Kinda symptoms and conditions

I have been on Zoloft 50 mg a day for about a year in a half it did help my anxiety, but nothing else it made me like a good year blimp I want off from it but I am scared of Withdraw I am always tired you kinda feel like like your always in a big dream.

I am back once again and taking Yasmin is not cutting it. I am suffering from high blood pressure which I had never had, severe migraine headaches, vomiting, a lot of nausea, stomach pains, mental depression, extreme fatigue, I am always thirsty no matter how many bottle of waters I go through Iam still thirsty. I have a very bad taste in my mouth and I find myself brushing my teeth and chewing gum numerous times during the day. At times I experience dizziness, the foods I love I now hate, and I told my doctor all these symptoms and the only thing she told me was this is normal. what kind of crap is this and why is this product still on the market.

I have had Mirena for about 5 weeks now and have had constant medium flow bleeding every single day. I also have tingling and swelling in my hands and feet. My head feels kinda cloudy and dizzy a bit. Is anyone out there having these problems too. Will these side effects go away with time??

I have been on this nr for 1 month now. this is my period week. I haven't gotten it yet which kinda worries me but I have all the signs of it coming. I have had nausea, headaches an dizziness and increased discharge but nothing to big.NO SPOTTING! the only thing is when I took the nr out I noticed yesterday that my discharge smelled a little different than usual, but today its better. I didn't think I have been irritable except last week which was my PMS week. it hasn't killed my sex drive. it is about the same. I have noticed my boobs getting a little bigger. my boyfriend has only felt the nr one time so thats great.Ii like the idea of only 1 thing every 3 weeks. hopefully these symptoms will go away except for the boob thing. I have had cramps but nothing I couldn't handle with a ill Advil.

side effect: bleeding at urethra

For a long-term sinus infection that has drained my energy, I took my first pill in the Leva-pak about noon today with a large glass of water. Ate lunch. Planned to vacuum, but it was difficult to get into and around in our garage (we made a space for a car to go in now that mornings bring frost outside.) So I ended up moving things around in the garage. Major moving around, some stuff heavy. I was thrilled to have energy and strength to actually do something at last and to think of how long I had been listlessly surviving and at times even bedridden before this magical pill.

About 8:30 I came in to pee and found my undies bloody. Bravo, I said to myself, 10 years post menopause and I got my period again. This is the drug of youthfulness: energy and menstruation. Fortunately I still have a few sanitary items around for female friends who visit, so I got to be one of my friends.

But it seems that the blood is coming from the urethra, not from the vagina. And I have some discomfort there. So I recalled that the drug pakage said to drink plenty of water and realized that I hadn't had any more drinks since about noon or 1. I drank another glass of water and headed back to the garage.

I finished up the garage (who said I'm obsessive?) about 9:30 and came in to find out more about the new drug. I saw that the pack said right on it that drinking plenty of liquids PREVENTS THE FORMATION OF CRYSTALS IN THE URINE. So I drank 2 more glasses of water, thinking maybe crystals have formed in my urine and are cutting into the tissues of my bladder and urethra making them bleed. Guess these crystals must be softer than kidney stones or maybe much much smaller, because I've seen the pain folks get with kidney stones, and I would not be sitting here reading your experiences and now typing up my own to share with y'all if I had as much pain as kidney stones cause!

Anyway, with those two more glasses of water, I came online to see the deal with urethral bleeding caused by Leva-pak, and what do I see. Well, the first website I went to said about reading the pharmacist's paper that came with the L-pak. (My doc calls it L-pak, and I hope it's not gonna be L for me as it has been for most of y'all.) Now I wondered if the pharmacist had even put one in. Went and looked and sure enough, there it was, and it said to drink plenty of water "to prevent the formation of crystals in the urine." No further info about those crystals or their side effects. Some words about bleeding but totally vague, like does drinking water cure bleeding?? Who knows?

That paper the pharmacist put in my bag also said that one of the side effects can be "excitement". I thought, that's my side effect, and I am very happy about that. Garage is too. Hubby is too. Life is good. Leva-pack is good for me, for us for the world.

Anyway, back at the puter, eventually I found y'all and your many stories of pain and suffering caused by Levaquil. But, lo and behold, NOT A ONE OF YOU HAS MENTIONED MY BLOODY SIDE EFFECT. That goes to show what drinking plenty of liquids can spare you. Save ya a quarter wasted on sanitary pads you coulda given your female guests. Save ya from washing blood out of your undies again. Save ya from worrying about whether to call the doc (pharmacist is home in bed by now and tomorrow is Sunday. It figures.) And whether to take another pill.

Sheesh, it's a slow business trying to type up my story for ya, now 11 and time for more water, I figure. Be right back again...ok. I see the bleeding continues but it's a LIGHT DAY.

Well, now I've read this whole webpage top to bottom, and I feel pretty worried about taking enough of this Levaquil stuff to get exploding tendons and total nerve damage and pain and suffering and crippling and insanity and death by anaphylactic shock if I take another one.

I probably will take another one, just being sure to drink plenty a water too. Excuse me a sec while I go get another, as it is now after 10....okay I'm back now.We'll see as time goes along about taking any more. And if I am a good scout, I should come back and provide the REST OF MY STORY in a few days.

I saw that someone here said that Cipro is a fluoxosomethingorother too. I don't know why the doc didn't pick Cipro for me today instead of the Leva-pak. Maybe the last drug rep in his office gave him some good lines about the advantages of L as opposed to C, who knows? Anyway, if Cip and Lev are in the same family, I must say that as a postal employee, I am ready to take Cipro at the drop of a hat if our new machines spot anthrax in the air where we work. Sounds like those postal employees who died would have survived if the docs had recognized what was wrong with them and given them the Cipro early on. At least, other people who showed up sick afterwards with anthrax exposure got Cipro, and most of them survived, I heard.

The upshot is that I hope we don't take away the fluoxisomethingorothers until we find somthing better. Law suit perhaps, but not to deny the life-saving drug from EVERYBODY because some folks have bad side effects. Instead, we should find out how to test each person for having trouble taking it. You know, put a little drug in with some of their hair and a little in some of their blood and a little in some of their pee and see if it curdles or grows sprouts or something to show how each patient will react to it. Then tell each one what to expect from the various drugs available for that person's ailment. Then the patient can decide which side effects he wants to sign up for or if he just wants to stick with his original ailment.

I have not decided whether I will take any more of these pills. I will observe my crochety side effect and watch for any new ones that may pop up before I make my decision each day. I am very very concerned about long lasting muscle and tendon pains. I have not been able to hike now for about 3 months due to loss of energy, strength, and confidence. And I sure don't want to miss 3 more months trying to get over exploded achilles, burning knees, seizures, or nerve damage etc.

As a postal employee, I never do any research into cures for ailments. I am fairly experienced with ailments. I cannot provide you with any good excuses for not seeking to find cures for our health troubles.

I feel lucky to have been born when and where I was. I waited until central heat, air conditioning, cushioned seats in heated, air-conditioned autos(spare me from buckboards on unpaved "roads"), and penicillan. That penicillan brought me through pneumonia in 1947. Had I arrived 5 years sooner, I doubt it would have been available to me. Hmmm, I wouldn't a been available to share my story with you folks this evening either. So I must say a blessing for all those who try to improve my health when I go to them for help with my various complaints. Sure, money may be highly motivating for some of them, but Donald Trump and Bill Gates found ways to make money without going into medicine or research and drug development or doctoring.

So far, that's my story, my red flag today.

May THE FORCE be with each of you as you search for the best solutions for your ever-new mind and body problems. May we seek wisdom widely and recognize that what used to work for us often won't work any more because our bodies keep changing. We are along for the ride and hope to make it as pleasurable as possible as we round each curve and surmount each hill.

God bless us all, each and every one.
Christmas is coming...Tiny Tim's words echo through the years.

Mine was put in about a month and a half ago. I haven't stopped "spotting" since. I'm usually not one to complain of side effects and try to ignore them, but the moodiness is awful! My husband has been practically begging for me to get it removed. My skin has also broken out a lot more than normal. I think that healthcare professionals should really be more honest about the side effects. I'm getting it removed today. When I called my doctor's office and mentioned the emotional part, the nurse (which I love) kinda blew it off like it really wasn't caused by Mirena. I can't find another reason for it...
Didn't gain weight like a lot of other ladies, I actually lost a few pounds so I guess that's one good thing about it.

I had a sore throat. The first doctor said mono. The 2nd doc. said no mono or strep --must be viral. Third doc says viral and puts me on predinsone, levaquin and darvocet because my uvula was swelling from infection. White count was elevated and had low grade fever. That was Friday..............................The Monday after that I had severe pains in my left side. After teaching went to ER they said gas after 2 minutes. Next day level 8 pain same side went back to ER. They said skeletal prescribed me 4 more drugs and told me it was viral too. Went to internist on Wednesday had to miss teaching he scheduled CT on Thursday morn. Level10 pain almost passed out on Thursday eve missed school/teaching. Friday admitted to ER at different hospital beyond any level of pain I have ever had, blood pressure through the roof, heart palp, they gave me morphine and phenagrin and muscle relaxer for spasms.

Here I am a perfect state of health get a sore throat and the next week I am in the hospital because of the 2nd ct saying that I am full of poo. 4 weeks later I am still in pain, missed 12 days of teaching and now they say i have ibs. I miss my active life before. I believe the combination of these drugs caused this. I am young no children and very healthy. Ultrasound,s blood works, 2 ct scans with dye, colonscopy, xrays show no probs. Which is great but still in pain. Anyone PLEASE HELP the doctors are taking their sweet time while I have lost weight and stay in bed which helps the pain. Bending over, lifting, eating, pooing, sneezing, coughing, hiccuping can make it worse. It is intense SHARP pain. I have cut out everything med wise except for Miralax and now I have diarrhea and joint pain.

They want me to take Dicyclomine and IMIPRAMINE, MIRALAX and Levisin sublingual and Diflucan.

hey, i have been on the ring for like three days now, i am kinda nauseas, have some abdominal pain, i am kinda dizzy and very tired. my doctor says the side effects should go away. did anyone have a hard time just at first and then the side effects got better? in case i dont get back to this site please email me at kimbrali@comcast.net thanks

I started taking Yasmin this past sunday, so far, so good...reading all these posts worry the crap out of me...i'm only really on this because i have really BAD pms, which people i know including my boyfriend thought it could be PMDD because how "crazy" i'd get, bad cramps and my period sometimes likes to show up almost whenever even when i track it....i'm a moody person already and so far i feel pretty good, pretty stable which is nice, i guess the only complaint is that i'm kinda constipated and i'm exhausted, but i'm unsure if this has anything to do with this pill or not. i travel constantly and eat bad food since i'm away at college so sometimes i have some issues....oh my sex drive is usually pretty fine, i haven't noticed anything there yet, i still think about doing things and want to...so, my question is what should i do? shall i continue to use it and see what happens, or should i stop it or get a different pill?? i go to therapy and i am also making sure that my boyfriend and immediate friends notice if i act a little stranger than usual....
and i was on a different pill back when i was 15 and i don't remember much of it besides i don't think i had any side effects so i've had a little experience with birth control before...

WOW, OKAY I WAS PUT ON LEVAQUIN FOR A RESP. INFECTION. I HAVE ASTHMA THAT IS SET OFF BY ALLERGYS AND INFECTIONS. I COULD NOT BREATH AND WENT TO THE DR. THEY SAID I HAD AN INFECTION GAVE ME 5 DAYS OF LEVAQUIN.. BY THE SECOND DAY I COULD NOT SLEEP, MY BODY WAS HURTING. BUT I JUST PUT IT OFF AS THE INFECTION. COUPLE DAYS LATER MY KNEES STARTED HURTING AGAIN I PUT IT OFF AS JUST DOING TO MUCH AND NOT SLEEPING. I CALLED THE DR TO LET THEM NO I WAS STILL NOT FEELING WELL SO THEY GAVE ME ANOTHER ROUND OF LEVAQUIN. I TOOK THE 6TH DOSE WHILE I WAS AT WORK WITH IN 3 HOURS I COULD NOT EVEN WALK UP THE STAIRS TO THE 2ND FL SOMETHING I DO EVERYDAY. SO I THOUGHT I WOULD LOOK UP THE SIDE EFFECTS I THOUGHT I HAD SAW SOMETHING ABOUT PAIN. THATS WHEN I READ A LOT OF SIDE EFFECTS.. I HAD SWELLING IN MY ANKLES .. MY HANDS, WRITST, ARMS, SHOULDER, LEGS, ANKLE, AND KNEES HURT SO BAD. THERE WAS NOT A MUSCLE IN MY BODY THAT DID NOT HURT. I CALLED THE DR THEY SAID TO STOP TAKEN THE LEVAQUIN, WELL IT HAS BEEN A MONTH. I HAVE SLOWLY FELT BETTER, BUT I HAVE SPENT THE LAST FEW WEEKS FEELING LIKE I HAD SOME KINDA JOINT DECEASE. AND YESTERDAY MY LEGS STARTED HURTING AGAIN AND MY LEFT ANKLE IS SWALLEN. IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY TIME IT RAINS MY LEGS HURT. LIKE I HAVE ARTHRITIS OR SOMETHING. PLEASE IF YOU ARE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS LET ME KNOW...

I am a 46 year old female and have had asthma all my life,medication,shots,inhalers.The past year it got very bad and I was going through inhalers almost weekly. My doctor put me on advair in may of this year.I was so happy it really helped my asthma,no inhalers.Then the side effects started-I felt sick like I had broncitis,sore throat ,sounding hoarse,headaches,very annoyed,anxious,moody,felt like throwing-up,not sleeping,urinary tract infection,backache,confusion,weight gain.I thought I was very ill and was almost afraid to go to the doctor,then I thought about being put on advair and when the symptoms started.I looked up side-effects and BINGO! I am going to tell my doctor to get me off this,kinda afraid I'll get really bad asthma again,but what do you do?Feel like total gargage every day?or not be able to breath?What a choice.This all took place in a matter of 5 months.Everyone is different,every body can or cannot tolerate certain drugs.People do know their own bodies and why doctors don't listen or believe them I don't know.But,I sick and tired of being sick and tired and my whole summer was wasted thanks to advair.Hope I have another option.Lisa K.

I am 19 years old and I recently was taken off of it 2 years ago when I switched doctors. Prior to the switch I had been on it for 16 years. I prob have some of the worse side effects. Because it causes an increase in appetite I ate but I didn't eat all the time, and I ended up gaining over 100lbs. I have a black-brown ring around my neck and for the longest time I thought it was dirt that wouldn't come off so sometimes I scrubed my neck sometimes to the point that it was raw.I have bad acne on my back and its just horrible.I cry every single night because of the side effects.I just want to know if anyone on here can help me.

Oh yea and the other thing is that when I was Yasmin, I only got my period for three days and only one of those days was "kinda" heavy. Now I have my period for 7 full days, even longer if you count the spotting before... I haven't had 7 day periods since I was 17 and that's why I went ont he pill to begin with then! I am sad that I had to get off of Yasmin, but I am certainly not going to stay on this one!

i just started this bc on sunday (its wednesday) and i have been EXHAUSTED and absolutely starving. after reading all of these, it freaked me out to hear about all of these bad symptoms! especially about the depression and anxiety..i suffer from depression and anxiety anyways, so to be taking a pill thats going to make it worse is not good news at all. i kinda wanna stop now...

Please Help! I can't sleep . I started generic wellbutrin sr 3 days ago and now I haven't slept in about 36 hours!

Wow I am so glad I found this site, Ive been on this crap since June 2007 and now Sept 2007 I experienced everything from swollen eyelids to the miserable chronic cough which sometimes is dry and sometimes kinda wet. It did lower my BP but after two months of coughing I've had enough and yesterday was prescribed Benicar 20mg. Does anyone have experience with Benicar?

Femcon Fe gave me a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in my lung) when I was barely on it for 3 months. I spent four days in the hospital and went home on coumadin for about a month.

I have been a migraine sufferer for over 13 years and have run the gammut of medications to prevent and deal with them. My mother took Topamax a couple of years ago with disastrous results. I didn't realize, but I guess she was so loopy and forgetful that it was enough to cause my grandmother and stepfather to perfom an "intervention" to get her off of it. So, here I am a couple years later starting it myself, wondering if the side effects are worth the trade off. I'll be honest and say that I love Coke. I mean, loved. Carbonated drinks of all ethnicities taste like slimy metal now. How disappointing. And considering that if I went a day without drinking a Coke, I would get a wicked migraine, I've resorted to putting Crystal Light Energy (Wild Strawberry) in my water to give me the needed caffeine.

I've also noted tingling in my face, kinda like numbness. Nothing that is earth-shattering, but noticeable. I get dizzy a lot. I've also lost about 5 lbs since starting the medicine. And today, I could not find the word "prescription" in my mental warehouse. Not a difficult word on a normal day. I've only been on Topamax for a week though. I'm going to give it a good month to see if the side effects dissipate. But if I get any stupider, I'm going to have to go another route.

I have been on this pill for almost a month, I starte bleeding on the end of the second week, my doctor told me this was normal. I usually have horrible cramps but with this I ahve been fine so far. BUT....the weight gain is out of control....and the mood swings are bad too, no headaches or any other symptoms. I am very concerned about the weight gain though it reall is out of control, I have not been doing anything out of the ordinary with my diet, and I have no energy to get up and do anything. Is anyone else feeling this too? I am very happy that I only have two more months left on this crap. Good luck to you all, and know that there are other women going through the same thing.

I just got it "installed" on Monday, August 6th... I experinced mild cramping at first, my left leg feels sore and my lower back aches. I haven't broken out or had any other abnormal bleeding - yet... How soon did everyone else experience other side effects?? I'm kinda nervous about weight gain, hair falling out!!, acne,.. loss/lowered sex drive - - please help!!

I have been on yazmin for two weeks. Im kinda depressed which is weird for me, I'm crying all the time and have this need to watch movies that make me cry, and I'm super hungry ALL the time. I'm always tired but for the past 3 days can not fall asleep. I have had only one major migraine but have put on an astounding 6 pounds since I started!!! 6 POUNDS!!!!
I usually have the worst cramps ever in the whole world with my period and have tried other things. The other pills gave me really bad migraines everyday so I think I might just be screwed. Has anyone out there had a success story? Or should I give up?

i have been on nuva ring for 2 weeks.. i dont have any side effects, i like it alot.. im kinda worried though because i have been reading what these other women have been going through.. i guess eveyone is different right? but its only been 2 weeks.. i do get some what concerned about it coming out.. it dosent but my best friend was on it and she said it would always come out, during intercourse, while she would use the bathroom.. so im always checking if its still intact.. and it is.. so hopefully i wil get no side effects, and i will update everyone!! thanks..

I started using Nuvaring last night. I woke up this morning crying from a dream about my mother. I thought that was kinda weird. I've been thirsty all day. I think I've had a least 10 huge glasses of water. Other than that things seemed fine. Then I got home and crashed out on the couch. I just woke up and my arms feel really tingly, my body feels really heavy and I feel nauseous.

I started using this thing to get rid of crappy pms. I want to take it out right now!

I've been taking zoloft for about 4 days and I've felt almost like I was on meth for 2 of the days, and I lost a lot of my water weight(drink a lot of water with this) , sweating a lot, and just kinda tripped out. The mood change is crazy, I felt goofy out of the blue for no reason. I've been clenching my jaw and that guy was right, a little high grade marijuana goes a long way! Waking up suddenly but falling right back asleep, and kind of an alertness to everything.
Hopefully I level out, I have bad social anxiety which causes me to studder but this seems to be helping a little so far.
Does anybody know about drinking with this, is it safe to have a couple beers or do I have to stick to iced tea?

Hi all...WOW, hard to believe that so many of us are experiencing similar side effects.

I started taking Yasmin almost 2 1/2 weeks ago. Two days after I started taking it, I noticed I was starting to get nauseous, brief sharp shooting pains in my abdomen just under my left rib and sometimes a wee bit of a burning sensation in the same area. These sharp but brief pains occur anywhere from 4 times to maybe 15 or 20 times in a day and I almost NEVER when I am just sitting still or laying down. These pains are almost always in the same spot so I find it hard to believe it could be from gas although I AM much gassier. Wouldn't gas pains travel? I find I am burping alot and just generally gassy feeling. The other thing I noticed is that I dropped 8 pounds in the first 5 days of taking Yasmin. WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON?

I pretty much have to continue taking BC because my doctor put me on them to see if they would stop my epileptic seizures which occur only when I ovulate. We are testing to see if stopping ovulation will stop the seizures. They think it is all related to peri-menopause. I'm 48. Sheeesh. Does anyone else have these sharp intermittent shooting pains under their ribs???? This is scaring me.