March 5th
2007
1:01 AM
I have only been on Yasmin for 2 weeks and it has been the worst 2 weeks of my life. Very shortly after commencing the pill I noticed a range of horrible symptoms including: no sex drive (I used to require sex 1-2 times a day), severe depression, irritability, nastiness and rage bordering on psychosis (I went from a calm gentle person to almost losing my job after abusing my boss for no reason and also seriously damaged several other working relationships), bad acne, agonizingly painful breasts - went from DD to F cup!, nausea, headaches, dizziness, confusion.
I made the link to the pill and stopped taking it today. Thank goodness that my very sweet understanding boyfriend has put up with me through all this. I am still patching things up with my boss but may never undue the damage to my career caused as a result of my near psychotic reaction to this pill. I will never ever try this pill again. In fact, the experience has made me scared to try ANY pill. My doctor really pushed this pill on me when I approached him for birth control - he said it was the best one ever with few side effects and gave me several packets for free. As far as I'm concerned they can't even give it away. I have thrown the rest in the bin.
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February 11th
2007
7:04 PM
after 6 days of 50mg prednisone, have developed severe muscle aches, horrible constant headache, bad depression, extreme fatigue . Am still feeling this way a week after stopping the prednisone. While on prednisone for 6 days, felt euphoric and no pains, wonderful mood. Then crashed second day off the prednisone. When will these symptoms I am left with go away?
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October 25th
2007
7:24 PM
Hello, I was put on Prednisone for 12 days and made it through 11. It's been about 11 days since I've taken it and I'm still having symptoms. I have such bad anxiety and depression, mostly after dinner. My heart rate and blood pressure shoot up, and I have to pee every 15 mins. I had gone to the ER on the last day I was on it because I was having evil thoughts and crying uncontrollably. They told me it was probably steroidal psychosis and sent me to a shrink who now has me on Ativan until the Paxil she also prescribed me kicks in. Does ANYONE know how long this drug will be in my system? I took a tappered 12-day dose starting at 60mg. This drug may save lives, but it's really put hard times in mine. Any response is*****
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