Mental health issues symptoms and conditions

I had the Mirena coil removed a week and a half ago and let me tell you I have had the worst week ever!!
My reasons for getting it removed were the same as most people, very bad mood swings,always snapping at my boyfriend, depression, always bleeding, severe stomach cramps all the time, anxiety, hair loss, low libido and the list goes on... I never had any of this before the mirena.. I never realised the mirena could of been the cause until I decided to google it one day and found thousands of women had the same symptoms, everything then made sense...

I made the appointment to get it removed and immediately started taking Vit B6, Primrose oil and I have ordered 5HTP on the internet cos I cant find it anywhere... day 4 I started getting very bad anxiety and horrible suicidal thoughts, I have always been a happy person and couldnt understand what was happening to me... the whole week at work was a blur and each day was a struggle to get through.. I was continuously crying and I had these horrible thoughts in my mind that wouldnt go away!! it has been a nightmare.. its like they are stuck in my mind and I cant think of anything else but these horrible thoughts! (The weird thing is I had the same thoughts when I had the mirena inserted 2.5 years ago but they werent as bad as now and they eventually went away) I saw my doctor on Thursday morning and explained these problems and she prescribed me valium tablets to take away the anxiety... later that afternoon I had a anxiety attack and landed going back to the doctor because of these horrible suicidal thoughts in my mind... My doctor reffered me to a phyciatrist which I saw yesterday, I have never had to see anyone like this before so it was very scary for me... the shrink I saw said that there was no ways the mirena could be doing this to me.... she gave me more valium for my anxiety and now I have to see a special therapist once a week until these thoughts are cleared from my mind!
I find it very strange that all this started 4 days after my mirena was removed! I know this is all happening because of the mirena, the only thing that is keeping me going is reading everyones posts and knowing that this will go way once my hormones settle, I know im not going crazy even though it feels like I am!!
Every doctor I have spoken to will not agree that the mirena could cause any of these side effects! It makes me so mad that so many women are going through this and the doctors think the Mirena is the best thing since slice bread! How can they have no idea!!??
If anyone is thinking of getting the mirena.. DONT DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

My story is very sadly similiar to enough's story

I have also been following these posts since the story broke
My son is 11 yrs old has been on singulair for almost 1 yr now for allergies after suffering a SI that lasted over 2 months

He was dx'd with ADHD & ODD at age 4 & they have been trying to rule out bipolar for the last few yrs But Can't, so he has been on a ton of meds!!!
I have noticed that this last year has been worse though & he almost had to be admitted numerous times within this past year We kept switching the ADHD meds & trying Bipolar meds nothing seemed to work, So last friday night (almost 1 wk ago) the day I heard about this, I stopped the singulair But he also started a new bipolar med the same day & HE IS A NEW KID!!! so now I'm stuck with the terrible task to find out if it's a combo of stopping the singulair & the new med working or stopping the singulair & maybe he doesnt even need the new med? IDK right now BUT I DO know that Something is working!!! So I have decided that next Friday put him back on the singulair for a few days to see what happens?? we talked about it & he knows I will not punish him for anything he does while he is on it I just NEED to know if this med Made him worse!!!!!! That way I can take some kind of action here, I just would like to know why the heck would they put a kid who already has mental health issues on a med that could make those issues WORSE????
I'm positive that singulair did not cause his probs since they started way b4 him being on this med But I have a gut feeling that singulair has made his probs 10X worse!!

his S/A's have been the same as e/o has already described

itching (which I know for a fact was from singulair b/c that is gone now)
mood swings
crying
angry
crabby
irritable
violent
not sleeping well (even worse than what he had already)
aches & pains everywhere

I always dismissed the complaints or assumed it was one of his other meds causing them, I never ever in a million years would of thought it was the singulair!!!!

I held off on posting b/c I wanted to see if taking him off would work?? IDK for sure yet but I will come back in a week or so & let u all know

I'll pray for all the familes involved in this I'm still kind of shocked by it all but felt the need to share my story also

(I tried posting yesterday guess it didnt work??)

My 9 yo daughter has been off and on Singulair for several years trying to get her athsma and allergies regulated. She has been put on zyrtec, and claritin and it has been a constant battle with her. She has been in and out of children's mental health facilities 3 times in the past year and has been diagnosed as having ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder), Mood Disorder, Depression, Severe ADHD, Bi-Polar as well as ADO (Adjustment Disorder) and emotional disorder, just to name some of the diagnosis she has had. SHE IS ONLY NINE YEARS OLD. Due to ALL these other diagnosis, she has been on and off so many different medications that I cannot help but wonder if some of these diagnosis are due to her taking the Singulair. When she was taking the SINGULAIR, she could not sleep at night, she complained about her stomach hurting all the time, she was very angry, emotional, and cried very easily for no reason at all. I have not given her any SINGULAIR since I first heard about all this stuff two days ago and can already see a difference. The fact that these people are doing this to our children infuriates me and something needs to be done!!!!!!!!

I have just been told by my primary care doctor that he cannot continue to okay any more time for me on my state disability.

He asked if I was going back to work ( I've been out 6 months ) and I told him my legs are still so weak and sore so often I cannot be on them for more than one to two hours without them feeling like they are going to go out from under me, as well as my arms to a lesser ( 50% ) degree and often the rest of my body if I do anything physical for more than 1/2 hour to one hour. And that I was also still totally depressed and feeling I could have an anxiety attack at any time which I do maybe every 3rd, or 4th day....so that no, I could not work at this time. I was still feeling about as totally disabled as I ever have been in my 54 years.

I also told him my feelings about Levaquin perhaps being the cause of all this. He got very agitated and ended the visit and said it was not the Levaquin but I would not be able to understand his explanation as to why it could not be the Levaquin because of my lack of education in the medical science field.

When I said that every symptom I have had since the second day of taking Levaquin were symptoms that I have never experienced in my entire 54 year life and I wasn't having "any" of these during the 4 or 5 days previous to being prescribed Levaquin when I had the flu and beginning bronchitis, he just wouldn't even comment.

He just stood up and turned to walk away. Then he stopped and said, "look...one thing we are sure of...is that you have serious mental health issues, and that's all we can find outside of some maybe beginning Crohns Disease with the results not coming in until later next month from the U.C.S.F. Med Center tests.

My last comments that I "tried" to say to this doctor as he was walking away were that " Why would I have myself taken to our local ER 3 times in one week as soon as I started taking Levaquin with terrifying symptoms like all the ones you all are describing here on this board from incredible insomnia to massive weakness and panic attacks, etc., when even with the flu I wasn't feeing that concerned and my 54 year long local resident history does not show a pattern of ever having to rush to an ER that often? And why....WHY would he nor any of the ER doctors ever once give one seconds thought to the "possibility" that I was having a sever reaction to Levaquin...especially when the symptoms I was experiencing are ones that are listed as those that may occur to certain people taking this powerful antibiotic? Can't we even consider this "levaquin reaction" a "remote" possibility?

His answer..."no." " I'll see you in 2 months."

If this doctors comments and behavior towards me isn't the most obvious and disheartening conveyance of dismissal, what is? This doctor would love to have me just never call him back. And sadly, so many doctors are acting exactly like him in my case.

And I've never had a problem like this before in my entire life! BOy, if a doctor doesn't see something on a test...there minds shut down on any other possibilites. I think also they are constantly thinking about the insurance companies questioning them about care provided when they aren't finding anything. So the whole system is geared toward dumping you when normal testing can't find your problem...and doctors are so insurance comapny minded...much more so than patient minded. OR, there is something else in these doctors training or mind set , that makes them very quickly dump their patients into the "psychiatric" area when they hit a dead end. And to do this to someone who has never had to see a psychiatrist in their life before...is what I would call a complete breaching of medical ethics.

When your primary care doctor gives you the "psychiatric brush off" after 6 months of torturous suffering, it's a pretty tough place to be as far as encouragement and knowing where to go from here. You have to take a deep breath and muster up even more courage and you realize that every month with this Levaquin problem...you are more and more on your own to just suffer with it. What a sad weight to add to this already horrible nightmare.

Hello All,

Just an update....I have now been off Yasmin for 5 months (as I suffered terribly whilst on it from Depression, anxiety/panic attacks and elevated heart rate with no history of these symptoms prior to taking it). It has been one very long and hard road...I continue to take one day at a time as I am STILL suffering from anxiety. It has definately gotten better (i have been keeping a diary of my anxiety levels to correlate them to my cycle...there is always a link) but let me tell you, it has been exhausting. Thanks to this poison I have spent hundreds of dollars on seeing a psychologist (although he was worth every cent!) for the first ever time in my life. I also have benefitted from cutting out all white bread, white sugar and caffeine from my diet.

I urge all those women going through withdrawals after getting off Yasmin to post their experiences on this site. There have been days when this site has kept me going.

Yasmin has taken a year from my life. It is pure poison. Prior to this pill, I have NEVER suffered from any form of emotional/mental health issues. I am now about 95% better. I eagerly await the day I am 100% the old me.

Take care all of those out there getting off Yasmin and those going through the 'aftermath'.

PLEASE KEEP IN TOUCH and TELL YOUR STORIES...we all need to hear them. After all, it is easy to beleive you are going crazy when something continues to affect you 5 MONTHS after stopping it.

Pharmaceutical companies are going to have a law suit on their hands when the truth of the destruction of Yasmin is made known to the wider community.
:)

What a relief to see that I'm not the only one who believes Yasmin may have caused some physical & mental health issues. I have been on Yasmin for approximately 2 years and have experienced depression, (which I am being treated for) weight gain, lower sex drive and blurred vision. I just attributed it to getting older, but when I found the website www.worstpills.org, there was Yamin on their list of pills you should not take. I have been off of Yasmin for 3 weeks now and have experienced extremely tender boobs, moodiness and am breaking out. These symptoms are slowly improving as it gets out of my system. I'm sure some pro-Yasmin people will read these positngs and say our symptoms could be attibuted to a variety of causes or "just in our heads", but there sure seems to be an undeniable pattern here.
Good luck all!

PS my husband is getting a vascetomy in 2 weeks, no more pills for me!