Linzi symptoms and conditions

Hey all,

thanks for your posts. I feel a bit better now i have come off it. I got a period today even though i had my last just 2 weeks ago, obviously an effect of stopping midway through a packet.

Had another night of horrific nightmares, and slept badly, but for the first time in ages i have had 2 days where i have been able to switch off, even though i have strayed to the same thoughts they have been easier to stop and turn off and they are not there the whole time, that is major improvement!

Going to doc tomorrow so will talk to him about that. In germany so must do it all in german, i think some stuff gets lost in translation!

Will be happy when these death thoughts disappear, it is like i have a major obsession with it, is very depressing. My dreams are full of it, and i hate that, my poor boyfriend gets no sleep for me screaming constantly in my sleep!

I can't wait to see how this pill works, it would be nice to think of the future and not imagine it wont be there cos i won't be there to see it, i might start to enjoy what i have for once. I told my family about my problems and somehow it seems a bit better. Going home to england for a week on friday so we will see.

Thanks for your support, i hope you all are doing ok, i'm glad to know i am not the only one, but why has no drug company or doctors realised this???

Linzi

lisa!!!! its chrissy and YES i am SOOOO proud of you!!

5 kilometer walk everyday is great you have definitely improved so much... its such good news to hear becuase i remember how down in the dumps you have been. im doing ok too started going back to the gym and at the moment im just manging 3 times a week.... hopefulloy i can keep that up....
how are your heart palpitations going?? and your blood pressure is it dropping down??

and to Linzi... Lisa is right!! you will get there and things will get better but PLS stop taking this pill.... its gonna take away your sanity...
all us girls are always here for you ok...
like lisa said... this website saved my life!!

best of luck to every1
love chrissy xoxoxo

Dear Linzi,

Firstly throw away your pill packet, i too was just like you i went to the er three times thought i was having a heart attack and it was just full blown anxiety attack and the other lovely numbness side effects of this poison.
I too couold not work, thought i was going to die in the middle of the night, had constant death thoughts, could not cpe etc.
THERE IS HOPE, this week i am 10 weeks off this poison they call yasmin and i am feeling sooo much better. The anxiety is a lot better, the paranoia is all but gone and when ifirst was off yasmin i could not even walk past my letter box i was so fatigues and could never work out why. It took me weeks of just waslking slowly each day ( to help my anxiety) and then this past week i have managed a 5kilometer walk each day with my children (CHRISSY you would be s proud) and i am feeling like i am getting my life back. IT IS SLOW and that first two months if it were not for the girls here i dont think i could have done it, but think of it this way you stop the pill, and then you just let your body recover. If you continue taking this pill then its just another day, week month that you continue to let this hell control your body.
antidepressants are not the answer , try something natural, are you living in australia, if so i will give you some names of the things that i took, i understand you feel you need something but trust me give yourself a few months and you wont be 100% but you will be on the way to being you again.

Good Luck
Lisa
p.s all symtoms are worse at ovulation time and te week of your period remember that.

and thanks to all the girls that have constantly been there for me i could not have come this far ( and i have a way to go) without you all.......

Hi,

My name's Linzi.

I stumbled across this site because i am at an all time low and am trying to find out a reason. My life is fine, with no reason to be depressed. However I finally had to go to an emergencey psychiatrist to get an injection because my panic attacks got so bad i was scared to be left on my own incase i didn't know what i was doing.

All my anxiety, worrying, panicking and depression started in may, when i broke down, convinced i'd gone crazy, and just screamed and cried waiting for someone to come get me and take me in a straight jacket. Never happened. Since that point i have been fighting with my thoughts, being scared that i will not have control of myselft and so on.

I pin pointed the other day that i started on Yasmin after i had my copper coil removed in May, exactly when this started.

Other sideeffects, I weigh 69 kilo, that is 10.5 stone, I am 6 foot tall, 24 years old, have gorgeous boyfriend who i haven't kissed for i don't know how long. Sex drive in non existent, we have sex maybe 1 time per month if lucky, then it is like robot sex, no passion because i feel nothing. That upsets me more. I am prone to tantrums, when i get my period i sink, he sees me spiralling out of control, we discuss everything, i threaten to leave, then next day, bingo! all is ok.

I have done little girly tantrums, jumping up and down, going red in face and screaming with frustration over...a broken plate, a messy table and other such things. I feel the panic building up like a knot in my chest, and i can't cope anymore with simple things like eating at his parents house. I spilled a whole bowl of soup because i couldn't deal with the pressure of trying to be neat and tidy.

Ridiculous i know, but i am going on antidepressents, well a drug for panick and anxiety and nervousness. I have zero appetite, eat maybe 2 slices of toast in a day and don't notice being hungry, i lost weight over christmas, which isn't normal.

I have had suicidal thoughts and still do, but mainly it is a major panic that i will kill myself and not realise what i am doing, even thought it is something i don't want to do. Lost all purpose.

I found this site, and realised it is regularly read. How long will it take before i feel better. I hate this, i am hanging on between shrink appointments just so i don't run in to the street screaming, it is such a horrible feeling.

I was a straight A student, really succesful, got my degree and everything, now i sit at home, stare at a wall and don't go to work anymore.

Will this stop? I need it to before i lose it.

Linzi

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Hi,

I have been suffering from depression and an overactive imagination leading to panick attacks, anxiety and nervousness (i panic that i will go crazy and kill myself and not realise). I started feeling like this last may, exactly when i started with Yasmin. Having read through some of these posts, my decision last night to stop the pill finally, has given me some hope that i might start to feel better. I am going to be put on antidepressents soon, and i hope i feel better before then. The time scale of my feelings and Yasmin coincides perfectly, I hope I have found the cause of my grief.

Linzi