Late november symptoms and conditions

I am 31 and just gave birth to my first baby in April, in June i had mirena inserted. Since then I have felt awful and it keeps getting worse. At first I was just very dizzy, after a month of the dizziness i went to my ob and she said it is not a side effect from the mirena, so i started taking meclizine not thinking anything of it. In October I started getting terrible cramping. I went to the ob and i had a large cyst growing on my ovary, she told me that some people claim that mirena causes cysts but that she didn't think it was a cause. She told me that after pregnancy my hormones are trying to regulate and thats why the cyst grew. Well luckily it went away on its own but I have been developing these cysts every month and they are getting very large and then bursting. Trusting my ob, I assumed it was just my body and age. I also have been having trouble losing my baby weight. I was 125 before I got pregnant and now 10 months later I am 175 and I have been working out every day! I have been very moody, tired, I feel like im in a fog and I don't want my husband to touch me. I thought maybe it was just because I was not loosing the weight and I am exhausted from trying to take care of my baby and stay in shape when I feel like such crap but now I think its the mirena. This is not like me at all and I was feeling good after the pregnancy up until about 2 moths after having the mirena inserted. The most recent symptoms started in late November. My glands started to swell in my head and neck and my muscles started aching. I thought maybe I had the flu and it cleared up in about a week. About 2 weeks ago I started getting really dizzy, my vision was blurry, my eye was very dry and it hurt, i could feel a lot of pressure on my head and i was having chills at night. I went to my primary dr. and was diagnosed with an inner ear infection, she gave me antibiotics. It cleared up and I was feeling better after about 10 days, well its 3 days later and its back, all the same symptoms and swollen glands. I have never had these symptoms in my life and I feel like I have something seriously wrong with me. The ob doesn't believe me and wont get me in until march 17th. I want everyone to know these symptoms because the ob will most likely not tell you, and even though it may work great fro some women it has some serious side effects for others. These side effects should be available to everyone because its not fair that you are trying to take care of a new baby and have to feel like crap, and on top of that you feel like your going crazy because the doctors don't believe you! Good luck to everyone who has mirena.

1) Stop going to the doctor for "sinus infections". This is one of the most over diagnosed, over treated, self-limiting illnesses in the world. Because 90% is viral, it's also the leading cause of antibiotic resistant bacteria in out-patient medicine. Get some Afrin and blow your nose.
2) Avoid taking fluoroquinolones (Cipro, Levaquin, Avelox) as an outpatient. These powerful drugs should be used to save lives in the hospital. The leading exception would be a urinary tract infection that is resistant to all other antibiotics.
3) All fluoroquinolones can cause tendon ruptures, especially the achille's tendon in patients over 65. This is a devastating injury, though rare with this class of antibiotics.

I can't believe what im reading, I have almost every side effect to what you are all saying. When I called my doctor after the 3rd day of taking the pill, she said it was normal, nausea for hours is normal! Take it @ night... ok still nausea. I thought it was just me getting older, (44) my mood swings are so out of control I would divorce me...my breast are large to begin with, I feel like im carrying 20lb weights on each one. Leg cramps, nausea, not sleeping, hot flashes. After reading this im done... I'll deal with the ovarian cyst my way...Time for a new doctor to. Good luck girls

When the ring first came out, I used it for about 2 years. It was great. No problems, no side effects whatsoever. I recently had a child and decided to start back up on the NuvaRing after a 3 year break with no BC. It was not the same as before, I was sick to my stomach all month, very dizzy, nausea and felt like I was pregnant again. After that first month of torture I decided to try one more month, thinking that I was just adjusting to it. And second month just the same. I decided to switch to Pills, which I forgot to take constantly and made me feel even worse than the ring. I really do think that something changed with the Nuvaring because it had never done me wrong in the past, and it would be my only option of BC to go back to... but now I really don't know what to do. What a shame. It was so convenient too.

I am a very active 54 years old. I work out with weights and also do a little yoga to keep flexible. On May of 2007 my Dr. started me on Simvastatin to lower my cholesterol and the liver enzyme test one month later showed everything to be fine. I had noticed that my left shoulder and upper arm was sore and sometimes would hurt so bad that I would wake at night. I figured I had worked out to much or slept wrong. After a few week of pain that didn’t seem to go away I started taking Advil 3 times a day. I couldn’t lift my left arm up over my head or scratch my back, I also found that I was forgetting things and work was hard to keep up with. I took the month of July off from work and only did the necessary stuff I had to do (self-employed) In the end of August my family and I took a week’s vacation and by the end of the week I was aching all over my body. My feet was in so much pain, I needed to massage them before getting out of bed in the morning, my arm and even my thigh muscles hurt. I couldn’t understand WHY, the only thing could be the medication… I stopped and saw the DR. when I got back. He sent me for x-rays of my feet, but everything was fine. So he put me on 40 mg of Lipitor instead. I did tell him, that when my body felt less sore I would start the Lipitor medication. Well it wasn’t until late November that I thought I better start, but only after 7 days of taking the Lipitor I felt excruciating pain all over. I was hurting in my arms (triceps) had feet cramps and could hardly walk. I called the DR. and told him I will not take this medication any more. It’s been 3 months since I stopped (almost 6 if not counting the one week in November) I’m slowly getting better with my normal work out, but I still do not have flexibility of my left arm and I occasionally have cramps in my feet. I have no doubt that the STATINS medication is very bad for you.

My 5 year old daughter was prescribed this med in late November for asthma. After about 3 weeks I started noticing some unusual behavior patterns - waking up in at night, waking up earlier, complaining of being tired, not listening, aggressive behaviors. Upon going back to school after the holiday her teacher said that she's not listening, is not 'herself', not doing her work. Yesterday her teacher called me at home to describe her uncooperative behavior. I made the connection to Singulair and found this web site. Boy, do I feel sick and angry at the myself, the pharmaceutical industry, and my pediatrician who called this 'the perfect drug with no side effects' when I asked her what the side effects are. I will not continue this medication and will not put my children on any meds without fully researching them first. I intend to look into alternative and natural treatments for her asthma.

I started taking Prednisone in late November for inflammation of my lungs, a complication of influenza A. I started at 50 mg daily, then went to 75, then was hospitalized and went to 160 intravenously. After about a week, I was reduced to 120 then 75 by mouth a few days later. After 15 days in the hospital, I was released only to come back two days later with internal bleeding. I was released two days later and my doctor knocked several days off my withdrawal plan. About midway through all this, I started having a constant mild headache. After my second release, the headache started to get worse. The headache became debilitating and I spent some time in the ER where codeine helped. (I'm allergic to morphine which would have been their choice). The codeine helped for a day or two, but when I got to 60mg of codeine with no effect I gave up on the pills. My doctor gave me some sort of anti-inflammatory shot which helped.

I've been off Prednisone now for over a week and still have a constant headache, but most of the time it's not bad and only moderate at times. On average I see a gradual improvement.

I have had increased appetite and energy (in the beginning) followed by face and neck swelling, headache, nausea, blurred vision, internal bleeding and large muscle weakness.

I know that I needed something to stop my lung inflammation, but the cure has been worse than the disease at this point.

I used Yasmin for almost 3 years between 2004 - 2007. I loved it....my periods were regular, I had little acne, and I hardly had any PMS. Then I got pregnant (after stopping the Yasmin!) with twins and delivered them in late November 2007. I was so happy to know that I just knew which type of birth control I wanted to use, I had a great experience while on Yasmin so of course I would go back to it!

BAD IDEA! 4 weeks after the babies were born I started the pills. Mind you, I had a great pregnancy and lots of help at home...no post-partum or baby blues here. I started the pills on 12/23/07 and by 12/25/07 (Christmas Day) I was feeling majorally depressed, having emotional outbursts, having irrational thoughts....I felt alone and as if no one cared about me. I secluded myself and had suicidal thoughts. I thought about leaving my family and living in a hotel. I would get so mad at the littlest things....I almost threw a chair at my husband and tried to punch a hole in the wall. I cussed family members out. I was so irrational. I felt like a crazy, psychotic woman and all in less than a week. This was NOT me.

I quit the pill after the first week, realizing that this pill was causing all these side-effects. I called my OB and spoke with the nurse who told me what I was experiencing couldn't be from the Yasmin - those weren't common side-effects. I told her that I was 1 day Yasmin free and felt like a completely different person...I was myself again. She tried to tell me that maybe I was experiencing post-partum depression and I decided then to just make an appointment to talk to my OB (about Yasmin & his nurse!).

I have an appointment next week and am curious as to what he will say. I know it was the Yasmin and I am glad that I found this website & that I am not alone!

My 11 yr. old son began taking singulair for allergies in September. In November he began complaining of daily headaches. We saw a neurologist in late November. My son has had an MRI and several visits to the neurologist, who can't seem to find a cause for his headaches. I asked about the singulair and he dismissed it. He has daily headaches that vary in intensity. Does anyone have a similar experience? The neurologist has had him try nortitylin with no relief and is now recommending topamax.

I started taking Lisinopril at the end of August 2004. I have had this pain in my lower right abdomen off and on for about the 7 months since I started taking this medicine. I have a kidney disease, so I dismissed it as the pains of that I have had since I was 19. I read that it can severely injure a fetus, so what troubles me, if it can cause injury including death to an unborn child, what is it doing to my reproductive organs? And is this pain in my abdomen a sign of damage being done?

I was originally on Norvasc, but had experienced severe swelling in my ankles, so I was switched to Lisinopril and is when my nightmare began. My most recent symptoms include a headache right behind my right eye. It comes and goes, and is like a quick stabbing pain. I was told it was more than likely my allergies, which I am on allegra D for. In reading all these other side effects everyone experiences, I am really scared if I should be taking this. If all these problems are from this medication, what will coming off of it do? I have not experienced the cough as bad as others seemed to have gotten, but I have not been able to get rid of a cold I had gotten in late November, or at least so I thought. It seemed to linger on. I have also been severely fatigued as of late, and no matter how much sleep I receive, I always wake up drained, and lifeless. I do consume higher doses of calcium, and vitamin c, which from what I read, seems to prevent some of the other effects. I feel I have enough illness in my life, that I should not have to deal with other symptoms, or live with the aches and pains, in order to keep my blood pressure down. There has to be another alternative. I am also taking Toprol XL, which I have not experienced any bad symptoms, except for fatigue. I agree with a previous post that dr's are only out to reap the benefits of prescribing these pills that they do not spend any time considering the after effects. I have to be on this medication for the rest of my life, and I do not feel I should have to deal with all these after effects I was never warned about. Only swelling.