Optometrist symptoms and conditions

Has anyone else had problems wearing contact lenses with Yasmin? I've been on it for about three years now -- about a year ago my eyes started completely rejecting my contact lenses. I'm at the point where I can't wear them anymore. I'm thinking of changing to a different medication to see if that helps, but I don't know if it's just my eyes, the Yasmin, or all birth control. I know there is a definite connection, I've done some research. Has anyone else experienced this side effect?

I have been on prednisone since February. I was giving it in the hospital and
it helped increase my appetite. I was very dizzy but the Dr. in the hospital said it was from not having enough fluid. It was 80 mg and then cut down to 20 mg. I then had a lung biospy and found out that besides the hemolytic anemia I was diagnosed with earlier I had some lymphocyctic intertial pneumonitis. The drug of choice for treatment is prednisone. The prednisone was upped to 80 mg again and I, of course, had to take insulin on a sliding scale. It was okay for a while and then the EYE PAIN began. I never knew my eyes could hurt so much. I went ot see the optometrist who sent me to an opthamalogist and checked the pressure which was high. I told the dr. I was taken back to 40 mg. The eye pain was better and weaned but after a couple of weeks it hurt like nothing else. so they placed me on 20 mg then 10 mg then 5. I don't know if anyone else had a problem with this and it would only relate to female my period is so heavy and so irregular that I get it like 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off. I,also, don't know if it's the change. I am 45. I did lose weight and I have a puffy face but I think I always did. I am in pain. I know I cry and try to make myself do things. The one thing I do feel is that my brain is gone. I can't thnk like I used to and I don't care.

I did have to go back up to 80 for a while and then decrease and now on 15. The pressure is good now in my eyes and there is no pain for the most part.
I am going to a dr. who my lung dr. is referring me to to see if they can do another medicine since he worked with some othe pt who had this. I hope so because this prednisone is worse than what I have.

I was prescribed 750mg of levaquin 9/11/07. I read all the side effects but also read in many scientific studies that the odds of these side effects occurring were slim. I believe the exact figures were around 1-3%. I have my bachelor's of science in biology and am planning to attend graduate school next year, so I thought I was educated enough in the realm of how drugs interact with the body. "1-3%" is such a low probability, right?

I took one pill at approximately 9pm then around 11pm I began to feel dizzy and light headed. I had been drinking water all day and continued to do so after taking the first dose so I decided to go to bed. I awoke the next morning still dizzy and my muscles ached. Then, while walking to the bathroom to put my contacts in, I began to hear ringing in my ears until it was all I could hear around me, I developed tunnel vision, then completely blacked out. The only way my vision returned is when I sat on the ground with my head between my knees barely moving. I remembered reading that levaquin could cause hypoglycemia so I literally crawled to the kitchen and poured a plethora of sugar into a cup of gatorade and drank it as quickly as I could. I've never been more thankful to be an athlete and keep that in my refridgerator constantly...well... I WAS an athlete. I haven't been able to walk, let alone run, without my head throbbing with each step.

It is now 9/19/07 and I still have a pounding headache that won't go away. It is as if my optic nerve is on fire. I've tried vitamins, flushing my body with constant fluid, sleep, massage, and an optometrist examination for new contact lenses in case the headaches were due to eye strain. Nothing has seemed to work. My sinus infection that the levaquin was initially prescribed for has subsided but I can only hope that this headache will subside as well.

Has anyone else experienced an on-going headache as well? And if so... what have you found provides relief?

My eyelids are swollen all the time and my eye waters all day long. I now have to use artificial tears...when I went to the optometrist all I had was swollen eyelids in the morning and sometimes when I go outside my eyes would water a little...since the treatment with tobradex for 2 weeks my eyes are getting progressively worst. I am really frustrated....I am also using patanol drops and artifical tears...

Sophie,
I have exactly the same thing you do. Mine, however has just hit recently (I have been off of Yasmin 11 months.) My head pains are not very bad now....that eventually goes away although they did last for weeks at a time. My eyes still do not focus. I have had my glasses (I cannot wear contact lenses anymore...they make me sick.) changed 6 times in the past year. I am going back Wednesday to get them changed again. My optometrist told me that my eyes were not really changing that much; I was just extremely sensitive to light changes. Sometimes I feel as if my eyes are not tracking together. I call it "snail eyes." Anyway, I would not be too worried about it at all. Mine has continued to get better...there for a while, I could not read for a couple of months, because I could not focus on a page of writing.
Virginia

Victory! My optometrist...yes, I did say, my optometrist reported my Yasmin problem to the FDA. After 5 months off of Yasmin...and MANY doctor visits later, my general practicioner also has reported the horrible problems I have been having. I went to the gyn Tuesday (still having problems in that area too) and she finally started to listen. Maybe word is getting out now. It will be so nice to be able to see again without the spots or blurriness!

Virginia, USA

I took Estrostep for 1 year and had many strange abdominal pains, dizziness, and major dental problems... I switched to Yasmin and it nearly killed me in 2 months. I had ALL the symptoms mentioned in previous messages on this page, along with many vision problems. I still have spotted vision (looks like floaters), one eye that keeps dilating in a stretched square shape, and my glasses prescription has changed DRASTICALLY every 3 months....just forget about wearing contacts. Contact lenses, which I used to wear all the time, now make me sick (dizzy, disoriented, dry eyes). I have been off of ALL birth control pills for 5 months. Yes, it is still very bad (panic attacks, sharp chest pains), but it is getting better. This website probably saved my life. My doctor still denies everything, although my optometrist has had one patient go through surgery for clots due to the pill, and another die from a stroke. I find it funny my optometrist could tell me more about the side effects than my gyn. I finally found a general practicioner that did report my symptoms to the FDA, and I gave him this website.

For all the men out there...my husband says to BE PATIENT. :)