On the verge symptoms and conditions

I’m a 47 Year old male Diabetic. I was prescribed Lisinopril about a month ago by my doctor, as a protection against kidney damage. I have a some experience with drugs, as I have a degree in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry. I must stress that I knew nothing about the side effects of this drug before taking it,( I didn’t even read the instructions – that will teach me!) so for those who suggest that the problems are ‘imagined’ from reading the literature, in my case its just not true. I was given a 10mg daily dose, within the first day I started coughing, and suffering flu-like symptoms. As I had been given a flu-shot at the same time I just put this down to the injection. For the next few days I was feeling nauseous , achy and the cough was getting worse. I was finding it difficult to sleep, and found myself falling asleep all the time. After 4 or five days I started to have breathing problems, I was short of breath all the time, I found it difficult to climb stairs, and was waking in the night gasping for breath. I was also starting to find it difficult to concentrate. After about two weeks I returned to my GP, and advised him of the symptoms. He checked my chest, but could find no problem. He thought it was probably due to the flu jab, and would clear up in a few days. However I was starting to feel much worse. I was becoming distressed and irrational, my body was constantly aching, the cough was getting worse, I had no energy, and was becoming seriously depressed. I was suffering from blurred vision and stomach cramps, and eventually was escorted from work by my boss, as I was on the verge of a breakdown. All this time I was blaming it on the flu-shot, as Lisinopril is so commonly prescribed I couldn’t imagine that this was the cause. By chance a friend mentioned that he had had problems when he started taking it, So then I checked out the leaflet and the internet. There it was, all my symptoms – I was not going mad! I returned to My GP last week, A locum was standing in, who recognised the symptoms and told me to stop taking it. She commented ‘Your not the first I’ve seen with these problems’. I’ve been off for 3 days now and I feel a million times better.

I had my Mirena inserted at the beginning of June 2007, before working in several different foreign countries with my boyfriend. Originally I thought that the product was great. Then I started bleeding and didn't stop for nearly three weeks. If my boyfriend and i had sex then it would start the bleeding again, and so on and so on. Now four months later and the same thing happens, week or so long periods beginning on varying days (never know when it will strike!) We have lots of problems now and I am an emotional rollercoaster. I get angry, upset, cry, nervous, depressed....you name it. Now we are on the verge of separating because I am of course taking out ANY and ALL frustrations on him and I am sitting here wondering if it could be the Mirena that was responsible for such radical mood changes in me???? I am definitely not the girl he fell in love with. I can barely cope somedays. Additionally, I have recently been referred to a rheumatologist for joint/muscle pain that has gotten increasingly worse. Any advice???? Other than have it removed which is first stop when I return home from Argentina!

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.

Like many ladies here, I'm finding it a HUGE relief to come across this web site. Makes me feel sorry for all the people who haven't yet realized that physical and mental problems are being caused by Yaz. I was on the verge of tears at any given moment from my first cycle of Yaz. I was waking up at night and worrying about the most inane things, which I'd never done before I started this particular BCP. I'm really excited to get back to myself. Condoms are looking better than they ever did before; I'll miss the feeling of security from BCPs, but they're not worth this one bit.

I began taking 10mg per day of Crestor on 19th May this year. I received the documentation regarding side effects and read it. After two days I had tingling pains in my legs and I was checked for further cardiovascular problems, and cleared. I enquired if Crestor may be the problem but I was assured it was not.
I had a CT scan and then subsequently an MRI of my lower back looking for restricted blood flow but after seeing a neurosurgeon this was ruled out as the cause of the tingling. There was some degeneration of the back but not serious blood flow restriction. At about this time the Crestor dosage was increased to 20mg. At this stage I had back pain but it was not thought to be related. I enquired again if it might be Crestor but was assured it most unlikely.
Pain in my back increased dramatically one night shortly after and was so intense not only could I not sleep, I simply could not get myself to think of anything else despite intense mental energy to try to do so. I was on the verge of calling an ambulance, but walking around and applying heat seemed to relieve it slightly and I lasted until morning. Doctor thought it was a locked facet joint and sent me to a physio. She helped considerably and I assumed this was the problem. However, the next day it returned. Upper body strength was fine but from the middle down was just plain sore. The physio worked on my back again, and suggested I get a back brace which I did and I struggled on with that as a help.
The pain shifted from my back to the top of my hip and I went back to the doctor to check my hip. He assured me the pain was on the top of the hip, not the groin area and was unlikely to be my hip. I began taking over the counter pain killers for the pain which was hitting about 8 out of 10 spasmodically. The physio was mystified and suggested it may be kidney stones, and so I went back to the doctor to check that out. He had already taken a urine sample which had no blood at all. The pain shifted to the hip and upper right leg. By the time I was able to see him, the pain was quite severe and I was sure it was my hip. He was not sure, but prescribed Panadine Forte for the pain and sent me for an Xray of the hips.
I was very distressed about this, as it appeared I would not be able to continue working. The hip Xray showed perfectly normal hips but the pain was even worse, by this stage in the right thigh. In desparation I saw the doctor again and agreed to try and “tough it out for a few days” using pain killers, another round with the physio, and as much rest as possible. The physio was so convinced it was not muscular but rather a possible kidney stone she sent me back to the doctor. While waiting to get to see him I began looking at the side effects of Crestor on the internet and after checking with the doctor I stopped taking it on Aug 1st to see what happened. Within a day I began to improve but I still thought it might be kidney stones (possibly a big one blocking a tube completely and therefore no blood) and my doctor ordered a CT scan of the bladder area which confirmed that both kidneys were working just fine.
Slowly over a week and a half the pain is completely gone, the back is fine, the hips are fine, the groin is fine and I feel so much more like living. I am now absolutely certain it is Crestor that has caused the whole problem. The docotrs have now prescribed Lipitor in it’s place, and I have the tablets but as yet I have not begun taking them. I am a bit fearful of doing so, but I will begin in a few days time. However, if I get any repeat of the muscular problems I have had I will stop immediately.
I decided to document this as I realise this is important feedback concerning a relatively new drug. I don’t know how this is conveyed to a national data base, but it seems to me this is a serious side effect that has very nasty consequences. Was it that my kidneys were objecting violently to the drug? I don’t know. But it caused me great distress and this is surely a concern.

I have been taking OMEprazole for approximately 2.5 months and recently I feel dizzy to the point I want to get a doctor appointment to have an MRI or CT scan on my head - my fear is that I have a brain tumor. I feel dizzy as if I am going to pass out, occassional sharp pains in my head and I feel sick to my stomach. I also feel extremely tired and recently like the left side of my body is weak.

I am going to stop taking Omeprazole today to see if this is the side effect of the medicine. Anyone have similar experiences. If so, how soon do they stop after you stop taking the medicine? I was concinced I had a brain tumor - not so sure now.

PS I am a very healthy 50 year old who is a marathon runner. Lately I have sucked on my runs due to exhaustion.

I have been on Yasmin21 for 10 days. As soon as I started taking them I noticed that I was feeling different. Spotting came first and has not stopped for the 10 days I've been using them. A couple days ago I started noticing that my breats are severly tender to the point where just walking hurts them. I feel bloated and like I need to eat every couple of hours. Just yesterday I noticed my feet were looking kind of swollen and my leg has cramped up real bad which resulted in limping today. It also changed my mood from the usual happy to on the verge of tears. My sex drive is also gone and I was wondering if this happened to any other women. I decided to stop taking them until I can see a doctor in hope that he will prescribe me a different pill or another method of birth control. I will not be going back on this pill and I am still a little bit sketchy about going on any other birth control pill. All in all this pill made me feel terrible inside and out.

I was prescribed Levaquin for what appeared to be impetigo on my outer ear. The first dose gave me a monster headache and very weird almost-dreams (because I couldn't sleep). After the second dose, I had a horrible stabbing pain in the middle of my back, my wrists and upper arms began to ache, my vision was disturbed and I couldn't concentrate. Weirdest of all was a sudden compulsion to shave my head (which I thankfully snapped out of). I'm a textbook normal 45 year old woman, otherwise healthy, and professionally employed. It's been 30 hourse since my last dose, and the mental stuff has subsided, but my arms and hands are still very painful. This is a bad bad drug. I'd have to be on the verge of death to consider it again.

Resumed taking 81 mg of aspirin as recommended by the Dr after a minor MI three years ago. Just realized that the same symptoms I had with shortness of breath and weakness I had experienced then until I stopped at the time after a year on the aspirin because I was tired of the bruising and upper GI problems and vision disturbance, the aspirin is probably the culprit of my extreme shortness of breath also! I ran out of or forgot to load my weekly vitamin containers with the aspirin I started using just two days ago and have experienced much relief from the extreme breathlessness! I am going to conduct an experiment and go back on the aspirin in a couple of days to see if my hunch is right, I think this may be an answer to prayer for me as I was on the verge several times of calling my Dr the last few days it was so severe.

i'm glad i found this site.

i went on nuvaring on sunday of this past weekend. i started feeling a bit not like myself on tuesday. by wednesday i had extreme sensitivity to smells, very decreased interest in sex, and severe irritability. i also was becoming constipated, and my abdomen felt strange, somewhat crampy.

has anyone experienced significant side effects this quickly? i know i'm not imagining these things, and i tend to be very sensitive to medications of all kinds, so it makes sense.

my doctor said that it can take about three months for your body to adjust to the ring, so i had been planning to give it a chance for as long as i could. by thursday night --after being annoyed by feeling it inside me all day too-- i felt so emotionally unstable, tired and out of control that i yanked that stupid thing out.

i'm still very emotional, sad and tired - in fact, i think it could be classified as depression. i've dealt with depression in the past and worked too hard for emotional stability to deal with that as a side effect. i'm hoping the depression subsides soon - it's now saturday and my boyfriend and i are on the verge of breaking up because i suddenly started feeling so awful and confused this week.

i was on an ortho tri pill in the late 80s (when the doses were pretty high). i was young so i don't think i realized how it was affecting me - i gained a lot of weight and was pretty numb emotionally. i went off by mistake one summer and started feeling much better. i didn't think i'd ever try hormonal b. control again because of that bad experience, but i heard that the lower doses have milder side effects. well, not for me apparently - this has been just horrible! i hope i feel more stable and rational soon.

I am 21 years old and have two children, I have been dealing with endo for about 3 years now, I have tried it all, I have used every type of birth controle there is out there, I have had 3 laprascopic surgeryies to try and remove it, I have tried hormone pills, a lupron nasal spray, and now the lupron shot, this is my last resort short of a hystorectomy.....the endo pain is truely unbearabel for me....but since getting the lupron shot I have had hot flashes, mood swings, bone and joint pain, migrains, night sweats, memory loss and a rash....I hardly can work because of the side effects and am on the verge of losing my job, mostly because I have so few "good" days since starting this shot about a month ago, my fianc'e and I argue alot now....mostly because he doesn't seem to be able to understand what I am going through.....if you are going to be put on any hormonale therapy please just make sure you do your research....I am also taking the add back therapy which seem to be of no help.....good luck...

I started taking yaz 10 days ago and have never felt so weird i my life...I thought I was going insane.My vision is blurred I feel faint and on edge.I even went to hospital thinking I was dying as I felt on the verge of passing out all the time.I have just worked out its this pill as its the only thing Im taking and my symptoms started the very next day...Cant wait to feel normal again.DONT TAKE THIS PILL ITS NASTY!!!!!!!

My daughter was diagnosed with asthma nearly a year ago after having a severe attack. She was prescribed singulair. It has stopped the asthma but certain things are really starting to worry me that has been happening. She has usually been quite an active child but she has gotten very active, on the verge of hyperactive. She cannot sleep until about 10.30 every night and is aggressive. I have her booked into the doctor this week to ask her to be taken off the singulair but am worried also that her asthma will return and maybe the next medication prescribed will be worse. I am relieved to find this site and hear that other people have these problems too. I have been searching desperately hoping it wasn't all in my mind. Also my daughter is only 5 years old, she probably can't tell me if there are any other problems. I hope that everything will change for her soon.

Hey everyone.
I wanted to thank you for all your comments. I've been on NR for 5 or 6 cycles now and didn't realize that it might be the cause of recent issues.
1. My breast are lumpy/sore and have increased a cup size
2. Some weight gain and salt cravings (I feel like a pregnant woman) which, in turn cause me to bloat.
3. Facial bloating
4. mood swings. I'm on top of the world the first to weeks it's in then im awful the last week.
5. Worst worst, is the constant feeling going into the end of the 2nd/3rd week that i'm on the verge of getting some kind of vaginal infection.

I had something going on over Christmas (my gyno thought it was a yeast infection or cysts) with vaginal pain ovarian pain and back pain that I thought I had PID or even herpes even though tested negative for everything.

I took it out today on my normal cycle and I wonder if I should just stop completely. It scares me because of my fam. history of breast cancer. I've only been on nuva. is there some other form of hormonal birth control that's right for me?

I had read so many of these pages and related with only a few items until Neida88. I have frequent yeast infections and have started taking bacterial supplements to help stop them. My doctor didn't think the yeast infections were related to the Yasmin, but all my STD tests came back negative, so they are not an effect of lowered immunity. I am mid-pack, but I am going to stop, because I just can't take it anymore. It cleared my skin, but I think I can find some other way to maintain clear skin than Yasmin. It is pretty uncomfortable to spend a week out of every cycle feeling like I'm on the verge of a yeast infection or suffering from one. After two years on Yasmin, I'm done!

Severe all over pain starting after the very first day. Even my toes hurt and I am not talking slight pain; I am talking severe pain that kept me on the verge of tears. I stopped taking the medicine and my Doctor treated me like I was just imagining the pain to be severe. I have been off the medicine for 3 days and I am still in pain. It hurts to even move my fingers and sleep is impossible.

I'm a 53 year old male,I've been a RN.on cardiac floors for almost 18 years. Prior to starting on lipitor I had been taking Tricor,at that time I started to have frequent chest pains,mid-sternal with pressure. I went for a CT of the heart,stress test,EKG and various blood test all came back negative however I continue to experience the chest pains.Finally I stopped the Tricor and the chest pains also stopped,just to be sure I started to take the Tricor about a month later at half the dose I was on originally, after only two doses the chest pains came back. Now I've started taking Lipitor(at this point I've only taken 7, 10 mg. doses) and the exact same type of chest pains have started again,I was on the verge of going to the ER yesterday. I stopped the Lipitor and the chest pain were almost completely gone today hopefully by tomarrow I'll be back to normal but it seems like the Lipitor symptoms are longer lasting plus I've been very sleepy and kinda foggy mentally.

I am glad I found this site. I recently started taking Yasmin, I am 22 years old and it is my first experience with oral contraceptives. Anyway, the first month was fine, except that my flow was unusually heavy (we're talking super+ tampon & Heavy pad were necessary for the first 2 days), which is unusual for me since I've never bought anything stronger than regular.
About midway through the second month, I became depressed, gained 15 pounds, and was crying every day over little things. I know I've been under stress, but I am always stressed, and this was not a usual reaction for me. The only thing I could think of was mabye it was the Yasmin, but my healthcare provider assured me that this was not one of the side effects. I came across this site and decided that I needed to get off this stuff. Especially when I would be on the verge of tears all day long, and was missing classes because all I could do was hide under the covers crying.
Finally I quit Yasmin and demanded to be put on something different. I am not too familiar with any other BCPs, and I was warry of trying them. So I was given NuvaRing to try. So far....I am symptom free. I am hoping that this will help other women who feel as if they are "going nutz" and don't understand why, as I had felt. Even if your healthcare provider denies this side effect demand to be given an alternative. I have never felt as horrible as I did with yasmin.

I am very relieved to find this web-site. My 7 year old son has been on singulair for approx. 2 months. Coincidentally enough, for the past month and a 1/2, he has been in tears every night plagued with "bad and sad" thoughts, fears and worries that he was going to get "in trouble" for the littlest things. My son has always been a fun, intelligent, light hearted & sensitive soul. My husband & I have set up an appointment with a family therapist & our family Dr as nothing we say or do seems to comfort him. At first this seemed to be only a bed time thing, until this week when his teacher called our home at 8pm because she was concerned about him being on the verge of tears. He is in grade 2 and this teacher also had him in senior kindergarten so she felt that it was very out of character for his "happy go lucky" personality. The next day, I called the allergy Dr. & the pharmacist to inquire about possible anxiety side affects for Singulair. They assured me that this was highly unlikely. I then got on the internet & came across this website. Last night, I took him off Singulair. I hope that this is the answer to make my little guy feel happy & worry-free again. Thanks to all who took the time to post this enlightening info. I will post an update on his progress in a week or two.

I started Celexa 2 days agao, and on 2nd day..My head felt very strange numbing pain from top to back of neck..plus a numbing of cheeks and lips..also strange heaviness-numbing in arms and knees...so I stopped taking it right away...afraid of having convulsions and ending up in the hospital with a cerebral-accident as what happened to me last year...I will have to find something else which will work for me to calm my panic attacks......what a dilemma...because these panic attacks absolutely make me stop functioning.....

I took my last Lupron shot in Oct. 2005. While on it I guess I had a mental breakdown. Had to go on anxiety and depression meds. I even had suicidal thoughts. Well when I started my first cycle after the shots I went on fertility pills and had to stop my other meds. Well now 5 months later the panic attacks, severe anxiety and depression is back. I can't even stand myself. I go to the doctor in 3 days which seems like forever to me. I don't want to go to the hospital because I am afraid they will keep me. To top it all off I have been making mistakes at work and am on the verge of losing my job. My fiance doesn't understand it anymore and says "it is all in your head". ANY ADVICE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been on Yasime for three months and have never felt more depressed in my entire life. I am guessing that it is because of this pill. I feel like i will never be happy again! I don't even like myself. Please tell me it is a side effect of Yasmine. I feel crazy! My rational mind says that i can over come it, but no matter what i do i still feel really sad and on the verge of tears. I hate the fact that doctors don't really care and just give you a pill because it benefits them! How dare they! I am a real person with a life. AND i want it back. I would be very curious to know how many doctors actually take this pill or prescribe it to some one that they care about?? Any doctors out there reading this? If so be real with your patients. Aren't they the reason you became what you are?

Hi Chrissy,

I know exactly how u feel....I have had these AM I DYING issues for the past 6mths before i linked them to they Yasmin and i am still soooo worried that something is wrong with me nut 6weeks post Yasmin it does not seem as bad but still comes and goies but thinking back itis an improvement of the month that i stopped yasmin and i was having my husband ring me everymorning at 7am as ithought that if i died in my sleep at least the kids could tell their dad if ithey couldnt wake me as each night i was sure this would be it for me ...that i had some serious life threatening disease or i was on the verge of a massive heart attack and all these symptoms were the warning signs of my heart stopping.
I am still internally thinking hey high blodd pressure must be bad but seeing on the posts the women that write that they had high blood pressure also post yamin gives me reassurance that they were alive when they wrote that so hey i am gonna make it ( see another negative yamin effect).
this site has saved my life and i am always here now also for anyone whom needs me... it reminds me a little of pay it forward the ones before me found hope here , i found hope from them and maybe i can help another...

Hello Ladies,

I have been on Yasmin for a little over 6 months now and was planning on stopping it due to wanting to have another baby. Well, after reading the posts here, I now realize that some of my symptoms MUST be from yasmin.

I have experienced the following while on yasmin:
- chest pain
- heartburn / acid reflux (sp?)
- increased anxiety (I already have a problem with this)
- dizziness when going from a sitting on the floor to standing position
- easily agitated / more depressed at times
- shortness of breath at times (easily winded).....I felt out of breath after helping my kids clean their rooms today and vacumming - this is not usual for me
- muscle aches and weakness / pains
- fatigue
- spotting in between periods
- cramps when it is not time for my period
- heart palpitations - skipping beats sometimes, too

Anyway, I had 2 yellow pills left in this packet and was going to finish them, but I just flushed them.

Yes, I am scared of the side effects that I have read about from stopping yasmin, but I guess I am just going to just do it. I was on another BC years ago...Lo Ovral, I think and I do not remember ANY side effects from stopping, but then again, I became pregnant the next month!

I am scared of weight gain. (Luckily, I have not gained any while on yasmin)

I am scared of breaking out and having that increase my depression, BUT it only makes sense that my INCREASED ANXIETY and BEING ON THE VERGE OF PANIC ATTACKS MORE FREQUENTLY are from yasmin. I do have medication to help anxiety, so if I get anxious while off the yasmin, I can use that until I regulate.

You know what? I DO NOT REMEMBER READING THESE SIDE EFFCTS OF YASMIN because my mom and sister always tell me Not To Read the pamphlet because I might talk myself into havng the effects or it might make me nervous due to my anxiety and panic disorder, but now after reading these posts, I understand why I have just NOT FELT NORMAL. I keep thinking I have something medically wrong with me.

Thank you for your support by just being here and posting here:)

Please email me if you want to have a penpal for more support - I might need it...I do not know what is in store for ME after stopping Yasmin.

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Sheri

I was prescribed sulfameth by a dermatologist to help dry out my oily skin as a teenager(15years ago). After a week of taking this medication orally, I noticed I had bruises that i could not remember any injury causing. At the time I had braces on my teeth, and one morning after noticing the bruises on my skin, i woke up and noticed blood blisters on the inside of my mouth and tongue! Sulfameth was the only medication i was taking at the time. I went to my dermatologist to get his opinion, after which he sent me immediately to the hospital. Turns out, I was on the verge of internally bleeding to death. I had to stay in the hospital for a week, where i was treated with a steroid to boost my red blood cell count because it was deathly low. Had i not noticed the bruises, and blood blisters in my mouth from the braces, I might not have known.