Kind of birth symptoms and conditions

I have been on Mirena since April 2009. At first I thought it was the only form of birth control that I could be on since every other form that I have tried caused me to have anxiety attacks. Recently I've been noticing that I get really dizzy, get frequent headaches, have a hard time focusing, "fly off the hinges" about anything. I also feel weak, have no energy, have muscles aches, and the worst part is I'm always tired & Im only 22 years old. I'm sick of feeling like this! I made an appointment with my OBGYN to get it removed because I believe that I may be allergic to all forms of birth control because of the hormones used in them. The office nurse told me that my OBGYN will probably try & put me on some other kind of birth control, or see how he feels about it being removed, but Im going to tell him I want it removed ASAP. All birth control causes me to have problems so the only form of birth control I plan on being on is a condom! At least I know I'm not allergic to latex. I hate Mirena & regret ever getting it! DO NOT USE!

I am so glad I found this website.

After 2 years of being on Yasmin/Ocella, I have realized that my symptoms were entirely from this horrible drug.

Symptoms I experienced on Yasmin/Ocella:

-HEARTBURN! I had to have an endoscopy to determine the damage caused to my esophagus, and was on hard core antacid drugs for months.

-UTIs!! I suffered from a UTI pretty much every time my fiance and I had sex, and my Gyno referred me to a urologist. Mind, I had NEVER suffered from these frequently in any other time in my life.

-Strange heart beats - heart skipped a beat often.

-Anxiety, to the point of dysfunction.

-Back aches, kidney infections.

-Bladder infections.

-Depression - for instance, lying in bed for hours after my alarm went off, not wanting to get up.

-NO sex drive. NONE.

TAKE THIS DRUG OFF THE MARKET.

I'm 24 years old...
YAY!! I got my Mirena removed yesterday!!! I feel so good! The procedure was super quick and completely painless for me. My doc was very supportive! I opted for the diaphragm/spermicide. I was fitted for it during the same visit and to my surprise, it was really easy to insert and remove and I couldn't even feel it when it was in. I am so excited to no longer have the hormones that the Mirena was intruding into my body!!! I was told that the combo diaphragm/spermicide is 90%, but that is better than feeling bad and potentially damaging my body, marriage and family/friends! I just wasn't myself with the Mirena. Anyway, children are a gift from God and if He wants me to have one then I will, no matter what kind of birth control I use. I have decided to just be responsible and just trust Him. God know if and when I will have another!!

God Bless you all and good luck!
I will keep you posted on how long it took which symptoms to disappear!

I had Mirena put in on July 2nd. I had it removed today (August 4th). I gained 10lbs in 3 weeks, my hair is falling out like crazy, my face is breaking out, I was having kidney pain and the most recent was on Sunday when I couldn't get out of bed due to severe back pain and I couldn't lift my right leg. My husband had to pull me out of bed so I could use the bathroom. Any time I sat down, he had to pull me up. As the day went on, I could slowly start moving more. Yesterday and today my back was still very tender. I had it removed @ 3:30 this afternoon and my back pain and tenderness is completely gone (it's now 8:15 p.m.) My doctor told me that Progesterone is what causes all of those symptoms so he recommended I wait 2-3 months before trying any kind of birth control to get all of the hormones out of my body and make sure it's not a thyroid issue. Two people I know have Mirena and they have no symptoms and they love it. I on the other hand, can't say the same. I think people sensitive to progesterone need to find a different route.

I have been on Loestrin 24 for about 3 weeks. I have experienced extreme mood swings. I am usually a very happy person and lately everything has been driving me crazy!! I have been spotting for the entire 3 weeks. I feel dizzy and lightheaded at times. My acne has increased. I have NO energy and NO sexual desire. I'm not sure to try to stick it out for another couple of months or try a new one. However, I have to be on some kind of birth control to help my endometriosis. Anybody else have these issues?

I'm 21 and I have never been on any kind of birth control method. I decided to get on the Nuvaring because I had a pregnancy scare. My boyfriend and I have only ever used condoms, but one broke and that was enough for me. I've been on the Nuvaring for about 2 weeks. I normally get my period every 35 days and the only cramping I ever experience is the first and second day of my period. After the first week I noticed I had some light cramping and thought nothing of it, but as time went on the cramping only seemed to be getting worse. I told my doctor about it and she advised me that it was probably my body trying to get used to the ring. Never having used birth control before, I tried not to worry. Then, I noticed some other changes that concerned me since it wasn't like me to feel that way. Aside from the cramping, I had been feeling very depressed about my life and where I was headed for some reason, and my sex drive was depreciating. My boyfriend noticed of course and I had no idea why I was feeling that way. It wasn't until I came across this website that everything started to make sense. I thought I was the only one experiencing these changes. I'm definitely going to change birth control methods. I just don't know what is the best out there. Can anyone help me?

i started taking Yaz about 2 months ago and ever since i started i have had no energy and all i want to do is eat. I have gained a couple pounds and am constantly bloated. When i get my period i have horrible cramps and don't feel like eating which i had not experienced until starting this pill. I have also been very snappy and angry at everyone and so school is miserable. i called my doctor and they won't let me try a different kind of birth control until ive been on yaz for 3 months. i do not recommend this pill.

what did you do after getting Mirena removed and How did you feel? Im getting mine removed next week, but now Im at a loss for what kind of birth control I should switch too. Please help!!!!

I feel A LOT better now after reading these. I had my nuvaring in for almost 3 weeks, i had horrible headaches, and started bleeding after the first week it was in. I took it out 2 days ago because i couldn't stand the migraines anymore, and I had horrible cramps. Ive been very irritable and angry. How long does it take for the bleeding to stop... I'm getting kind of worried now, because ive been bleeding for 9 days. Its starting to get heavier, and i had a weird clot today. I booked an appointment to see my doctor because this is driving me crazy. I am NEVER using the nuvaring again. I started it because 1.EVERY single pill ive tried has cause me to become depressed 2.I bled for 3 weeks when i used the patch and my doctor told me to stop and 3.I don't want my period to stop, or gain weight so i refuse to try depo. Does anyone have any suggestions?? I have 2 year old twins, and i want another kid within the next 3 years, so i refuse to use an IUD and possibly screw that up for myself.

I just got mine out about a 1/2 hour ago. It wasn't that bad, but the doctor who inserted it cut the strings very short and it made for a bit of a difficult removal - but all in all less painful than the insertion. The pap smear I had hurt more.

She tried to talk me into keeping it. She said that the hormones are not systemic and therefore could not cause all of the symptoms I had - just like all the ones that a majority of the women here have. She thinks it is all in my head. Nice. All I can say is that I will not be going back to this office anymore.

I just don't see it. How could the hormones NOT affect the rest of your body? Can someone explain this to me? She said that the hormones stay local to the uterus and makes it so that the endometrial lining does not form. That they do not affect anything else. I guess that being a massage therapist, I know that everything in the body is connected. If something is out of whack, it affects the body in many other ways that you would not traditionally expect. Everything is connected.

Anyway - I feel just fine. I don't feel "full" in my pelvis. I feel a bit dizzy, but I think that is from all of the anxiety I had over a painful removal.

I am looking forward to having my body hormone-free and back to it's natural state. Hopefully some fo these 20 pounds I gained in the past 18 months will shed off. Cripes...

Reading the posts it looks like different people react differently to Aviane. Ethnicity and genes may play a major role in how different women react.I was on some kind of birth control in 2005, not Aviane though. I developed acne, extreme hunger, a full cup size and 20lbs!!! I just started my second week of Aviane and I am really tired (but I am also anemic), my breast are getting larger(which my boyfriend loves), and I've been really hungry....that's it. I work out everyday and watch what I eat, so weight gain is not a problem. As far as my sex drive goes..its way better! I'm 20 so my drive was already high,but its definitely increasing(which my boyfriend loves) Overall I give it a 8/10, I would suggest another woman to try it.

~E. B. Detroit,MI

I am 23, I have been on the NuvaRing for over a year now. Before the NuvaRing I had tried practically every other kind of birth control out there: Different kinds of pills, the patch, Depo shot, even an IUC (Mirena). All of these didn't work, they each came with their own horrible side effects. Like I said before, I have been on the NuvaRing for over a year now and things have been going great. No problems. Until a few days ago... I am supposed to take out the ring and have my period next week. But for the last 4 days I have been brown bleeding, with pieces of uterine lining! I have also been having cramps, and feel SUPER tired, like i was having my period. But i still have the ring in! I was so happy with the ring! I don't want to have problems and have to, once again, try to find a BC that will work w/o horrible side effects! I don't want to go to my GYN because i know what she will say "Just wait a couple months and see what happens". I know i shouldn't be freaking out about this but BC has been such a huge problem for me and i thought i had finally found one that worked! Has anyone else had brown bleeding BEFORE their period??

I am SO glad I found this website. I have been taking YAZ (or should I say SPAZ??) for 3 months. I am 27 and I had been off any kind of birth control for the last 3 years. My OBGYN convinced me to get on YAZ thinking it would control the ovarian cysts I often get and control the acne. These last few months I have felt like complete crap. I am not myself and there are more times than not that I want to rip someone's head off. Every little thing is making me irate to the point of insanity and my poor boyfriend who just proposed to me is probably having second thoughts, now that he is having to deal with jekyl and hyde (sp?) And if it's not the uncontrollable severe mood swings it's the complete opposite where I'm crying my eyes out for no reason at all!! Seriously, commercials, a sappy song, anything really just sends me into a boo hoo fest. And the tiredness is unbelievable. It's exactly how everyone else is describing it. No energy and could sleep literally all day. I started thinking that maybe this YAZ could be the cause of my sudden craziness and after reading all of these postings that sound exactly like mine I am convinced that I'm really not a bitch and it's the meds making me kookoo!! Thanks guys for your postings! Hopefully my fiance hasn't gone running for the hills and I'll still be getting married this March! :)

Hello to everyone. I'm 25 years old and have no kids. Had the mirena inserted 1-13-09 and been feeling like crap ever since. Thought it was because I was on my period and the usual pms problems that are associated with, but apparently not. Haven't stopped bleeding and cramping since the mirena went in. My cramps, bloating and mood swings were never this bad and it's only been 1 week. My periods never lasted no more than 5 days and no more than 4 days for my cramps. My doc told me it was because I haven't had any kids yet and that I would get used to it. Haven't yet. The pain you got when they first insert it, hasn't stopped, (sharp like cramping) a burning sensation and If I bend down, it feels like someone is poking me with a burning knife. I wish I had found this site a week earlier and saved myself the $525 I spent out of pocket. I am making an appointment today and having it removed asap. I thought I was seriously going crazy, but found this site and saw how many other women are experiencing the same problems with kids and without. I will report back, as soon as I feel better.

Oh God. i am on the Depo Provera shot. My daughter is 7, I have been rotating between the patch and the shot every other year, because the doctor says its not good to be on the shot for more than a year, something about osteoporosis. Mind you, I haven't had any problems before, but i have been back on the shot i wanna say 6 months, well whatever, i'm on my second dosage. And I am blowing up!And now that i am putting 2 and 2 together, I do have a lot of headaches. i don't know what to do. I have to have birth control because I LOVE SEX. And it helps with my cramps. I mean when I'm not on birth control, I have the kind of cramps that make you feel like you are going to vomit. I'm still small but I have gained 20 pounds! That will not leave! Now i'm debating on getting off birth control all together!!! The patch was cool, but that big ass band-aid is not sexy! It looks like a Nicotine patch. And I was considering the mirena, but you said you gained weight off of that! Oh lord! And I can't take pills because they give me yeast infections! What other methods are there?? Is you know of anything Side effects or what i should consider, email me at ****** Thanks. P.S. All the problems that I was having I didn't put 2 and 2 together until a coworker's hair started falling out due to a Birth Control pill she just started taking. Side effects that I am having are: I have gained 25 pounds and I don't eat shit. Fatigue. Hemorrhoids. Small portions of acne around my hairline. Fast heartbeat sometimes. I felt a kicking feeling in my belly about 3 times. Last week when I caught a cold my vision was blurry. Can't walk up a flight of steps without breathing like a 500 pound woman. A slight headaches. Not excruciating just a dull pain that will not go away until I take some aspirin. Irritability. And gas. This makes me not want to be on any kind of birth control period. I am researching different methods now.

I'm starting Femcon Fe tomorrow. I've been on Yaz for the past 4 months, and for me, Yaz made my bloating, cramping and mood swings worse. It also didn't help with regulating.
I had a friend who, when she took any kind of birth control it made everything worse. (Yaz, the depo shot) I really think it depends on the person and their medical/hereditary history.
You won't know until you try.
i'm really excited to try Femcon Fe, i really don't want to have my period for 2 weeks out of the month. =]

i went on Yasmin for probably about 4-5 months. i have irritable bowel and asthma and noticed they both got SO much worse on Yasmin. it crept up on me so i wasn't sure at first, but noticed my symptoms improved when i got off it.

my skin was also affected. i had more breakouts and had skin rashes and itchiness all over my body-- mostly confined to my trunk. i am a runner so the breathing troubles bothered me the most and at first i attributed them to the pollen in the springtime. once i looked at the list of side effects i realized having asthma i probably should have never been put on this drug!

i have never had very regular periods and always had light periods and with the Yasmin i had heavy periods. now, two years later, i'm considering another kind of birth control and this experience has made me believe there is none out there that could work for me. this list has made me think otherwise. i'm hoping to try something with a lower dose... has anyone had a good experience with another type of birth control? i am thinking alesse could be a good one, but a little wary to try anything especially after this last experience.

i had mirena done this month. before i had it done my sex drive was so high, i would meet my husband for a quickie during lunch time. now i have no sex drive at all. my body ache a lot. i can't get my work done at my job. i have little or no energy. i now suffer more headache and back pain. i'm so bad with the pill. can any one suggest another kind of birth control

I am 20 years old and I just started taking Yasmin 2 weeks ago, my first time ever being on the pill. The past 2 weeks have felt like 2 of the worst weeks of my life. I feel nauseous and have abdominal pains frequently, especially in the mornings. I am tired all the time. I find that I am extremely sensitive and have been feeling so depressed that sometimes all I want to do is lay in bed and escape from the rest of the world. I cry all the time for no reason, and can't help snapping at people. I feel anxious and stressed out and I felt like I was losing my mind until it clued in that this all started when I started taking Yasmin. I have a little over a week left in my pack, but after reading this website especially, and dealing with these side effects, I don't even want to finish this pack; but I am afraid that not finishing the pack could cause worse effects too? I am really unsure of what to do. I definitely am switching to a different kind of birth control next month but I don't know if I should keep using the Yasmin up until this pack is done and just hope that the side effects do not worsen, or cease use and hope for the best.
My sympathies go out to all of you who are experiencing such horrible side effects just from trying to practice safe sex.
Men have it so easy it seems...

I have been on the Nuvaring for nine days now. As my doctor instructed, I put it in the day I started my period. I am still bleeding with no signs of stopping. It's not heavy, but I am a bit worried. I have been feeling a little depressed lately and I feel like I want to cry for no reason. I'm not putting the Nuvaring down, I'm just worried about the length of my period. This is my first time using any kind of birth control so this is all new to me. If anyone has any information for me, that would be great.

Hi, i just wanted to say that very many people use Yasmin with little or no side effects whatsoever, i sympathies so much with everyone who has had bad side effects, and i completely agree that every person is different, some birth controls work for people, some don't. I find that most people who look up forums are the ones who have problems with a tablet, and thats why the majority of posts are all negative. To everyone who has had bad side effects i sympathies so much and would recommend trying a different pill, however very many people use this pill with little or absolutely no side effects (i know of some people with no side effects at all on Yasmin). I just don't want people to be worried unnecessarily. It is meant to be one of the pills with the least side effects and don't rule out using it because of some negative posts.

I started using the nuvaring on August 24 for the first time. That was the first day of my period. My periods usually last four days but I have bad cramps. My gyno prescribed the nuvaring to stop the cramps. Well this month I had the worse cramps that I have ever had. My period lasted for six days and then started the brown smelly discharge, headaches, lower back pain, tiredness and irritability. I got on the internet to research the side effects of the ring and could not find my symptoms on any of the medical sites. I found this site and found that my symptoms have been experienced by most women using the ring. It has been years, approximately 9, since I used any kind of birth control and I know my body well so I know that the nuvaring is causing these problems. I am going to talk to my gyno about it and will probably seek some other method of relieving the extreme cramping that does not cause other problems. I do not see the sense in stopping one problem but causing 10 others.

I am 17 and i was prescribed loestrin 24 as my first birth control pill. I've been on it for less than a week and i can't stand it and neither can my boyfriend! I have had a period from hell with has been 5 days in counting, I bleed so much i get dizzy when i stand up and my legs feel like 1000 lbs i can barely move them. Also i had diminished sex drive and raging hormones (bad acne, emotional hell) so i have decided to stop taking it. I called my gynec. and she recommended the opposite, and told me to get a blood test to check my iron levels and to see if i was pregnant! I'm almost positive i am not but not shes got me worried and i go for the blood test today. Loestrin ruined the second half of my summer but after reading all these other ladies tales i am very glad i decided to quit now. Thank you for opening my eyes, i realized it probably won't just go away in a week. I stopped it yesterday and i feel better already.

I just started Femcon on Sunday so today is my 3rd day and so far its been ok...after i saw this sight it made me want to stop right away, but i think ill give it a shot. But ill definitely keep you guys updated on my status as I go through this process. This is my 1st time on any kind of birth control and i have to admit its kind of scary reading all of these posts...i don't know what I should do

Hello, I've never been on birth control before, but i recently had an abortion and decided I really need to get on some kind of birth control. I am 27, married, and I am a NON-SMOKER. Nuvaring seemed to be the best option for me, easiest, effective and practical. I'm only on my first ring, it comes out for the week break in few days. So far I have NOT had any irritability or headaches, or anything like that. I have gotten a little "spotting" which to me can still be linked to the abortion or even sex. What I DID notice, however, is that I had a few sharp chest pains here and there, quick and not consistent, my husband thinks that could be from stress. I also noticed what I thought to be a pulled muscle in my lower calf could be a sign of a blood clot, which totally scares me. A persistent issue I HAVE had so far, is that I have that numb "pins and needles" feeling in my limbs a bit more often than usual. I do sit odd and my limbs tend to fall asleep more than the average person, but I actually notice it happening more frequently, like my blood circulation isn't as good as it was. I have NOT had high blood pressure. I ALSO noticed I wake sometimes with severe leg pain (cramping) that reminds me of those "growing pains" one would get as a child. I haven't had those since I was a child, wondering if it could be due to the NuvaRing. If anyone has felt similar pains let me know. I am visiting the clinic tomorrow to discuss these things and to see what could be a safer method of BC 4 me!