Present day symptoms and conditions

After almost a year to date....I am experiencing a lot of the side effects lately that almost everyone has posted. I have two beautiful daughters and a loving husband. Here is my story. I had it put in Oct of 2008. I had not been on BC before b/c we were purposely starting a family. Well, I had it put in because I ended up getting pregnant for the 3rd time after having my 3month old (second child). Being pregnant so soon after giving birth was such an emotional roller coaster and caused a lot of stress for us both. Unfortunately I ended up having a miscarriage after 3months. When that happened, we decided that I needed an effective BC that I didn't have to think about everyday because I already had a 3month old and a 20 mo running around. This is what led us to getting the Mirena. So NOW that I stumbled upon this forum, I realized that I had been through a lot of the side effects that others have. I thought it was "normal" to go through what I did. At times, I thought it was my imagination. And now, I wish I would have spoken up about it sooner. I bled for 6 months straight thinking that this is what I had to go through to have years of light or no periods at all. It def put a wedge in my sex life with the hubby and not to mention my libido has been next to nothing. After the first 8 weeks of insertion, my hair fell out, but I blew it off because I thought it was due to the stress of the kids and the miscarriage. It fell out so terribly that I had to get a new hair cut to even it out. Fast forward to May of 2009, finally, my period is starting to last only 7 days and not like 3 weeks. Next thing you know, we are smooth sailing. Libido hasn't moved up a notch, but at least I knew when my period would come and how long it would last so that my hubby and I could have intimacy for once. Everything was fine all summer all the way up to last month (Sept 2009). Present day, now all of a sudden, my period has not shown up. Last time it came was 6weeks ago in Sept.. Kid you not, I'm having all the same symptoms of all my pregnancies. All last week including today I have had the following symptoms:
-Extreme dizziness with nausea
-Severe abdominal pain-like a sharp piercing pain on the left side
-lower back pain every single morning
-nose bleeds everyday, sometimes twice in a day
-increased appetite
-Extreme fatigue like I need to take a 2 hour nap
-adrenaline flashes
....So, after 7 days of this I called my OB today since she was on call and asked if I should go to the emergency. She decided that she wants to see me at her practice first thing tomorrow morning. In the meantime, she asked me to take a hpt. It was negative. But guess what, I'm not convinced. The 3rd pregnancy where I had the miscarriage...you remember right? Well, I took a pregnancy test the week before I was supposed to get the Mirena in b/c it had to be put in before my next period, well, that's when I found out I was pregnant...at the doctor's office! My hpt test said negative. So anyways, I am nervous and anxious to get to the bottom of this. If I am not pregnant, I will probably have it removed. It has caused so much unwanted change in my life-loss of sex drive, irregular bleeding, moodiness to the point where my husband thinks I'm psycho at times....you name it. If I am pregnant, then I will certainly have more worries than I ever have had before.

Ok here's my story with Prednisone. Let me first give you a little back ground info on me. Born with a VSD, that was repaired at 8 months of age, only after developing severe pneumonia. Was fine as a child growing up until at 18 i developed asthma. i am 29 now and have been on and off prednisone during that time. During that time however I have always been on a metered dosage pack that has always tapered usually within 5 days with no side effects.

Now lets talk present day with me. First off I went in back in early Sept. for what I thought was just a sinus infection, turns out my lungs were so tight, i was immediately put on 80 mg for 5 days straight, and you guessed it no tapering. Those 5 days were the worst five days of my life. I have SVT- taychcardia and the med made it worst, I was running around like I was on Speed or something. Also, I had started to urinate like crazy. Headaches, nausea, muscle pain as well as joint pain. i can not walk without feeling as though my knees, and ankles are going to break. Also, i am not as foccused as I usually am. Ever since that faithfully day in September I have been on this stuff. it has already been 2 months and im on 40mg now. And I cannot sleep at all at night and during the day now i crash once it seems like the prednisone starts wearing off. its horrible. I am going to go see the Pulmanologist Monday hopefully he will have some answers, and Im dreading him telling me i may have COPD, from a protien defiency(sorry for spelling, this med is messing with my thought process). Any who, i cant just stop taking it, i have been warned about that. something has to give or my body may give up.

hope this helps.

this med is good if used correctly but i agree Doctors need to fully warn patients before hand of all possible side effects.

yeah, I had the Mirena for three months and had it taken out because it ruined my sex drive and I bled constantly for about the entire time, maybe 6 days total of no period. And my period was heavy for those three months... not just a little discharge. I say that so that whomever reads this will understand.
I switched from the IUD to the Loestrin 24 Fe... I was hormonal day number 3... so much so that I have argued with him since day number 3... for no reason really... normally I would keep my mouth shut but with this hormonal swing everyone knows what I am thinking... and at the time I thought it was smart to say what I thought. Anyway, I took Loestrin for two weeks, thats it. And I am on day 4 of no pill and I am still hormonal. I had headaches starting day number 5 and they were horrible... made my jaw and ears hurt. They were persistant until yesterday, day 3 no pills, and I have a slight "Lul (hum)"... like remnants of the headache still present. Day 3 on the pill I also noticed serious depression... and that stayed with me until yesterday, day 3 off the pill, I was crying every minute... the slightest criticism or off remark I would be crying, and the baby.... she couldn't play around me without getting barked at for making to much noise or making a mess... I yelled at her several times... well, she is two years old and they do tend to test you but I really don't yell. I even told my husband that me and the baby would leave him.
So, I have read many other websites that host such experiences from Loestrin 24 Fe and I have to say... 75% is Bad News and the other is just OK. FDA may approve this drug but that doesn't mean its for everyone.

I have been on Lisinopril 20 mg for 3 1/2 months. After a couple of weeks I started that terrible cough. Can't sleep. After a coughing spell it seems to go away then in about 2 to 2 1/2 hours it starts all over again. Also when I cough my right eye starts to tear up like I am crying. I was sick at my stomach the first couple of weeks but now that has gone away. I stopped taking the drug last week just to see if cough would stop. Now I have a coughing spell about every 4 hours. I'm throwing this medicine away.
My husband takes the same medicine and does not have any of the side effects, other than a little tired.

I started taking yasmin last august--continuously for 4 or 5 months because that was recommended to me for very bad cramps and vomiting during my period. towards the end of september i began having chronic diarrhea, which continues to this present day (february 11th). in january and february i gave myself a break on the pillpack in order to have a period and see if my diarrhea would stop. i've been to a specialist several times about my intestinal problems--i had a colonoscopy and an upper G.I. examination. everything was normal, so i'm beginning to wonder if it's just a side effect of yasmin. i've told every single doctor that i'm taking yasmin, and nobody seems to think it could be giving me chronic diarrhea. i'm quitting the pills this month, but i'm afraid of my severe cramps. does anybody recommend the IUD called Mirena? i'm trying to consider other options...