Sheer exhaustion symptoms and conditions

NR has been great birth control...but only because my crazy mood swings & crying jags don't exactly put either my BF nor myself in the mood for love. I've always been one of those "stiff upper lip" types & have never been able to remember when asked when the last time I cried was (nor the reason)...at most, I cried once or twice a year, usually out of sheer exhaustion from work. However, in the past two months since I started NR, the answer now would have to be either "yesterday" or "I'm crying right now". Even my mother (with whom I talk daily) has noticed that I'm not the same strong person I used to be & it started with the NuvaRing. I am so tired of feeling like lying in the dark, listening to Joy Division & feeling sorry for myself, that after sobbing though (yet another) commute, I pulled the ring out & threw it in the trash on the way into the house today. Now, all I need to do is find a new birth control method...

I took Lipitor for 2 years with all the pain in my shoulder, hand and arm as well as fuzzy memory. I had a friend over for Lunch an have no memory of anything that happened including his arriving and leaving on his Harley and we all know how loud they are. I ended up in the hospital with all kins of tests including an MRI all of which I have no memory of to this date. My hospital bills are still coming in as well as all the Doctors that saw me. I just received my Divorce and then this happened , I was out of work for a week , the Doctors thought I had had a heart attack, stroke or aneurysm.I also had all the foot pain making it impossible to stand up , leg cramps, sleeplessness, sheer exhaustion, depression, headache and nausea. The Doctor at the Hospital took me off of the Lipitor and said to take a 325mg. aspirin daily . This happened on March 23, 2008 . I am felling better but I still pain in my shoulder , neck , stomach , and feet and legs but is nothing like it was. Here I am left with a few thousand dollars of Doctor and Hospital bills. Why can`t something be done about all of this we are all going thru? I called the FDA to report it and got no where. Did I really expect anything to happen ! I hope someone gets something done for us . I would be one of the first to sign up to take Lipitor off the market and get what is due us.

Thank you for this website. I took yasmin for a couple of years but the worst side effects appeared in the last 3 months. These included shortness of breath, leg and foot cramps, and bad mood swings; however the worst side effect for me was EXTREME FATIGUE that worsened over this time. I didnt link it to yasmin and went to my GP several times each time feeling worse. By the end of this time I was so exhausted i could barely do anything, I was sleeping 12-14 hours per day and still feeling tired, I had no eneregy to even walk to the mailbox, I was crying constantly from sheer exhaustion. I was not depressed but did not feel happy just indifferent. When i read this website this tiredness had reached its peak, I felt like i was dying, i kept saying to my dr i KNOW there is something wrong with me i just dont know what! i stopped yasmin that night and within 3 days was starting to feel better, now a few weeks later I am sleeping less and have more eneergy and feel much more normal. I know it was yasmin that made me feel this way but because the side effects were delayed it took me a while to work it out.