Second wave symptoms and conditions

I have been taking a low dose for only 5 days and I am ready to quit. I am either in a rage of anger or crying non-stop. I am severely tired and more moody than I have ever been. I was doing SO much better before on Effexor. The doctor switched my meds due to the insomnia and anxiety that I still had on Effexor, but it was nothing compared to this.

I took 4 500 mg doses of Levaquin for a sinus infection on Aug 19-22 2008. I am now almost 5 months out. I suffered multiple adverse reactions and have been waiting to post to see how things resolved. I am 39 years old and in excellent health. I rarely see doctors and have never had anything chronic. This is what I experienced: extreme fatigue, all over muscle soreness/stiffness, severe headaches, tingling/numbness in hands/feets, serious shoulder problems requiring ortho, physical therapy and chiropractor, irregular heart rhythm, irregular kidney function, constant ringing in my ears, impaired vision. Currently most of these are resolved except irregular kidney function (although this has improved), shoulder issues (not normal yet) and ringing in my ears.

You can't judge the full scope of your reaction by your body's initial reaction. As time unfolds you will get the big picture of how this drug harms the various systems of the body.

I can not begin to explain how taking this drug has impacted my life and my family. I have 3 children to take care of. I thank God that I am healing and have now resumed almost all of my daily activities. I pray that I will soon be back to full health. This is absolute madness. I am so sorry that so many of us have been injury in such a way.

Like so many others, I'm extremely grateful that I found this site! Going off Yasmin wasn't a planned event, rather something very serendipitous thanks to Japanese customs, who have been holding my pills due to some kind of processing delay. It's been about a week since I've been off Yasmin, and already I feel so much better. I didn't even think that my symptoms and Yasmin were related because my GYN, like so many other women's GYNs, made Yasmin sound like the miracle pill. When I first went on it in August of 2004 I experienced a wave of side-effects - nausea, headaches, leg cramps, spotting - but these had been warned about so I thought it was normal. The first wave of side effects disappeared, and then around January the second wave set in. These are the side-effects so many women on this site have experienced - depression, uncontrollable crying *all the time*, rushes of anger (also completely uncontrollable - I almost broke my hand punching a wall, and I'm a very laid-back woman), weight gain, loss of my sex drive, and worst of all the nebulous feeling described as 'loss of self'.

I would not recommend this pill to anyone... it is quite insidious. Thanks to Japanese customs and my supporting husband I've discovered sooner, rather than later, that Yasmin has been the culprit for all the changes. I am not, thankfully, losing my mind.

And thanks to all the women who have posted here for sharing their experiences with Yasmin. It's good to have the information out there for all those in the same boat.