Optimist symptoms and conditions

Maybe I'm not crazy after all. I'm a 55-year-old female who has been taking Advair for close to 5 years. I have adult onset asthma and was using Albuterol to control it until my allergist placed me on Advair. It does a great job on my asthma, but at what price? During that time I've gained weight regardless of my diet and exercise regimen. I feel like I haven't slept in years and I'm convinced that it will eventually kill me because that makes everything else so much more difficult to deal with. I'm having major hair loss, hoarseness (I really miss singing), heart palpitations, extreme fluctuating blood pressure, heartburn, lethargy, blurred vision, twitching muscles. I finally decided that I had to change something and I found this website last week. I quit Advair cold-turkey. Probably not the right thing to do, but I was really on the brink. It's been nearly a week and I'm having extreme dizziness, terrible vision problems and awful headaches, but I am persevering.

As for myself, i started taking Yasmin when i was 17, i took it for about a year, then i had a break and i started taking it again about 1 maybe 1,5 year ago. i knew there are many side effects connected with birth control, but i decided to give it a shot, and i liekd it. less cramps, lighter periods, perfect. but now that i read all those side effects posted here, i realized that even though i did not have any physical side effects i did in fact suffer mental side effects. i am easly aggrevated, i get hurt over little things and can cry for no real reason, i feel tired all the time, deacreased sex drive.. and all this time knowing about side effects i kept blaming myself for being weird and becoming hard to get along with, which i wasn't before. i am an optimist and rather sensitive, but what happens to me know is way out of proportions.
today i realized that birth control pills are great invetion for a high price of our mental and physical state. condoms work for some, for others they dont bring enough satisfaction, but whats the point of being on the pill, and not having to use some latex, when the sex drive is decreased because of al the hormones?
today was the last day i am taking my bc pill. perhaps i will have to ind another alternative, but for now i need to apologize to all the people i've been hurting without even realizing that it wasn't the real me.
it's good to experiment with birth control to find whats right for us, but we have to make note of not only our physical state but also if how we feel mentally.
good luck to all finding the right ways of protecting yourselves :))

Hello

I´m writing from Madrid, Spain.
I just wanted to say than I´m so grateful to have found this website with. You just cannot imagine how grateful I am.

I started with Yasmin about a month ago. My doctor said it was working pretty well with all her patients.

From the very first day I started taking it, I start feeling really sad, depressed. First I thought it was because of my period, or because my boyfriend was abroad for a week. But I started being worried when I felt anxiety, was about to cry all the time, had paranoias about my boyfirend quiting me... a real NIGHTMARE.

I have to tell that I am a very positive person, very happy with all the aspects of my life and that I have NEVER suffered any of these depression symptoms before.

I was sure it was because of the pill, because the symptoms appeared clearly at the time I started, so after 2 weeks, I looked the Yasmin prospect, but there was NOTHING about depression on the side effects. Not even the "moodiness" (an euphemism) that is mentioned at the American website.

So I decided to investigate and to look into the Internet, I found this website and others and I felt really relieved when I read all your testimonials. I stopped Yasmin, and I returned to normality in a few days. I am a happy, optimist person again.

Excuse my English and thank you all for sharing your experiences.

Laura