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I am getting mine removed FRIDAY!! And Friday can't come soon enough. I am kinda bummed tho for having to go back on the pill but I can't hack this ANY LONGER!!! One of my friends works for a GP and I went to him because of some of my side effects. The flu like symptoms minus having the flu (had it for at least 2 to 3 mos now) NO sex drive (causing trouble with my marriage. Hubby is taking it WAY to personal), swelling in my hands, feet, legs, and face. (my face will feel flush and BAM I'm swollen!!) VERY BAD MOOD SWINGS!!! Very Bad isn't the word for it!! There are no words to explain my moods!! ANYHOW..... I sent this to my friend to read and she pulled it up at work. Well the GP said that this isn't a reliable place to go for information on the side effects. "There are NO positive side effects to anything." Which is true BUT he seems to think going to Web MD or some sight like that is more reliable than here. And that this sight shouldn't scare me and he wouldn't urge me to have it removed after reading this. (OH YEAH I forgot to mention joint pain, I have HORRIBLE joint pain in my hands, wrists, elbows, knees, ankles, and feet. The worst of it is in my wrists and elbows) Back to what I was saying. To that (this sight not being reliable) I say go to Web MD and post there too! I pray that I can get back to me after this comes out!! I hope it don't take too long either! I MISS the old me and HATE the new me!! But FRIDAY HURRY UP AND GET HERE. And for anyone who has had it removed........ anything I should be repaired for??? Thanks for your time!

In June I found out I had actue renal failure. One of the many medications I was given was prednisone. After a few weeks I grew so weak, tired and in a lot of pain. I even had to take a medical leave from work(4 months).
I was told to expect the moon face, hunchback, the acne..However, my sypmptoms worsened to point I didn't want to eat(lost 30 lbs) could hardly move and had to be hospitalized(almost went on dialysis). They flushed me out for a week at the hospital and avoided dialysis.
Once out of the hospital I proceeded to keep the weight off, but the side effects just mounted. I had thrush in the mouth(the worst feeling), sleeplessness, I had every side effect listed and I mean all with the exception of hallucinations and depression. The miracle was that what I was expecting weight gain, moon face did not happen.
Around September my doctor started weaning me off prednisone b/c I told him I cant take it anymore. Wouldn't you know it the minute I started getting weaned off the medication I got the moon face and acne. I cant beleive how much acne I have and the moon face and extra chin that came along with it are not cute. In 3 days I gained 10lbs and feel like I'm gainiing everyday. This might bring on the depression that has yet to occur. Why is this happening now that I'm being weaned. I started at 80mg a day and now I'm down to 30mg and next week down to 20mg.
I know this drug did its job and I pray that I dont have to be on it at all once the weaning process is over, but this is hell. I really feel doctors should tell you everything that you can expect. I didnt know enough about this drug(I know there is the internet I should have used it) and had I known then what I know now I seriously might have asked for some alternatives. This drug may be a miracle in the medical community, but for those of us who have to take it, its hell. Does anyone know how long it will take for the moon face, acne, and weight gain to go away?

I had used NR for 2 months and decided that I couldnt afford the cost each month. I took my ring out 20 days ago, and for the past few days have been experiencing pretty painful breast tenderness and swelling. I took a pregnancy test and it was negative, but the symptoms feel like they did when I was pregnant. I have also been having a hard time sleeping. I didnt know if these were normal symptoms after taking the ring out.

i have been taking Yamine for about a month and a half, after being on a generic pill for a couple years. I didnt know if these symptons i was having was caused by yasmine, but now i think it may be. I have been getting lightheaded, blurry eyes, shakiness, hot flashes..almost like a panic attack, and i have become very dehydrated, even though i have been drinking alot of water. I even went to the doctors for these symptons and they still don't have an answer, so i think it may be yasmine.my newest sympton as of yesterday is chest pain. also i feel like my heart is beating fast all the time, and i feel fatigued way too often, which is causing me to eat more, becauase i am starving way to often, and if i don't eat i feel like i am going to collapse. Also my sex drive has gone to non-existant- is that common? I workout all the time, and eat pretty healthy, so i don't know what else these symptons could be coming from. Is anyone else experiencing these sympons?

Hi Everyone,
I am a fourth year medical student and recently I started having horrible panic attacks, I feel like crying all the time and I actually feel depressed. I am a "hypochondriac" generally (I guess it comes with the territory of knowing about different diseases out there), but I have been feeling like I am going crazy. I started Yasmin in November of 2006 and I was fine for a few months. Lately, with stress at school and exams, I started feeling like I've just crumbled. I get anxiety/panic attacks (the latest one was at the movies), horrible heart palpitations, nausea, I am sweating, I can't sleep, I feel this knot in my stomach. It's horrible. I thought it was me cracking under pressure, but I was never like this before I started Yasmin. Recently, I was placed on an antidepressant because everyone assumed it was depression, but after reading this post, I really think it might be the pill. I got off it a week ago, so I hope I will see a difference. Thanks guys!!!

I have been on this pill for 5 months and it has been a nightmare. I started to get acne again. My weight jumps high/low. My mood swings changes happy to depressed and i don't even know why. I have never had a problem with vaginal dryness which caused me to have painful intercourse, urinary track infection, vaginal infections, tender/swollen breast, spotting (1st three months) very bad cramps, dry skin, can't sleep. I even had sex the other day and he hit a spot and it hurt for like a min. but after that min thats when i began to cry. I couldnt stop. He felt so bad and said whats wrong and i told him i dont know b/c i didnt know. I felt like an idiot. And i always think that i am preganent from all these problems.

I never had these problems when i was on yazmin. Im switching back to yasmin next week. I never has theses problems and i have been on yazmin for 2 years. I only switched b/c i wanted shorter periods. I would never refer this pill to anyone!

I am calling my doctor and having this thing removed ASAP. I've had it in for three months, and at first everything was fine. But lately, I almost feel as though I'm going crazy. Insomnia. Terrible mood swings and anger. Getting beyond mad and upset at simple things. My heart feels like its beating ridiculously fast - like I'm having heart palpitations or an anxiety attack. I feel like I'm in a pressure-cooker. I get unreasonably mad at my dear husband and children, which leaves me feeling so awful and terrible to be acting this way. My hair falls out in gobs, and I have a puffy tummy that is soooo not normal. I haven't had a good sex drive in years, but now the thought of sex makes me almost want to throw-up. I feel like I'm going crazy. Any problems in my life seem amplified, and I feel completly overwhelmed - and I really shouldn't feel this bad. Kids wear you out, and messes around the house are tiresome, but the commotion shouldn't make me feel this NUTS!

At first I was taking Loestrin 24 after having my baby and that pill made me bleed for 3 weeks straight. So my doctor switched me to Femcon Fe. All was going good until a couple weeks ago. Every night I got extremely terrible pains in my stomach. I didnt know if I was going to vomit or have diarrhea. And I have also been bleeding for the past 2 weeks again.. I am debaiting whether or not to continue taking the pill. Does anyone have the same problems or any advice?

I just recently found this site and am very thankful I did. Has anyone ever even heard of someone being prescribed 1000mg oral prednisone for 7 days, followed by 500 mg oral prednisone for 7 days for a one day occurance of optic neuritis. It happened to my father and he died 3 weeks later. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who can help me make sense of this dosage.

iVE BEEN ON THE NR FOR 3 DAYS. THE FiRST NiGHT i CRiED MYSELF TO SLEEP AND THATS NOT LiKE ME....THE MORNiNG OF THE SECOND DAY i WAS SiCK AND i DiDNT KNOW WHY...BUT THANKS TO THiS SiGHT i KNOW....iVE BEEN FEELiNG WEiRD SiNCE PUTTiNG THE RiNG iN....AND ALL i WANT TO DO iS SiT AROUND AND CRY....iM GOiNG TO GiVE iT A WHiLE LONGER TO SEE iF THE SiDE EFFECTS WARE DOWN BUT iF NOT iTS COMiNG OUT!!!!!!!....THESE SiDE EFFECTS ARE REDiCULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you all so much fo your comments.....i have been taking doxy for 3 days and i thought i was dying. severe stomach pains on my upper left side and vomitting for hours on end. i didnt know what it was until a friend bought it to my attention that i should look up the side effects for doxy. lord have mercy, thank you that i now know what it is.

Hi everyone

Iam still frustrated yes flowerbabies I had my period it was right on time and very normal no pain or cramping or abnormalities with that

Everyone said that I would most likely feel better after a normal period but thats not happening.

I had terrible heartburn last night I did eat a piece of fried chicken and I believe it triggered it but it was the worst heartburn I have ever had in my life I didnt know what to do.

It ached all day today and is a tad calmer now

My doctor said to take Zantac for that but I read the side effects and lightheadedness was the top one I dont want that.

Its all getting overwhelming

I had the anxiety in my arms and tingling the longest had it last night and all day today usually it comes and goes.

I pushed mysel to do alot today but felt miserable the whole time.

Soooo you think the synthetic hormones are still in me does anyone know how long they stay in us??

I just dont understand 6 weeks off the pill how I can be feeling so much anxiety still its almost everyday.

I dont want to take anymore pills I have Lexapro and Xanax but I dont want to take them.
My doctor said I could take lexapro for just a month to get over this hurdle and its not addictive and since Iam taking it for a reaction to the pill or a imbalance i can stop it at anytime>> she said this isnt true with paxil or the others.

Iam too confused.

I just want to lay by the poolside relax and read a magazine and enjoy like I use to do every weekend.

Iam too hyper and anxious to do any of that

Yesterday I felt better for part of the day than wham got the palpatations the anxiety and no couldnt sleep after 4 nights of good sleep

Iam so sad I want to cry
I cant have any fun I havnt had any fun in 6 weeks

hi... i have had a few ide effects for awhile and i am planning to stop taking it at the end of this month to see if they stop. i have noticed the effects mostly over the last 6months or so and yasmin is the only conclusion i have. my effects are very sore a swollen breasts, some loss of sex drive, last 2 months my hair has been thinning and comes out in clumps, eye sight in left eye is quite lazy now, forgetfulness (used to remember everything!), needing to use the toilet lots during the night, i have put on some weight. i didnt realise vaginal cramps were a side effect and i don sometimes get this and the week before i am due to stop yasmin for the seven days i have spotting for seven days. these are the main things for me. i am pleased i have read this site as i didnt know some of the side effects. i have taken yasmin for about 4.5 years. i feel its time for a break from it!! thanks

Hello again, just reading the most recent posts on this site about this pill. Clairey I had similar symptoms while on yasmin and I came off it when I couldnt take any more. It was unreal what I went through, I felt completly numb all the time and my realtionship with my boyfriend almost fell apart, thank goodness my doctor made me come off the pill immediately, the depression was getting to bad something I had never experienced before in my life, i really felt like I was losing controll of my life. I am off yasmin 2 weeks this friday and I can tell you things are alot better, the panic attacks and anxiousness have reduced by about 70%, im not constantly feeling sad all the time but I have up and down days. I am starting to feel normal again, while on yasmin it was like I didnt know who I was anymore. From doing some research on the web I wreckon the symptoms will reduce greatly within 3 months I hope, it feels good not to be taking that awfl pill anymore. Stick with it girls it does get much better, get plenty of sleep, look after yourself, keep busy, im taking a B Complex and i read on the web star flower oil helps with hormone balance, I recommend doing research on the web it has loads of info. It does get better (:

Hello everyone, just so glad I found this site when I did, I have had such a horrible time whilst being on this pill i didnt know what was happening. I was constantly crying, panic attacks were unreal, nervous, scared about everything, I started stressing over anything the depression got very bad and my doctor took me off the pill immediately. Feeling so down all the time and for no reason and my boyfriend didnt know what to think, Thank goodness I came off this pill. I am now off it 12 days and feeling alot better. Im now taking a B complex and a well woman multi vitamin to build myself back up again. I feel alot better but not 100% yet, I really hope all the symptoms go away. Im never taking this BC again.

I want to thank you all for sharing your stories, at the same time im VERY sorry for all youve all been thru that is just HORRIBLE!!!!!
The main reason im saying thanks is because today I took a Levaquin 500mg I happened to have in my car from a yr ago when I had a UTI, (but I never used them) I didnt know anything about it, but I took it anyway now that I have another one thinking it would help...which it did! But now I wont take anymore knowing my chances of something awful happening, I have 2 young girls and work 40hrs a week, so I dont have the time to become sick like that...nor would I want to anyway, hehe

has anyone ever recived the injection kenelog in the scalp for hair loss. i did and over the last couple of years i have noticed new changes to my body.twitching under my right eye, rapid breathing, insomnia, mood swings, insomnia, pressure in my back like a sharp object poking my insides, occassional night sweats. i didnt know if this was a side effect or not but i didnt feel this way until after the shots. eventhough the hair grew back i still feel these effects. can someone respond

hi, i was put on advair 250-50 in sept. 05, it worked great!! after a few days, i was in so much pain, i could hardly move!! i told my doctor, he said it was not from the advair!! then i gained so much weight, went back to the doctor, he said why are you gaining so much weight??, i said its from the advair!!! hes like no its not, so i begged him to take me off it, he wouldnt, so he lowered it to 100-50, in feb -06, no change, i was miserble!! on march of 06 i stopped my self, the pain stopped!! i lost weight right away, i felt so much better!! i have had to use my inhaler 1 time since i stopped, i am breathing just fine, & i can clear my lungs on my own, i am not saying this is the best thing for everyone, just in my case, i took a chance, cause i didnt know what was gonna happen if i stopped suddenly, but everything was fine with me, even better than before!! but please if you decide to stop, ask your doctor first.DONT GAMBLE WITH YOUR HEALTH.

I stoped taking effexor 13 days ago due to financial difficultys and couldnt afford to re-up. before that however i was on effexor for a year, 150 mg. I logged online yesterday to read other forums on withdrawls if any that others may be experiencing, I was amazed to see that the physical conditions I was experiencing trouble with were widley experienced by others as well, I was just relived, i didnt know what to make of all the horrable withdrawls i was going through, not knowing they were just that. so day 13 and I am feeling much better, I am exited to get back to my self 100%. I started taking effexor to begin with to help with depression and ADD. It didnt help that i was also abusing meth, so i probably needed it more then as far as depression goes and getting off the dope. Im clean now, and im such good spirits, Effexor worked for me in so many ways and i am greatfull for that. But one thing I wont miss is the lazyness that i felt most of the time, I hard a hard time sleeping, and never slept through the night, then id want to sleep the next day, I couldnt drive for fear of falling asleep on the road, which did happen plenty of times to cause the fear. I was in a good mood but motovation was low. Well thanks for letting me share with all of you, reading the poasts here really helped me to understand what it was i was going through. Best wishes!

ok, i am warning you in advance that this is kinda long, but i wanted to explain a little rather than just list how i was affected. the effects happened gradually at first and then all of a sudden got worse.

i was on yasmin for just over 2 years. i started taking it shortly before i got married and at first i noticed that i hated everyone and everything around me but figured that it was due to starting a BCP for the first time. after a month, i was ok.

about last year april, my father in law who is a gynecologist said that continually taking the active pills would be ok and then every 3 packs or so to stop and have a period. ok fine, that is what i did. i thought things were fine until july when i noticed that i was starting to have all this hate towards my husband yet i still loved him. i thought it was just stress from us both trying to finish school, me working full time and him not working. around august, i got a bit happier. not sure why. during the rest of the year, from september throuogh december, i went back and forth in my head trying to figure out why i was so mad and depressed all the time...was it me? or my husband? or just life in general?my family and feriends could see that i was no longer happy and just wasn't the angel they knew. i seriously considered leaving my husband because i thought it was all stress because of him. fortunately, i decided to wait until january to see how i felt then. i didnt want to just hurry up and get divorced only to regret it later.

january came and i got worse. i started crying because i didnt know what to do. i almost lost my job because they didnt like me "coming to work with all my 'home' problems". they didnt think i kept work and home separate. around february is when i noticed the nausea thing. my husband and i went to target one night and ate some pizza before doing our shopping. while we were wandering around, i felt extremely sick. i either had to sit down right now in the middle of the aisle or go to the bathroom. this happened a few times so i blamed it on the greasy pizza - maybe my stomach couldn't handle it anymore.

i found this site last week monday. i took my pill that morning but havent taken one since. after reading all the problems other people had been experiencing, i knew i had to stop. i started talking to a friend about it; she said to stop. so did my husband. i called my sister who was also on yasmin. she stopped. things from the past year all started to make sense. things i never even considered would be caused by taking yasmin every day. having me and my sister both on it probably made a lot of people in our lives wonder why we were so crazy. as i read through this site, i realized just how many things in my life were being affected. the symptoms/side effects i noticed are:

depression
extremely bad headaches (in the back of my head)
hair loss
dry skin
no sex drive (at all)
anxiety
severe mood swings (i've always been moody but never borderline psychotic!)
start crying for no reason (i used to never cry and my friends thought i was incapable of showing emotions!)
insecurity (especially about weight)
weight gain (25 lbs in 2 yrs -no change in eating habits)
inability to concentrate/cloudy thinking
diarrhea
abdominal pains (especially after eating)
sudden food intolerances i didnt have before
very bitchy
night sweats
dry itchy nose
unexplained memory loss
swelling of hands and feet (aka edema if you come across that word!)
dizziness
blurred vision
constant achy feeling
extrelmey sensitive
dehydration
no motivation
insomnia (i've NEVER had a problem sleeping!)
constant worrying
vaginal dryness/pain during sex
heartburn

Reading abck on all of this, i must seem like one of those people that thinks they have every sickness in the world, but I AM NOT LYING. Yasmin affected me in a very bad way. It took a year for me to start noticing any symptoms, so to all of you who after 1 week or 1 month say that everything is fine, it was the same with me (for the most part). if you give it time, it will affect you too. as for me, i am never going on another BCP. i just dont like the idea of putting extra hormones in my body. if you think back to being a teenager when your hormones start going all crazy on their own it only makes sense that adding more later on wouldn't be a good thing.

as i am off yasmin for more time, i will post which symptoms are improving and which arent. And I will try to keep them shorter!

thank you for reading and best of luck :)

angel

Seeing as im only 15 I didnt know how bad it could be. I was at my friends house and her uncle left the bottle in her room on accident. Befor he could relize he did that we snached the bottle up and took out a few. We washed them down and not too long after he came back to get the bottle we acted innocent. I started to feel dizzy while I was playing my video game. My neck was getting a little stiff too. My mom came to pick me up and I got in the car showing no emotion at all. I fell asleep in the car and when I got home I fell on the couch and fell asleep again. My mother told me to go to my room and I slept from 7am to 6:30pm that night. When I woke up I was suprised at what the time was and I called Mindy and she said she was asleep for two hours. I think there is nothing wrong with it if you dont take it often. If I was ever to take it again I would be really sleepy so it would knock me out.

My 6 year old daughter has been taking Singulair for asthma/allergies for 4 months. She had a cold in May that just never seemed to go away and was accompanied by wheezing. The doctor felt it was asthma and she has been taking Singulair every night since. My daughter is usually outgoing and doesnt worry much...but she started worrying about spending the night places, crying thinking she would miss me too much, nervous with stomach aches at school. She has been waking up with stomach aches or diarrhea at least 3 times a week. I kept calling it " nerves" since she started kindergarten last month but it just seems odd .

Now at night she worries about nightmares and has been thinking about death...which is not like her at all. I asked her what gave her that idea and she just shruggs. I thought maybe she had seen something on tv or this was just a phase but this evening she went into a major panic episode. Was crying shaking and thinking she was going to die....it scared me and I didnt know what to do. I put music on for her at night, her door is open , night light on and cat on her bed I try to ease her anxiety the best I can but nothing seemed to help so this evening I had been trying to think of what it could be... and her medication crossed my mind. I looked it up and the first thing I found was this website/message board- wow, I cant believe it...I never would have thought it was her medicine! I am taking her to the doctor tomorrow to let him know all of this but really until now I didnt put 2 and 2 together...as it was just an asthma medication I didnt know it could cause this. I am glad I found this website and I hope that stopping this medication will resolve this problem. She has been wondering whats wrong with her too, she didnt know why all of a sudden she was scared all of the time....

Thank goodness I found this information and I hope the word gets out about this side effect.

Jessica

WOW. I havent read many of you with this problem, but i gained like 25 pounds in 2 years. My sex drive is at an all time low. I mean i am 20 years old and up till when i started the pill i was ALWAYS horney(well were being honest)! I have always been eisily worried and annoyed but never emotional at all. After taking this pill i began to cry-something i hadnt done since i was a baby-seriously. The worst of all was that i became parinoid of everything, constintly worried. Finally about a month ago i went to the doctor to talk to him about getting on an anti-depressant (for the side effects of yasmin, but i didnt know) and he took my blood pressure...I have always had abnormally LOW blood pressure but when he took it, it was 160/100! THAT WAS IT! i am 20 years old and about to have a heart attack! I went off it immediatly. The next day, LITERALLY THE NEXT day my blood pressure was at 110/88 and its been going down since. Obviously DO NOT TAKE THIS PILL!!
I do have a question though for any of you, and please email me the awnser if you have it...."DOES THE WEIGHT GAIN GO AWAY?! and if so how long does it take??? WILL I GO BACK TO MY NORMAL WEIGHT?? ok, thanks for listening..and GET OFF YASMIN NOW!