Monthes symptoms and conditions

Hi!I'm a 34 year old mother of 3.This is funny my husband and some of his co-workers where talking today about their wifes moods and menstrual cycle anyways to make a long story short he was talking to one of them comparing notes about the mirena and the one man was telling how his wife was having all these mood swings, put on weight, the cramping,depression,nausea,headache and been tried all the time.So my loving husband calls me and tells to check in on the mirena.So here I'm,I thought it was all in my head.I've had this in me for 7 months.I can't lose any weight i exercise eat right and the mood swings they suck and the odor(i can't stand it)the cramping is so bad i can't take and i had three babies with no drugs.So I'm glad my husband said something or I wouldn't be here right now.I know I'm not crazy now.I'm calling the doc in the morning to have it remove and he told me to wait a couple of more months he can kiss my......thanks

Well I have been on Aviane-28 for hormonal and period uses. Note that I'm 14 years old and I'm not sexuality active. I have been on Aviane for exactly 1 month 1 week and 4 days, and I HATE IT. I got this med to even me out my period pains and lately I have been feeling like crap, seriously. For the first month, my period lasted for that WHOLE MONTH. All I was interested in, I now hated, for no exact reason. In the same month, I was crying all the time and it made me so depressed. I told my mom about it and she said I should stay on it, but I really don't know what I should do. I have been eating like CRAZY and become so nauseated afterword. And for those of you who are just like me and have a panic disorder, it makes it that much WORSE with the episodes. I have noticed that my hair was been falling out a bit, and didn't realize it was the med itself from the comments has said above and below my comment. Honestly I thought it was from my hair dye that I did 2 months, but that doesn't seem right to judge that. Another thing was, I woke up at least 4 times last night and I really don't know why. Oh and a question for those of you who have tried out this birth control, had you ever had a weird dream of being pregnant? Just asking.

My doctor told me that the reason a period is so brown and you can spot when you are on the pill is because it creates a fake period. I had been on Yasmin for 2 years got off because i was broke then a year ago got back on to yaz. I just got a script for Femcon and im really worried about gaining weight. My doctor did say that it takes a few months for your body to get used to it though.

I HAD MIRENA FOR 8 MONTHS AND THAT WAS ENOUGH. IT ALMOST RUIN MY LIFE. I AM SO GLAD I HAD IT REMOVED. NOW I FEEL THAT I AM BACK TO NORMAL AND NOW I CAN ENJOY MY FAMILY THAT I WAS PUTTING THROUGH HELL.

how is everyone doing i hope great, i had mine mirena removed 5 months ago and i feel it was the best thing i could have done to save my life, and my marriage. things r back to normal and i feel GREAT

Just had my mirena taken out on Friday after arguing with my ob. My GP couldn't take it out, so I finally went to the ER. The triage nurse rolled her eyes at me and looked at me like I was crazy, but oh well. Have been bleeding really heavily since Sunday am, and have been feeling pretty sick and anxious, but I am just glad to have it out!!

I had Mirena put in 6 weeks after having my son in July 08. I loved it at first, didn't care for the non stop bleeding but at the moment I was happy just knowing I couldn't get pregnant. Probably 2 months ago I've been extremely depressed to the point where I just start crying and tell my husband that I wish I was dead. I have no patience with my son and my husband ends up doing most of the care taking with him. He says he feels like he doesn't know me anymore. I've been having extreme violent thoughts also. I've always been a bit of a moody person but always happy but now I don't want to talk to anyone or be around people. Just the last couple of days I've been having pains in my uterus that felt like I had something bulging in my fallopian tubes and i've felt bloated for a few months now. Actually after I had my son my stomach was smaller than it is now, I look 5 months pregnant. I just feel like crap. My husband and I had sex the other night and I had the worst cramps that I was about to have him bring me to the ER just to have Mirena removed immediately. I took a vikadin that I had and luckily got some sleep now today I still feel a slight dull pain in there. This was a HUGE mistake and an expensive one too. I'm getting mine taken out. I like how we are all just damn Guinea Pigs to these jackasses!!!!!!

Im 17 years old and started getting sick a lot after getting my period at the age of 13. after numerous tests, and 2 years later i was diagnosed with both hashimotoes and graves disease. the doctors put me on synthroid and for a week i felt great. then after that i no longer wanted to take it. i didn't like the way it made me feel. i've been on the medication now for 2 years and my hair is so thin. it keeps falling out, and its very noticeable. i get a lot of headaches and severe cramps. i'm almost always tired. i get my levels checked every two months like the doctor wants. they are regular. anyone else feel the same? my mom is considering switching doctors.

Oh my gosh. I am on this website because I googled "behavior issues with Singulair" Both of my children are on Singulair. One from as young as 5 months old. Both Pulmonologist, allergist and Internal med Ped. insisted that it was a safe drug. They aren't living with it. My 7 year old has taken it consistently for 5 years and recently upped is having behavior, aggression, insomnia and constant reports back from the teacher on his behavior. We had him psychologically evaluated and they found nothing uncommon to his age. All his issues are described in almost everyone of these side effect threads. I am just afraid to take him off and feel the blame if something serious happens. I am calling tomorrow for possible alternatives.

\ i had mirena 9 months and that was enough i know myself very good, so when i started changing i knew it was mirena. i almost ruin my marriage, with my bad moods. but what worry me later was that if YOU BREASTFEED IT WAS WOREST, THIS IS WHAT I FOUND ON BEWARE REPORT ON MIRENA. I WAS VERY UPSET CAUSE I BREAST FEED MY CHILD AND MY DR. DID NOT INFORM ME THIS!

could find that followed breastfeeding infants exposed to levonorgestrel (Norplant) was done in Norway and found that they had higher incidence rates of respiratory infections, skin conditions and eye infections than the control group, and later were found to have a higher proportion of “neurological conditions.”

To me it’s unthinkable to even consider exposing a nursing infant to any type of progestin. I would call this a form of corporate sociopathy—marketing without a conscience to unwitting, under-informed women who are just trying to responsibly avoid an unwanted pregnancy. Since the FDA is unlikely to take action against this practice it’s up to the rest of us to spread the word.
IF YOU BREASTFEED AND HAVE MIRENA READ THIS ABOVE

i had the mirena for 9 months and that enough i had cramps, dizzy, headaches, nausea, backaches and worst depression. i fought w/ my husband everyday, i hated life to the fullest, i was very sad and i would cry for no reason. i knew something was wrong and i realize it was mirena. i had it taken out today, i plan to patch things with my husband if its not to late. hope this helps anyone that plans to use mirena, DON'T USE IT, IT WILL RUIN UR LIFE.

I had my Mirena inserted about 8 months ago. I talked to my doctor about having it inserted and he consigned the idea. I have irregular, heavy periods lasting about 7 days with bad cramping. I was given a many pamphlets and testimonials from women who all said it was the most wonderful thing. I even read that it was painful getting it put in, but the end results were worth it. So I decided to have the Mirena inserted. The insertion was very painful, but nothing I couldn’t handle. Fifteen minutes after it was over, I was doubled over in pain. I had to call my finance to come and pick me up. Since I have had it in I have been having about 2 -3 periods a month lasting about 5 days. They are certainly lighter than before, but they are extremely painful now. I feel tired all the time, I feel like I want to throw up a lot. I am very moody and worst of all my stomach cramps so bad, sometimes I just cry because the pain is so bad it sends shooting pain down my leg. However, if I take it out I do not know what form of birth control I should use. I rather find that out first and be sure so I won’t be in this situation again.

Hey ya'll I just thought I would share too. I was having crippling pain and I work with infants so I can't take any pain relievers of any kind because it could impair my judgment and cause a serious problem so......When I started to feel like something was wrong down in my southern region in February first thought was pregnant but when my period rolled around in March I knew something was seriously wrong. I went to my Dr. to get the referal to see a specialist and after telling him the type and amount of pain I was in and the different pain killers I had tried and the combinations he put me on a pain patch they give to people who are dying of cancer to help them deal with the pain (No work for me). Went to the specialist had some sonograms that liked to have killed me because they wanted me to have a full bladder and my pain was so bad that if I ate anything or my bladder even started to fill up I would get so sick from the severe pain. So they did the sonograms I promptly wet myself (so embarrassing but unavoidable due to the pain I couldn't get up with the full bladder) Went back to the Specialist he said "Ok, from what I see here and the photo's you showed me from a procedure in 2006 we are going to need to do a hysterectomy and described to me the gruesome details of a woman that had endo and it was so bad it got to her brain and killed her. Well we set a date for surgery and OF COURSE THE INSURANCE COMPANY WANTS TO ARGUE. They say we wont approve the Surgery unless she takes 2 months of Lupron first. So I had no choice but to pay for these $700.00 torture I never thought I would pay so much to torture myself. The doctor explained that the first 2 weeks would be bad and then he said IT WILL GET BETTER. (HAHAHAHAHAHA AINT HE A DAMN COMIDIAN) I had symptoms 10 times worse the first 2 weeks I thought to myself oh my god what have I done!?!?!?!?! BUT after that the pain got better it really did, it got better. I didn't know about all the side effects of the drug just the hot flashes and no period thing and the mood swings. So when I was having headaches I just assumed it was screaming kids, but I still had the headaches on the weekends. When all the muscles in my legs started to get sore I thought I am doing more than I used to but after a month of soreness I began to wonder. During this time I was having trouble sleeping but I thought it was from another pill I was taking so I stopped taking it still no sleep or verry little. Then last night I got no sleep because I had muscle spasms. This morning I thought my potassium is low I have had that problem before but then I thought about the fact that I have been eating the required stuff to keep it up.So that was the last straw. I found this site that links all the problems I have been having to the Lupron. But the things I knew about the Hot Flashes like clock work come at the same time every night, and any time I get the slightest touch of heat from food,outside temp(I live in Texas) or activity I get so HOT and start sweating from everywhere even had one little kid tell his mom "Hey look that lady is peeing on herself" I was sweating so bad.The mood swings......in the time it took me to get into a room at my main Dr.'s office with 2 sick kid's(approx. 1 hour) I was fine, then I was so mad I was cussing, then I was crying in the floor of the Dr.'s office with my 2 kid's saying it's ok mommy,then I was laughing hysterically at which time the Dr. said to hurry up and get me out of there before my mood changed again.(He was trying to sound funny but I am sure he was serious.) AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST the only other thing it did for me that was helping was No period. Wow I can deal with the period or I could deal with the pain I was in but not both. So given No with no real choice in the matter(to be able to have any kind of surgery that would help I had to do the shots) I have tortured myself relentlessly to get to the end of all this. But the Icing on the cake is that about four days before I got the second shot I was starting to hurt again and now five days before I go back I am starting to feel the pain again. And all I can say is the insurance company better approve the surgery on Tuesday or there will be one more person wearing a Straight Jacket because after all this if I don't get permanent relief I will be nothing short of Bonkers.

MIGRAINES! I never had one before in my life before taking this crap.Stopped 3 months ago now hair loss,Help has anyone else had this happen does it grow back?

This website has been a blessing for me - a person who seemed to feel crazy for all the symptoms I was having. I had mirena put in place in March 2008 after the birth of my second child in December. I was so excited that I didn't have to worry about birth control - I could focus on taking care of my family and work, etc. I couldn't have been more wrong about it. All was fine at first until April of 08 (two months later). I started to notice a red, bumpy rash on the trunk of my body. It progressively got worse with each passing day. It began to look like hives on my legs (behind my knees) and then on the inside of my arms. It has gone all over my back and finally to my face last night. I looked at the mirena website and it said to call your doctor if you had a rash with hives. So I did and they assured me that mirena WAS NOT systemic and couldn't be the problem. They maintained that it was probably an outside source. Instead they offered an anti-depressant. I needed something to help with what I was going through, so I started on Lexapro. That has been the only positive thing that has kept me from falling apart. What's the use in calling them if they don't listen to you? I have finally decided to have the mirena taken out in two days. I am so ready to get back to feeling normal. I was wondering if there was anyone else out there with similar side effects with the rash. If someone would have told me that this was a possibility, I would never have signed up for this!!!!!!
I will post again once I have it out and give an update!!

I read your post about Nuvaring. I am only on my first ring. So far it seems okay and don't know if it is to blame for my hair that has been coming out non stop also. the hair loss started when I had the paraguard inserted into my cervix. I did some google research and a lot of women were complaining of the same thing. I immediately had it removed but the doc said it was non hormonal. I thought that perhaps my body just didn't agree with the copper that it is made from. she told me about the NuvaRing, so here I am trying it. the hair loss is still there and it has been going on for about 1 month now and I have lost a lot of it. I just gave birth to my second daughter 4 months ago, and don't know if my hair loss is postpardom or related to all these wacky methods of birth control. Has anyone else suffered hair loss from the NuvaRing or paraguard. Does anyone have recommendations on how I could improve my hair and stop it from falling out. when it is coming out the root tip is with every strand. I'm so scared over this...

I had my Mirena IUD removed on Monday, May 5, 2008. I had it inserted on November 10, 2005. I was having major side effects from the birth control, and every doc I went to said that there is no way that Mirena would cause the side effects I was having because the "progesterone amounts are too low to cause these side effects". I have had the following side effects:
WEIGHT GAIN
JOINT PAIN
LUMPS IN BREASTS
BREAST TENDERNESS
HUNGER (as if i were pregnant)
DEPRESSION
LOSS OF SEX DRIVE
HAIR LOSS
SWOLLEN ABDOMEN (BLOATED?)
HEADACHES
GROUCHY/ON EDGE
ACNE
CYST (had a couple weeks ago... i was on vacation in Vegas and had a cyst burst.. never had these issues... this was the last straw)
STABBING PAINS IN ABDOMEN AND IN AREA OF OVARIES
PMS SYMPTOMS EVERY OTHER WEEK FOR TWO YEARS
BREAST GROWTH D TO DD
VAGINAL BLEEDING AFTER INTERCOURSE
FATIGUE
TENDERNESS OF ABDOMEN
BACK PAIN
HIP PAIN

As of today, Friday, May 9, 2008 (4 days after Mirena has been removed) I have lost 9 pounds. I am sure this is probably water weight? I am feeling a little better every day. The night I got home from having it removed, I had major mood swings... would be happy one minute and crying my eyes out the next!!! I would not recommend this IUD to ANYONE.. not even on my worst enemy (if I had one). This needs to be taken off the market. It is not safe! I have spent thousands of dollars on ultrasounds on my breasts (thinking i could have cancer because the lumps i had in my breast) and on other doctors bills to figure out what was wrong with me.. only to find out that "Mirena is not the cause"!!!!

A grateful thank you to Adele and Oldcarpetcleaner-
I am so sorry that you having such problems- but it is reassuring to know that I am alone-
I am going to the U of Miami Liver Institute next week- and I will ask about CO-Q10; I have had a muscle biopsy-and I will make every effort not to have a liver biopsy-
I will try to find out what the time frame is for muscular pains- weakness-
even AFTER discontinuing Lipitor.
The bizarre thing -for me- is that the pain and weakness travel- not always in the same spot- but almost always reamin in my buttocks. The reason I ignored it for a couple of monthes as I was so actively doing squats aand weights- and thought it was the exercise. This drug seems to have had bad consequences for so many otherwise- previously healthy people.I will repost after I attend the liver Institute- -by the way- finding a true Liver Hepatologist- (NOT a gastroenterologist- they have liver and I have to travel to Miami . Good luck everybody.

I have been taking Lyrica for 2 monthes, and now I.am prescribed Ultram ER 200 mg one time per day. I have had 3 nights of complete insomnia. Of the last night, I was up vomiting and felt terrible. I am not sure if any one else has had this same interaction, but I would be curious to know. The Lyrica dosage is only for 150 mg per day, split in balanced intervals. I really cannot deal with the pain, but I cannot be experiencing insomnia and vomiting.Please help!

I received the Kenalog shot in January. I started feeling tired and muscle aches, which I thought was just a virus. Then a dent appeared on my arm 2 weeks ago, and my muscles surrounding the maroon color dent began to tighten. I now have tendinitis in my shoulder and arm and I have lost all strength. My doctor said it could be from the shot, but stopped seeing me. i am going for an MRI on Monday because of the damage and pain that is non stop, and they are trying to figure out what is wrong. I have had several blood test because they swore I must have Lupus, or Rheumatory arthritis which came back negative.
I am very frustrated. I am a server by trait, I am a mother of 5, and it seems like my life is changed. I can't work, no one can give me answers, and I would like to know if these symptoms will go away or if I am stuck with this arm atrophy forever.

During my first go at Loestrin 24 everything was fine other than the fact of me not getting a period for 5 months. That freaked me out so I quit taking them, Went back to the doctor and she reassured me that I was just one of the few lucky ones. So I got back on the pill and it has been about 2 months and having lots of issues this time. Now I am bleeding every time I have sexual intercourse with my husband. Not spotting a heavy flow for the entire next day. Also I have gained 5lbs in 2 months might I ad I lost 8 in the 2 months being off the pill..

I'm 20 years old and i was put on Loestrin 24 in may (almost 10 months now). with the exception of some breakthrough bleeding in the beginning i had not experienced any side effects. everything was working perfectly. lately i began noticing that i was getting very emotional about things but didn't know why. a week and a half ago i started my new pack and i have been anxious and depressed ever since. it has been really hard on my relationship with my boyfriend and i have not been excited about anything. its like i have had an emotional disconnect with everyone in my life who i loved. it finally occurred to me that it might be my pill and after reading everyones blogs I've realized that it is definitely possible.

I was wondering if any of you are experiencing tingling in your hands and feet, which increases during sleep. I have been on this medication for two months and have just started noticing this sensation.

I started taking Yasmin august 07-took it for 3 weeks, 2nd week I felt pressure on my chest, 3rd week there was this day I started feeling pressure on my chest and bad palpitations, I got a little worried and they told me I was having a panic attack, it took 20 minutes for me to calm down. I stopped taking Yasmin that day and have continued to feel sick since. Symptoms since Yasmin have been:severe nervousness, shivering, racing heart especially with activity, chest pressure, pain by me heart, huge decrease in appetite, panic, thoughts I will die, body aches, headaches, slight dizziness sometimes. I've been to ER twice I've also had 2 d-dimer tests positive but no blood clot in my chest or legs and been to doctor about 7 times-she just sent me to psychiatry even though she knows I say the pill caused it. I also have an appt with cardiology tomorrow- and I'm sure they will tell me its in my head as well-its been 5 months I wonder how long my sickness will last.

This Drug has wiped my life out!!!!! The doctor but me on it after my wife of 35 years.Been together science she was 13 years old died. About 8 months ago.I am very depressed and cry a lot. I am 53 now and these pills have taken what I had of a life away from me. I have no sex drive now I am very depressed almost to the point of no return I cough all day every day and it has messed with my vision things are blurrier sometimes. I feel like every thing is cloudier to me cant think straight any more. I never had ED until now. I didn't understand what was happening to me. But what I had left of a life was falling apart. Then I started to think when it all started. And it came back to when I started my blood pressure medicines. I did research and both my meds where hurting my life the other is (hydrochlorothiazide) they both suck and I will never take another one.I could rather die a happy man then one that has to live like i did on that drug!!!!!!!!!!