Outgoing person symptoms and conditions

Hi girls! I just wanted to write and let you know I am a 27 year old female who started using the nuvaring about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I am taking the ring out tonight and am not recommending its use to any of my friends!

Since I have started using this product I have had severe pains in both my knees and have had discomfort and incredible irritation while trying to have intercourse (when I can find the mood which hasn't been very often in the past few weeks and being a Scorpio that just isn't like me!!!). My mood swings have been ridiculous and have put a damper on my birthday weekend in Montreal! I went from being a very friendly strong outgoing person to and irritable unsocial bitch that breaks down and cries for no reason at all! I cant believe the side effects have hit me so hard and so quickly and I couldn't imagine using this product for more than a month.

Im happy to have found this site and to find out I am not the only one dealing with these side effects! What surprises me is there is a commercial on Canadian television promoting this product when im not sure it should have made it to our markets to begin with! Nobody at the clinics I have been to nor the doctor I have talked to have informed me of these side effects either and I encourage us all to let our fellow female friends know this product does indeed come with some nasty side effects!

Thank you to everyone who has written a testimonial on this page I appreciate your input and hope mines has been even a little bit of help!

I was on it for a couple of years. What good is not having a period if you have no real sex drive? Also, I felt that my personality was very suppressed and dull. I am usually an upbeat and outgoing person--it was like I had blinders over my eyes constantly. When I got off of it, I instantly felt better and more alive! I switched to Loestrin24 Fe--then came the side effects!!! (See Loestrin Side Effects) It was as if switching from Seasonale to Loestrin put me in peri-menopause--I'm 37. I had 6 of the 8 symptoms for two months. now, it has been 4 months and still no period. Apparently missing your period after going off of the Seasonale is quite normal. My Dr.'s office was not worried for the first couple of months. I now have an appointment on Monday.

i have acne. bad leg cramps and yes i have noticed my skin staying tanned longer than normal. my mouth is very dry and i am depressed often. not normal for me. i am a very outgoing person and i have been withdrawn from my friends since taking mobic. i thought it was just the fibromyalgia. have headaches very often. some weight gain.

Hi, I have been on Yasmin for 2 years now. I have ALWAYS been a very confident and outgoing person. For the past year i have had panic attacks regularly. I am very hot at night, I have trouble sleeping, yet my period pains are at a minimun and I have few symptons of PMT. (Mind you it is still bad enough to take codeine and paracetamol on the first day of bleeding).

Other side effects that I thought would clear up but which haven't are:- dark patches on my forehead and above my lip (doc said they would go, but seem to 'come' and go) and a very sore throat accompanied by swollen glands, sometimes on the right, sometimes on the left side of my neck. My fingers are tingly and my joints are swollen. The Chest pains could be related to anxiety. I get a migraine 24-72 hours before I bleed, regular as clockwork now.

The worst is the mood swings and the depression, I just really don't recognise myself, tired and teezy all the time.

I was very happy for the first 3-6 months that I took Yasmin, but after that I have known I haven't been 'right', but my anxiety and depression have made me unable to make a decision or be focused why.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed on the site, it's great to know I'm not the only one.

Hi Ladies,

I am stunned by everything I have read on this site. I am crying as I read each posting. I felt like I have been completely alone and adrift with some of the same symptoms.

I have been on Yaz for approximately 6 months and I am not sure what to do. I am irrational, at times scared and inconsolable and overly emotional. I cry and take offense at the smallest thing my boyfriend or anyone says. My personality has done a 180 since I started Yaz. I have always been a happy, loving, outgoing person.

Last night was the last straw. I had a panic attack during a disagreement with my boyfriend - which I escalated. My outrageous behavior has isolated me from my boyfriend and my family. Everyone around me is confused and not sure how to help me. At this point, I don't think I can salvage my relationship with my boyfriend. My Mom is begging me to stop taking Yaz. Is it safe to just stop taking it, or will I continue to spiral?

Any advice you can provide would be helpful.

KCK

hiya silke

thankyou for your comforting advice.
i still feel panicky today but not as bad as last night.
my periods have nearly finished so i guess i should be feeling better soon. " i hope so".

i seem to feel more panicky in the evenings and also i have really bad upper back pain which goes towards the back of my neck and head, also shooting pain in my head. i really hate it. it scares me so much which provokes the panicky feeling i have.

right now i am feeling so heavy in the upper part of my body. i just hope i make it through the night without having a panick attack. my ears and nose go all cold and i can feel myself going out of control. sso so horrible.

i wiil try to be strong and take a day as it comes.
i just hope the day comes when i wake up and i feel normal again.

i feel so weak like my body is drained and tired and i just want to sleep. i used to go to the gym but i feel to weak to do that now.

the other day i went shopping and as i got into the shopping centre i was walking towards the shop i needed to go to when i suddenly felt my head feel really funny, i thought to myself should i run back to the car so i could quickly get home or should i or would i be able to make it to the shop without collapsing.
i took deep breaths and eventually made it to the shop and back home. this really scared me though.

i will try not to let what happened above take me over though as i am a very outgoing person but it is really scary especially when your on your own.

thanks again silke and i hope that one day i too will be helping and comforting people on this forum just like you have done so for me.

BIG HUGS BACK TO TOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANKYOU
SOPHIExxxx

First I would like to thank to all girls for their postings here. I am so grateful for finding this site so soon after I started taking Yasmin.
Actually, I started taking Yasmin 2 days ago, and the reason to look in the net for its side effects was my last night experience. I woke up in the middle of the night, with my heart trying to go out of my chest, feeling enourmously scared and panicked without a reason, being unable to control my body and thoughts. I have spent the next few hours thinking that I was going to die, or get insane. Also I was feeling very dizzy and had nausea.
Today, I still feel as if I have been heavily intoxicated with a bad drug (haven't tryed any drugs before, but I imagine it feels like that).

I have never experienced anything like this before - I am very positive and outgoing person and my life is deffinitelly very happy at the moment and not stressed, so there is no other reason for the horrible night I've had but this pill - Yasmin.
The package is already in the wastebin, and I am considering myself happy for finding out so soon about the terrible side effects of this pill.

Once again - thank you girls for sharing your experiences. Wish you good luck with getting your lives back to normal.
As for me - I have appointed my bf to be my new BCP - I am sure that he can do this better than any chemicals.

All the best,

Nina

OK, so I am thankful I found this site, but I am even more confused now than I was before. I am 31 and have been on Yasmin for over 1 year. In the past year I have noticed that I am a much more self-conscious, nervous person, and I suffer from extreme anxiety. Previously I was a very confident, social, outgoing person. I have very low energy and I seem to get tired too easily. I lack any sort of motivation & get depressed & cry at the silliest things (I can barely make it through an episode of Oprah or ER without welling up in tears!) I have also noticed a ridiculous amount of hair loss. I though my hair was thinning due to my age, but now I have actual bald spots! It recently dawned on my that my problems could be the result of the birth control pill, hence my discovery of this site.

After reading through this site I still can't tell if women are experiencing the negative efffects of anxiety, depression, hair loss, loss of libido, etc. while they are on Yasmin or after they stop taking the pill. After reading the postings on this site I am ready to quit Yasmin today, but I really am curious to know when most people have experienced these side effects the most. Also regarding weight gain & loss, again I can't tell if it occurs while on or off the pill. So far it hasn't been an issue for me, but what will happen when I stop?