Pep talk symptoms and conditions
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October 18th
2007
1:02 PM
I am really glad I read the other posts here. I see a pattern. I tried the NR for the first time about 12 days ago. I got a dull headache from it right away and my stomach didnt feel right although I never threw up from it. I thought I was ok until 5 days ago (Saturday) when I burst into tears over something little right after I woke up in the morning. I went to my weekend waitressing job and burst into tears again over something little. I had such mood problems that day that I worried most of my co-workers and smarted off to people which I never do. My manager was really worried that I was acting so strange. On Sunday I just wanted to sleep all day because I was upset. I freaked out and cried until I choked myself just because my husband was going to be home from work later than scheduled, which is a regular occurrence in his line of work. On Monday when I went to my office job I was in the bathroom all day feeling sick. After that I went to my waitressing job and got really moody again. My manager had a pep talk with me and I thought I was ok becuase Tueday and Wednesday (yesterday) my mood was much improved even though my stomach was still really upset. Well - today I burst into tears on the way to the office, could not shake it off, and left the office an hour later (around 9 am) to try to calm down. I felt better so went back about 10:15. Worked about an hour, felt sick in the stomach again. After almost fainting while opening the bathroom door, I spent the next 15 minutes sweating profusely while I hung over the garbage can waiting to throw up. I'm 29 years old and had to call my mom to come pick me up and drive me home. I thought I had a panic attack or a nervous breakdown by now. I slept a little, woke up with nausea and crying and got online to see if NR was why. It sort of sounds like it. I am trying to decide if I should just pull this NR out now or stick it out until day 21. I am afraid I might lose one of my jobs for being so moody and saying the wrong thing - or hurt my husbands feelings worse than I already have if I don't get rid of the NR, but will I make matters worse if I do? I need help!
-- By melanie2629 | Reply | Private Message me
July 22th
2006
12:41 PM
Hi Sophie!!
So good to hear you're doing a bit better now!! And, yes, In MY case it was the 3 - 4 month mark where things started slightly getting better. But remember, every person is different and there's definitely not ONE plan for ALL!! So if there is NOT a significant change into better around that mark, please don't despair therefore!!
I think you should try to not think and "wait" about the time it needs for you to get better. Just always be sure that it WILL get better and as you already see, you're almost there!!
I'm doing pretty fine again at the moment after the last 2 weeks feeling a bit tired and my circulation didn't work that good again. I have such phases every few weeks, seems as if it was around the time I should ovulate or get my period, well, if only I finally would!! It's now over 15 months after Yasmin without getting my period!!
I also have a little cramping (feels just as if I might get my period in the next few hours, but I never do...) and a sore feeling in my breasts again. Even my skin is getting a bit more spotty. My weight has been going down since February for about 5 kg (about 10 pounds I think) without changing my eating habits or anything else. Well, my body seems to be still fighting against that hormonal mess...
I'll give it another 2 - 3 months, then I will decide if I go to another gyn... Well, I don't like to see any doctors or hospitals if it's not really necessary because I visited about 10 - 20 of them around December 2004 / April 2005.....
I'm still hoping, that my body will heal itself completely and everything will be normal some day without taking another chemical...
Keep looking forward to much better times Sophie, believe me, they are ahead!! I never would have believed around the phase you are now in that I could be able to feel again like a healthy and happy person!! And now I do!!
Please feel free to post or E-Mail me if you need some pep talk or just need to unburden yourself!! I'd like to help, if I can somehow!!
Best wishes and a big hug to you and all the other "Yasmin survivors" out there!! Hang in there!!
Silke
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April 3th
2006
2:42 AM
Hey Lisa!!
Don't worry!! I understand your pain, because I went EXACTLY through the same thing!!
I remember myself asking my husband a thousand times "Oh my god, I feel like it's all coming back, I'm so afraid everything could get as bad as it was months ago..." and so on. And that happened around the same state as you are now!! And I also remember my mum and my husband always telling me "It won't come back, everything will be better again in a few days, it's just your hormonal imbalance." And I was so thankful for their words!!
And the best of all: They were right !! Evertime I was nearly about to despair (and that didn't happen only once during the very hard last year, but every few weeks!!), a few days further everything had gotten better again!!
It always helped me to remember, that it's all a hormonal thing and hormones are fluctuating over a month. And being on bcp for such a long time (during that time the hormones were constantly nearly on ONE level!) your body reacts to those natural hormone fluctuations more sensitive than before. Your system will gradually get used to that fluctuations again and you won't feel them in such a heavy way any longer!!
I'm 1 Year and 2 months without Yasmin now and still feel those fluctuations very often. But remember that I still didn't get my period again... (last one was on easter 2005.....). So I think in my case everything will be 100% back to normal and healthy again, when I'm finally getting my period.
I hope this helps and feel free to E-Mail me or post here again if you've got any further questions or jus need some pep talk!! I know how important that is, I needed it the same way one year ago!!!
Best wishes, god's bless and keep looking forward to better times Lisa, as hard as it may seem on some days!!!
Silke
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February 10th
2006
2:23 AM
February 8th
2006
1:11 PM
Hey Hill!!
You wrote:
< to take any hormonal bcp ever again in my life!!!
All the best to you!!
Silke
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December 28th
2005
6:25 AM
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And again you're not alone..... I had and sometimes still have exactly the same feelings as you describe. Even AFTER getting off Yasmin (been off for 10 months now). Those feelings always got worse again around the time my period should start or around ovaluation. Perhaps you can connect your symptoms to those days, too?!?!
After all it seems, that Yasmin enormously interacts your brain. A cousin of mine had such weird feelings after being on Yasmin only for about 3 months. She just had the feeling that "something with her head was not ok" and therefore she stopped taking that poison immediately.
I wish I had discovered as early as she, what this poison was doing to my body and my brain...
So your problems seem to be pretty "normal" (if you can say so......) after Yasmin symptoms. Today I have those symptoms only about every few weeks in a very slight way (always around the above mentioned times), but not at all as heavy as during Yasmin or even 6 months after Yasmin (as you are now)...
A few months ago I had many days a month when I felt like I was about to go totally mad and mentally ill... Everything looked strange to me, I felt dizzy and foggy in my head. Than a few days further everything had gone again and I felt pretty normal. And believe me, all those symptoms will get lighter, too!! You just have to think about that during the hard times. Always keep in mind, that "nothing will stay as it is now and everything will get better again". That was the only comfort through those days, when I thought I'd go completely mad...
I wish you the strenght that you need, going through this "after Yasmin show", but believe me: It's worth it!!!
All the best and god's bless to all of you again!!
Silke
PS: To the ladies giving me some pep talk with the last few postings: Thank you!! It's so good to hear, that you're not alone with all this sh... And I will think about your words, that everything will be fine again in 2006!! Best wishes to you, too!!
-- By voicesi | Reply | Private Message me
November 14th
2005
11:19 AM
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Well, if you would have read more of the posts here, you would know, that you're going through the same thing, so many women are going through AFTER getting off this "wonderful" pill... And no one can promise you that you will be healthy again wighin a few months but just give you some pep talk during these hard times! The only person who could tell, how long it takes to fully recover would be a woman, who has gone through the same as we and is finally back to where we all want to be again some day!!
I've been off Yasmin for 10 months now and still not back to totally normal and healthy again, although everything has gotten so much better than in January/ February this year. This times I nearly wasn't able to live any longer...
And still there are times, when I feel, like everything is easing up and nearly gone and then many symptoms hit me again. And that all seems to happen through a cycle.
You should have a look at the days, when you feel really bad with anxiety, heart palps, and so on and perhaps note them in a diary, so did I. And I can see that every 4 weeks I feel really bad again (my hormones are not back to normal at all, didn't have a period since easter this year!!!)...
all the best to you out there and stay strong everybody, I'm trying, too....
Silke
-- By voicesi | Reply | Private Message me
October 28th
2005
6:21 AM
to the last poster:
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Well, your post couldn't have come at a better time... I'm sitting here after taking a shower and crying because of my still very bloated "After-Yasmin-Body" which I never had before in my life!! I always was very healthy and slim (I'm a singer and so a good figure ist very important for me; it's not nice look like a water ton if you are on stage...). And now there's only bloating and feelings like I'm going to explode the next few days...... It feels like even my skin was too tight for all that body mass, or should I better say water mass??!! I feel so desperate!!!
My hormones are not back in balance again at all, I had only one regular period since coming off this horrible stuff and that one was on easter this year!!! I don't know what else I could do. I'm careful about what I'm eating, I'm drinking lots of water and tea (without any sugar!) and so on. Well, I'm not able to workout so far, because I'M still suffering on muscle fatigue and breathlessness (although it has gotten VERY MUCH better than during taking Yasmin!!!) which both was brought on by the wonder drug Yasmin... So I'm sitting here, getting bigger and bigger without anything I could do against that!!!! I'M so afraid. When will that stop???
I'm so scared if I look into a mirror, I don't want even my husband to see me naked because I'm so ashamed about what he would see.... It has been 20 kg (maybe you say 40 pounds in America??) of weight gain after stopping Yasmin within 3 MONTHS (!!) WITHOUT eating more than before or doing anything else different than before!!!! It was just like I was pumped full with water by someone, every hour, every day a little bit more. I don't know if you can imagine how horrible that feels...
If there is anybody out there, who had been suffering from weight gain after getting of Yasmin or any other bcp and is doing better now, PLEASE answer and give some pep talk to me and many other women out there, suffering the same way... It would be so important to hear from women who perhaps lost all that "After-Yasmin-weight" after a couple of weeks, months or even years, not to loose hope completely!!!
Please help!!
Greetings
Silke
September 12th
2005
4:37 AM
Hi Ladies!
It's me again, searching for a little advice.
I'm 7 months off Yasmin now and still sometimes got this nervousness and blurry vision again. I started working again 2 days ago (I hadn't been working because of my Yasmin illness now since december 2004 - I really wasn't able to do anything even in my household or such!! I'm working for a lawyer, typing his correspondences) and I feel, that I don't get on even with a little stress like I used to before in my whole life!! I was a very strong person who could do 3 things at one time if I had to!! And now I feel overwhelmed just with typing those correspondences which I did with no problems during my whole life before Yasmin!!! :(
I feel so desperate and anxious again, that I perhaps could never be the old me again in my life and this pill has caused some longterm damage in my body and brain!!
I should mention, that I had been taking Yasmin for very long 5 YEARS (!) before getting off in February this year and that my hormones are not back in balance again at all!! My first period off Yasmin and same time my last until today was at easter this year!! My whole body is completely messed up and I'm having a hard time getting everything back to normal since then. Very much of the symptoms have gone away, but sadly not everything and not completely!!
So please tell me: Is there someone out there still experiencing the same or similar symptoms after this long time off Yasmin???
Anyone out there, who's finally totally back to normal and if so, how long has it taken you to get there???
I'd really need some pep talk!! Thanks in advance and all the best to everyone!!
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March 29th
2005
5:48 AM
Anybody there who's doing better now, after getting off???
Really need some pep talk, cause I'm still feeling horrible.
I quit taking Yasmin about 7 weeks ago now. I know, it may take up to 3 months to get really off, but I'm losing my energy to go on through all this.... Feel very weak and it seems to get harder every day...
Would be nice to hear from some of you you feel better now!
All the best to everyone!
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March 10th
2005
5:41 AM
Is there anyone who has experienced horrible weakness, muscle fatigue, feeling just like every muscle was made of pudding, even find it hard to brush my hair or such?!!?
Didn't find anyone, who has posted about this, yet, but this is still happening to me, even after going off Yasmin 4 weeks ago (I know it would take a little bit longer to get really free from the hormones...).
It's really frightening for me, what's going on. The weakness seems to get worse through a cylce (midway and right before the period is goint to start).
Please feel free to E-Mail me or post directly here.
Really need some pep talk through all this torture!!
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June 18th
2009
2:32 PM
It's nice to know that I'm not alone..
I got Mirena in November 08, and since then I've developed a plethora of unpleasant side-effects. Initially, I couldn't put them all together. As I'd had a fainting spell and some restless legs a few months prior to getting Mirena, I've been concerned that all of my symptoms were stemming from a nutritional deficiency like folate or b12 anemia. Nothing seemed to quite fit exactly right though, and I take vitamins regularly, so I was perplexed until last night. After googling "tingly feet" and "heartbeat" I stumbled onto one of these forums.
I have felt like a crazy person all of this year, and I am now quite certain that it's from Mirena. Feeling foolish that I didn't see this sooner.. but I guess I we perceive what we want to, and I was happy to have easy birth control.
I've NEVER had heart palpitations, this kind of foggy-headedness, anxiety like this, unexplainable nausea, tingling in my feet, or depression before. My dizziness and fatigue alone had me fearing for my health, and my extreme mood swings had me fearing for my life.
I'm getting this removed as soon as possible.
Clearly I could've done my pre-Mirena research better, but the pamphlet and pep-talk I was given did not mention everything that I've been going through. I'm a little pissed, to be honest.. but mainly relieved.
I think I'm going back to the Nuvaring.. I'd rather bleed than be a dysfunctional, ill, zombie-person.
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