Miraculously symptoms and conditions

I have read a ton of the posts in this category. I have been taking Lisinopril as an addition to my regular blood pressure medication for approximately 3 years, with absolutely no problems. My 10mg was increased to 20mg a week ago. Still no problems. It has only helped me. If there are any changes, I will definitely post it. I believe that symptoms can arise from reading an article. I actually know a couple people who read things, and suddenly they are convinced they have the problem or disease referenced. I call it an Epidemic of Diagnoses. Always seek a doctors advice before stopping medications. Stopping suddenly on certain drugs, can be more dangerous than taking them.

I have been taking Lipitor for nearly 3 years, and during this time, for virtually the whole time I have suffered with sever burning pains in my toes of my right foot, stinging pains also which cannot be attributed to anything else. It has got so severe that at times I cannot walk, and could not bear to put my foot on the ground.
It was only recently that I linked these pains to taking Lipitor, and I have since stopped the drug. Miraculously my "acute " pains have gone within a few days, although I am left with very great soreness in the skin of my right foot, which feels like it is nerve generated.
I have been to the doctor on numerous occasions about these symptons, and although I have been a "Heart" patient for 3 years and seen 3 GP's during this time, not one has ever linked my pain to the drug.
Knowing what I know now, this drug should be withdrawn and alternative remedies used to lower cholesterol before anymore people suffer.
My experience has been one of near disablement, and a sever reduction in the quality of my life for what? I only hope that my body will now heal and I can make a full recovery.

I'm a 38 year old male who has had asthma, allergies, and bronchitis ever since I was a small child. I've tried many different medicines and steroids over the past decades to try an control my asthma. I recently was introduced to Singulair by my doctor, and in the first 2 weeks I had no symptoms and my asthma was miraculously controlled. However, after those first initial 2 weeks I started showing some serious symptoms; nausea, joint stiffness, dizziness, lack of energy, dehydration. But the worst side effect is the MIGRAINES! I used to suffer from migraines in the past (about 4 per year that would each last about 2-3 days max.). Now I have had a migraine for the past 10 days, and if you've ever had a migraine before then you would know how crippling it is. I was waking in the night because the headaches were so bad. I put this solely on the Singulair because I am not taking any other medication except Ventolin (which I have used since I was 5), and I've juggled my diet trying to see if it was a food reaction but it wasn't. I have stopped taking the Singulair for 3 days and counting, but I still have my migraine, I know it takes some time to get it out of my system. Originally I was excited to see the Singulair working but now I can't wait until its gone, its made my life hell. I will go back on to SYMBICORT because it did help manage my asthma, and most importantly; it didn't suffer any side effects from it.

I have been taking maxide for over 10 years. Shortly after I began taking it I developed a rash on my face that was more like loss of pigmentation. Over the last several years it has gotten worse and began to spread to other parts of my body. I have had 8 biopsies, seen at least 12 different dermatologist all with no resolution. Recently I stopped taking maxide for two weeks because of a problem with my potassium level and miraculously, the pigmentation on my face began to come back. Unfortunately, I was put back on maxide to control my blood pressure because it was very effective and my doctor didn't want to experiement with too many other medications if it was working.

Anyone else had anything like this happen?

Hi everyone!
Well. It's now been 6 1/2 weeks since I took my last Yasmin pill. My husband told me yesterday that I seem more like myself these days! I asked him to describe how I USED to act. He told me that I would go off on a tangent for no reason,get my feelings hurt over tiny things,have days where I'd hardly talk at all. He said he's glad his wife is back!
Guess what?? I mentioned the side effects of Yasmin we have all discussed here to my doctorS (ob/gyn/internal specialist/family md & ENT!)....they all said they've never heard of any of it! They offered me Paxil,Zoloft,referral to psychotherapists, endless tests and bloodwork. I mean, Holter monitor,EKG,Echocardiogram,3 blood tests, and tomorrow they want to do a CT scan on my head. I'm thinking I don't really want to expose my head to radiation over this.
I've not had anymore "attacks",no heart palpitations,my so-called IBS with diarrhea has miraculously disappeared! But they doctors don't believe it could be the Yasmin because it's "such a mild dose of hormones". Can you all believe this??
I'm so freaked out over what's happened to me these past few months that I don't know that I'll ever take BC pills again. I'm contemplating asking to have my tubes tied. Really!
I'm so glad I accidentally found this site. Now if I could just find something to explain the burning pain sensation down the side of my neck and in my inner left ear and the tingles in my left arm I'll be SOOO happy. Could these be side effects too after 6 1/2 weeks off Yasmin?
Take care all of you. I'll check back periodically to see how everyone is doing! :o)

Please bear with me as this is a bit of a long story. I was put on lisinopril 5 years ago for hbp (not bad - 140/85). 5mg of the drug quickly controlled it. But at a check-up a year later my doctor heard irregular heartbeats and added a beta-blocker to control heart rate. For the next few years I had terrible depression, throwing my whole life into a mess. Eventually I couldn't even work. I also had terrible joint pain all over my body, the cough, poor sleep, nightmares, red face, and skin so dry I was embarrassed to meet people. The depression clouded my thinking to the point where I just thought I was aging really rapidly and really badly. I never thought of the meds. Stupid, I know. Finally someone told me that beta-blockers can cause depression. That was all. I went to a new doctor and asked to go off the beta blocker. Miraculously, despite horrible withdrawl symptoms, mainly rapid heart rate (I too, went to the ER a couple of times), I immediately felt like a new person. Most of my side effects were gone but my heartrate has never been normal or regular. I have been off the beta blocker for 6 months and my bp is ok. Recently I went to a cardiologist because of the irregular heart beats and rapid heart rate. He renewed my prescription for lisinopril and scheduled me for a bunch of tests but now I'm wondering if the whole disaster has been from taking lisinopril all this time. Neither of my doctors have ever even thought of it but I've been doing some research, including finding this site. I know you don't just stop taking bp meds. Any input out there on getting my doctor to consider this as a possibility and also any other family of drug that would control bp without all these side effects?

To guest 14125....

I feel your pain too honey. For me weight gain has been the worst side effect. It's been a stressful 5 months and Im still suffering with no end in sight. I don't know what to think any more as I keep hoping every day that I'll wake up and this nightmare will miraculously vanish. Alas, that's still to happen. I'm praying.......

I am so thankful that I found this site. Usually I wouldn't post something like this but I have found that it is so important for people to realize that it was the Yasmin because of what it did to me.

I started on Yasmin about 9 months ago and it was great. I had no side effects but only mild moodiness which I just attributed to my ultra sensitive personality. But all of a sudden a month ago things got really bad. I suffered the worst depression and I honestly thought that something was seriously wrong with me because I had never had issues with any sort of depression in the past. I would cry every day, I would not want to talk to anybody (including friends) except my mother to whom I would cry nonstop. I had anxiety and my heart would race. I also could not seem to control my mind. I was petrified because my mind would race and I would be paranoid and worried about the most ridiculous things and I simply could not get under control. I lost 10 pounds in a month because my appetite became non-existent so that I would eat maybe once a day, and not much at that. I would wake up 3 or 4 hours earlier than usual and not be able to get back to sleep no matter how hard I tried due to the anxiety and heart palpitations I was having. Honestly, for all of this to hit you all at once out of nowhere is a terrifying experience, and I was so embarrased that I didn't want to say anything to anybody.

When I found this site it was like one thousand pounds were lifted off of my back. I realized that it was a hormonal imbalance and that I needed to get off Yasmin right away. I threw away the pill pack right in the middle. It took 2 weeks, but like magic, 2 weeks to the day that I stopped taking it I was miraculously a new person. I had never been so happy, partially because this burden was lifted off of me, and also because I didn't feel like I couldn't control how I felt anymore. I realized all of my friends who I had alienated because of my behavior that at the time I didn't care about.

This took a huge toll on me, and thankfully I figured out that it was the Yasmin before it continued for much longer. Thanks you to all of you who posted and for those of you reading, nobody deserves to feel this way and you are not crazy. Thanks again!

I have been having really bad dizziness, jaw pain, and ear pain for a while now and I never thought it could be Singulair, but when I didn't take it for two days, I miraculously didn't have any pain. This morning, I took my Singulair and I had HORRIBLE acid reflux that lasted for 4 hours of almost regurgitating, jaw pain, dizziness, and heart palpitations. I also feel foggy and tired and really wish I stayed off of it because now I have to deal with these side effects for another 24 hours when I've quite possibly been dealing with them for the past year or so.

I have been on Yasmin 2 years. My side effects seem to have been sore breasts (uncomfortably bigger 'uns, too); a new, continual witchy-gripiness, and loss of ALL sex drive (which never happened with any other pill, and I've taken them 15 years). I also have increased lower back pain (from a drunk-ex-boyfriend injury 8 years ago). I've gained about 10 pounds these past two years. Add to those side effects a DEFINITE, UNDENIABLE loss of hair (only "down there"), which makes me look like my grandmother in that nether region. My gyno said that Yasmin causes hair loss there. I don't see many of you on this site mentioning that side effect, though, and it's not a bad one, especially if one wears swimming suits, but it is very weird. Also, I don't wake up as quickly nowadays (which is quite unusual for me), and I actually kind of drool during sleep sometimes--a very unusual thing. I'm more lethargic, and feel MUCH less hope in life. In a few days I go off Yasmin (after these two years). Now my new gyno has put me on Ortho Tricyclin, a LOW DOSE pill, which sounds much better. Incidentally, if you have no health insurance, or if you do, Planned Parenthood is an easy, low-cost, friendly place to find great female gynos. On this website, all of your posts have perhaps begun to add HOPE back into my life! I wonder if my relatively newfound witchiness, unhappiness, lethargy, sore breasts, and total lack of sex drive will miraculously go away now. Thank you all VERY MUCH for taking your time to write of your side effects! Is the sun rising?