Sibling symptoms and conditions

Ironically, when I was in high school, I was sick for 2 years; I had migraines so bad I couldn't read, write or even watch TV. I was nauseated every day.. felt a bit better in the evenings. But my eyes were so sensitive to movement, if i was to move my eyeballs just to look at something move on the TV screen, I would be in agony. At the time, my mother was so worried about me, she took me to see every specialist there was in the city (Winnipeg), I missed 2 years of high school. After seeing about 50 doctors, finally one asked me if I was on the birth control ill and told me to get off it. 3 months later I was completely cured! Since then, i have been so afraid about birth control. i have used nothing but condoms.. until my son was born, my maternity doctor recommended the Mirena. I was skeptical because it had hormones in it, but she assured me they were different hormones then what were in the BC pill, and she said the risks were so low. I thought I would try it, and be on the look-out for the same symptoms I had with the pill. But I didn't have any. No visual problems, no nausea, no headaches... so I thought it was the greatest thing on the planet. Meanwhile, I was miserable, angry at my husband all the time, had no interest in sex whatsoever, was not sleeping.. I thought it was post-partum hormones. We decided our son needed a sibling so i had Mirena removed to get pregnant, and after our daughter was born in Dec '07, i had it put back in... again, thinking I had post-partum depression or something. Even 6 months later after I quit breast-feeding, I still couldn't lose the weight. I was eating chocolate and peanut butter by the cup every single day, crying all the time, had no energy to look after my kids and wanted to nap all the time, and cried when I couldn't! Then a few months later all of a sudden my joints started hurting. My wrists, elbows (like tendinitis), then a couple of days later I was limping because my hip or my knees hurt or my ankles felt swollen and weak. I felt like a hypochondriac because I was always complaining of something. Did I mention the hair loss?
So, sorry for the long story. But most of my symptoms have disappeared since removal if the Mirena this past Valentine's day 2009. However, as I was forewarned, I have recurrent symptoms every month while PMSing. I have never suffered from PMS in my life, until I had Mirena removed. I get depressed, eat more, and my joints hurt so bad, and sex repulses me. My poor husband; A couple of weeks ago I got so grossed out during sex that I made him feel like a creep.
These last 2 weeks, I wasn't supposed to have joint pain, because i wasn't PMSing anymore. But it has gotten worse. That's when I put up my post asking if anyone else has this pain. I was beginning to think I had Fibromyalgia. I also have very dry burning eyes, which is also a symptom on Fibromyalgia. I saw my doctor twice last week, and she thinks I may have it too. Is anyone out there in a similar boat?

I started taking Yaz about a year ago. I started taking it around the time my brother died in a car accident. I thought that my loss of libido, tiredness, lack of interest in everything, emotional outbursts, arguing with my husband for any reason, crying over nothing, unable to concentrate while studying and unable to remember a thing were all because of my brothers death. I am now thinking that this may be due to Yaz. Does this sound like Yaz side effects? or am I suffering from depression because of my brothers death. I just haven't felt right lately and I cant figure it out.

I am 20 years old and had the mirena put in about a year ago. I experienced bad cramping, bleeding off and on, terrible weight gain, and depression. About 7 months after my mirena, I was put on Lexapro for depression. A couple of months ago, I was having severe cramping and I went back to my doctor, they did an ultrasound and found a cyst on my right ovary...I was supposed to go back three weeks later. The next week, I was cramping soooo bad that I called back to the doctor and they did another ultrasound...now there were two cysts on my right ovary. I had laproscopic surgery two weeks ago Friday. During this surgery they found a dermoid cyst on my left ovary they couldn't remove it, so I went for the second surgery last Friday...They had to remove my left ovary and the cyst was the size of a softball. My chances on having children are slim. My mom looked on the internet and found that a lawsuit had been filed in Portland, OR by ATTORNEY ******. They are supposed to be calling us back this week. If anyone is interested, please give her a call. The more we have call this attorney, then we may get a class action lawsuit started.

I am really surprised to see so many women posting the exact same symptoms I have. I had the Mirena inserted August 15, 2006. I have been married since September 15, 2006. It was all good at first. Had the regular symptoms of the Mirena with the bleeding and pain and so on. Great birth control, besides the two scares I had. Then about a year ago, it all started to change. major mood swings, irritability, severe joint pains, severe fatigue, insomnia, weight loss (I am 30 now; was anorexic from age 21-23; anxiety will jump start the anorexia; another battle!), and many more symptoms. the worst by far has been the fatigue and joint pain and severe lack of sex drive. I still consider myself a newlywed. I love my husband but I never thought I would get to the point of not wanting him to touch me in any way. I researched, like some of you, and did my homework. It was all gravy at first! I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and starting to think it may be the Mirena instead. I can't take the drugs cuz they knock you out. The symptoms sound too familiar on this site. It's like listening to my life story right now! I have a beautiful 4 year old and not sure if I want another one. My husband is to the point of getting a vasectomy so I wont have to worry about birth control any longer but my 4 year old wants a sibling. Economy is nuts. Having another one would hurt us. I just can't do the permanent thing yet cuz I don't want to regret it.
I only want to be back to normal. My husband has been begging me to take the Mirena out. For those of you who are Hispanic, he calls it La Morona (the Moron). I have battled depression and bad anxiety attacks. It is unbelievable!
If anyone out there is planning on putting one in, THINK about it first. Do extra homework. Don't just take one person's word for it. Look at both good comments and bad comments. It was all good at first for me but things can change. You have to be ready to make a choice quickly once things change before letting it go so long like many of us have done. It has cost us our sanity at times, our health, happiness, husbands and much more. Listen to your instincts. They are usually right.
At my husband's pleas and for my daughter's emotional well-being (she has suffered too), I am making an appointment to take it out. if I do get pregnant, I will take that as a sign that it was meant to be.
I refuse to let my marriage and my daughter suffer for a piece of plastic in my uterus.
I wish you all luck!

I'm glad I decided to look up side effects for Singulair. My 5 1/2 year old son has allegeries and was prescribed Singulair and Nasonex. Our son before taking these drugs was a smart and happy boy. Since taking these drugs for almost one year, he has shown very aggressive behavior by hitting his sibling, cousin and classmates. When asked about what he did or learned in school he couldn't remember. Favorite line, "I forgot". He started to display ADD like symptons too. Short attention span. Can't seem to be able to focus on one topic like he used to. He would cry easily and talks back. Lately, he showed a total lack of respect for even his favorite uncle. Basically, he has this attitude on and off. We, as parents, are trying to understand what is going on with his behavior and are getting quite frustrated. Time out has no effect and we are tired of yelling at him when simple reasoning doesn't work with him. My mom had mention a while ago that perhaps the drugs had something to do with it, but I didn't believe her. Now that I've read about it here I think we will need to take him off and see what happens. As to his allergy, we will just have to find something else if Singulair is the culprit. His present behavior is unacceptable and is not good for his younger sibling to see this kind of behavior. I want my happy son back. We are not the liberal kind of parents that would let the kid get away with everything. And yet, we do not run a military type of family. We use alot of common sense and fairness in raising our family, so it just boggles our mind about the behavior of our son. It's bad when other family members who we see every-so-often noticed the changes in him too.

I HAVE BEEN ON TOPROL FOR 5 YEARS SINCE MY FATHER AND MOTHER HAVE PASSED. BOTH HAD HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND I HAVE TWO SIBLINGS WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. BOTH SIBLINGS HAVE HAD HEART ATTACKS. ONE SIBLING HAS CHF THE OTHER REFUSES TO GO BACK TO DOCTORS TO GET EVALUATED FOR MEDS.

ANYWAY - MY SIDE EFFECTS HAVE BEEN VERY SLEEPY SOON AFTER TAKING, VIRTIGO, COLD FEET AND HANDS, SLEEP IS SOMETIMES INTERRUPTED BY DREAMS, WEIGHT GAIN HAS BEEN 15 POUNDS OVER MY ORIGINAL WEIGHT (NUMEROUS DIETS DON'T HELP). I AM HAVING DOUBLE VISION AND HAVE BEEN FOR 2 YRS - I HAVE HAD MRI'S/MRA'S ULTRASOUNDS, FLORESENE TEST - MY MUSCLES HAVE BECOME WEAK IN BOTH EYES TO THE POINT THEY THINK I MAY HAVE MYASTHENIAGRAVIS DISEASE - BLOOD TEST WILL CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT BUT THAT RESULT IS 2 WKS AWAY. I HAD TO BE PUT ON ZOLOFT TWICE AND COULDN'T TAKE IT DUE TO ANXIETY ATTACKS WHILE DRIVING IT ALSO LOWERED MY PULSE BELOW 44. PULSE IS NOW AT 56 WITHOUT ZOLOFT. WHILE ON ZOLOFT I HAD REALLY CRAZY DREAMS EVERY NIGHT. I STILL HAVE PANIC OR ANXIETY ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE WHEN I AM DRIVING AND I HAVE TO PULL OVER FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES TO RECOUP. I HAVE LIMITED MEMORY SOMETIMES. SEEMS LIKE SHORT TERM IS RARELY THERE.

I started taking advair since this fall. i was really sick with cheat cold, sore throat, stuffy nose the works. I did not have the flu shot so naturally, having asthma, my symptoms were worse. I had about 6 asthma attacks before taking Advair 250/50. I sent to an asthma doctor nhe recommended this to me. Yes it helped. I still had about 3 asthma attacks while i was sick.

What i noticed was voice loss: squeaky voice, straining. I just thought it was me being sick. when i got better i noticed my breathing more. It takes me so long to eat or drink everything! It feels like there is pressure on my chest or the need to burp in order for me to feel better. I continue eating and it starts again. I didnt understand it at first but now i do. It has to be advair becuase i never elt like i had to burp so bad and stop doing my normal tasks.

I try to take Advair 1 everyday instead of twice a day. Today my sibling seen on the news that Advair is causing more deaths then helping asthmatics.

SO SHOULD I STOP TAKING IT ALTOGETHER? OR SWITCH TO SOMETHING ELSE? IF SO WHAT?