time in months, I was SOOOOO RELIEVED that I was not alone. I IMMEDIATELY sstopped taking Yasmin.. At first, I felt soo dizzy and out of it, but my mom told me that my body just needed to 'detox' from the poison.

When I got off of the Yasmin, I visited a new physician. He told me that he has heard of some women having sever side effects from yasmin. He told me that my body needed to reblanace itself. To curb the anxiety, he prescribed me ZOLOFT, which is also helping me get back to normal...

I HAVE BEEN OFF OF YASMIN FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS NOW.... and I am slowly but surely getting better. The panic has subsided
(im sure the zoloft is helping it along) and I am starting to enjoy life and enjoy agian out again. I'm also looking normal again.... my hair regained its shine, my skin looks more vibrant, I'm beginning to drive again without being overcome by exteme panic, and i dont feel like im going to die!! Im definately NOT 100% better yet but I am working on it... I know that it will be a slow recovery.

I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO POSTED THEIR STORY ON THIS FORUM!!!! YOU HAVE ALL GIVEN ME HOPE AND EXTEME RELIEF AND HAVE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I AM NOT ALONE IN RECOVERING FROM YASMIN!!!!!! TO ALL THE LADIES WHO HAD TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS AWEFUL PILL, DONT LOSE HOPE.... WE WILL ALL RECOVER AND BE BACK TO OUR OLD FABULOUS SELVES SOON!!!!!! THANK YOU AGAIN AND GOOD LUCK!!!!!

I am wondering if any of you ladies have been taking medications such as ZOLOFT, or PAXIL or other SSRI's to deal with the effects of the yasmin????????? Please post some comments to let me know.... Also, did anyone file a CLASS ACTION SUIT against YASMIN???????? Write back and let me know!!!

I am 32 years old and I've been on Yasmin for a little over two years. My doctor recommended this bill because of my irregular periods and horrible PMS symptoms (bloating, cramps, headaches, etc.). Initially, I was very pleased as Yasmin helped to regulate my periods and alleviate my PMS symptoms. After about 6 months, my periods because slightly less regular - not quite as irregular as before - but I was no longer getting them every 4th Sunday as I was when I first started taking Yasmin. I also noticed that I started experiencing some PMS symptoms again.

What I don't like about Yasmin is the toll that it seems to be taking on me both emotionally and physicially. The following are some of the symptoms I've been experiencing, which seem to be getting worse:

- Extreme mood swings (happy one minute, crying hysterically the next)
- Irritability
- Low self-esteem
- Headaches
- Heart palpitations
- Dizziness
- Lightheadedness
- Difficulty concentrating
- Insomnia
- Constantly fatigued, even when I do manage to get a decent night's sleep
- On edge all the time

I've experienced minor depression in the past and have been stressed out at work, but these mood swings are starting to scare me. The other night I got lost while driving to a co-worker's party and became so hysterical thinking my life was awful and that no one would care if I died that I had to just turn around and go home, where I called my brother who managed to calm me down. This isn't the first time I've been crying hysterically and thinking irrationally and just didn't quite feel like myself. I mentioned this to a friend who said she had to stop taking Yasmin because it was making her "psychotic".

I love the good things about this pill - more regular periods and less trouble with PMS - but I can't deal with the mood swings. Also, the irritability and inability to concentrate are affecting me at work. My job is very challenging and requires me to deal with other people throughout the day and to always be able to think on my feet, so I can't be ready to snap at people all the time and I need to be able to focus. I'm going to try going off this pill for a while and see if it helps at all. If not, I don't know what else to do.