Mentally ill symptoms and conditions

i started taking seroquel about 2 years ago, and with being steadily increased in the dosage i have gaine 100 pounds, and i cannot lose anything. I have tried every diet out there, besides surgery. I am afraid to go off them because i have insomnia and deppression, and anxiety soo bad that i can never sleep. and now in reading other persons' effects i am starting to wonder if all my other problems are an affect of this medicine. I take 800 mg. a night just so i can sleep 7-8 hours. How crazy is that??? i am so afraid...

My Rheumatologist put me on Topamax for my Fibromyalgia.
I didn't notice it was helping any better that the med I was previously on, however, kept on taking it as the dr thought it would be better. I went on Topamax right after Thanksgiving. Christmas was hectic and I began to feel like I was going crazy. I couldn't remember people's names, what I was doing, names of objects, etc. I was always so tired and nervous, I went to the doctor to see what was wrong, was I having a nervous breakdown? going mentally ill? She quickly told me it was a common side effect of the dosage of Topamax I was on! At least now I have an answer and will taper off of it this week with the dr's help. How scary!

hi, sorry to hear that your daughter has gone down hill again. unfortunately this is a really common problem, a lot of us that had depression/anxiety and scary thoughts find we still have problems during our ovulation and also right before our periods, it does get easier each month but it is still there. i can imagine at the moment she is doubting herself and is thinking "what if it is not the yasmin after all and i am actually mentally ill"? she would not be alone in that thought,we have all been there. i have been off yasmin for 6 months now and most of the time i can handle it,my anxiety levels day to day are very low but pre-menstrally it can still throw me know and again and have me thinking the same thought,but i know it is not true,it is just my hormones trying to recover. pms A has most of the symptoms we all suffer so i have concluded that instead of helping with pms yasmin can actually cause it. it seems like all we can do is wait and have faith that it will get better and also take care of our bodies nutritionally and physically. i really hope that your daughter starts to feel better soon,she is sooo young and should not have to suffer this at her age. she is obviously a very responsible young lady and thought that taking yasmin was a positive thing to do, we have all suffered the consiquences of taking this poison but luckily we are all here to support each other and to reasuure each other that it does get better.you are doing a wonderful job of supporting your daughter,that will be a great help to her. i really do wish you and her all the best,look up pms A symotoms and see if there are any tips to help on a monthly basis.

sarah

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And again you're not alone..... I had and sometimes still have exactly the same feelings as you describe. Even AFTER getting off Yasmin (been off for 10 months now). Those feelings always got worse again around the time my period should start or around ovaluation. Perhaps you can connect your symptoms to those days, too?!?!

After all it seems, that Yasmin enormously interacts your brain. A cousin of mine had such weird feelings after being on Yasmin only for about 3 months. She just had the feeling that "something with her head was not ok" and therefore she stopped taking that poison immediately.

I wish I had discovered as early as she, what this poison was doing to my body and my brain...

So your problems seem to be pretty "normal" (if you can say so......) after Yasmin symptoms. Today I have those symptoms only about every few weeks in a very slight way (always around the above mentioned times), but not at all as heavy as during Yasmin or even 6 months after Yasmin (as you are now)...

A few months ago I had many days a month when I felt like I was about to go totally mad and mentally ill... Everything looked strange to me, I felt dizzy and foggy in my head. Than a few days further everything had gone again and I felt pretty normal. And believe me, all those symptoms will get lighter, too!! You just have to think about that during the hard times. Always keep in mind, that "nothing will stay as it is now and everything will get better again". That was the only comfort through those days, when I thought I'd go completely mad...

I wish you the strenght that you need, going through this "after Yasmin show", but believe me: It's worth it!!!

All the best and god's bless to all of you again!!

Silke

PS: To the ladies giving me some pep talk with the last few postings: Thank you!! It's so good to hear, that you're not alone with all this sh... And I will think about your words, that everything will be fine again in 2006!! Best wishes to you, too!!

Hello All,

I have posted many times in the past 6 months after getting off Yasmin. I feel it is important to 're-tell' my story for new readers to the site, as I dont want any poor woman go through the hell of Yasmin, only to read comments made a few posts ago about the 'benefits' of Yasmin.

I was on Yasmin for a year and had experienced very little effects, certainly none that I noticed at the time. However, after taking it for a little over a year I became a completely different person. I am a 27 year old, confident and generally very positive about life. I became severely depressed, suffered panic attacks and anxiety daily, had suicidal thoughts, a constant high heart rate (whilst trying to sleep, worried I was about to have a heart attack!), vertigo and nausea (with NO history of any of this). My family were terrified that they'd lost their daughter and sister to an 'unknown' mental illness....I was terrified they were right. I started seeing a therapist, but continued to feel the worst I have ever felt in my life.

I was saved the day I desperately typed in 'Yasmin side effects' into my computer (on a whim) and found this site. I still remember crying into the screen as I read women describe EXACTLY how I'd been feeling. It was a gift from above for me to finally realise I was not suddenly mentally ill, I was suffering due to my Yasmin BCP. I immediately stopped Yasmin that day. My depression and accelerated heart rate stopped within days. It has now been 6 months off Yasmin, and I am only now starting to feel the closest to my 'old self' than I have felt since before I started Yasmin in 2003. I have battled anxiety this entire time (worse according to my cycle) and it is only very slowly improving.

I finally decided to see a doctor that specialises in womens health and I am having my hormone levels checked to look to possible natural hormone therapy to re'balance everything.

I just want to make it clear that if this can happen to me, a 'glass half full' person who leads a very busy work and personal life (although I nearly gave it all up at times because of this) then it can happen to anyone.

Yasmin is pure poison. No time spent on it with positive results means you can feel comfortable that it wont suddenly change you for the worse tomorrow. I am not going to say it effects everyone differently and it's worth a trial. As a health professional myself, I am not willing to even say it is. I would not wish this last 8 months on my worst enemy.

Love to all out there getting off Yasmin. Please dont question your decision to come off it. Mine saved my life and sanity.

I was prescribed riperidone over 6 years ago.I was wrongly diognosed as schiczophrenic.It made my life hell.i suffered phsically for the first 4 days of taking it.I was could not walk and was in alot of pain.Whe the physical side affects wore of,i started to feel strange mentally.I started to can not have very strange thoughts which made made mylife a misery.i often wished was dead because of this.I could not get on with my life.I might as well been mentally paralysed.
I dont know if a medication could cause such side affects
mentally.But I can not link it to anything else.It is strange that
the hese thoughts affected me less whn I stopped this medication.After a while I was put on another medication .The thoughts were still disturbing me but not in a major way that it did when I was on risperidone.I developed depression as well.I was a once healthy person who was now mentally ill.I stopped all the anti schiczophrenia medication.Since then these thoughts are insignificant and no longer disturb me.I am now so happy that it is all over.i never want to go through anything like that again