Ortho tri cyclene symptoms and conditions

YAZ!!!! It is great at first, have been on it for three months, and am going back to Ortho Tri-Cyclene Lo!!!! I thought it was fine at first and then I beleive I thought I was going crazy. Very emotional, fatigued(fell asleep, more like passed out for two hours with a two year old at home), I wasn't even this tired when I was pregnant. I am depressed, anxious, have no patients at all for anybody, rage, rage, rage, and headaches. You definately don't have PMS, PMD because you just have it all the time. Instead of only a week of being emotionally nuts, it just spreads itself over to everyday. Yaz slowly turns you into a emotional nightmare. I was NEVER like this while on other BC, only YAZ. I would not recommend it unless you like being depressed, tired, anxious, emotional, and plain out crazy. I was honestly going to seek out medical help for my depression and emotional problems before I figured out it was YAZ. I couldn't live with my husband and two kids they way I was feeling. I was miserable and making them miserable too. They are constantly walking on eggshells with me, and they never know and I never know when I am going to start yelling at them in a fit of rage that is hard to control. I went absolutly nuts when my two year old spilled her bowl of watermelon on a concrete floor. Watermelon?!?!?!!! Not glue, paint, nail polish just watermelon on a dirty CONCRETE not carpeted floor. Rediculous!!!! I know it's crazy but that is what the YAZ turned me into. It sounds great, that is why I started taking it, but over time it is just too good to be true. Stay away from YAZ !!!!!

I have been on this for 1 month. The first two weeks was fine then I started feeling bloated big time. I do exercises for my stomach and I know I have good core muscles and I can't hold my stomach in. I'm not working right now need to be looking for work but I have been waiting for the bleeding to stop and the bloating to disappear. I am getting off of this. All of the head problems people are having are due to the extra drug in Yaz that deals with moodiness. I have been on tons of different anti- everything and usually it takes at least 3 to 4 weeks to adjust to your brain. If not it's not for you. I am completely off of meds now because I took the steps to freedom in Christ in a book called Breaking the Bondage by Neil T Anderson. I took ortho tri-cyclene before years ago and it did great compared to this stuff. Taking something to help with moodiness just causes a person to be numb to their feelings. The feelings don't go anywhere the pile up and that's why you find yourself at times crying uncontrollably. The only way to heal these things is to face them and the only one that can take that pain from you is Jesus. I know I tried everything. Exercise and changes in your eating habits will help with period problems. Water water water will help with acne.

Hello Ladies,

I began taking Yasmin about 2 weeks ago. I've taken Ortho Tri Cyclene and Ortho Lo before and have never had any problems, but I went off the pill for about 2 years and my Gyno said that this would be a good pill for someone going back on birth control. I thought that my side effects were just my body getting used to the pill again.

I started the pill pack on the first day of my period, and my period dissappeared in a day. I continued taking the pills and every day since I've been getting these cramps in my lower stomache (I can only describe them as similar to menstrual cramps- and I often feel nauseous), my back has been killing me, and I've been noticing more and more breakthough bleeding every day. It's almost like I've had a light period for 2 weeks. I've started to consider taking a pregnancy test but I don't know if these would be the side effects to taking the pill when you're pregnant, and I really don't think I am-- I think I'm going crazy.

I'm going on vacation in 2 days and I'm going to see if I can get an appointment with my doc to change the pill, because I'm not going to quit and get my period and I can't keep taking this horrible pill.

If anyone has any new advice, please let me know!!

Okay ladies this kinda weird for me but i need answers!!! I am a 26 year old male, my now x-girlfriend and i were together for almost ten years in which she was always on the depo shot once every three months i beleive was the dosage. Things were never perfect between us but for the last year and a half we both felt things were going in a very good direction. This problem started when we talked about why she she had very little sex drive, so she talked to her doctor and they decided to put her on Ortho-Tri cyclene she was on that for i believe about 5 months inwhich she started to retain water pretty bad so like most women she had to do something about this problem, again goes to the doctor and he doc tells hr that Yasmin was the answer to the problem. Just for the record about 3 or 4 days before she started taking the Yasmin she told me just how incredibly happy she was with were our relationship has gone. Well sunday came and she started the new birth control as the week went on there were no side effects until Friday May 6th (her birthday) she spent the day shopping with her mother and we had dinner plans at 6pm, well we meet up and she tells me we need to talk!!! I sit down on the couch and she tells me we shouldnt be together and that she decided this sometime during the week of the 6th!!! At first I never thought it was the bc but i have since changed my tune. This girl has always made me her #1 priority and all of a sudden she turns into a cold hearted @%^#* doesnt even let me talk or anything, just keeps telling me that this is how it is and i should deal with!! I instantly lost control of my emotions and went in a state of manic depression (basicly just wanted to be dead) Well i made though all this and stopped communicating with her or should i say trying to communicate w her in about the middle of July. Basicly told myself that it was my fault and on and on, well all of a sudden the last week of October comes and she calls out of the blue!! Telling me how she cant get me off of her mind, i felt elated and told her that love is hard to cover up. Then i find out that she was almost done with her period, which means she was taking the reminders and her real feelings were once again comming out, well we have been hanging out and decided that the problem with our past is that we never had a good solid friendship, just basicly relied on one another!! So great we are going to make this work right?? One other thing is that she was very reluctant to start taking the bc after her last period because she didnt want those feeling to go away, i didnt want to be controlling and told her that it was decsision she has to make in order to be happy. Well she wanted to test the whole idea of the bc being a factor and started taking it again and now she tells me that she just doesnt feel the same way about me as she once did, i want to remind you that she has always been confident in us and it just seems like this damn pill is screwing with her head MAJORLY!!! What do i do ???????????? I feel like im being cheated out of the love of my life......
Sorry its so long alot to think about everyday, i just want her back to normal ---Chad----

YASMIN IS POISON!!!!
IF YOU HAVE HAVE BEEN EXPERIANCING EXTREME PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY THAT LEAVES YOU GASPING FOR AIR, HEART PALPITATIONS, DIZZINESS AND CLOUDINESS IN THE HEAD, EXTREME MOOD SWINGS, HEAVINESS IN THE CHEST, DEPRESSION, AND ABSOLUTE HELL READ THIS!!!!!!

Hello All,
Like some other ladies who have posted their stories on this site, I feel it is important to repost my story to alert new readers to the hell caused by Yasmin....

After being on ortho tri cyclene for about a year, I began having some mood swings so i decided to switch my pill. Because I attend college about 3 hours away from my home, I made an appointment at the end of my winter break last year to see the nurse practitioner at my gyno's office. Without any warning, she handed me the Yasmin and told me that it was such a "wonderful pill" that causes little or no side effects. I took her word for it and i was on my way... the next day I left to return to school...

About a few weeks after i returned to school, I began having EXTREME PANIC ATTACKS and ANXIETY to the point that I was constantly GASPING FOR AIR and was even taken to the hospital. I was constantly DIZZY, and horribly MOODY. Every day I felt PRESSURE IN MY CHEST and HEART PALPITATIONS that made me feel like I was going to have a heart attack. I literally was gasping for air every single day while in class, and walking to and from class. Even when I returned to my dorm, I would do nothing but sit in bed and gasp for air.... I felt like I was dying.

I would call home every night crying hysterically to my parents because I had no idea what was going on with my health... I had ABSOLUTELY NO HISTORY OF HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE PAST. My mom called my doctor and a therapist (who I would call at least 2 times a week from my school because I could not cope- i would see him on the weekends when I would ocme home from school but I had to be driven there because my panic was SO BAD that I COULDNT EVEN DRIVE!!!!!!), who told her that I was probably just under stress from being in premed and having a large workload.....we knew that this was not the case because I have always had a very heavy workload and I had always managed to be VERY OPTIMISTIC and capable of handling stress.

As the semester went on..... my symptoms worsened and became UNBEARABLE. My dad was driving to my school every weekend to pick me up because I COULD NOT COPE with the extreme anxiety, chest pains, and dizziness. Every weekend I was comming home and doing nothing but sitting home suffering through the Yasmin symptoms. My boyfriend would come over and sit with me because my panic attacks were so bad that I refused to leave the house because I was afraid of getting another wave of panic. At that point, I considered dropping out of school because I couldn't take the gasping for air and dizziness that made sitting in my bed difficult, let alone sitting through whole days of classes. My parents convinced me every weekend to go back and finish out the semester... I continued perservering.

I had no idea what was going on with my body... aside from feeling like I was about to DIE. I was consdtantly crying because I felt so aweful... my parents thought that I was bipolar... and even my roomate knew that something was SERIOUSLY wrong with me. My hair and skin became very dull, and I was missing so much class due to the panic and the other syptoms that even the teachers would ask me after class if everything was ok with me.

Finally, with one day of finals left to go, my mom called me and told me that IMMEDIATELY NEEDED TO STOP TAKING YASMIN. After doing much research about possible yasmin side effects, she told me that she came across this forum and was COMPLATELY SHOCKED about how similar my symptoms were to the other women who wrote in. My mom read the stories to me.... for the first time in months, I was SOOOOO RELIEVED that I was not alone. I IMMEDIATELY sstopped taking Yasmin.. At first, I felt soo dizzy and out of it, but my mom told me that my body just needed to 'detox' from the poison.

When I got off of the Yasmin, I visited a new physician. He told me that he has heard of some women having sever side effects from yasmin. He told me that my body needed to reblanace itself. To curb the anxiety, he prescribed me ZOLOFT, which is also helping me get back to normal...

I HAVE BEEN OFF OF YASMIN FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS NOW.... and I am slowly but surely getting better. The panic has subsided
(im sure the zoloft is helping it along) and I am starting to enjoy life and enjoy agian out again. I'm also looking normal again.... my hair regained its shine, my skin looks more vibrant, I'm beginning to drive again without being overcome by exteme panic, and i dont feel like im going to die!! Im definately NOT 100% better yet but I am working on it... I know that it will be a slow recovery.

I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO POSTED THEIR STORY ON THIS FORUM!!!! YOU HAVE ALL GIVEN ME HOPE AND EXTEME RELIEF AND HAVE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I AM NOT ALONE IN RECOVERING FROM YASMIN!!!!!! TO ALL THE LADIES WHO HAD TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS AWEFUL PILL, DONT LOSE HOPE.... WE WILL ALL RECOVER AND BE BACK TO OUR OLD FABULOUS SELVES SOON!!!!!! THANK YOU AGAIN AND GOOD LUCK!!!!!

I am wondering if any of you ladies have been taking medications such as ZOLOFT, or PAXIL or other SSRI's to deal with the effects of the yasmin????????? Please post some comments to let me know.... Also, did anyone file a CLASS ACTION SUIT against YASMIN???????? Write back and let me know!!!

Okay is everyone ready for this... I had the worst possible nightmare from taking this pill! I am a 33 yr. mother of three and had not been on the pill for 6 years ( had been on ortho tri - cyclene and trivora) so I decided to go back on it and my Dr. recommended this time to go on Yasmin. I never questioned it. I was only on this pill for one month and started noticing I had shortness of breath and severe anxiety/ fast heartbeat. I have never been short of breath or had any breathing problems - asthma, etc. I am very healthy and active and this was very unusual for me. One evening I had an "attack" and my heart was racing and I was shaking , trembling, etc. I thought I was having a severe anxiety attack and my husband took me to the E.R. After extensive testing ( bloodwork, ekg, chest x-ray, cat scan, etc.) they found that I had pulmonary embolisms or in other words blood clots in my lungs! The symptoms for a P.E. are that of anxiety, heart racing, shortness of breath, chest pain, etc. so if anyone his having these symptoms while being on this pill PLEASE get this checked immediately! Some people can experience leg cramps which can be a DVT ( blood clot in the leg) I never experienced any pain in my legs. I know my situation is at the extreme end and is supposedly rare but it happened!!! I went for about a week knowing something wasn't right until I went to the E.R. and fortunately I am doing fine now. I have been to several dr's. and extensive testing with all coming up negative. They cannot find anything wrong with me. No heart problems, blood disorders, etc. anything to have caused this so all that leaves them is to believe this was caused by this pill! Go to ****** and you will find Yasmin is listed as one of the "DO NOT USE " drugs on the market and one of the reasons: higher incident of blood clots in women. I think we should all fight to get this pill taken off the market ! I am not trying to scare anyone but trying to raise awareness. I am truly convinced what happened to me was a direct result from taking Yasmin. If anyone has had a similar experience or has any questions please email me.