Still battling symptoms and conditions

Hey BitterRN,

I, too, have looked around for lots of bad posts on other birth controls besides Yasmin. Yasmin seems to be the ONLY birth control (besides the patch and the shot-which are causing deaths and such) that people are complaining about. On this site I've looked at other birth controls and there are only like two threads for each one and they all say good things about the pills. I've talked to a lot of women and have seen their posts on this other forum I'm on and most of them started feeling bad when they started to take Yasmin. They've had no other problems with birth control until taking these horrible pills! I just can't believe they still have this crap on the market, honestly! It makes me sick to my stomach wondering how many women are out there without any internet and having such horrible problems like severe depression and other bad side effects... they probably don't think it's related to Yasmin at all!

It really just infuriates me.. I feel so stupid for trusting my Doctor. He said "this is the best pill out there right now." If it's so wonderful why am I still battling depression two months off of the crap? UGH!

Hi,

Just checking in after a long time... I was on Yasmin for 8 months, and have been off of it for 6 months now.

Still battling 2 side effects that I know of - heart racing episodes and heart palpitations. I used to be "prone" to heart racing episodes, if you can say that, meaning that I have had 0 - 3 episodes per year since my teens (I am 40 years old currently.) While on Yasmin, I had them a couple of times per month, including one the last week I was on the medication that lasted 2 1/2 hours (!) I am still having them since being on Yasmin at approximately the same frequency. I have never had heart palpitations before Yasmin, but do continue to have them now fairly frequently even though I have been off Yasmin for 6 months now. I would like to hear from other women dealing with heart racing episodes/palps, especially how long it is taking for them to go away. I don't know what my blood pressure is or has been, but I hope to find that out among other things at a complete physical in a couple of weeks.

Other worrisome side effects went away very quickly after quitting Yasmin: general exhaustion, sleepless nights owing to having to get up 5 times per night to go #1, missing libido, daily intense headaches, depression, tired legs, episodes of blurry vision, other vision problems, massive hair loss, you name it.

This past weekend, I got my very long hair cut for the first time in a year. The hairdresser found many patches and areas of hair on my head that were all the same 3" long. She was able to show me a 3" long bunch on the back of my head with the hand mirror, and it was very shocking to see. She confirmed this corresponded to about 6 months of growth, which matched up with about the same time I quit Yasmin. My hair loss accellerated and got worse over time from when I started the pill, so that by the time I quit, I was estimating losing about 250 hairs every shampoo. Apparently my hair loss was not all over while on the pill, but in patches here and there on my scalp. A very disturbing physical reminder of how Yasmin affected me, but I was encouraged to see that it appears my hair started growing back in force as soon as I quit taking the pill, which I hope will provide some encouragement for any of you dealing with recovery from hair loss.

Thanks to all for sharing and providing side effect recovery updates.