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Like it has been said MULTIPLE times before my post....I AM SO HAPPY I FOUND THIS SITE!!!! I seriously was beginning to think I was crazy and that I was doing something wrong in my life to cause the horrible feelings I was having! My life is the best it has been in years (super job, fantastic,loving, caring boyfriend of 2+ years, super family & friends, financially stable, etc.) but one little thing could ruin my day or my week! The littlest things set me off (like my boyfriend playing with my phone! how dumb!) and I was a total bitch to everyone I came in contact with if I had been set off earlier. I have very low energy and the whole dryness thing too (eyes, mouth, and down below) as well as ZERO sex drive. I seriously was beginning to think that maybe I didn't love my boyfriend anymore and that I needed to go see a psych to get my self out of this mood! I cried for no reason at random times during the month, I perseverate on stupid stuff that means nothing. I have only taken Yasmin (Ocella is what I take, it is the generic) for about a year and I totally attribute all of my craziness with this pill!!!!!!! I don't know what made me think of my BC first to check side effects but I am so glad I did! I hope this helps those of you who feel the same way and don't know why. I know reading everyone else's did me! :) Good Luck and get off this pill!!!!! BTW...Yaz was just as bad!!!

I am 20 years old and I have been on Yasmin for the past 2 months. Before then, I was on Norinyl for about 2 or 3 years. For the first year of Norinyl, everything seemed to be okay. I was the happiest girl you could ever meet, and no one I knew enjoyed life more than me. I was never negative, and I never used to say the word "hate", or talk about "killing people".

Then, something happened, for whatever reason and I started to have severe mood swings. I was very irritable and angry at random times. This occurred while I was still on Norinyl, but my gyno and I thought maybe it was just because I was an 18 year old girl and that's just how they are sometimes. Norinyl helped relieve serious cramps I used to get in my legs, and regulated my period.

After a few months I told my gyno that I could not take these mood swings anymore. So she told me to take Norinyl straight through so that I would not get a period every month. (So I took it the way you would take Yasmin). However, things did not change. Finally we decided to try Yasmin.

Now I am on my third pack of Yasmin, and I have completely changed. I am not the same girl AT ALL. My boyfriend noticed it before I did and he is the one who checked this site. After reading all of your comments, we have realized that Yasmin is the problem.

Even though I got mood swings when I was on Norinyl, they were not half as bad as these mood swings. I talk about how I "hate" everything. I hate my life and the bad people in this world. I hate people that treat women badly and I hate women that disrespect their bodies. I want to kill everyone who offends women and all of the strippers in the world. (I have never ever been such an angry person). I am always tired and cranky. I cry almost every night for no reason at all. I feel very depressed and sad. I have become illogical when I experience a mood swing and I keep arguing with the people I love even though I know I'm wrong. I tried to control it and stop acting this way, but I could not. I have also been heavily spotting for the past 2 weeks straight.

So I just called my gyno after reading these comments, and the first thing she asked me was if I had taken any antibiotics. I said no. So ladies, if you are taking an antibiotic and Yasmin, please tell your doctors immediately because apparently, it can be a serious problem. Then she told me that I could have something out of place. I forgot what she said. It was something that started with "thy..." (like thyroid? or something) She said that we would look into it because if that is knocked out of place, that will cause bleeding and maybe even mood swings.

For those of you who cannot take the pill anymore and want to know some other options....My gyno told me that she would talk to me about Nuvaring and the shot. The shot does not have any estrogen in it. And nuvaring is inserted into you for one month, and then you go get a new one put in place. These are options that I am going to talk about with my gyno today. Thank you for listening and I appreciate your advice. I hope I helped someone.

I have been on ortho tricyclin lo, and then tried Yaz, and now i have been on nuvaring for three months. The only weird thing that I have noticed is that there are times when I feel my mood completely change. My boyfriend even notices, asks me about it, and then I have sudden urges to cry. I am a nurse, and even cried on my way into work today. Not sure if this is because of the nuvaring. As for those that have no sex drive, I have one, and on the other pills was so dry. But with this, I actually noticed that it helped with the dryness. Anyone cry all the time like i do?

My doctor thinks I might have PCOS, which is why I went in the first place after reading up on the subject. I've always had random periods, and if I miss a couple months, they can last up to a month with heavy bleeding. I thought it might be wise to go get some help in regulating. At 27, I'm tired of 15 years like this. She gave me Loestrin24Fe because when I took birth control in high school for about two weeks, I turned into a raging monster that would have attacked anyone.

I'm on my second week of the pack, and bleeding heavy. I have an opposite schedule than most people (I'm naturally a late night to early morning person and no amount of work changes it) so I take it when I get up in the afternoon (around 5pm). I've been bleeding the same way I bleed when I haven't had a period in four months. This? Is unacceptable. If I wanted unreliability, I'd have just avoided getting an OBGYN in the first place.

Reading the side effects and replies here, I'm also wondering if the weird episode I had last week is related. I woke up dizzy when I went to the bathroom. I remember getting dizzy twice in there at random times, nearly falling against my tub, and then falling in my bedroom, passed out for a couple hours. I also had a severe migraine, like no lights could be on, not even the computer as back lighting so I don't stumble in the dark. I'm lucky that I wasn't concussed, but this is just not okay.

Later today, I'm going to call my doc since I need to call my endocrinologist anyway for sick meds. And I'm stopping the pills today. I got off my bed after takeout last night, to clean up, and noticed this insane amount of blood underneath that bled onto the mattress. No more of this.

I have been on the NuvaRing for 2 months...my Husband is begging me to keep it out! My sex drive is non existent and i cry at the most random times.
I like everything else about it...nice periods..no cramping or bloating..and no weight gain...but unfortunately its not worth it. Its not fair to my hubby. Or me for that matter!!
Is there anything we can take to counter act the low sex drive?

I have been using the NR for about 2 years now. I absolutely loved it and haven't had any issues with it. No serious side effects. BUT I saw the ad on TV about the lawsuit and it made me put two and two together. And also to research it which has explained some depression and sexual side effects that I have realize I have been having. Most serious is I have been having unexplained heart issues as of the past 3 months and my doctor cannot seem to find a reason. It feels almost as though there is something blocking the blood flow to my heart about 2-3 hours out of the day at random times during diff activities to include just sitting at my desk at work.. It is very concerning and my doctor is even less concerned. I know my body and I know when something is wrong, and something is wrong with my heart/arteries/blood flow. I am 27 yrs old, I do not smoke and i am in good health. No reason for my heart to feel the way it feels and it is SCARY. I finally decided to research the NR to see IF it has anything to do with it and I was shocked to find some of my symptoms associated with the lawsuit being filed. I have put in an inquiry to see what can be done and hopefully get some answers and get my health back to normal.

I have been on Yasmin since April of this year, 2008. My doctor put me on Yasmin because of a hormonal imbalance caused by PCOS. At first, all I noticed was my periods had become regular and my skin had cleared up. About 4-6 weeks later, I started experiencing EXTREME pain in my right breast. After the onset of the pain, just my right breast became enlarged. A few weeks later I started having chest/heart pains at random times. It started occurring when I would run and that made me really scared. I had the feeling of having a heavy rock on my chest and wasn't able to get a real breath. After an EKG my doctor confirmed that my heart was healthy. Here is a list of some of the other side effects that I noticed: no sex drive, weight gain, TIREDNESS, forgetfulness, cramps in my legs, but only while sleeping, extreme thirst.

I am so grateful that I found this website. It's just awful to hear some many other women complaining of the same symptoms.

I was prescribed levaquin back in June for bronchitis. I was given 250 mg to be taken once per day for five days. After taking the first pill I had extreme anxiety, racing heartbeat, panic attacks, breathlessness. Then that night, insomnia. I took the drug for four days, and by that time, the added symptoms were photo sensitivity, no appetite, upset stomach, extreme fear and panic, paranoia. There are more, but since my memory was affected, well you know. Anyway, It's been four months since i finished taking them and a lot of those symptoms are still there, the tend to crop up at random times. I never had any of these things before this taking this drug. Don't take this drug! (also, numbness on left check and around mouth that tends to come and go throughout the day.)

It seems like I am the only one to use the Nuvaring for more than a couple of months. I have been on it for about 3 years now. I have loved it until the past 6 months or so. I now am having severe night sweats and a general increase in body temperature all of the time. My sex drive has decreased drastically as well. I have not had any weight or mood fluctuations though. I change the ring to a new one every 3 weeks to avoid having a period altogether. That has been great, but I have been experiencing horrible cramping at random times in the month and sex has become extremely painful due to the cramping afterwards. I guess I can say the 2 years without side effects was great, but I am going to switch this month. I cant take this extreme body temperature any longer. Maybe the birth "control" is to make you feel so crappy, that you don't want to have sex.

I was prescribed a generic for keflex (cephalexin), 500mg three times a day for 10 days for cellulitis(skin infection through an insect bite). My gastrointestinal tract went totally haywire as soon as I started taking the medication, bad stomach upset. The infection subsided in a couple of days but started having stomach cramps and the diarrhea continues for almost a month till I started taking probiotics to replenish all the flora in the gi tract.
It has been almost a month after I stopped taking this medication and now experience phantosmia( phantom smell ), in my case smelling smoke/exhaust fumes at random times throughout the day. I mentioned this symptom to the doc and according to here, it is one of the side effects asked me to hang in there for 5 more months before I can consult an ENT specialist.

Yaz blows. I started taking it on Day 1 of my period. That was 2 weeks ago today and guess what? The pill that is supposed to give you shorter periods still has me bleeding...two weeks of constant bleeding!

I was happy at first because my period was WAY lighter than normal. I was expecting it to go away after 4 days. It did not. I was expecting it to go away by at the very most, day 7 (my periods are normally 7 days). It did not. I expected 'breakthrough' bleeding that would occur at random times in my cycle. What I have gotten, however, is two straight weeks of bleeding. Enough for panty liners changed out a few times a day, not enough for a tampon (this bothers me, I'm a tampon kinda girl!)

Also...about 2-4 hours after ingesting the pill, I get severe nausea for the next 8-10 hours. I'm talking like, the kind of nausea you get when you are pregnant.

My mood has been TERRIBLE. I get VERY angry at the drop of a hat, without provocation. I do not like the rage I have experienced since starting this drug.

I've also developed insomnia since starting Yaz.

I will not be refilling my prescription next month. At $45 a month for a drug that doesn't come in generic, the price, as well as the consequences, is too much. I started Yaz to get rid of my periods, not to have a constant one all month long.

Went on Mirena in March, I was until August 4th, 08. I started having a constant headache for the last 2 weeks, constant cramps/ pelvic pain, and pains in my upper legs. It made it hard/uncomfortable to walk. I'll I have done since is lay down. I went to the doctor today, Monday August 18th 2008, and they said it had to be something else Mirena was not causing any of my discomfort. I told them I don't care I want it out. I think something is up with this birth control method.

I first started taking birth control pills about a year ago, and my doctor started me on Yaz, I continued to have an increase in headaches, nausea, and break-through bleeding, so she eventually switched me to Yasmin. To be honest for the first six months or so that I was on it, I was great, my headaches that I normally got decreased, and I didn't have any real side effects other then the expected break through bleeding the first months after starting it. Now I feel awful, my headaches come back with such increased severity I can't think and any medication I take for it doesn't work, during random times of the day I get waves of depression for no reason, I go through episodes of extreme emotion and the thought of even being close to my boyfriend at times sickens me. I didn't take any other drugs that could have interacted with the pill or increased the side effects as I know some people have implied. But I've never felt so horrible before in my life and I'm only twenty years old, I'm trying to get off the pill and find a different one, has anyone gotten off Yasmin and found a better alternative?

I have been on the NuvaRing for 2 years and I felt that my moods were gradually getting worse, more unpredictable and moody at random times throughout the month. My sex drive, as a newly wed, wasn't what it should be and I was tired ALL the time. I loved the convenience of the Ring, but after talking with my doctor, she suggested I try a low does hormone for a while. My body could have been going through normal changes of it's own and the Ring can make those changes worse. So I have been on Loestrin for a week now and I am having some funny symptoms that I have never had before. I actually have had issues with my stomach, I am more tired than I was before. This is just only a week in and it could be completely unrelated, but I was curious if anyone else has had anything similar to my symptoms.

I'm 29, have been on birth control pills for 10 years, and switched to Yasmin about 2 years ago. I a small varicose vein in my right within 2 months of switching, but didn't think a relationship between my vasculature and the pill existed. I can now trace the entire vein from my right hip to my ankle. In the 2 years since starting Yasmin, my ankles and lower legs swelled heavily...but at very random times. It often began at the start of the 7-day sugar pill regime and finished by the time I started a new pack. I assumed that the estrogen withdrawal going into the sugar pills was too much for my body to handle and that the diuretic effects of Yasmin were obviously absent during that time. I also noticed leg cramping, heart palpitations, and I started waking up in the occasional hot sweat in a drenched bed.

So, after making sure that my heart and kidneys were healthy, my gynecologist prescribed continuous hormone Yasmin and claimed it as the "ultimate solution". For 4 months, I have skipped the sugar pills for each pack and started new packages immediately. I have not had a period since, and the edema has continued (still at random) and has become exponentially worse. In the last few weeks alone, the vein in my right leg has become massive, my legs are so distended by the end of the days on which they swellI that I can't fit into pants which are otherwise loose, I am noticing other large veins "surfacing", little veins are breaking everywhere, and I can now see most of the blood vessels beneath the skin in both legs. My primary care physician told me I have chronic venous insufficiency...a diagnosis I'm not okay with. I'm very worried...the changes and ensuing damage have happened way too quickly to be venous insufficiency. I am going to ween myself off of the pill, but don't know what the next step should be. Endocrinologist? Another OB/GYN? Anyone have ideas or similar experiences to share....

Hi
I just started takin jasmin and so far so good ....but i just got off diane35
and let me tell you never agian ... today im 29 in 2005 i was havin a really bad smellie dark and thick discharg pain that would stop a train pms 24/7 so i went to my DR and he old me i was fine but to put my mind at eas we will do a few test bloodwork, MRI, X-Rays, CT-Scans, Ultra-Sounds, and other lab work. Two day after my frist test (Ultra-Sounds) he call me to come in and see him that day on a saturday and being my mom.... to this point in my life i was single not on any BC and had not had sex in a long time so i new that something was realy bad...when my mom and i sat in his office he came in and said to me i have very bad news you have a a very large sis and we need to look at it right away...my sis was 22cm across it went from my hip to my belly butten most sis are round or egg shaped mine was around one, i was 25 had my hole lif in frount of me and then i was pushed off a clif and was trying so hard to be strong when all the tast came back a few days later i had ovaryin cancer then i had it removed and that it was found out that i had stage 1 moving into stage 2 and with that news i had my right ovary and tube and part of my whom taking out ...today in cancer free (knock on wood) cant have a baby but im alive so i will take that and now have the worst face hair any one could ever have from the side of my face all under my chin and lots and very dark so the DR put me on diane35 i think i would want to have cancer agian then be on diane35 numbing in my legs, severe headaches, dizziness, and trouble falling asleep very painful breasts, I am nauseous and gassy, I am listless and have no energy at all, I feel tired all the time! I am also very crabby and irritable anxiety, depression, uncontrollable crying at random times, oh and the hair groth was and is the same...so now im on yasmin and have been for a few months and so far so good so if you think that there is something wrong with you and your body then tell some one and keep telling them till they listen to you i had a cancer that most 50year old get not 25 year olds and if i said to my DR ok you are write it is all in my head i would be 6 feet under today please listen to your body it never lies thank you

My nine year old son started on Singulair about a year ago. Over the last several months, we've noticed his anxiety/anger level rise tremendously. He's always been a sensitive/serious kid and so we attributed it to our talking about moving. However, we're a pretty stable family (not perfect, but happy) and couldn't figure out why it was affecting him so badly. He was a ticking time bomb, exploding on everyone at random times. Then he began chewing on the skin of his thumbs and eventually all over the palms of his hands...a big chewed up mess. He said he did it because he was nervous. It was extreme and scary. Then a friend of mine happened to mention in passing about the Singulair reports. We've decided to take him off the meds and see if it makes a difference. I'll let you know what comes of it.

Hi, I just wanted to say that I was on Yasmin for one month a couple of years ago and I had a lot of symptoms people have been describing. The anxiety, depression, uncontrollable crying at random times, the soreness, etc. When I stopped taking Yasmin it all went away. There are many other brands of birth control out there that have different hormone combinations, but are still just as effective (99.9%+). If you still want to be on BC you don't have to take Yasmin. After that I switched to orthotricyclin-lo for about 6 months and my only side effect was a little bit of breast tenderness. You have to try different ones before you find the BC pill that works for you. So if you are having those symptoms, get off the Yasmin! You will feel so much better. Many doctors are not aware of these side-effects of Yasmin, and actually think that its the BC pill with the least cases of harmful side-effects. I took a printout of a forum similar to this one to my doctor and let her know. You would probably be doing your doctor a favor if you did the same.

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I can’t tell you all how appreciative I am to find this site! I have been on the NuvaRing for nearly three years and was ignorant enough to never attribute my increasing problems to this terrible medication. In all fairness, I must admit that the initial reason I decided to use the ring was because I had even worse results with three different types of pills. My doctor then prescribed the ring, telling me that it would have the very least amount of hormones of any birth control. What she didn’t tell me and may not even know is that some women can not physically handle any type of added hormones at all in their body and must use a non-hormonal method. Why don’t they warn us of this?!

I come from a generally nervous and careful family. You could say they take life very seriously and perhaps too much at times. However, I myself have always been very social, productive, and had a passion for life. I used to love to write. I was good at it. When I started taking birth control, I was busy planning my wedding and so I just figured all the stress and business of life was taking all the fun out of everything. When I did get married, my sex drive tapered drastically (with the exception of my “free week” when it’s at its highest all month long, but still not what it used to be). I stated suffering from severe abdominal pain at certain yet random times of the month. One month, it got bad and was associated with a mild fever. The doctors did an emergency appendectomy on me just as a precaution. It turned out my appendix was fine and never needed to be pulled! Since the beginning, I’ve suffered the same pain almost every month. Not a month goes by that I don’t have weird things happening to me physically. About a year ago, I started suffering terrible panic attacks! I get extremely dizzy in stores, in traffic, while eating, lying in bed and it happens completely randomly. I suffer terrible leg cramps at night during the week of my period. They’ve gotten so bad that I wake up crying sometimes. I never used to grind my teeth and now I have TMJ! I’ve become overly paranoid and find that at certain times of the month I have more courage to do things I know I shouldn’t ( I have crazy thoughts), while at other times, usually right before my period, I’m afraid to do anything at all. I become obsessed with the thought that I’m dying and I suffer from extreme panic attacks for no good reason at random moments. Rarely, but on occasion, I feel completely normal and just wish I could stay in those moments for good. I suffer from: night sweats, bouts of intense emotion and sadness at the start of my free week, nausea upon insertion of the ring, lethargy and the feeling that my body is held down by weights. My appetite fluctuates greatly from day to day. One day, I’ll eat very little, and the next I’ll want to eat everything. Also since I’ve been on birth control, I’ve developed what you could call an eating disorder. I argue that I don’t have an eating disorder simply because I know that I am not myself on birth control. I haven’t always been this way, and I look forward to the day when I’ll be back to normal. I’ve grown so neurotic that everything in my life is just one big disorder! Doctors can only seem to diagnose what they can see, and so naturally they label me anorexic at 5’7 and around 90llbs. Two and a half years ago, I was a thin, normal girl at 105lbs. The pill made me gain about ten pounds, and since I’ve been on the ring, I’ve lost more and more weight as I’ve grown weird about everything in my life including food. I don’t use laxatives or throw up my food; I’m just a strict eater, disciplined to a fault and with more self control than one should be allowed to posses. I hate my life now. I’m terrified of having an attack in front of people and my daily life has become unpredictable and daunting. I want to be normal. I don’t want to have another dizzy spell ever. I hate it! I feel for women everywhere who are put on such drugs. I did decide to contact NuvaRing first, even before I found this site. I figured they could provide the best answers. Since it’s the only form of medication I take continually, (I’ve decided NOT to follow doctors orders to take the three different anti-depressant meds they’ve prescribed to me in the past two and a half years) I started to wonder if this was the cause of my problems. A representative of the drug told me that there have been no known reports of dizziness, my main complaint. This made me feel alone in my frustration. Now, either she was out right lying to me or the company hasn’t been notified by patients like us who suffer everyday from the adverse reactions to the hormones unnatural to our varying bodies. Regardless, this will be my last month on the ring. I’m pray that I can go back to life as I knew it. I don’t know if that’s even possible. Right now, that just seems like a dream.

I have been on mirena now for 10 months. I was on the depo for 10 years prior. I loved my depo adn only went off of it after Kaiser said I could not do it any longer. I was told that mirena was a god send and a lot like my depo. I can say that the combination of depo and mirena I have not had any period at all. but that is where the happiness ends. I have experienced moths of breast pain. it hurt to touch them let alone put anything on them. after about 6 months and numerous trips to the vet it disappeared. then I got a small rash on my neck and by my arms. went to dermatology and since then I have been there, or to my primary or an allergist every week since then. the rough severley itchy skin is constant. remarkably every 29 - 32 days it fades for 2 days or so and just when I am sure it is going away wham back it comes and each time it is getting worse and worse. having never had any skin problems before I believed the doctors tha tit was folliculitus, then they said dermatitus, then they said uticaria and then hives or the last straw i was causing it that it was in my head. i just got a new allergist and while she doesn't knwo if it is my mirena she can tell me I have histamine levels that are off the chart. my husband is allergic to a lot so we already use free & clear everything and my housse is spotless but I am still being told it is soemthing I am doing to myself. I have also been reevaluating my things and I relaize I have been experiencing a lot of numbness and joint pain. so much so that my primary sent me to a rhuematlogist and he ran every test for lupus, and many other diseaeses adn even cancer. I was going crazy. Iwas beginning to think maybe I was mental. I have since been researching mirena and I am finding it so much more than what the pamphlet says. I finally got the nerve to call my ob, adn she ahs since been researching things with me and we know for sure that no matter what next week I get my mirena removed. I am just feeling so alone and depressed. I am 33 years old and instead of enjoying my new marriage I am contemplating a divorce becasue I do not want him to be stuck with soemone who might be crazy. seeking support and anyone else who feels this way.

I was prescribed Clonazepam for anxiety about 3 months ago coupled with a generic version of zooloft. I am definately starting to feel insane. My head aches at random times. I do still drink and smoke leafy substances, which i know is not recomended, but I am still in college and I feel sometimes like its the only way to meet ppl, drinking/partying, especially in places where there isn't much else. I want to get off the drug, but I am so afraid of the side effects. I don't really feel better on it. because I like having energy, I am a spunky girl and it takes away my spunk. I just wanna know how to function in society. I get nervous around new ppl, especially bosses/or anyone in my field, if I don't take the drug, but I can't even really tell if it is helping. At first it was fine, but now my head hurts all over/ headache. I forget things, which may be the sertraline, but regardless I want to get off of it. I feel more insane now than I did before.

I have been using Yasmin since September when I had to have a ovarian cystectomy due to a burst cyst. I thought that I was crazy until I came across this site. I have been having some random side effects that had never occured before with any other BCP that I have used.

Panic attacks at random times for no reason
Inability to concentrate at times
Discharge from my nipples, but no growth... go figure.
Hair in the most random places
I am extreamly tired all of the time
Weight gain
Swelling of my feet and hands
Bad Acne and i have never had even a little bit before
I am always sick to my stomach

I kept on wondering in the back of my head about Yasmin, but my doctor said that it was stress. Maybe I will give him the link to this site so that he fully understands the negative side effects of this pill. Thank you to all of you ladies who took the time to help educate me and make me realise that I am not alone.

I switched to Yasmin about six months ago. My breasts started swelling and itched really badly. It neevr occured to me that this could be related to Yasmin until i searched for this symtom and foudnt hsi site witht he same complaints. I think it is extremely likely that this pill is the cause of the problem since it happened just when I switched. I have also had a number of the other issues people emntioned -- no sex drive, naseous at random times, and very frequent peeing.

Good luck to everyone.