Overdrive symptoms and conditions

I've been on the NuvaRing for a year and four months. Overall, I've been happy with it. There are a few side effects: my sex drive has gone down (from overdrive to normal) and I can't wear contacts anymore -- my eyes are just too dry. I'm not sure if it affects my mood. I'm a little overly sensitive on and off birth control, so it's hard to say! My breast got a little bigger. When I started, I would get headaches (they weren't bad, but never got headaches before, so it was unusual), but they've gone away. None of the side effects are bad enough to make me stop taking it. I've tried the pill (two kinds), sponges, and condoms, and this is by far my favorite birth control method. It's convenient, effective (for me anyway), and the side effects are definitely manageable.

I have been on the NuvaRing for at least 4-5 yrs now and I love it. However, it wasn't until my cousin and sister started to use it and began to complain of low-to-no sex drive. I have no issues in this area, in fact, my sex drive seems to be in overdrive. But, in the last few months my mood swings and level of depression seem to have increased along with moments of elevated anxiety. I also cry at the drop of a dime these days. I am overall a very happy-go-lucky person and just attributed these symptoms to personal and financial problems. I'm not really sure what to think about the ring, it's so convenient but i may have to revisit my choice of BC if I find out that it's directly contributing to my symptoms. My research continues.

Wow, I just have to say thank you to all the women who have posted. I finally feel like I'm not crazy!! I had Mirena inserted April of 08, when my son was 13 weeks old. Afterwards I started to gain weight and have severe depression, which was diagnosed as Post Partum Depression. I have been on meds after meds and nothing is working. I have ovarian cysts - and apparent common side effect of the darn thing. When my precious baby boy starts crying, I can't even hold him because my body goes into some sort of depression overdrive. It's awful. I have been struggling with whether or not I should have the mirena removed. After reading this site, I will definitely be calling my doctor tomorrow. This is ridiculous. I have never felt worse in my life. I weigh MORE now than I did when I was pregnant - and I eat well and exercise regularly. Wow. I really hope taking it out helps...because that's my only hope left.

Hi, I have been taking lisinopril 2.5 mg for a little over a year now. I am 20 years old and had high blood pressure for my age so my doctor prescribed me to a low dose (2.5 mg) of lisnopril. I didn't think much of it at first because I figured my doctor had prescribed it and knew what was best for me, so I have been taking it over a year now.
The past couple days, I've started to think more about things and am wondering if the lisinopril has anything to do with it. I have definitely noticed that my hairline is receding faster and my hair, especially in the front of my head, is thinning. I have also gained weight over the past year and cannot seem to get any weight off. I never had these problems of losing hair or gaining weight before I started lisinopril.
My question is could the lisinopril, even with the low dose of 2.5 mg that I'm taking, actually cause these types of things to happen?
If anyone reading this could please reply to me and let me know, I would appreciate it so much because I am really worrying about this. Thanks.

I went through a horrible withdrawal from ativan two and half years ago. It sent my CNS into overdrive. But I eventually got better. I have been extremely well and able to teach full time this past year. Then I got a very bad case of poison oak and was put on prednisone for 9 days, starting at 40mg. and then coming off at 10mg. I am so very sick again. It took me a year and half to recover from the benzos. How long does this horrible diarrhea, nauseousness, inner vibrating last???

I am on the second week of the orange starter pack. It was prescribed for bipolar. After about the 3rd or 4th day of taking Lamictal, I noticed a side effect that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere. I seem to stay in a permanent state of sexual arousal (In other words, horny). Has anyone else had this side effect and does it go away? Except for this, the Lamictal has helped my bipolar tremendously. Please help!!!

Hi all! I am actually really glad to have found this site, i've been on Yasmin for 2 years now. I have been on several different bc pills before this but I was told by my Doctor that Yasmin would be better for me as my weight fluctuates terribly. Normally after being on the same pill for about a year my body starts rejecting the hormones. However, Yasmin has sent my body into overdrive, I feel ill all of the time, have constant headaches, break out in rashes at lease once a week and my sex drive is non-existent. I have also been experiencing extreme pains and my stomach bloats to the size of a football (seriously!) about a week before i'm due on. My periods have also become heavier and extremely painful in the last six months. After reading all of your posts i'm feel happier knowing i'm not the only one and that its not just my body! I am definitely coming off this pill now! Has any bc pill worked for anyone?? I guess i'm going to have to try different things now. However i've heard such bad things about the injection and the implant. (My nurse said they could prevent me from ever having children? - I'm 20 and have my whole life ahead of me. This is the last thing I want!) Thanks again! xx

ok I am 13 and I have been on Alesse to regulate my periods and the side effects I have been though are tenderness in breast and tiredness and GAS GAS GAS! Like every time I eat dinner or a big meal my tummy was on overdrive and sometimes I would not be able to sleep I didn't get headaches but am very snappy and mean and I not like that

~Raven~

I think Femcon FE is horrible..Everytime I make it to the brown pills my hormones are in overdrive..I am indecisive..overly emotional and borderline depressed..Today I felt like i wanted to just curl up in a ball and cry at work.I want to go back to my Yasmin or try something else cause this is not for me

I'm so happy I found this site. I've been thinking I'm crazy or just getting old for the last 3 years while on Yasmin. I started taking it at age 29 and almost immediately after started having mood swings, extreme irritability and depression. I had previously been on Ortho Tri Cyclen and the Ortho Cyclen before Yasmin and was on them for MANY years and never had one side effect. I only switched in the first place because I like to have very very few periods and I run all my active pills together to forgo periods very often and I was having breakthrough on the Cyclen. Hence, the Yasmin trial.

I'm actually a doctor (which is why I CANNOT have frequent periods with all the accompanying issues), but I didn't even realize the possible connection between IBS and Yasmin. This needs to be studied and taken seriously. I never once had IBS symptoms until a few months after starting Yasmin. Now, 3 years later I have almost constatnt trouble, to the point everytime I eat I run for the bathroom, yet my weight has never been higher. I asked a GYN friend at work if they could be related and she said definitely no, but reading all of these "real life" examples, coupled with my own experience has made me think otherwise. Often, the symptoms will occur shortly after taking the pill, even when I haven't yet eaten breakfast. It's crazy!!

I'm going to switch either back to Ortho Cyclen or to something new ASAP and will report back. I'm both excited at the thought that my "IBS" might really be Yasmin related but also scared that it might not go away and therefore might really be IBS. I'll report back... It honestly never entered my mind that all of it could be the Yasmin. I had just moved, started a new job in a town I hate and I thought it was all stress related.

I've also had an interesting side effect no one has mentioned yet- my hair texture has dramatically changed. It isn't falling out, but has gone from VERY curly with a nice soft spiral curl pattern to very dry, straight and hard to manage. Nothing else has changed and now I'm wondering if it's not the DRSP. If pergnant women can have hair changes, why not women on the pill?? It's all hormones.

As always with a drug, there are always possible side effects. No one drug is perfect, and humans are so complex in their make up and they way they process drugs. Therefore, please don't judge your family docs or GYNs too harshly as not even the best doctor in the world can predict every side effect.

Was on Prednisone 2 years ago for respiratory problems 30mg. Gained 25 pounds, fat face, felt tired, etc.

However 2 years later, after weaning off Prednisone my muscles ache, joints are most always stiff, esp. hands plus my feet feel numb and my short term memory has not returned to normal----does any one else out there have similar problems. What can be done?

My MD gave me Wellbutrin samples to try to combat my depression resulting from legal woes back in Feb 2004. I took the med for about 2 days with no side effects. But on the 3rd day, I had a shot of whiskey - which I was not aware alcohol was a no-no when you're on these drugs, so I suffered a near seizure while driving on the freeway. My bp went up to almost 200/130 and I had to take Toprol after that episode. The things I remember the most while I was on Wellbutrin was that my adrenaline seemed to always be on overdrive, dry mouth, dizziness, high alertness and irritability.