Miracle drugs symptoms and conditions

This is for all of you out there that are not sure if this is for you or not. I have been on several different kinds of bc pills and I have to say this one is the best one ever. I don't even need to be on the pill, I had my tubes tied after my twins were born (4 children) and I wanted to be back on the pill to regulate my hormones, because I didn't like myself, I was very moody and severe pms. I had one doc put me on antidepressants. Didn't work. I can tell everyone you do need to let this pill as with any pill or medication adjust to your body and eveybody adjusts differently. I have been on it for 2 1/2 months and I feel like a new person. Yes, I do have some nausea, so I take it at nightime. I had an extremely bad headache for the first week as with all the meds I take. My sex drive is better for the first time ever being on a pill. Tender breasts for the first 1 1/2 and I have had this problem for the past 20 years, very very bad and for the first time I can actually say that is pretty good. I have had a little spotting in the second month nothing to bad though. Yes I still get a little moody before my period, however I am a woman and there are no miracle drugs to totally eliminate that. I don't normally write on these sites however, I think everyone should give them self time to adjust to meds (3 months) before giving up. Hang in there and there is one out there that will work for you.

When a class action lawsuit is filed, let me know....this drug should be taken of off the market immediately. We started all of this with an OB/GYN that prescribed this “miracle pill” and now have had to go not only to our primary doctor, but also a psychiatrist, gastrenologist, college campus counselors, psychologists, psychiatrist, and the campus medical doctors; All the while, accumulating enormous doctor bills. All the doctors say, "No, Yasmin won't cause those problems" (except the college campus doctors..wonder why? Hmm.. could it be that they are not in private practice?)....well, I beg to differ. Everyone needs to give this website to their doctor so the doctors can hear from the patients that have taken this drug, and not listen to the pharmaceutical companies that are pushing this drug to be the "miracle pill". Maybe if enough people complain and go to the media, we can get rid of this drug!
My daughter who is 18 was put on Yasmin because of irregular periods, hormonal imbalance, etc. We were told it was the new “miracle pill”. It will make you loose weight, regulate your periods, clear up acne, you name it, it will fix it. Yeah, right.
She started taking this pill in March 2007. She was off at college but called to tell me she was experiencing horrible headaches, behind the eyes. She complained about her stomach hurting, but we just figured it was the stress of freshman year at college. Then she said she got where she couldn’t eat when she went to a restaurant. When she came home in May for the summer, I noticed a total personality change. For example, she was always a neat freak, and now she wouldn’t clean her room. The first day when she drove home, she started crying she was so mad about the traffic. Yes, she has always had a little road rage, but this was ridiculous.
By June, not only could she not be in crowds, like at a restaurant, but now she is having full blown panic attacks and IBS. We called the OBGYN and they said, “Yasmin won’t cause this, go see your primary doctor”. I knew that the only thing that had changed with her was taking the YASMINE. I knew it had something to do with all of this so I “Googled Yasmin” and this website (http://www.medications.com/se/yasmin) was the first one I looked at. All of her symptoms matched everyone else’s! I am so glad we found this website, it explained everything and I had her to stop Yasmin immediately.
So we went to the primary doctor, explained about the Yasmin and how we thought it was the culprit of everything. Of course this doctor also says, “Yasmin won’t cause that”. We told him to look it up on the internet and see how there are over 3000 complaints on this drug, more than any of the other drugs on the market.
Besides the emotional problems she starting having, her pulse and blood pressure was sky high, so he puts her on medicine for that, and puts her on an anxiety medicine and sends her to a psychiatrist. She is very thirsty all the time, and develops IBS. She can’t eat without having pains in her stomach. So, now we’ve have gone from having just irregular periods, to all of the above, plus a psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist doubles her medicine (and puts her Pamine for the IBS) because the panic attacks are gone, but she still is having a lot of nervousness, anxiety, can’t sleep at night, crazy thoughts, worrying all the time, etc. A month later he changes her medicine again, to Effexor. The first 2 weeks, she does okay, but the packet doubles the strength after 2 weeks. It takes 4 weeks for it to take full effect. Right after she doubles this medicine, it is like her senses are on hyper-mode. She can taste everything that is in her food (chili powder, seasonings, etc…), taste the metal in water, and she can hear someone’s phone vibrating, in another room.
Then she goes back to college at the end of August 2007, and it’s horrible. The Effexor is having bad, bad side effects. We called the psychiatrist that she was using at home and he doubled the dose. That was the worse thing they could’ve done. The side effects were worse than ever. I had her to immediately go to a psychiatrist on campus. She told him the whole story and he believed her! Needless to say we switched doctors. He then lowered her dose back down to ½ a dose and hopefully can slowly get her off of all this medicine.
The newest thing she has developed is being hypoglycemic. The campus psychiatrist sent her to a campus medical doctor and he told her that they would get to the bottom of this. He tested her for everything under the sun. Low blood sugar is the only thing they found. But, she hasn’t taken the Yasmin since May. No telling what the results would have came back like if it was done at the time she was taking Yasmin.
Thank goodness she has counselors and doctors there at the campus that believes that Yasmin can cause all of these problems, and are working with her. From what I have read from the people that have used this medicine, although most doctors do not agree, Yasmin takes like 6 months to get out of your system. I think I am going to believe the testimonials of the people who take this medicine, over a doctor who prescribes it.
If everyone goes to the media, their doctors, the FDA, congressmen, and make them aware of these horrible effects, surely we can get this drug off of the market! Does anyone know a class action lawyer that would pursue this? For my child to have to go through all of this is ridiculous, not to mention costly. What do we know of the long term effects this drug will have if it is doing all of this when you first start taking it?
If you have the same concerns as me about this drug, and would be interested in looking into a class action lawsuit, please email: ****** I would be interested to see how many would want to pursue this.

Hi tashbash7 18027
I saw three differnent OB's and 2 of them said no way the pill could cause this finally the last one said of course it could cause all your symptoms, what works for one person is hell for another. I know that not all doctors know everything there is to know about every medication. They get these fancy drug reps in their office bringing fancy gifts and telling them to use their new miracle drugs because they can do this and that. Some doctors only know what the reps tell them about the drug unless they do their own research(not likely) and even if they did do research on it, they are not going to find the symptoms we are all describing, because most of them are not in the packet insert info. which is about all the info. i found on the web about yasmin. Except that it is on the worst drug list because they say there is no reason to be taking it because the other bcp do what they are supposed to. I agree, if I had known that Yasmin had spirinolactone in it (its the ONLY bcp that does) I would not have taken it. If i had seen this website, i would not have taken it. Imagine how stupid i feel being a nurse and having this happen to me. I could just kick myself for not researching it first. I should know better, but I thought all bcp were basically the same. Our OB's dropped the ball too when they didnt explain the "difference" and possible additional side effects. But I feel they dont know about the side effects we are feeling because the drug is still too new. We are the experts girls, not the doctors, because we are the ones who have/are taking it. You cannot tell the guinea pigs what they are feeling is not real because the money hungry drug company who never ingested so much as one little white pill SAYS thats not a side effect! What you are feeling IS real. I experienced for the first time in my life what real depression feels like. The doctors?! The cold hard truth is that most of them either dont research, or more important LISTEN TO THEIR PATIENTS. WE are the experts, not them. Dont let them make you feel like you are crazy, because you are not. And the last OB I saw (a female) even told me that as well, that I am not crazy or imagining my symptoms, that the pill can cause all these symptoms, and that it will take a couple of cycles for everything to get back to normal, but that none of the changes should be permanent. I believe what makes one doctor evaluate different from another is experience with a particular drug, personality and the ability to think further than whats just in front of them (ie, it doesnt say it can do that so it cant), and just LISTENING which believe me, A LOT of doctors just do not have this skill. If the ones who told you no your crazy logged onto this site and read all of these similar complaints would they rethink their answer, would they even take the time, would they even care? FEW would and some would not thats the cold hard truth. I know my body just as you all know yours and you can feel when there is something wrong with it thats why I kept refusing the antidepressants they were trying to put me on. I noticed around about Jan. 14th that heavy black cloud sitting in my head lifted and I started to feel better emotionally, though I still have spells of depression but not nearly as heavy or lasting as long. Dont get me wrong if anti depressants are helping you that is great, I personally just didnt want to chance extra side effects on top of the million side effects i was already experiencing. The headaches have really disappeared for the most part as well but they were terrible. My skin is still changing every day its starting to get oily and pulmp again and my hair is falling out less and less. Its been 3 months off the Yasmin, things are getting better slowly. Sometimes it feels like one step forward two steps back, but just hang in there, it does get better. Write me. This website is good therapy.