Microgynon 30 symptoms and conditions

I have been on Yasmin for just over 2 weeks now. My hair has been falling out, my skin has dried out really bad....I keep getting gastritis type feelings. My tummy keeps feeling like it is bubbling inside. And the nausea is indescribable!!! I run to the toilet at least twice every hour but am never sick!!!! If I don't eat, I feel sick. If I eat I feel even more sick. Then if I eat again I feel fine, then when I stop eating I feel sick.

This is the 3rd pill I have been on. Microgynon 30, Loestrin 20 and now Yasmin. I was told Yasmin was the best but now I am very concerned having read all of the above comments!!!!

I keep telling myself I am going to give it the 3 month trial but I'm half tempted not to.

I would not recommend this pill. Nor would I NOT recommend this pill. I think it's just the luck of the draw. Good luck to anyone.

The pill is crap!!! But in a long term relationship its just easier... no worry about getting pregnant. lol

Hi everyone, ok i have never been a good 'pill' accepter, my body hates any kind of rubbish but I have ME and sometimes it's very hard to monitor symptoms related to pill, medication, virus or anything other. I haven;t got on with any pills, except microgynon 30, the only prob is you sometimes think they're causing something they're actually not. It turned out co-codamol causes headaches so it wasn't the pill. Yasmin seemed ok for first few days, but then small spot rashes on chest, forehead and shoulders, itching in places, extreme tiredness, which doesn't help with ME i am very aware of my symptoms and this is the only change i have encountered so must be the pill. I have chronic stomach pain, bloating, wind, constantly urinating, discharge thin and very regular, so a few are acceptable but this is the 2nd pack and the pain is uncomfortable, I'm like a balloon and feeling very anti social as it's not really the nicest symptom to have....thought gastric flu, but doesn't last 2 months????? I'm going back on microgynon. Will we ever find happiness as women..coming back as a man next time lol

I went on yasmin about 2 years ago, right before I started my current relationship. Everything in my relationship was perfect, we never fought, it was just amazing. About 4 months into the relationship I started to pick fights with him, about everything possible. I was becoming depressed, insecure, and my anxiety level is at a constant high....still, I didn't realize any of this until this month. About 3 months ago I started getting my migrains back before and during my period...this month, my cramps came back. I kicked my boyfriend as hard as I could last week, and I couldn't tell you why, I immidiately started crying and saying sorry, and hugging him. This pill, I've come to realize, has almost completely ruined my life. It's almost ended my wonderful relationship with the love of my life several times. This month was the final straw, I thought maybe I had pmdd, I looked up the symptoms and realized that was not what I had, then I thought to look up side effects of my birth control, and I found this site...many of the girls mention twitching, headaches, crazy mood swings, treating their spouses awful, sleeping all the time and still feeling tired. I have been suffering from all these symptoms for a long time now. I am stopping this pill IMMIDIATELY! It has ruined far too much of my life. I'm so glad I found this website, I now know I'm not crazy. Now I can go back to being the happy, fun, and friendly girl I really am!

I am a 38 year old 'normal' UK female, and I have recently come off Yasmin, having been on for the last 6 months.

it was not until I read the posts on this site that i realised what horrible side effects Yasmin had for me - previoulsy I had thought I was going mad, and I had made an appointment to talk to my doctor about anti depressants and tranquilisers - but could not understand why I felt so awful. i became exceptionally emotional with unpredicitable mood swings, crying for no real reason, at any time - meetings at work were a nightmare - crying in the toilets became normal practice. Paranoid that everyone was talking about me, and that my boss was going to fire me. I felt very depressed and had very dark thoughts of ending things. I also felt like I had a really bad cold all the time and in 4 months had 2 bouts of acute sinitius with sickness. I have also gained about 20 pounds. My partner thought he was married to someone who was bi polar, as my normal happy self had become manic depressive who was constantly in a rage. I have a senior managment job and it became impossible to concentrate and my performance dropped a huge amount.

However in the month and a half I've been off Yasmin - I feel 80% of my usual self, and as soon as I stopped taking it I felt immediately better - like a fog was lifting. i'm gradually getting back to normal and I have now gone back to my old pill of Microgynon 30 without problems. The mood swings and crying have vanished (within a week), I feel my normal happy self and I'm feeling a huge amount better - and I have lots of energy. When I was on Yasmin I felt tired all the time, but I could not sleep. Sleeping is still not back to normal, but is better, however I do still have the night sweats others have spoken of. In the past week my head and sinuses have started to unblock and I've had huge amounts of mucus come out of my nose (aparently from no where) and my head is clearing.

I am a normal rational person and I cannot beleive that a BC pill could have this effect and had I not expereinced it I would not have beleived it. My advice is if you feel any of the above then STOP taking it and try something else. I can't beleive the difference in how I feel in myself and about others - basically for the first time in 6 months I feel good. Thanks to the ladies on this site for sharing as otherwise I would have just carried on feeling terrible.