Rough time symptoms and conditions

Hi everyone, like almost all of you I was so glad to stumble across this site. I had my mirena put in 4 months ago and when I was getting it put in my partner took the day off work and decided to tell his boss it was because he was coming with me to get the Mirena (I was horrified that he told him at the time!). But it turned out to be a blessing because my partner came home 3 days ago and told me that his boss asked him whether I had been getting deep pimples that never come 'to a head' and that his wife had them all over her face and couldn’t get rid of them and that she had put it down to the Mirena. I said to him, "Don’t be ridiculous, the Mirena does not give any side effects", and that was that. See I was told from my gyno that "The Mirena is perfect" and she said that the only people that go back to her to go off the Mirena "are people that are never satisfied with any contraception". And then over the past three days I realized that the bumps on my face that are deep under my skin have only appeared in the months after I got my Mirena and I have had worse pimples than ever before, and they have been untreatable with new ones appearing every day and I had never before had lumps that remain under my skins for months. It also wasn’t until I got onto this website that I realized the anxiety I have been feeling in the last couple months, weight gain and itchy skin have also all come about since the Mirena. I am tired all the time and never want to move or do anything and hate getting out of bed even with 14 hours sleep!!!!! Also - I have been pulling clumps of hair out of the shower drain and my comb over the past couple months - yet have had the same hairdresser and hair routine for the last 6 years.... I could not figure out why I was losing my hair and ended up having it cut from a mid-long length to above the shoulders 3 weeks ago, because there was just hardly any hair left. Also - about 2 weeks ago I told my partner (in an emotional uncontrollable episode which has become a frequent event since Mirena) that I had no reason to live anymore and just didn’t want to go on. First time I have ever felt like this, it was awful. I am normally the happy person at work who gets along with everyone and yet now I cant stand the look of any of them or even the sound of their voice makes me want to scream at them. WHOA, CRAZY!!!!!!! I have also lost any interest in self appearance and in the past few months have completely let myself go. I have also had sex twice since going on it. YES thats right - SEX TWICE IN FOUR MONTHS, aaaaaarrrrrgh. And to the most disgusting part of all - I have been getting an awful discharge that smells bad. I am a really clean person and was considering going to my gyno in the coming week to ask why it was happening….. I have been on many pills and the depot and whilst I experienced side affects with all of them, none of them were anything like this, I would get a side effect here and there on the others, nothing like this. Biggest waste of $800 ever. p.s. I wear panty liners every single day and night of the week.

im a twenty four year old student on paxil since i was fourteen.
coming off this medication is nearly impossible, i have tried at least ten times. The reason i have decided to come off it for good is because of memory loss. I can spend up to one hundred hours studying for a test and still only get about seventy percent.
Another reason i have decided to come off paxil is tooth decay. I now have a cavity in every single tooth and have lost three teeth due to paxil.
A common side effect of paxil is dry mouth. With out salivia in your mouth, it becomes difficult for your mouth to wash away bacteria, leaving you with tooth decay.
Im coming off slow, cutting up pieces of paxil to take each night, about two milligrams less per night. Ive been all the way up to sixty milligrams and im now down to twenty and hopefully will be free and clear within a few months. This is not a medication you can come off by cold turkey. you must cut it down very slowly

It is hard to tell what side effects come from which med but after reading other peoples experiences I think that its easier to put my finger on. I have been taking Lamictal and Lexapro since last spring/summer. I started to feel a lot better as soon as I started the Lamictal. I have a history of being severely depressed all the time. It has been a long road in search of the correct combo of meds. We added Lexapro and I got even better. I was on Wellbutrin and Topamax before this and it was too much drugs in my system causing loads of anxiety. I heard Topamax makes you Dopey so I was happy to get off that. I don't notice Lamictal doing the same thing. I think clearly now, but I do have trouble crying - which is fine with me. I am so sick of fucking crying everyday. Aren't you??? The whole point of treatment is to increase the quality of life and These drugs have definitely helped me to be happy which is all I care about. However, I do still wonder what I would feel like without them. It is tempting to stop once you feel this good. Why cant i just be able to feel this good naturally. WHY WHY WHY .

Hi I have had a Mirena coil for the past 2 and half years. For the last 18 onths I have been suffering with Chologenic Urticaria. I react to change in temperature (cold to hot) devole hives and itch. Each attack will last for 20-30 minutes. Also have pain in my knees and legs and have trouble walking up the stirs some days. Has anyone had these type of systems?

I have been on NuvaRing for approximately two weeks now. I really don't feel like writing a response right now because I am in such a bad mood. I usually am a happy go lucky person. I am 24 years old and only started birth control because I am going back to school, love my boyfriend, and really know this isn't the best time to get pregnant. Anyways, I really APPRECIATE ALL THE RESPONSES FROM ALL YOU GIRLS!. I feel I should tell you how I feel and let you all know that you are not alone. I have been moody, depressed and the worst thing of all no matter how much alcohol I drink I still don't feel happy. I don't want to be touched, I can't stand people that make 'funny', EVERYTHING IRRITATES ME!. So I decided to give it two more weeks. And if I don't feel any better I'm just gonna flush it down the toilet. Just tell your boyfriends to PULL OUT!. Thanks for all your advice. LOVE YOU GIRLS. Hope all works out for you.

I've been on Yasmin since Febuary 2006, and its now October '06.... so about 8 months now.

Now I'm tall, but I'm no amazon woman; a little over 5'8. I, like most other women (even though I've supposedly not stopped growing yet, which I have a rough time believing...) have one breast bigger than the other. Ok. No problem, right? Wronnng. I've never been small chested, I developed early and even before I began taking Yasmin I had a chest side of 38-40D.
Now after taking it for 8 months, I've noticed that, as I was told it probably would, increased my chest size. The thing is, it increased one a LOT and the other very little, if at all. I now have to wear a 38DD bra just for the ONE boob, so theres so much extra space in the cup with the smaller one. =| Then, its impossible to find clothes that make me not look like a... less than "nice" girl. I'm incredibly self conscious, I feel like its getting more and more noticeable. I've discussed with my mother having a breast-reduction surgery, which I've wanted for a long time and she is finally beginning to see how its a good idea too...
But my dilemma, is if I GET the surgery and continue taking the pill, will this just keep happening anyway? Like I get the reduction surgery, but then the one boob just starts to grow again, making the surgery wasted. Is this really worth STAYING on it? I'm thinking about it all the time, I want like. A boob-corset. An X-TREME bra, if you will, and not a minimizer. Those hurt, and it doesnt fix the problem of one being bigger than the other. I feel like I've tried everything.... :\

I have been reading a lot about some of the side-effects of coming off paxil. My girlfriend is attempting to do the same right now. Her withdrawal seems to be in line with some of the worse descriptions that I find on the net, and she is starting to question her ability to successfully come off the drug. I support her either way - on or off - but she really wants to come off for at least long enough to evaluate if she actually needs it any more (she has been on it for 7+ years).

She has had dizziness, nausea, and reported "shocks inside her brain" for the past 3 weeks while reducing her dose. Last weekend we went away, and she forgot her medication. In the past, we would have resolved the situation, but since she is in the process of reducing her dose (she went from 30->20->10) and was feeling OK, she decided to go from 10->0. At the end of 3 days, she is crashing hard!! Very distraught, emotional, slurred speach. Really having a rough time. She has gone back to 5 mg, which seems to have helped the physical symptoms a bit, but that is only 1 day after being off for 3. We will see... the emotional/self-questioning is the toughest part right now.

I think it would be good if I could pass along a "success" story... so many people have shared their problems online, which goes a long ways toward her feeling like she is not "going crazy". However, most people don't follow through when they get through it. I think she needs to hear that it is not all just trouble, and that there is an end to it (if, in fact, there is).

Just for the record... her doctor told her that she would be fine to reduce her dose to 0 over the course of 7 days... it was her own research that lead to her decision to try to do it over the course of 30 days instead. I can't imagine how she would have gotten through it if she had been so naive as to have followed his instructions!

Thanks for sharing...

Hello Guest 12944
How many mgs. a day did u take on the pred.? It will be very hard to be patient when u feel like u do, but it will pass. May take a while, depending on how much u took. There r all kinds of side effects that everyone posts here and believe me, we all go thru a rough time. U can complain all u want here. I have and it helps. Keep us updated........: ) Off of pred. now for 10 weeks after being on it for 4 yrs. Hello jules, where r u? Take care

If you guys think you had a rough time with Lipitor read this.

I sufferered a heat attack at the age of 45 without knowing I had high Cholesterol. They put me on 80mg of Lipitor for about 8 years. About 2 years ago I was suffering so much body pain they tested me for Rhumatoid and although the tests were negitive off they sent me to the Rhumatoid Doctor who said I had classic Rhumatoid. They put me on Prednazone and Methotrexate which is about the worst drugs of all.

After 2 years my live function fails so they reduce my metho and increase the pred BUT KEEP ME ON LIPITOR ???????

I took myself off Lipitor and within 4 weeks my Liver tests go back to normal BUT THEY WANT ME TO STAY ON LIPITOR ????

I said NO WAY so I started to also reduce the Pred and the Metho. I'm now down to 1 mg of pred and 5mg of Metho and NO LIPTOR.

Results so far are as follows:

Body pains have continued to reduce
Skin has started to clear up
Sleep is better
Mental upsets have reduced to almost nothing
plus plus plus

Now I don't think I have Rhumatoid and if I'm correct then there needs to be a full enquiry into the side effects if Lipitor and the doctors who diagnosed me. If I have Rhumatoide then time will tell.

Good luck everyone
Bob

I have been taking Topamax only since mid February for migraines - and my dr started me on 1 - 15 mg pill for 5 days and then I was suppose to increase to 2 - 15 mg pills for 5 days then 3 and so on until I reached 6 - 15 mg so that I would be taking a total of 90 mg a day....I've had a rough time adjusting to this medication - though I must admit - the migraines for the most part are no more...I am still waiting to lose the weight though.

Side effects for me have been - - waking up at least 2-3 times each night and dreaming all night long....and I am feeling rather depressed these days as well...More so than usual, I might add. I have a call into my dr to see what, if anything can be done to alleviate some of these symtoms...

Any suggestions would sure be appreciated - because I definitely feel as though I am carrying around the weight of the world on my shoulders lately...