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I CAN'T WAIT TILL NEXT WEEK TO HAVE THIS HORRIBLE THING REMOVED!!! I had MIRENA inserted on August of 2009, during A DNC procedure. I have since felt severe cramping with horrible nausea and vomiting. Some mornings it was impossible to get out of bed. I also have bad headaches, and am tired ALL THE TIME!!! I thought I was going crazy but now I know I am making the right decision. I have been to the ER 4 times since, every time they say have it removed. I also have had extreme hair loss, would pull 2 hand fulls of hair out everyday. My bath tub has clogged up so much, and now I know why. The pain is horrible the mood swings are horrible and my family deserve to have me back, being like this and raising 3 small kids has been a nightmare, and my poor husband!!! I want my life back and they should stop pushing this horrible thing on unsuspecting woman who just want some help.....

What a MISTAKE! I had my dreadful Mirena INSTALLED September 2. My doctor had me convinced this was the answer to my prayers. It was suppose to control my heavy painful periods. I was not using it for birth control. Unfortunately the effects were exactly the opposite. I have a very high pain tolerance, but when I got home from the dr. office the pain was more like labor pains than menstrual cramps. When the excessive bleeding, cramping, bloating, lower back pain persisted I started to look for answers. I was so grateful to find this site! It has been pure torture trying to live with this thing in me. I am happy to share I just had it removed. I only lasted 15 days! My husband came with me because he has never seen me so weak, in pain, dizzy and light headed. All symptoms from the excessive amount of blood loss. I am confident that the women who shared their stories truly helped me to make the right decision today. Thank you

My husband started the Fentanyl 50mg last Wednesday. The first patch was OK, then changing it on Saturday, he sleeps - not just a light sleep - heavy sleep, dropping off at any moment. He decided he would rather not be on the patch than feel like he does. Too soon to have any other side affects, but doesn't even remember dropping off. He has recurrent head and neck cancer with severe headaches. He said he would rather take the Advil and take a chance for stomach ulcer than to get worse as time goes on. From the posts that I've read, he made the right decision.

I had my Mirena put in on April 7th 2009, so about 3.5 weeks ago. Immediately I regretted my decision, the intense pain and cramping at insertion was not what I was expecting or bargained for. I had to sit in the doctors office for 45 minutes till I could gain my composure back and I have a high tolerance of pain. That night I could not sleep, I got 3 hrs sleep for the first two nights, only 6 on night 3 and it hasn't gotten any better since. Hot flashes, headaches, back pain, moodiness with my children and the constant bleeding since insertion combined with the insomnia is enough to make me have this thing removed. I called my doctor after another night of 3 hrs sleep last night and I am getting it removed at 1:30 today! I can not wait, especially after reading all of the stories on here I know this is the right decision for me. My greatest concern is now what? Will my insurance pay for me to have tubal ligation now after having paid for this only 3 weeks ago? That is the chance I will have to take. A mother of 3 little ones needs her sleep for her sanity!

Hello everybody!!
I had a very bad reaction the very first time I took my first YASMIN pil. Well, I took it on a Sunday night at 23h45 and went to bed. 1h00 in the morning I wook up feeling:
-Dizzy,
-My hands and legs heavy
-I had a LOT OF TROUBLE BREATHING/ bad hearth palpitations
-then my whole body started shaking very badly
I felt just horrible, so I called an ambulance. They took me to the hospital and checked everything on me. They told me there was no evidence to say that my reaction was caused by Yasmin. But I am 100% sure, cause I was feeling really healthy and all of a sudden, in 1 hour time I was just feeling horrible. I obviously did not take my 2nd pil….
After recovering, the following week I started with DIANE 35. This time I took 2 pils, but I was feeling very sick (vomiting, could not even eat, etc) all day long so stopped once again.
After talking to different doctors, and seeing that nobody cares… Finally I’ve done some ALLERGY TESTS for YASMIN and DIANE 35. I was just sure that the result would be positive, but I was really surprised when the results showed nothing at all. I just could not understand anything.
I know that my reactions where due to the pils. However the allergy test did not relate my sickness to the pils. Does somebody have an explanation?? Any similar experiences? Do you think that I just cannot take hormone treatments?

Thank you!!!

I went to have my Mirena taken out today. I must admit I will not be looking forward to having a period and this coil did do what it said on the tin but at what cost.

I told the nurse all of my side effects in the hope that she would be sympathetic. She told me that my weight gain was not due to the coil. What about my heavy painful breasts?. Well yes they are a side effect. She told me I was depressed because I had gained weight and that my sex life had stopped. Who said it had stopped just didn't enjoy it as much. What about my tiredness. She then went off and got a doctor who came in and told me that my weight gain and tiredness was probably due to a thyroid condition. But I had my thyroid checked last year. I then said that I need to exercise and that I did not want to put on any more weight because my father died at 48 of a heart attack and she then told me that i needed councelling because I am obsessed with my weight. I am totally convinced that all of my side effects are from this coil and I no longer have it. Hoorah. I will let you know how I get on. I feel I have totally made the right decision. I never thought I would wish to have periods and PMS. Bring it on at least I will be normal. By the way I didn't feel it being removed and nothing now.

Wow..I have been wondering for awhile now if the symptoms I have been having for over a year now had something to do with the MIRENA, and now I know I am not alone. I had the Merina put in in August of 2007, due to prolonged bleeding after my 3rd child (2nd pregnancy). I had on and off bleeding for the first 6 months, which they say is normal. Since then, I have experienced sore eyes, head aches, thinning hair (to the point that my pony tail holder falls out all the time), thinning eye lashes, and I feel sick to my stomach on a regular basis. My memory is horrible lately too. The worst of all would have to be my mood swings, anger, and feelings of depression. My poor husband and kids. I have 3 beautiful children and an amazing husband. None of us deserve this. I can feel my change in mood come and go. I went to my doctor and had all my blood work done and tested , and it all came back normal. I am 30 years old, I eat right and exercise regularly. There has to be something hormonally going on. I did not have these symptoms before the Mirena, and after reading everyone's experience, I truly believe that the Mirena is what has caused this major shift in the way my body feels. I want to take back control of my body.

Thank you all for sharing your stories. It has helped me to know I am making the right decision in getting this taken out as soon as possible. I'd rather have long periods, and take a pill everyday than have my entire life disrupted just because the Mirena is convenient. I have 2 goods friends that have the Mirena and they love it. I guess it just goes to show that all of our bodies are different, and it's up to us to listen to what our bodies are trying to tell us. Good luck to you all,and I will post once I have it taken out on how it effects me.

I was prescribed Reglan to increase my breast milk. I have no history of depression or anxiety. After a month or so having taken Reglan I got extreme anxiety and insomnia. I knew I was experiencing something that was NOT normal for me. It was a terrible experience. I had to move in with my mother so she could help me with my baby. I was diagnosed with post-pardum depression/ anxiety and put on antidepressants. Something I never would have believed would happened in my life. I am now weening myself off of them. Although my Ob/Gyn says that this experience was not due to the Reglan I was on. I am not convinced. I was taking it three times a day. I will never take Reglan again.

For me having the Mirena removed just last Thursday was the right decision. I was not using it for birth control but as hormone therapy for heavy, crampy periods. I had it inserted in July 2008 and bled every single day for the entire time, I had it removed last week and now I am bleeding very heavily but hopefully that will stop once all those hormones are out of my body.
While on Mirena I lost all sex drive, I became severely anemic and with that fatigued terribly, and moody, crying at nothing and screaming at my kids or husband for stupid reasons, I felt bloated and gassy and didn't have those problems before.
I am 42 years old and I hate my heavy bleeding in fact I want a hysterectomy, but not sure now what I will do.

For those of you who had the Mirena removed, how long did it take to stop bleeding afterwards? This is draining every last ounce of energy for me and I am taking iron supplements.

What sucks is the cost of this, Even with insurance I ended up paying a lot out of pocket to get this thing and then all the Dr. visits due to bleeding and side affects in the 4 months it was in and now the removal of it. I am wondering if there is any way that we can get a Class action lawsuit against Bayer for this horrible thing they are trying to sell to women.
I know there are some out there who have not suffered all these horrible side effects at least not yet or that they are aware of, but I truly believe that there is nothing good about this IUD and those of us and there are a lot of us who have suffered with this should be reimbursed or compensated for the pain and loss of parts of our lives and expenses with this. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

It's so scary reading these posts. Making me wonder if I've made the right decision for my 6 year old. We have just started taking Singular for asthma, it has been only 8 days. The last 5 of these days she has nothing but stomach pains and diarrhea. She has missed 5 days of school because she can't leave the bathroom. Is this normal????
Last night was the last pill she will have.

I read this website and it scared the shit of out me. I had this thing in for less than 48 hours and took it out after reading all of this information. I will say that after I took it out I got such a horrible YI which I never get them. I think I made the right decision, but I am still pondering. Someone tell me the truth.

Hi! I have started the NuvaRing almost three weeks ago, and I have been feeling sooo tired that I have lost all my interest in everything-except sleep.Also-I have had these weird, charley-horse type cramps in my calfs which swing down and around the arch of my feet. The cramps started exclusively on my right side; but recently I have started feeling them on my left. I would wake up in the morning, get up and I could hardly walk until sometime in the early afternoon. Today, fed up with this crap, I took the damn thing out-and almost immediately the charley horse tightness and pain dropped off. I also knew it would not be long before I would start to gain weight, as I have slacked off my exercise program due to major fatigue. It has been only a day, but I am feeling great,knowing I made the right decision. I have varicose veins in my thigh and calf area-and I fear the blood clots that the ring would predispose me to. I don't need birth control as my husband is infertile; this was prescribed to clear up a cyst.

I AM A 55 YR YOUNG WOMAN. I AM VERY ACTIVE , FIT , AND LOOK
1O YRS YOUNGER THAN MY AGE. I DECIDED TO GO ON ZOCOR 5 MG
BECAUSE MY CHOLESTEROL WAS 250. I WAS CONCERNED AND THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE THE RIGHT DECISION. I HAVE HAD DRY FLAKY SKIN ON MY FACE AND GET VERY DIZZY. I HAVE DIFFICULTY
ALSO WITH BLURRY VISION. IF THESE ARE THE SYSTOMS I AM WILLING TO GO BACK TO THE HIGHER CHOLESTEROL AND DEAL WITH IT. GLAD TO HEAR ABOUT ALL THE OTHERS WHO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THIS MEDICATION AS WELL. NO MORE ZOCOR FOR ME!!!
I HAVEN,T EVEN FINISHED MY 90 DAY TRIAL SUPPLY.

I first found this site and made my first posting on April 23rd, which you'll find if you just scroll down to:
"Hi, my name is Bobby..."
Sadly, I couldn't make things work and I moved out 2 weeks ago.
I keep running into people who ask me,
"what happened? You were so perfect for each other... "
I only wish I had found this site sooner.
I hope that as you read what these women have written here, you take it seriously.

(I just realized that 3 people wrote me responses, but I guess I didn't figure out how or where to retrieve them.... Or maybe they went to my spam box. Please write me at:****** if you think discussing things might help you to make the right decision for you, your health, and loved ones.)

This is by far the worst pill I have ever taken. Before Yaz I was on Nordette, Ortho Tri cyclen and Alesse. I saw the commercials and got sucked into trying this pill. All I can say is proceed with caution. I ended up taking this pill for the unhappiness 8 months of my entire life. I had problems with other pills causing weight gain (Nordette, Ortho Tri cyclen) or acne (Alesse). However, those symptoms are mild compared to what Yaz inflicted on me.

I have always been described as happy go lucky and Yaz gave me extreme moodiness, panic attacks about my future and life, and major depression. I did have the best skin of my life and lost about 5 lbs but I was an emotional MESS! I would cry at the drop of a hat and find fault in everyone and everything. This symptom didn't start right away but each month I was on Yaz got worse. My friends coined my "alter ego" "she devil." I almost felt possessed at times on this pill. I finally realized it was the pill and not life causing these problems when 3 of my girlfriends had the same problems and got off and the problems went away.

Prior to having this experience I thought people tried to blame too much on the pill but my experience showed me just how much these can mess with your body. I switched back to Alesse 5 days ago and it's like I am a different person--even my skeptical boyfriend noticed the change. As for the acne, I am going to go to a dermatologist to address that. I will be happy to have a few zits as opposed to being a crazy woman.

Proceed with caution on this pill and watch your moods carefully. Just because you've been on it for a few months doesn't mean you're safe. The majority of my emotional disorder started about 5 months in. I do have some girlfriends that like this but most have found it to bring out "she devil".

Both my children, ages 4 and 7, are currently taking Singulair chewable tablets for their seasonal allergies. They have been doing so for about three months. At first, I was not consistent in giving them the medicine. It wasn't until recently that I decided I should give it to them as prescribed, once daily before bedtime. During this time I heard about an incident linking this medication to a suicide. I shrugged it off thinking this could not happen to my children. Little did I know that this medication has other serious side effects linked to it. For the past few weeks, my own 7 year old daughter has experienced many of those side effects including stomache aches, headaches, trouble falling asleep, irritability, mood swings, crying spells, and traumatic nightmares. She used to be a fun loving child who loved waking up to go to school. Now she does not want to get up in the morning and hates going to school. She cries easily over the smallest thing and complains frequently of headaches and stomach aches. My son on the other hand has become overly aggressive and I had concluded that maybe his video games or cartoons were to blame. Well, today I found your website and I will take them both off the medication indefinitely! Their allergies were not as severe to begin with so I figure that they should do okay without it. I will probably look into more natural/ herbal remedies to soothe them when they do get their allergies. I will definitley be reporting back as to their results.

Update...Today is the 11th day my 7 yr. old son has been Singulair free! He was taking it for "cold induced" asthma. He never had the typical asthma where he needed an inhaler. He got RSV when he was almost 3, then whenever he got a URI it seemed to go straight to his lungs, so the dr. prescribed Singulair and Xopenex (to be used with a nebulizer). I had asked the dr. a few times to take him off Singulair because he seemed to be doing much better and I wanted to see how he would do without it. The dr. would say "oh, let's wait until summer or let's wait until allergy season is over" and kept putting it off. I just had some sort of bad "feeling" about it. Of course, I look back now and know with certainty that his wierd behaviors started around the time he started Singulair. I am relieved now because his erratic behaviors are almost totally gone!!!! When I heard the news I decided to take him off the Singulair immediately. I was nervous because he had a cold and a bad cough, but did it anyway. You know what? He is fine! His cough is almost gone now without the help of Singulair! He is much happier and can actually focus on doing his homework without getting up from his chair until he is done. Before he would get up about 10 times and just couldn't sit still. He has a better attitude about everything now! He is doing great! I hope everyone who was taking this and stopped is doing better! I learned a valuable lesson from all this. I won't put him or my other son on anything until I research it! I will not trust anything anymore, and that in itself is sad, but true. Good luck to all!

After reading the recent news reports and reading other parents opinions on Singulair I thought I should be fair to the company, and to other parents seeking advice on this drug, to write about our POSITIVE experience with Singulair. Our 7 year old son was diagnosed with seasonal Asthma when he was 3. We have him on the Ventilator and Advair. During spring time allergy season he would begin wheezing and coughing on a regular basis. We would then give him his puffers. While it would relieve him of the wheezing he would be quite hyper and out of control. Therefore, our goal was to wean him off the puffers. We added Claritin to his diet each day. When he was 5 he struggled through his spring soccer season. As the months went by he looked tired, very sickly, and worn out. His coach recommended that we investigate Singulair. It really turned his child's life around! We talked to our doctor about it. She wasn't familiar with children using Singulair but she prescribed the 5mg chewable but recommended that he use both puffers before his soccer games. We followed her advice. He took his Singulair before bed and the puffers before the game. Sadly, we noticed that he was completely "out of it" during his games. He had no focus (not shocking for a 6 year old boy), no real interest in the game, and no energy. We just assumed it was because he was tired after a full day of school. One day we forgot his puffers but decided to let him play anyway. He had a great game. During a daytime tournament he was back to having his head in the clouds, so for the second game we decided to "forget" his puffers again. He played a great game. But best of all..no breathing problems. We decided to omit the puffers for the rest of the season and just use Singulair. It worked wonderful for him. None of the side effects that the other parents have described. We use it when spring begins and for the the first part of the fall season. He doesn't use it during the winter months. We are experiencing a real dry March so I started the Singulair on Tuesday. Then all of the negative comments came out. I certainly will not dismiss the concerns of the product. We are watching him closely to make sure there are no negative side effects. So far, so good. And no need for the puffers!

As a nursing mother, after three months of breastfeeding, my milk was decreasing. I was reluctant to take reglan, especially after picking up my prescription at the pharmacy and reading the side effects, I circled back to the drive through window and questioned the pharmacist as to whether I should really be taking it while breast-feeding. I also called and spoke with the nurse at my OB/GYN. Everyone continued telling me it was safe.I've taken reglan from 1 to 3 times a day for 3 months. I ended up taking it because I was convinced that the good trumped the bad since I would be able to feed my baby more of my milk. Anyway, yesterday, I found this site and now more than ever I know that I made the right decision to stop taking reglan immediately. My side-effects have included severe mood swings, depression, ,very negative thoughts, and anger. Reglan was the only drug that I was taking and l don't have a history of being angry or depressed. I'm looking forward to feeling like my normal self again and if I could turn back time, I would definitely breast feed my baby until my (natural) milk deminished and then use formula. That is my plan starting today. BREAST-FEEDING MOHTERS, FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH REGLAN, PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT. Formula is better than the risk.

Are you aware about short and long term side effects of this Devil's drug??? Of course, everybody reacts differently while take or withdraw. But there are high number of people who react terribly bad!!! Doctors do not want to recognize and discuss this. They just keep silent... Do you know exactly how Prednisone works??? Nobody knows this for sure, even doctors!!! From my personal experience, and despite gradual withdrawal, I developed extremely high blood pressure, weakness, panic attacks, depression! Practically it ruined my normal life! Doctors have no clue how to deal with its devastating side effects. Steroids are not selective. When you take a steroid, the drug infiltrates the nucleus of every single one OF YOUR CELLS AND STARTS MONKEYING AROUND WITH GENES IT FINDS THERE!!! It probably plays with hundreds of genes. And just a small number of these genes control the pain and inflammation associated with inflammatory diseases, so steroids turn many of these genes off which is good thing. However, because steroids are not selective, they also regulate the genes that control kidney, liver, BRAIN, and HEART function - which is not good thing!!! It is likely that steroid treatment plays with other genes, too, including those we do not know about a lot right now...So, Prednisone pervades the entire body, which increases the likelihood of short-term side effects and long-term DAMAGE. My advice is: THINK TWICE BEFORE TAKING PREDNISONE!!!

I just had my MIRENA inserted today, OUCH! I asked the nurse prior to insertion if it would be painful and she said I would be "Alittle Crampy" but that was it. ALITTLE CRAMPY is not the word for it, I felt and have felt for 51/2hours since the insertion like I am in labor. Thank god I had some old Vicodin in my med cabinet because it was UNBEARABLE! I decided on this birth control because I didn't want to gain weight and had with ALL the others I have tried but maybe that wasn't the right decision? I don't want to gain weight,lose my hair,get facial hair(YUCK) or get even moodier than I already am. I already have NO libido how could that get worse? My poor husband, I will have to get him a lifetime membership to the "soap in shower club". Can anyone give me hope? Please , please, please!

I did get my Mirena removed on Oct. 3. I was having a lot of breast tenderness and they seem bigger with sore knots inside that come and go, abdominal pain, blotting, weight gain that would not come off no matter what I did, acne problems all over my face and scalp, depression, and mood swings. There are probably a few more but these were the most prominant. I took 3 ibuprofen (600mg) on the way to the doctors office to help prevent any cramping and it worked. It was a lot easier coming out than going in. I was only a few days shy of starting my period and so I waited to put in my NuvaRing until the next Monday. I know this will sound crazy but I was looking forward to having a normal period. I think our bodies were made to get rid of that stuff every month rather than holding it in. Maybe a reason for so many side effects!? Anyways, with the removal on a Wed. I did not have any bleeding until Sat. I warn you, I had a little bit of blood when I wiped on Fri. night but thought it would just be light like it usually was so I wasn't prepared for Saturday's explosion. It was definitely a period that was long overdue. The more I bled though the more I felt like the blotting was going down and that I was getting back to normal. (Could have just been in my head, but I was happy.) I did experience a little bit of dizziness those days. Don't know if it was from all the bleeding or just hormones trying to balance out. It was off and on for about a day and a half. Also I have had a few hot flashes over the past two weeks. I have also lost about 3-4 pounds and the knots in my breast have gone away and they don't hurt any more. YEAH!!!!!! So even though it has only been a short time, I really feel that I made the right decision to take it out. I am sure that will still be a few side effects with the NuvaRing, just as there is with any birth control. But at least I can be in control from now on.

Since my last post (13th July 2007) I have taken the medication prescribed by my GP and yes it has helped with my IBS but NO it has not had any effect on my other symptoms which, have become worse and now I rival any upcoming teenager!!!!! With my acne (face, back and chest) mood swings and living in my bed. So today I had my nasty little Mirena removed (Yippee!!!!). It was pretty much painless having it removed compared to the insertion although I did repent and have regular coil fitted again, Ooops!!! Which, was pretty painful but hey no more malicious little hormones just heavy periods again??? I don’t expect changes overnight but I do feel already I have made the right decision.

Dear leeleeroz,

the same thing happened to me... After getting off Yasmin I got the normal "breakthrough-bleeding", which is NO normal period!! And after that: NOTHING! I had to wait a very long time but my period came back after 1,5 years, without doing anything (well, my weight went down which perhaps might have helped also...)!!

I didn't want to put other chemicals in my body after my nightmare experience with Yasmin and I felt, that my body needed time to balance everything out by itself so I just waited.

So please try not to worry too much and try to be patient. It's pretty normal, that your body might need some time after stopping bcp to find its own rhythm and balance again, even if you didn't have any problems with Yasmin (I heard and read from many women, who didn't get their period for a few months after stopping a bcp, but for everyone it came back one day!)!!

And if you have the time (I mean, if you don't want to have children immediately), please take it and give your body the time it needs to recover from those chemicals!!

I find it not very helpful, that your doc had given you another hormone to get your period back, without waiting at least about 6 months or so; that's the time your body definitely needs to clear from the bcp hormones (some say 3 months, some say even 12 months.... I think this is different for everyone).

I wish you all the best and that you will make the right decision for you and your health!! And I'm very sure, that one day you'll tell us all here in the forum, that your pregnant!! :)

My son 12 yrs took 30 mg yesterday and he said it felt like an elephant was sitting on his chest and his chest was shaking rapidly. Later that night we had a disagreement about how the pin pong table gets put together. It turned into a full blown anger rage to the point where he went into e sezier. I was so scared and so was he. This morning he doesn't even remember anything about last night. I call ed the doc and he stopped the meds and they now want him to try concerta 30 mg. I hope this drug does not have the same reaction. I waited 7 years to start him on meds for his ADHD. I hope I am making the right decision.