Newlywed symptoms and conditions

I have been taking a generic version of Wellbutrin SR 150mg for almost 2 months now. I also take Zoloft 50mg. Before I started the wellbutrin, I had been taking zoloft for over a year to help with depression. The zoloft was working very well for my depression, but it completely killed my libido and as a newlywed, I felt something had to be done as it was beginning to affect my relationship with my husband.
So my doctor prescribed the wellbutrin. For the first couple of weeks I experienced a lot of nervous energy, a shortness of breath, a bit of nausea, forgetfulness and confusion. I almost stopped taking it because I didn't feel it was helping my libido either. But I stuck with it and after 3 weeks, it felt like it was definitely having a positive effect on my sex life. My husband noticed it too. He mentioned how much more responsive I had become when we were intimate. After 2 months, I am absolutely convinced that it has changed our lives and our relationship.
It is not, by any means a miracle drug though. I have a few complaints about it, the main one being the CONFUSION that I experience for hours after I take it. I was taking it in the morning before I went to work and everyday I noticed that I was not as sharp and efficient as I usually am. I figured this was a temporary side effect so I kept taking it as usual, but it never went away! I kept forgetting everything, lost focus easily, had dull headaches, and generally felt as if I could not connect to what I was doing.
SO...about a week ago, I thought I would try to take it at night...when it's not as important to be sharp and focused (and more important to be turned on). And it has turned out great! I'm so glad I started to do it. It doesn't affect my sleep...in fact I think I sleep better. And when I wake up in the morning, my dull headache is gone and I feel less foggy. At work, I feel normal again. My short term memory has recovered and I don't get confused as easily.
If you suffer from a lot of memory loss and confusion from this medication, I definitely suggest taking it at night. It has really helped me! Thanks and good luck!

Hi Everyone. I am so glad I finally decided to look into symptoms I've been having with Nuvaring. I started one month before my wedding and have been on it for 6 months now. I have had NO Sex drive...which as a newlywed you can imagine is a strain on our relationship. The times I have tried it has hurt really bad and like others have said I have had to use lube for the first time in my life. I will be making an appointment very soon to change to a different form of bc. I need my sex life back and my husband does too!

I'm a 22 year old newlywed and Yaz has been a nightmare. I was on Diane when I was 16 for a year for cysts on my ovaries, and after my period became regular I stopped it... Cysts came back at 19, took Yasmin, and cleared up again, it also helped with my acne. I wanted to get back on the pill for birth control purposes before my wedding, so I started September 2008. The wedding was in December 08, and about a month later, the side effects started to show up. My eyesight (previously 20/20) had gone back 2 points. I was always very slim, but I immediately noticed my bloating, and by the third month, I had gained 15 pounds. I became a miserable mess, irrationally emotional and anxious. But the major side effect of this poison as I like to call it was something that affected my marriage. Before the pill it'd be very very easy for me to get aroused/wet/in the mood/. Now I am dry, no amount of foreplay will get me wet, and this has lead to bigger repercussions. Due to the dryness, there was of course a sharp pain with intercourse. After trying for so long, and growing more frustrated, I developed a condition called vaginismus, where the vaginal muscles involuntarily clench up and become tense right before intercourse. No amount of trying and coaxing and trying to relax will help, this has become another condition altogether that needs treatment and therapy. I was becoming more and more emotional due to the buildup of these side effects. and geting even more frustrated by my doctors telling me its the 'best pill around'. I decided to stop the pill on my own cold turkey. I was on Yaz from Sept 08 till July 09 and I'm slowly getting my old self back. Its a process that takes time, but this was the best decision I've made. Nobody deserves this kind of distress over a stupid pill. As others mentioned, my period was a lot lighter but with a different and dark, sludgy consistency on the pill. I'm about to start my second natural period off of Yaz and I don't care that my periods are heavier and more natural now, with PMS discomfort. I'd rather live with that than unnatural hormones that almost ruined my life.

DON'T TAKE THIS PILL!!!!

I just started with my first ring yesterday afternoon at 2pm. By 7pm, I was complaining to my husband that I must've had too much caffeine that day because my heart was palpitating out of my throat and I had a weird headache setting in.

So far today, the heart palps and jitters were getting so bad I had no choice but to take the NUVARING out. I'm going to call my doctor on my lunch break from work, but this is NOT what I was hoping for when I switched from the pill. I'm a 27 year old newlywed and all I want is a birth control option that doesn't KILL my sex drive. I'd rather have a low sex drive and feel physically NORMAL than to deal with the heart palpitations. They didn't start until I put the ring in yesterday. I'm hoping in a few hours they hormones will get out of my system and I'll start feeling back to normal.

Hi Ladies,
Same here. A week and 3 days post-removal. I feel a little better except for my period coming back. It started on Monday and stopped on Thursday. It was ok. nothing major. Then started up with full force again on Saturday night to Sunday morning. It is very clotty and very painful.It has taken a toll on my body. I was in bed all day Sunday. I don't feel like I have been run over by a train as before with the Mirena in place, BUT I feel the PMS raging. I have felt lightheaded and weak from so much clotting, but knowing that this too shall pass is such a great feeling! I see the light at the end of the tunnel, but my only worry is that my body will take a while to get back to normal. I have read other threads on other sites that say after 2-3 months, it all gets back to normal. maybe it depends on how long it was inside? I just wish it would disappear altogether. That IUD is awful! I still cant believe I suffered so much without putting it all together. They make you believe wholeheartedly that it is not the Mirena causing symptoms. Then how else could a normal, healthy woman begin to deteriorate so much?
I was again surprised to see one or two comments about how they feel like an 80 year old woman. That was my favorite line before I found this website. It was quite shocking. It felt like I was listening to myself speak! No joke. I would be asked how I was feeling today and I would respond with sincerity that I was feeling like I was 85 years old.
What bothers me the most is that I was a newlywed throughout this whole time. My marriage suffered and I thought it was me and that I had a bad attitude. I thought that I was just so tired and nobody understood me. Don't ask me how but my husband had a feeling it was the Mirena the whole time. I could not believe it! I am sure many of you feel cheated out of a year, two years or more of a good life and a good marriage because of this. It is frustrating to look back and see how it all played out. To think that now I am "recuperating" and getting "back to normal". We should not have been going through that in the first place and we should not be recuperating from anything. Our bodies can get back to normal, but it's that emotional roller coaster that stays with you. To me, it's lost time that as a newlywed forming a new family, I could have enjoyed with my husband and daughter being my loving self and not a mean, raving hormonal lunatic like I was. Yes, I still feel really bad about it all. Mirena is a nightmare. I am blessed to have a wonderful sweet and beautiful 4 year old and such a patient, loving husband. They both kept after me, loving me, even if I was turning into Oscar the Grouch.
Don't give up, ladies. Hang in there!

I am really surprised to see so many women posting the exact same symptoms I have. I had the Mirena inserted August 15, 2006. I have been married since September 15, 2006. It was all good at first. Had the regular symptoms of the Mirena with the bleeding and pain and so on. Great birth control, besides the two scares I had. Then about a year ago, it all started to change. major mood swings, irritability, severe joint pains, severe fatigue, insomnia, weight loss (I am 30 now; was anorexic from age 21-23; anxiety will jump start the anorexia; another battle!), and many more symptoms. the worst by far has been the fatigue and joint pain and severe lack of sex drive. I still consider myself a newlywed. I love my husband but I never thought I would get to the point of not wanting him to touch me in any way. I researched, like some of you, and did my homework. It was all gravy at first! I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and starting to think it may be the Mirena instead. I can't take the drugs cuz they knock you out. The symptoms sound too familiar on this site. It's like listening to my life story right now! I have a beautiful 4 year old and not sure if I want another one. My husband is to the point of getting a vasectomy so I wont have to worry about birth control any longer but my 4 year old wants a sibling. Economy is nuts. Having another one would hurt us. I just can't do the permanent thing yet cuz I don't want to regret it.
I only want to be back to normal. My husband has been begging me to take the Mirena out. For those of you who are Hispanic, he calls it La Morona (the Moron). I have battled depression and bad anxiety attacks. It is unbelievable!
If anyone out there is planning on putting one in, THINK about it first. Do extra homework. Don't just take one person's word for it. Look at both good comments and bad comments. It was all good at first for me but things can change. You have to be ready to make a choice quickly once things change before letting it go so long like many of us have done. It has cost us our sanity at times, our health, happiness, husbands and much more. Listen to your instincts. They are usually right.
At my husband's pleas and for my daughter's emotional well-being (she has suffered too), I am making an appointment to take it out. if I do get pregnant, I will take that as a sign that it was meant to be.
I refuse to let my marriage and my daughter suffer for a piece of plastic in my uterus.
I wish you all luck!

I have being taking thyroid medicine since 1994. I was diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism and prescribed Synthroid. It didn't work. Instruct to take radioactive pill. Now, diagnoses change to Hypothyroidism. Prescribe Levoxyl. Endocrinologist said I would lose weight, but instead I have gone from a size 8 to 16. I feel really bad when I miss my doses. Really anxious when I take it every day. I am noticing that I have moles growing out and spreading all over my body. Switch back to Synthroid three months ago. That when start experiencing a great deal of hair loss. Decide to switch back to Levoxyl but a lower dose. The hair loss has slowed down a little. But, hair is growing slowly. I am having problems focusing and some memory loss. I really don't know what to do. I have change endocrinologist twice. I really think that Levoxyl and Synthroid have bad side effects on human after long term usage. I am miserable because I can't control my weight. I know that it has something to do with this medicine. If anyone know of some other medicine that would Hypothyroidism in check without all of the side effects that I mention. Please share it with me.

Just resently I have noticed that I am picking up pregnacy symptomes. I feel light headed, nausea, and dizziness. My breast have began leaking when I cleaning them, and they are very sore all the time. I did notice last week, I was crying uncontrollably for a long period of time for no reason at all. My body always seems bloated, and I feel like I'm gaining weight. I can say that because I have exercised and at healthier than I ever have. Oh my gosh, the night sweats are out of control not to mention gross. I have not had headaches, but have been feeling like I'm coming down with something. I also have not been able to get "in the mood". Which I am a newlywed, and that is just not working for me or my husband. Also, the discharge is almsot like it just gushes out. I think after this month I'm going to take it out. I want to feel like my normal self again.

I'm a female I think of sex but can never climax anymore no matter what my husband and I do, before it was all we could do to stop.

Its been almost a year since I started taking Yasmin, at first it was ok and then about 4 months later I started developing these bizzare symptoms. I never thought that birthcontrol could provoke such side effects. I quit taking it a week ago and I already feel better. Being a newlywed we're not ready for children but, I'm apprehensive about getting on another birthcontrol because of my experience with Yasmin. These some of the side effects that I didn't know could be due to Yasmin:

Nightmares-almost everynight and disturbing
Incredible Fatigue-sleeping 7 hours is just not enough
Gas/Bloating-i felt like my chest was going to explode
Anxiety-my mind could never shut off
Unsociable-I used to go out every weekend, now I stay home
Depression
Loss of sex drive
Dizziness
Cramping
Decreased Hearing-i'm so tires of saying "what?"

I was really surprised to see so many women going through the same thing all because of Yasmin.

I just stopped taking Yasmin because I became depressed and my sex drive dropped significantly. I had no interest to make love to my husband and being a newlywed, it scared me to death. Its been a few days and now I'm starting to feel normal again. We're not ready for children at this time so, I'm unsure what to do about going back on a pill. I'm afraid the same thing happen to me even if I switch to something different. I've tried the Patch, and it gave me the worst mood swings possible and I gained 12 pounds the first month I took it. The ring worked best for as far as little to no side effects but, my husband was turned off by the increased discharge. Other than that I would have stayed with the ring.

I have been on Toprol XL 25mg daily since last May. I am now 46 years old and other than this stress-induced high blood pressure, have always been healthy and within normal weight range.

Since then I've had the following side effects:

* NO SEX DRIVE (I'm a newlywed, so this really sucks),
* gained like 15 pounds, cannot lose weight for anything, and I've always been able to lose weight with diet and exercise.
* feeling sleepy a lot,
* more depression than usual,
* and just an all-around-less-energy-feeling.

I found a new doctor and he told me to ween myself off of the Toprol XL, but within two days of going to 12.5mg, I started feeling really, really sick, I can't even describe it, like losing my mind, and my body just felt so strange. Well, at this point I freaked out and went back to 25mg a day. I need to get off of this pill so I can get my sex drive back and also lose the weight I've gained. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with the withdrawal symptoms?

Thanks.

Hi everyone. I have been taking Yasmin for 2 1/2 years and have been fine. But...recently, I am having horrible hot flashes. I'm 27-years-old and a newlywed. I have a history of endometriosis. Has anyone experienced hot flashes?

Post your symptoms since stopping Yasmin!!!

Hey everyone it's Kay21 here and I just wanted to post my 3 month off Yasmin update. Because stopping the pill is a hard decision, I figured we should all post are updates here to help/support those who are planning to stop or who have recently stopped Yasmin.

I have been off of Yasmin since April 17. As some of you already know, I was experiencing horrible side effects while on Yasmin for 3 years (particularly stomach problems, vaginal dryness, muscle cramps, increased blood pressure and heart rate and anxiety).

The first 1 month off of Yasmin was okay. In fact, I felt the best I had ever felt in a while. My blood pressure and heart rate decreased and the migraines and muscle cramps went away. But when I hit the 2 month (8 week) mark, I felt HORRIBLE. I was severely depressed and anxious. I was crying all the time and felt a severe sense of DOOM! The physical symptoms also started to become problematic. The acne increased and I started growing more facial hair. The worse symptom, however, was that I started losing a ton of hair. I would lose stray hairs all day (probably about 200 a day). Since I have hit the three month mark, the hair loss has gotten MUCH WORSE! Now I am losing CLUMPS of hair all day. I have seen several doctors about this. Some say it's because of stress and a few (a derm, GYN and endo) say that hiar loss is common after stopping bcp. I have already loss about 1/3 of my hair.

I am also really concerned, because I have not had a period since April 22. So my doctor has put me on provera for 10 days to induce a period.

For those who have stopped Yasmin, what have your symptoms been (i.e. increased acne, weight gain, anxiety, etc.). Has anyone experienced hair loss? How long did it take to get a period???

Thanks...

I've been on Yasmin for 4 months.

I had been on Ortho Tri Cyclen for about 3 months, to give my body some time to get used to it before I got married, and about a week after wedding I had to go to the ER because I was bleeding non-stop, and passing clots of blood the size of a dollar coin. This had been happening for over a week! The ER couldn't find anything, so they called it "Abnormal Uterine Bleeding," and sent me to the Gyn. *Immediately* after quitting Ortho Tri, I had no more clots passed.

My Gyn got me started on Yasmin, and during the same visit, located a fibroid tumor on my cervix. We completely believe this was caused by Ortho Tri, because of the estrogen. My mother had them, as well, and they grew because of the estrogen. Mine is in the way of my birth canal, so when I have children, I may have to either have it removed or have a C-section, if it continues to grow.

I thought I was fine on Yasmin...my periods have been normal...until my last one, which was a week early and lasted for 2 whole weeks.

I've also noticed a lump in my right breast several weeks ago. It feels like a lymph node, it moves a bit, but it is also tender and sore. I have gone up a size or 2 in bra cup size, as well. This lump has me worried, but not as worried as I have been, now that I found this site. I am going to the doctor soon.

I've had major problems with Urinary Tract Infections, too, but that could be because I'm a newlywed, and was a virgin until my wedding night. Still, I clean up, and I wash like crazy, and I still get them. I take cranberry pills, and drink water...they still come.

The WORST is my MOOD SWINGS! I have been psycho woman lately! I truly cannot control my mood swings - it's as if I am a different person!!! I hate myself when I am in the midst of them, and I cannot stop! This is so not me! I argue about the smallest thing, I scream and get viscious. This is NOT me!

I'm going to find out about the Patch, and if that doesn't work, then nothing. My life, my happiness, my husband's happiness, is NOT worth the pain that these pills put me through.

Has anyone else had the breast lumps???