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I am almost in tears finally knowing that I am not alone. I had the Mirena inserted in December 07. Over the past 16 months since then I have only had about 60-90 days (very few of them consecutive) bleeding/spotting free. I am cramping constantly at various intensity. At times, I wondered if I was somehow pregnant and having contractions because of the type of tightening I felt. I have been an emotional wreck as I see-sawed within minutes between congeniality and disgust. My sometime-y migraines happened all too frequently. My acne has increased exponentially. I gained 30 lbs! After each child I successfully managed to lose the weight yet maintain a modest, healthy few pounds extra as I embraced my motherly curves. Almost 4 years after my last child, I gained all of this weight during my Mirena saga. I have been living a nightmare!

I am 34 w/ 3 children (14,6,5). I thought this would be one less hassle for my already life. I have never felt so out of control of my health and well being as I have the past 16 months. I saw may doctor 4 times over the past year wondering what I should do. I took birth control pills for 3 months to control the spotting. I took estrogen for 2 weeks. He knew how much I wanted it to work and told me to wait it out if I could. I feel so betrayed. I kept asking him if this was normal. He told me that it would get better.

I can't lose a pound (30 occurring during the 15 hell-ish Mirena months). I am fatigued to the point of uselessness to my family. I am depressed and inexplicably anxious.

Thank you for sharing and letting me know I'm not crazy. I thought it was all in my head because I couldn't find any validation for my feelings. I have sneered and balked at the amount of trust and worthiness all too often placed on message boards, blogs, and websites. While I am still cynical, this site has renewed my faith and spirit in that each of your testimonies has resolved my indecision to have this shackle removed from my body.

I am overcome with so much emotion right now (possible Mirena related) that I am now speechless.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I have read a lot of these blogs and I am seeing that many other people have the same side effects. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism when I was in 6th or 7th grade I think and I am now a high school senior so about 5 years taking Synthroid. the doctors said that my antibodies had completely destroyed my thyroid gland so I wasn't getting any of the hormones I needed which became very noticeable when I started gaining weight and loosing energy in 5th grade. I haven't really seen any weight gain in a while but I still look like I am overweight. I am 5'6 and 130 lbs so I am about average. Side effects that are also occurring are rapid mood changes, one minute I am happy and something sad happens or I think about something and ill be tearing up. I feel depressed a lot. I am currently on 150 mcg. also during 9th and 10th grade I was put on this drug to stop my puberty so that I could grow more while on the Synthroid I guess it helped a little with height but I still look like a freshman. I don't know if I should stop taking it or keep taking it because I stopped for about a month once and started getting really sick, I would get really bad nose bleeds at random, had constant migraines and felt sick to my stomach. I started taking the Synthroid again and felt fine. I really don't know what to do.

I've had my Mirena for almost 8 weeks. Has anyone else experienced diahrea or loss bowel movements? I've had blood tests done for digestive disorders and everything came back normal. Just curious if this is occurring in others and if it could be occurring due to the iud.

I'm glad to have found this website posting as tonight I decided it's time to do further research on Singulair and check the issues I'm experiencing. I've decided tonight that I'm going off so I can do some testing and rule out whether they are causing the following side effects for me:

I've been on Singulair for almost 6 months. When I first started, I had a heck of a time getting through the drowsiness but it got easier each day and gradually after a month, I stopped being so "spacey". I started Singulair primarily to address my asthma issues and the tightness in my chest and as an added bonus, it helps my allergies so I went off the Claritin as well. Singulair has done wonders for my asthma and I have rarely had to use my inhaler or have asthma attacks. (I should note, I wanted to eliminate steroids in my life since it causes acne etc. etc.)

Meanwhile, I've noticed changes in myself. I'm more lazy, take naps on the weekends, less hyper (which is a good thing on my stressful job) but I've lost my "edge" where I should be quick on my feet and responses. Recently, I've noticed that I'm slurring my words and having speech problems. I have got lost a couple times in my train of thoughs. I also seem to experience being dyslexia - I frequently type letters and numbers jumbo'd around. Very unlike me!

I also have severe dry mouth almost like an infection. I tend to get itchy around my neck and arms for no reason - almost like a mild form of nerves twitching simulation. I've got more sinus infections but that could also be due to not using Claritin and perhaps, I need to be on it at the same time.

I've cut back to 5mg (I cut my pills in half) for a few months and felt less tired but my speech and other side effects are still present. Heck, it could be a sign of aging or other things occuring but I need to start somewhere. I am sad that it could be Singulair because it's the best drug for my asthma but I have concerns about the other impacts it might have on my health and well being. I'll post updates in a few weeks.

Feel free to email me to talk about anything offline - I'm eager to hear from others!

-S

Felt a great responsibility to share my daughter's hellish experience while on this drug. My daughter is 33 years old. While taking Chantix she would at first laugh to herself frequently, went to anger and resentment to bizarre behavior and paranoia. She felt threatened that cameras where watching her in our home, phones were "bugged", heard demonic voices, lost her appetite, felt her life was threatened by an ex-boyfriend or the government. She became depressed and wanted to just die. She began to work part- days and went to missing days of work for she lived in complete fear. She also had panic attacks. After going off the drug for five days she virtually came back to us and is back to her pleasant and yes- smoking unconstipated self.

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I am soooooo happy to have found this post!!! I have been on Yasmin for approximately six months for very irregular or non-existent periods. About four months ago I began having dizzy spells where I could not walk or move my head without vommitting. I have now had one each month, this last one occuring for three days. I have also experience nausea, stomach aches, vommitting, etc... intermitent from the other symtoms. Long long story short I was referred to an ENT specialist and was diagnosed with Meniere's Disease (Inner Ear.) I didn't buy it so I began searching for side effects of Yasmin - I am stopping it today! I have my fingers crossed this is the problem>

Acute onset of double vision , inability to judge distances, inability to maintain lane while driving on highway; speech aphasia occurence immediately after vision decrement. Resulted in near accident on highway.

Had been on medication for 4 years without a similar event occuring.

Titrated off medication.

I began taking singulair on Monday, March 26th for a severe allergy/sinus condition with a chronic chough. My family Dr. prescribed a combination of Singular, Claritin and Flonase to combat my allergies or at least to make them less harsh.

Prior to beginning the regiment, I was given a Z-pac to clear up sinus infection. This was one week earlier.

I took the singular at night as instructed by my doctor. I took the Claritin and Flonase in the morning.

I was hoping that the Singular would be the one drug to help stop the annoying cough. On day 6 of the Singular I noticed my cough becomming deeper in my chest. My doctor told me that it takes about 10 days for Singular start working. By day 7 it was difficult to get a good breath between coughing episodes. I am making an appointment with my doctor to see if i should continue on this med. I also experienced some dizzyness. I will probably stop taking this due to this horrible deep cough and thickening of the mucas that is occuring.

Geeezz, i dident realize such a WEak drug could do such thing, somone email me back if they agree, i have been taking doxycyline for a while now and they only side offects i have had is mild skin iching , here and there, and thats from the Generic brands, get the DOXYCYLINE brand (Time release capsules), all good, this drug is not a head drug... nausia vomiting as if , i have taken nearly every illegal drug and lots of legal drugs and im telling all you people doxycyline is not a drug that will do all those horible things that your saying, wake up

tendons in wrist and down outside of femars inside groin area sore , wrist swelled above thumb twice size painful. started occuring 2 days before end of 10 day regime of levaquin 750 mg. 2 x per day.

Severe insomnia and nausea. Already have arthritis and muscle/joint painso don't know if this is occuring due to Levoquin.

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The swelling of the breast is due to adding an un-natural hormone to your body. It is an increase to the existing progesterone and estrogen naturally occuring in your body. We all have progesterone and estrogen receptors in our breasts-that is often why many women's breasts grow when taking hormones. Its not really a healthy thing although many women think its great, I think its actually what's causing breast cancer as there are so many women and the #'s growing. My own personal experience is that it doesn't go away until you go off of all hormones.

On the gaining weight, it sounds like you are one of the unusual women to gain/rather than lose weight on Yasmin. Watch that, discuss with your OBGYN and pay special attention to every other symptom that may develop.

Yasmin is really not a good birth control pill. There are so many women on this site and the new one in the UK who have suffered horribly with serious symptoms. so my recommendation would be to get off it and practice natural protection/non-hormonal methods.

I also used the nuva ring for more than a year but until about 2 months ago I also started getting a burning sensation. I thought it was a UTI but it was occuring everytime I was on the ring. I took the nuva ring out and within an hour I felt fine. Thats when I knew I had to get off it because it can also cause infections. The doctor switched me over to the patch.

My doctor put me on Lisinopril in March 06'. Within a week I developed a dry hacking violent cough that persists to this day. I complained about the cough and was assured that this was a very uncommon side effect. The violent coughing has also led to bouts of uncontroled vommitting with severe watering of the eyes sometimes occuring during work hours. Going to sleep is the worst. I always feel like phlegm is stuck at the back of my throat. Within 5 minutes of laying down the post nasal drip occurs usually resulting in a controlled vomit to clear out the plug of phlegm that is preventing me from sleeping. I have to sleep on my side at night. Sleeping on back always results in coughing that always wakes me. This is probably why I am always tired at work after getting 7-8 hours of sleep. Thanks to all of you for your postings, Today is my last day on this garbage medicine.

I am tearful as I am reading the other women's experience with Yasmin. I took Yasmin for 3 months because of very difficult periods (severe cramping and back pain). During this time I became increasing numb, void of emotions, and experienced severe panic about knives and sharp objects, lost six pounds and no sex drive at all. I stopped the medication and I am starting to feel better. I though I was going crazy and I was afraid to be around my son or to be alone. Now, I know that it was attributed to this medication and biochemical changes occuring. I am so glad to be medication free...this medication is really scary! I am so glad to know that I am okay and my mind is getting back to normal. I would rather have a few days of PMS every month over the craziness of Yasmin.

I was previously on Trivora which has a high estrogen level. Unfortunately, it gave me headaches every night at the time it was to take my pill (give or take 30 minutes). So my gynecologist insisted on going to the bottom of the scale seeing that the estrogen was what was giving the problem. I was then perscribed Aviane 28. This pill has given me more problems than I could have ever imagined.

The list is as follows: weight gain (20 lbs.), mood swings, swelled/tender breasts around 8-9 days before period, alternation between increased and decreased appetite, spotting/breakthrough bleeding. Basically the pregnancy symptoms. It's actually very frustrating because the purpose of the pill is to REGULATE hormones and to prevent pregnancy.

I've been on this pill for about 7 months now and have just (in the past 2 months) noticed spotting. As furiating as it is, my periods became so light, it seemed like they were alomst not existing. This persists and becomes worse every month.

Throughout the past months, I have encountered no sexual intercourse which is why I found the symptoms quite odd. I researched many different side effects but none stated the amount of spotting that was occuring. Again, this month, I have had spotting.. beginning in a dark brown and now, a bright red thin texture(sometimes clotts). There are times that I'm thinking of it stopping but other times that I go back to the bathroom and only notice it when wiping. I'm not sure if I'm the only one experiencing this, but it would be nice to see that someone else has related problems.

I was treated for a case of accute sinus infection in february of 2006 with Levaquin (750 mg for 10 days). About a week after the treatment (infection didn't go away...was put on a month of sulfameth which slowly worked), i woke up one morning with moderate back pain in lower left back. About 2 weeks later, my legs started tingling all the way up and down, including gluts and scrotum. A few days later, I started to experience random twitching of muscles in my legs. The twitching was constant and random throughout my legs, but also in some other muscles in my back, arms, and neck. After about a month, the twitching and tingling started to subside a bit. As the twitching subsided, i noticed a strange sensation in my left big toe. The sensation was a sort of weak feeling (as in the feeling of trying to make a fist when you first wake up). The sensation would come and go, but never went away totally. About a month ago, i noticed that the same sensation was occuring in my left thumb and two adjacent fingers. I still feel the effects today. I have had blood work and x-rays, with all coming out negative. I know my doctor thinks there is nothing wrong with me, but after doing some research, I'm pretty sure all this is due to the Levaquin. I am a 27 year old male, very healthy, excersise regularly. Has anyone else experienced this type of effect?

Abdominal pains occuring often, a loss in appitite, occasional headache and sleepiness,

My four year old son was on omnicef for the very first time. He had a re-occuring ear infection that would not go away with the normal treatment, which was augmentin. The morning of his last dose, he awoke several hours prior to his norm, screaming, crying, and could not get comfortable at all. I awoke to get him a quick drink of water, and he followed me. At that time I had noticed blotches all over his face, neck, hair line, torso, legs, arms, yeah, everywhere. Being that I work in the early childhood field and have a 7 year old as well, I had thought it was just the begining of the ever so popular chicken pox. I gave him a bath in the oatmeal mix and noticed after that the blotches did not come to a head but had now gotten what seemed to be even worse. I called the doctor, at this point extremely concerned, he had never had an allergic reaction to anything before, and he was nearly done with the meds, why now was he having a reaction? I took him in and upon the doctor arriving into the room she peeked inside and yelled to the nurse to get 2 1/2 teaspoons of orapred immediatley, he was displaying an extremely severe allergic reaction to the omnicef. Apparently it takes days to be in thier systems in order to then have the reaction. That was yesterday morning. He is now doing fine, but on benadryl and orapred for several days, I just hope all the hives go completely away. So, what I could say is you never know how your child will react to a new medication, you need to be aware when your child is taking something new all the possible side effects, becuase unfortunatley it can happen to anyone or any child.

I started using the ring about a week ago. Everything was fine til I started getting sick. Shortly after I contracted a bladder infection. I thought it was just another bladder infection cuz I've gotten them before. About 3 days in using the ring I woke up with a mouth full of blood. The blood was seeping out of my gums from my teeth, and the bladder infection was only getting worse. I began running a fever, had a sore throat and felt extremely weak. I couldn't take it anymore, I felt these symptoms were occuring from the ring. I finally pulled it out seeing a large amount of gunk attached to the ring. The next day my mouth had ceased bleeding and I as a whole felt much better. I still am battling the bladder infection, but once the doctor's office is open I can get some antibiotics to fix that. BOO to the NUVARING

Have been on lisinopril for 3 years. Anyone heard of psoriasis-type symptoms occuring as a result of being on lisinopril? Have had the symptoms since the same time I started the lisinopril.

My 5 year old daughter started on Singulair this past fall; she has what seems to be seasonal and/or dust mite allergies & gets a post nasal drip that makes her cough all nite long. We were thrilled w/how well it got rid of her symptoms but I am concerned and will be calling her doctor. First of all, is she going to have to take this every day for.........how long? Won't her body build up a tolerance?

AND she's had some changes that when occuring just once, or isolated from each other, I would never think to blame the meds BUT - she has had repeated complaints of aching legs & feet, (I thought growing pains), almost nightly waking w/bad dreams, and itching all over her body. PLUS since she started kindergarden (when she started on Singulair) she's having all kinds of problems at school ie: not listening, not focusing & finishing her work; after a whole year of pre-K that went like a breeze & the tecaher loved her!

Chronic sinus infctions. They started out occuring every so often, nothing to be alarmed about yet right before I stopped taking singulair I was in at the doctors at least every 4 weeks for sinus infections. I was on antibiotics for almost one month before I stopped taking it and it was a factor in my coming down with bronchitis. I have stopped taking the drug when I realized it was making me sick. It's been 8th months and I have been to the doctors for a regualr check up and one infection. It feels great to have figured out why I was so sick. I had undergone CAT scans and saw an ENT and I was about to undergo more tests and see another specialists. I have researched online about possible side effects and infamed sinuses and respiratory infections are listed as side effects. The ironic part was I was taking singulair to prevent the sinus infections which my doctor and I thought were caused by my severe allergies when in reality it was actually making me sick. I cannot describe how much I loath this drug and feel that Merck does not do a proper and good job in making all the possible side effects know. My life health wise was...I don't know how to describe it- I was constantly sick and missing school and work and feeling terrible- I guess the word would be terrible. I strongly reccomend a person who is new to taking this drug to research it and know all of the nasty side effects.

I am 61 years old and have always exercise and watched my weight. exercise and diet was not enough and the doctor put me on 10mg of Zocor for the last 5 years.
For the passed 3 years I have experienced severe pain, mostly on my knees and ankles that prevents me from walking, at times the pain is so bad that my wife had to take me to the emergency room. This year the pain is occuring more often, almost every week. I had several blood test and MRI's and the doctors can not find the reason for the pain. My cardiologist tells me that the pain is not related to Zocor because it should had happen at the begginig of using the medication. I know that I need to lower my cholesterol and tryglicerides, but after reading this page, I will be affraid to take this medicine.
Does anyone know any other method to lower Cholesterol and tryglicerides??????.

I have been taking 5mg singulair for about 10 days now. On the 6th day, I noticed that my left calf will feel a heat sensation. This has been occuring about 10 times per day since the first time I felt it. Has anyone else felt this?
I don't know if the singulair is the cause, but I had never noticed it before I starting taking this.