Jenn symptoms and conditions

I would just like to say one more thing about the drug prednisone. I hate all of the nasty side effects but, I will never forget that I almost died from a severe asthma attack. I developed broncitis and could not breathe...with tubes up my nose and an I.V. in my arm I was bed ridden for 4 days. I mean taking 10 lousy steps to the bathroom was exhausting. I was 29 years old and before this I was always healthy. I can complain to high heaven about getting swollen but swollen is better than dead. I hope someday there is a medication that has less side effects but, until then I am grateful to walk to my bathroom at home or anywhere in the world....thanks to prednisone. Jenn

I have been on prednisone for weeks at a time due to asthma. In 2002-2003 I had been on it for a total of 3-4 months (shortest being 10 days and longest being 6 weeks) I gained 10 lbs in 5 days laying in the hospital bed...from 154 to 164 and then up to 172 within the next week. I was swollen in the face and belly and I could not sleep. I was not even tired so it wouldn't have been so bad except I was so hungry that no sleep meant that I was up longer and had more hours to eat and eat and eat. I became disoriented and would start little projects and only finish half before I moved to another...very strange and emotionally unstable. It took a long time to loose the weight because I broke my foot . I am sure that the prednisone was responsible for weakening my bones...I just stood up and my foot broke. I didn't fall or bang into anything nor drop any object on it.

My dog is now on prednisone for the second time. The first time she was on it she became extremely hungry and ignored all of her normal restrictions...she would eat the trash, get into any wrappers and even ate an entire dish of candy. She was 10 at the time and well trained not to behave like that. She is now on it again for a brain tumor...her belly is so swollen that it is scaring me. She is disoriented, very thirst and always hungry. She is urinating constantly and she seems depressed. I am going to call the vet in the morning about these symptoms. We worked hard to get her weight down because she has arthrits and it helps her to be in shape. I feel that this drug is going to fatten her up beyond control. I know she is truely hungry because of my own experience and it was difficult to control my appetite I do not want her to feel starving all the time on top of the mood disorder. Does anyone have any suggestions.
Thanks, Jenn
P.s. she will not eat carrots or any thing like that, I already tried

I was 32 years old when I started to take Lamictal.I am on it a year now.I have been getting pimples.I never thought it was the meds.I had a bad rash looking thing on my waist I should it to one DR.He said it was from my pants.Well now it spred to other places so I dont think its the pants.I never thought to look on this site till today.I now think I have to side effects whitch are the pimples's and the funny smell.I often say I smell Gas or Hotdogs.Never thought anything,but now I do.I dont have a PCP DR right now looking for a good one but in the mean time I have these effects I dont now what to make of it.------------------------Jenn

hey girls!
i just happened to come into this site when i was looking up facts about yasmin online, and glad that i found this. i am 21 and have been taking yasmin for about 1 month now. just a few days after starting it i began to feel depressed and tired alot, which is not normal for me to feel that way, and i am usually full of energy. i have taken birth control once before, for about a month, and decided to start yasmin because i heard that it had fewer side effects than high dosage birth control. i have decided to stop taking it now after reading some of the things that you all said on here, and i am glad that i found this out before taking it for too long, thank you.
jenn

hi everyone , this is jenn
Can anyone tell me - Im stopping this pill TODAY and IM on the first week, I have 2 weeks to go. Do you think this will mess up my cycle? When do you think I will get my period?
Also, I've been on the pill -another one - and then I switched directly to yasmine just in nov. - My overall time on the pill is like 12 years, do you think that things will go back to normal - will my periods be regular like they were before I went on the pill? Im just asking everyone opinion...
Thanks,

hi this is jenn again, I've also experienced breast tenderness a lot. Thanks

I took Ambien (20 milligrams) flor better sleep. The side affects that I got before I was able to get to sleep were shaky from the inside out, nervousness, blurred vision, can't walk straight, and stomach ache, and numbness. Is this normal? Jenn~