Mentally unstable symptoms and conditions

Complete Nightmare. Please read...I was on Minocin for a week. I developed major CNS (central nervous system) side effects including major light sensitivity, back pain, runny nose. The worst of the lot were the mental side effects which included extreme paranoia, the inability to concentrate, depression, suicidal thoughts. I couldn't go to work, I was up all night crying, couldn't socialize properly or look people in the eye. i felt completely out of my mind and didn't know why..until i stopped taking the drug the next day.

My mother who is a registered nurse accompanied me to my dermatologist the following week to describe my experience. Let's just say he denied my claims and that there could be any connection between my side effects and Minocin, rushed me out of his office without treatment or refunding the fee that I already paid to see him, and continued to cancel my future appointments with him. I never heard from him again.

Over the following months, my mother did her own research at her hospital. Turns out,she witnessed and heard of many young women come in with the same side effects..and they were in a mentally unstable state. They were admitted to the psych ward and most were suicidal.

I know this sounds extreme and everyone's body reacts differently to drugs, but this is a true recount of my experience with Minocin and I wanted to share it.

Background: I've never taken regular prescription drugs other than anitibitocs for infections, and am otherwise a healthy person. I have no history of depression and was not going through any emotional stress at the time. I was not on the pill at the time, so my body was not bombarded with high levels of tetracyclin (which Minocin is of) although I was on the pill for a year, 3 years prior.

I went on Apri almost a year ago and had no weight gain, no breakthrough bleeding, virtually no side effects until this summer. I started having anxiety and panic attacks during my spring semester (I'm now a senior in college) and although I usually deal with stress pretty well, I thought that it was just because I was having a rough semester.

But in the past two months I've had a consistent nervous stomach and I've lost almost 15lbs from not being able to eat as much (not a good thing, I'm already a little underweight for my height). I started to have mood swings and that led straight into depression, so bad that even on vacation in Aruba I cried almost every day and night. I felt pathetic and anti-social and angry and basically scared that I'd never come out of this "phase." I called a therapist but couldn't even follow through with that. Then last week I went to the emergency room for severe stomach pain and they did some bloodwork and sent me home because "nothing was wrong." I'm also breaking out, which hasn't happened since I was like 15. Finally I went to a gyno who said this could all be side effects from the pill. If that's true than this all could have been prevented, and that upsets me greatly, but I also feel relieved that this might be over soon.

Everyone is different but if anyone is feeling things like this on Apri, see a doctor because it might be as simple as changing the pill or going off of it completely, which I plan on doing asap. Sorry but using condoms is better than being physically and mentally unstable.

Hi. I'm not a mother worrying about the side effects on my child.
I'm a male, born in 1979.
My mother showed the first risks of premature birth after 15 weeks. Her doctors must have been unaware of the dangers, because she spent her whole pregnancy under yutopar. I show no physical or mental abnormality, although the tests were thorough...
Yet, many strange things kept happening. I used to cry for hours without any obvious medical reason during my first year. As a child, I was normal... but vaguely distant. As if there was a layer between the world and me. Some incidents also happened. When I was very angry, I developped an abnormal strength and strarted devastating my surroundings, as if in a trance.
These symptoms (Then still unexplained by psychologists and doctors) lessened at 15. I graduated at 17, first of my school. I had friends, a girlfriend, and everything seemed normal, I was just considered an "original".
But at 18, my mind collapsed. I had always experienced some difficulties to focus, but there, all my thoughts seemed to run madly, forming unlikely associations, and leading to severe delirium. and yet again, no diagnosis matched my crisis (and believe me, I begged them to find one !). My parents kepts putting it all on behave of my occasional drug consumptions (a little canabis and alcohol), and ended it all by throwing me out. I tried to end my days nine times, and spent 1 year and five months in psychiatric hospitals since my first crisis.
I am now a full-engineer from one of the most notorious colleges of Belgium, but I never felt I was fit for this world, and have to keep a very tight grip on myself to prevent the crises. The best explanation I got from the psychiatrists is that I am "mentally unstable".
Only a few months ago did I relate it all to the problems my mothers had encountered during her pregnancy.
Honnestly, I do not know if my problems are due to yutopar overuse, or if the early pregnancy interruption was meant to prevent my birth because of some inherent abnormality.
I wish I knew, but not for me... It seems to be a bit late to change anything. But if that drug is the source, I would urge the doctors to investigate further on, because my life on the whole was a very unpleasant experience.
I would add that, in the last few weeks, the only side effects of yutopar I found were about the mother. I don't even know if these mental symptoms were ever studied, or recorded.

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R&D Scientist

hi alicethecamel,
just a thought but have you had a tyroid test? you could be hypothyroid and the pill can cause you to becaome more hypothyroid,i had trouble with low moods, heavy period,clotting etc due to an underactive thyroid,it eased when i went on to levothyroxine but started up a again when i went on yasmin but a dose change sorted it out again. unfortunately my experience with yasmin was pure hell/anxiety/depression, emotionally unstable (and sometimes felt mentally unstable too!) regardless of whether you choose to stay on yasmin i would definately get a thyroid (tsh and ft4) test done.
best wishes to you,i hope you feel better soon.

sarah

On day 2, I started crying uncontrollably. Feelings of depression. I have never felt mentally unstable before, and the feeling is alarming. I am stopping this medication now! Sleepwalking. The metallic taste in my mouth is awful. Do not drink alcohol with this medication, I believe the makes the nightmares and depression worse.