Last summer symptoms and conditions

I got off Yasmine last summer and am still having severe leg pain, I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, but I still feel it is the side effects of this drug, I did have a small blood clot this summer (which was found because of the leg pain) but since then every test is coming back clear, but I am now taking Elavil...I feel like this will never end, does anyone else still have symptoms after getting off this pill or does anyone know of another website where I could get help?

thanks

My daughter was on Ortho Tri-Cyclen for a year for ache, with no side effects. Last summer her doctor prescribed Loestrin 24. She experinced acid reflux and anxiety. Her docotr switched her to Femcon Fe. Her mood swings became more pronounced, her anxiety increased, her face broke out in ache.
he started crying over little things. I can't take it anymore.

I had been taking lisinopril for a few years with no apparent effects but last summer began waking with extreme fatigue and slight nausea. I also developed spiking blood pressure but that was stopped by adding a beta blocker. I have vivid dreams and often wake feeling worn out from the dreams.The fatigue is severe and accompanied by depression and anxiety. I also wake feeling hot in face and torso and have intolerance for heat.My dose is 40 mg and has controlled my BP until recently when I have had a couple high readings, possibly due to anxiety. I also had a couple of remissions when I felt OK fro a coule weeks, but the symptoms recurred..

I've been using Lisinopril for about a year and have experienced almost all of the side effects that everyone else has described. I have frequent severe sweating, headaches, sinus pressure, sore throat, tickling throat, annoying cough, frequent periods of when my face and solar plexus area feel very hot and/or flushed though my face looks normal, dizziness, weakness, fatigue, depression, no energy or motivation......etc, etc, and I did not have any of these problems before. Not sure what else to take. I've read side effects for all bp medications and none of them seem like anything I want to experience. Is there anything that people have found to work that has very little or no side effects? This stuff works but I'm so tired of feeling run down. I tried natural remedies, diet change, exercise, etc, before going on the Lisinopril but those did nothing to lower my pressure.

After this was put in last summer (Jun 2006) I have literally been going downhill.....so many horrible side effects!...this thing is coming out !!!

The Mirena was inserted in June 2004. All was good until last Summer. I started to put on weight, I went from a size 8 to a size 12. so I exercised even more and reduced my intake of carbs and fat. In fact I changed my diet, more veg and fruit. I have always had a great metabolism, but I have none at all. I thought it was a tyroid problem, but doing some research, where I seem to have the same symptoms that I had with the Depo, it made sense. Thus I am having it removed in August after my honeymoon. Unfortunately this all happened whilst getting married, so not happy. I would rather put up with periods, then be the fat person I have become. My husband had the snip, so birth control is not a worry. I know it is different for each person, we are all different afterall.. Good luck to all

I had a shot of kenalog in my knee for a problem I have when I run long distances. I was told that it would have a 50% chance of helping but it could prevent surgeries. He never mentioned side effects. After the injection- my period came a week late and lasted three days longer than normal. Four days after it ended I got another period. This one was accompanied by severe headaches(I never get headaches) This period lasted another nine days. I went for my follow up and questioned the doctor about it and he said he must have forgotten to mention it but that it can cause some hormone irregularities but that it should go away within a month. I have been so exhuasted and barely able to function. It was five days since my last period and now I got another one today! I am furiouse because I was trying to get pregnant! Now I am freaking out because I am seeing on this sight how long this can really last!

After all of us have had these same problems you think we would be able to sue the company. What can we do becuase I'm on board if you all want to have a class action law suit. How do we start it?

My 8 year old boy was recently prescribed Singulair by his doctor, last summer he also put him on it for about a month, he developed a cough which would not go away right after being put on the medication, as soon as he stopped taking it, the cough seemed to disappear. When his doctor wanted to put him back on it I was a little surprised and I reminded him of what happened last year, he said it was a good medicine and being that he is a little older it would be fine. He has been on it for 6 days and my husband and I both have noticed that he has been very emotional and has had several episodes of crying, and acting out of sorts. He is normally a very laid back well behaved boy. I decided to look up the side effects and came across this website and could not believe what I was reading. Just this morning he came downstairs and told me that he had a terrible nightmare, and tonight he was complaining that his knees were hurting real bad, he is not a complaining type of kid, this is all that I need to see, we will deal with his viral asthma without singulair, I feel betrayed, I think that parents should be aware of these side effects, I thank god that he has only been on it for a few days.

My 4 yo daughter has been taking Sinulair since last spring (Apirl 2006).

Worked great, I don't remember any side effects last summer. She was 2 & changed every day so it's hard to say. Now she's 3 & we've started it back up again at the start of spring. It's hard to say for a 3 year old what symptoms/side effects they are really suffering from. They aren't able to express themselves except mostly by actions. I just assumed her moodyness, crying jags, trouble sleeping at night were part of her age/personality.

Now, I'm noticing a definate problem getting her to bed every night. She will easily be up until 10 - 10:30 before falling asleep. This is even if I put her to bed around 8. She doesn't sleep well either. I'm pretty sure she's dreaming, but it's hard to say whether or not she's having nightmares. We've already made an appt with another doc to switch to something other than Singulair.

Too bad this type of info has to be sought after by the patient's & not provided at the time the medication is prescribed. I'll have to do more research regarding the physchotropic issues of this drug. They prescribe this for kids?

I've tried several bc pill methods over the last three years. Last summer I started the nuvaring. The first 3 months I thought that I was going to crawl out of my skin. I was extremly angry all the time and very fearful. I decided to wait out the symptoms. They did subside, however, I rarely had a regular period. I would experience cramping between periods and occational shooting pains in my uterus. Last month, I started experiancing uncontrollable anxiety. My thoughts were so out of my own charater that they scared me. Along with the aniexty I would wake up in the middle of the night with panic. 9 days ago, after reading a blogg of other women suffering from the same symptoms I decided to stop the nuvaring. The aniexty has subsided and I now feel more myself, although not 100%. Unfortunately after reading some of these bloggs I notice that healthcare professionals claim that there is a very unlikely chance that nuvaring can cause this type of side effect. This is due to the low hormone doses in this BC. I'm here to say that I have NEVER in my experiance had this type of aniexty even during the most stress and low times of my life. I have read consistantly that woman on this BC have the same symptoms....so what? we're all crazy??? Just remember everyone has different bodies and any kind of hormone that is not your own WILL effect you low dose or not. It's just a matter of how it will effect you, positive or negative.

I have been taking Singulair since January 2003. It really helped my exercise induced asthma. In the summer of 2004, I had a tooth pulled and a bridge put in. My teeth and jaws started hurting and the dentist couldn't figure out any reason why they were. In the summer of 2005, while still on the Singulair, my left arm and neck started hurting leading me to believe I may be having heart problems. I had my heart checked out, and everything looked good. Last summer, still taking Singulair, I began having trouble swallowing pills. I finally stopped taking the Singulair the first of October 2006, and my teeth and jaws quit hurting; my left arm and neck quit hurting; and I don't have any trouble swallowing pills. I did get a nasty head cold a couple of months after stopping the Singulair and another one a couple of months later. I am wondering if those head colds may be associated with the Singulair as it has been many years since I have had a head cold.

I am 58 year old female. I developed asthma last summer and the Dr put me on Advair. Recently, I have developed acne and my voice is very hoarse. I have a lot of trouble speaking and being understood. I had no idea Adviar caused this reaction in people. Co-incidentally, I went on the Nutrisystem Diet in July and have not experienced any weight gain.

I am concerned about the hoarsness and am considering not taking the Advair. I also have a strength problem and shortness of breath several times a day. I don't know if it's related to the Advair or just the asthma symptoms.

Hello, I started taking Singulair last summer and after three months of thinking I must be dying I decided to look for a website that wasn't connected to formal medicine and I found this website and one other and was so relieved to read the postings I found. I am a retired R.N. and while working I saw more than my fair share of negligence and outright malpractice. I watched as the "helping professions" of medicine become yet another lucrative venue for the big businessmen. Drug companies are the worst. Do not expect or trust the drug companies to perform long-term testing of new drugs before releasing them to be prescribed. It doesn't happen the way it had before when there were strident ethical standards in force. It truly is about money. Something that really frightens me more and more is how the doctors and nurses believe what the drug companies have documented about their drugs as gospel. If a possible side effect isn't listed in the pharmacology manual they truly think it can't exist. These are intelligent people for the most part, but thinking can become institutionalized and narrowed along with their medical vision. Then here we have patients coming to the doctor or nurse practitioner complaining of a host of symptoms caused by a drug like Singulair and since these side effects are not listed in the Physicians Desk Reference the patient might be sent for a myriad of anxiety provoking tests, the patient might be improperly diagosed and improperly treated possibly with more medications that will do more to harm the patient. And here is this poor patient ,dispirited, because she is probably still experiencing these side effects and the real cause is being bypassed altogether due to a misplaced trust in a drug company. Who needs this and who needs an added problem, the wasteful and expensive expense! I stopped taking Singulair due to the people who were willing to share while looking for answers themselves. Your sharing has helped so many. I thank you. Singulair has helped with congestion that I would otherwise have gone to my PMD for an antibiotic. It clears the congestion along with a regimen of nasal douching with colloidal silver and oil of oregano just fine. I have asthma but it is rare for me to have an attack. My sinusitis is the reason Singulair was prescribed for me. I was alternately relieved and angry last year when I realized the things I was experiencing were from the Singulair. I was about to throw my presription bottle out when I decided to keep it just for the times of extreme sinus congestion. Three weeks ago my father died and I cried a lot and that gave way to congestion and so I took Singulair for two weeks and it happened all over again. I'm fifty five and forgetful, anyway, and now I had the added thick brain fog making me feel like I had dementia, so, I was forgetting where the arthritic stiffness and pain was coming from, the weakness in my legs and feet, the fatigue, the anxiousness, anxiety, the gastrointestinal pains and rumblings (I thought I had an ulcer), palpitations, chest pains, fears of choking when eating, (I had largyngitis for six weeks last year while on this horrible drug), depression, dizzyness (I was at a shopping mall to buy Father's Day gifts and was sure I was going to pass out or have a heart attack) , headaches and weird pressures felt in my head and numbness and tingling in hands, arms and feet and legs. I stopped taking it yesterday and I can say I feel about 50% improved. I know when the diet is examined and changed to a vegetarian diet excluding dairy products including eggs and drinking pure water and no carbonated beverages or alcohol that asthma and sinusitis can be greatly reduced and many times eliminated. I would welcome the dosage and schedule of the quercitin/bromelain regimen and any other alternative approaches...please email me at ****** If your doctor gives you the fisheye when you tell him that Singulair is killing you, and if he patronizes you thinking you do not know what YOU are talking about...remind him of this...remind him/her of all the doctors who believed hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) to be the answer to preventing heart disease and breast cancer in women...and how it was found that HRT actually was causing both Heart Disease and Breast Cancer!! Then you can appeal to him to use his gift of discernment giving up his blind faith in drug companies and their hype. Thank you

I gained about 10 pounds since going back on prednisone last summer and followed the South Beach Diet which seemed to work as it has kept my blood sugar undercontrol and eleminated alot of the cravings. I have just recently gone back on Zoloft for the depression and it has lessened my appetite - which is one of the side effects. However, I have found that weight training which I kept up from when I did physical therapy, has had the most benefit for keeping things under control - not to mention the good mental benefits that come from working out. Lately I've had to drag myself to the gym but it is always worth it.

Hi Hill!!

Yes, I hat that swollen ankles, too!! I remember last summer one day we were going out for dinner and I wore some high heeled sandals. While we were sitting there at the restaurant I suddenly felt, that my feet were somehow hurting and looked down on them: I nearly screamed as I saw, that they were so swollen that they were pouring out of the sandals. That looked very horrible and I never had experienced that before!!

This lasted over the whole rest of summer and during the wintertime. Only since about 2 months it's slowly getting better and my ankles go finally back to their usual look and especially my feet stay IN my shoes and don't come out without being asked to do that!! :) Sounds funny, but it isn't really, I know!!

Just wanted to let you know that even this symptom is just another nice Yasmin withdrawal effect and can last a while but will go away for sure after that Yasmin stuff is finally completely out of your body!!!

Remember Yasmin has that diuretic in it which diswaters you all the time during taking it. So I think it's pretty normal, that, if we suddenly get off that Yasmin and diuretic stuff, all of our cells (they are somehow dried out all over the years) are absorbing all the water they can get. I think if our bodies get used to "not being diswatered every day" again, all of the swelling (and I had and still have that all over my body!!) will go back. Well, I hope so.... !!!!

All the best!!

Silke

I took Yasmin for four years and just stopped 3 months ago. While on Yasmin I did not notice/realize that some problems I experienced may have been due to Yasmin. I had extreme dryness with my contacts throughout the last year of taking it. Also, last summer I got melesma (mask of pregnancy) on my upper lip! It looked like I had a mustache, but it was skin discoloration. This, plus the desire to have a baby sometime in the next year or so, prompted me to stop taking the pill. I have had one late period so far and now it's been 45 days without a period. Someone posted that they have been experiencing mucus that appears to be the type one has when fertile. I have experienced this, too, off and on throughout the last 45 days. I have heard that it can take up to 6 months to have normal periods again, but everyone's posts are scaring me that I may never be normal. On the other hand, a friend of mine went off of her bcp (another type) and got pregnant within the first month. I suppose that everyone's bodies are so different that it's hard to know what's really going on.

Thank you all for your comments! You are helping me to believe I am not crazy! I went on Yasmin after my 2nd child almost 2 years ago (Ortho Novum was working fine, but the doctor said this is such a great pill!) and I haven't slept much since. I went off Yasmin for about 3 months last summer, but my doctor again said Yasmin wasn't the problem and put me back on it along with Ambien. Now the crying and anxiety have started along with the insomnia. Doctor thought I should try LexaPro, but after reading all of your postings I am never taking another Yasmin pill again! This stuff is terrible - I wil be posting my side effects with the FDA...

AEB

I too have been left with a severe indentation from fat atrophy due to Kenalog injections. I have been having Kenalog injections for the last seven years for hayfever allergies. I suddenly noticed this indentation on my right hip last summer and after being referred to a specialist (my doctor didn't know what it was!) she was able to tell me that this indentation was due to the Kenalog injections. I was horrified, I've had seven! I will never have another Kenalog injection again, information should be made aware to the patient before receiving this drug. I shall look to other alternatives for my hayfever alergies in future.

I myself am recovering from poison ivy. Wondered if the prednisone was causing the night sweats. Knew about the other side effects listed because I had a similar rash flare up last summer where prednisone was prescribed for one month. If the side effect was on the bottle, I had it. No more gardening for me. I'm on for ten days this time...but think I'm gonna give the doc a call because it seems to be reflaring now that I'm cutting back on the prednisone. Similar to you IvyGirl I only have about 2 days left and the poison ivy is resurfacing. Read somewhere online this evening that if you try taking your dosages earlier in the day it may ease the night sweats and possibly the insomnia too. Good Luck IvyGirl.

I just got off yasmin , and now am on alesse. I tried to get off yasmin to x,s before, and actually had extreme headaches and insomnia. I somehow got viral meningitis last summer, just after getting off yasmin,(I had been taking it for a year) . I have no idea if this is relevent or not. I also had bad folliculitis on my inner thigh, and rashes. On yasmin my cellulite would appear much worse. I am only 110 lbs, and 5'5. Now off of it , my cellulite looks better(a lot less) . I am having trouble adjusting to my new pill, I guess because of the hormonal shift. I have insulin resistance , so I am very prone to side effects.

I'm on the lowest dose for liprinosil, i.e. 2.5mg. My blood pressure has dropped considerably since I started taking the medication last Summer. I have a dry cough, but I had had one previously, so this is unlikely to be a side effect. However, I am suffering a loss of libido - I've had little interest in making love since shortly after commencing the treatment. This is something which saddens me, as I have a very young, very pretty partner who deserves to be loved. Perhaps I should just stop taking the tablets.

In response to those who praise the virtues of Lipitor, I will tell you that I was on 10 mg/per day regimen for the past six and a half years. I first noticed bizarre weakening of my legs last summer but because I am 78, I at first attributed this to old age, but because the onset was so rapid and unexpected, I discounted what was happening at being due to my age. Then on Dec. 6, I was awaked by pain in my lower left leg so severe that I was literally crying. I could only hobble to my doctor the following day and he, by way of response to my question about Lipitor, suggested I stop taking it. He also gave me a prescription (thank God) for vicadin without which I do not believe I could have survived until today. I am still unable to walk more than a quarter mile or remain on my feet for more than a half hour or so. In looking back now, I began having sleep problems about four years ago, sleep apnia being suggested. However, my sleep doctor also said that I had RLS (restless leg syndrome) for which he prescribed chlonazapam. I have had recurring problems these past few years with my legs cramping up when I would drive any distance. When I recently informed my cardiologist of these experiences, he pretty much brushed me off by saying at while 2-3% of Lipitor users experience problems, on the whole it is a beneficial drug. In other words, they know that some folks are going to experience problems, but that's just too bad. What happened to the medical adage, "Above all, do no harm."

I am a 63 year old female who has taken Lipitor for 3 years. Since I have arthritis in my right knee, I dismissed symptoms starting last summer in my thumb. I had pain and gripping problems, very difficult to lift anything. By first of October my left knee became involved. Had minor popping in my ankle and left knee until I turned over in bed one night and felt big pop in my knee. Knee was sore and within about two weeks stiffness started in both knees - so stiff after sitting that I have to stand for a few minutes before walking. The stiffness in my knees became painful and then my left hip developed sharp pain and some discomfort in my back. Walked very slowly and stiffly, difficult to get out of car, put on panty hose, step in and out of shower , or lie on left side. Started taking more ibuprofen and aleve, using a tensunit, and applying heat to both knees. Had some improvement but on December 9, notice my left leg was quite swollen from knee down to ankle. Called doc who said to quit taking Lipitor to see if that was problem. Will be 3 weeks this Friday since I quit taking Lipitor and I am experiencing a lot less stiffness in my knees, less pain in my hip, but my left leg is still somewhat swollen. I will see doc January 26 and get his verdict.

I am 63 years old and have been on Lipitor 3 years. Since I have arthritis in my right knee, I dismissed symptoms starting last summer in my thumb which by October involved my left knee, increased problems in my right knee, and left hip and back. This finally became so stiff and painful I could hardly walk across the room. I have to stand for a few minutes when I first get up before walking and am so stiff I walk with an unsteady gait. I also tended to trip over nonexistant things on the carpet. I have had a few experiences with vertigo. I started doing some leg strengthening exercises, using a tens unit, applying heat to my knees, and taking a lot of ibuprofen and/or aleve. I finally mentioned this to my internist and he said to discontinue the Lipitor and it could take 5 to 6 weeks for it to get out of my system. It has been 1-1/2 weeks since I discontinued the Lipitor and don't know if I have improved ever so slightly or it is just my imagination. I have an apointment with my internist Jan 26 to evaluate the situation. I would like to hear from anyone who has experienced improvement and what was their time frame for improvement.

I've been taking Singulair for about a year and a half. Last summer I mentioned horrible leg and foot cramps to my pulmonary doctor who I see twice a year for asthma. They claimed that they had never heard of cramps from this drug. I tried everything from going off from my estrogen to drinking extra o.j. and eating more bananas. Nothing changed; but without the singulair I have severe burning in my upper back all the time. In November I returned for my doctor visit and was told that they had done some research on the leg and foot cramps and that it is considered a side effect. I was changed to Accolate which is not a drug my insurance company accepts. The leg cramps went away but the burning in my back was so severe from the asthma that I returned to using Singulair. I now have such awful leg and foot cramps that I spend several times a night walking my house. I've also been told that the pain and burning in my back should not be associated with the asthma and the doctor cannot explain why the singulair helps with this but it does and I'm afraid to stop. I'm very torn between the cramps and back burning.

Theresa
Michigan