Still fighting symptoms and conditions

HI ALL! I am back! I tried to stay away from this site and just not think about my problems at all....but yet..this site helps me so much! Just an update: I have been off of Yasmin 15 months now. Physically, I look great and am in pretty good shape. Mentally, I am STILL fighting the anxiety. My symptoms are weakness, vomiting (always in the morning), nervousness enough to make me crazy although no panic attacks anymore, sleepiness, and minor aches and pains in head and muscles. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping as well due to the nervousness. I take Clonazepam occasionally (not very often at all), and exercise as much as I can stand. I recently went back to the doctor for the vomiting and nervousness and they also gave me Lexapro. I was also terrified of it. I was so disappointed they gave me something like that, I actually BECAME depressed over having to take it. Needless to say, it is still sitting on the counter unopened. If you are taking Lexapro, is it helping you???? Please let me know! Would you start taking something like that when you have already been off 15 months (although anxiety is low grade, it is constant!)?
Virginia

Oh my heavens, I had no idea this site was even here. THANK YOU!! I was given Levaquin back in April 2006 for a urinaty tract infection. At the end of a family vacation in Florida I was feeling ill. I have been in the hospital 48 days, 3 hospital stays, including being transferred to Jefferson in Philadelphia, where they saved my life. I developed C Diff, a severe intestinal bacterial infection that I am still fighting over 4 months later. This is the second time I have had this infection. I was hospitalized with it in 2001 also, and just realized that I had been on Levaquin for a UTI then too. I know of at least two other people who have become ill from this of late also.
Yes, we need to get this medication off the market. I almost died twice before being sent to Philadelphia while in my local hospital. I will take NOTHING without talking with my Philly Dr. now. I had to go back to Jefferson again this past week because I'm sick again with the same symptoms. I'm only 59 and spend most days in bed, or at least near a bathroom. I've had so many test that I cannot count them anymore.
Thank you for letting vent this.

This is so incredibly difficult! I have been off of Yasmin one year now, and I am still having serious problems. I am having severe anxiety, nausea, lightheadedness, extreme fatigue at times. This is day 8 of my cycle and is the first day I have not vomited since day 5. I ended up at the doctor on day 5 and was given blood and urine tests of which I have not yet heard results, besides the fact I am not pregnant :) I take Clonozepam occasionally for the anxiety, but it seems to just make me very tired and weak (I only took 0.25 mg this morning). I was fine last week! I have been taking a general multivitamin since I stopped Yasmin, but I just went to take a Vitamin B-50 Complex. Should this help? Are there any of you out there that are STILL fighting this???????????????
Virginia

Hi Sophie!!

So good to hear you're doing a bit better now!! And, yes, In MY case it was the 3 - 4 month mark where things started slightly getting better. But remember, every person is different and there's definitely not ONE plan for ALL!! So if there is NOT a significant change into better around that mark, please don't despair therefore!!

I think you should try to not think and "wait" about the time it needs for you to get better. Just always be sure that it WILL get better and as you already see, you're almost there!!

I'm doing pretty fine again at the moment after the last 2 weeks feeling a bit tired and my circulation didn't work that good again. I have such phases every few weeks, seems as if it was around the time I should ovulate or get my period, well, if only I finally would!! It's now over 15 months after Yasmin without getting my period!!

I also have a little cramping (feels just as if I might get my period in the next few hours, but I never do...) and a sore feeling in my breasts again. Even my skin is getting a bit more spotty. My weight has been going down since February for about 5 kg (about 10 pounds I think) without changing my eating habits or anything else. Well, my body seems to be still fighting against that hormonal mess...

I'll give it another 2 - 3 months, then I will decide if I go to another gyn... Well, I don't like to see any doctors or hospitals if it's not really necessary because I visited about 10 - 20 of them around December 2004 / April 2005.....

I'm still hoping, that my body will heal itself completely and everything will be normal some day without taking another chemical...

Keep looking forward to much better times Sophie, believe me, they are ahead!! I never would have believed around the phase you are now in that I could be able to feel again like a healthy and happy person!! And now I do!!

Please feel free to post or E-Mail me if you need some pep talk or just need to unburden yourself!! I'd like to help, if I can somehow!!

Best wishes and a big hug to you and all the other "Yasmin survivors" out there!! Hang in there!!

Silke

Thanks for the encouragement. I guess I'm starting to panic a little because school is about to begin (I'm a teacher) and none of my pants will fit, LOL.
I also wanted to address the person a few posts back who was experiencing feet and ankle swelling and another who was getting acne. My ankles looked like softballs for a while, but are no longer swelling up and I'm still fighting the acne (hello, I'm in my 40s with zits? Good greif!) I think that is also a symptom of the Prednisone.
You know, I was coughing myself stupid (after trying three dif antibiotics) and two days into the Prednisone, I felt so much better. Even so, I don't think I will ever take it again. There has got to be something else out there...something that does the good without all the evil side effects.

My 48-year-old husband began using Advair December 2003 and was amazed at how it helped his asthma. But then he started having other problems: high blood pressure, weight gain, muscle aches and weakness (he struggled getting up after just sitting down), and the blisters/bleeding/inflamed gums throughout his mouth. After a couple of months, I found this site and he discontinued using Advair. His blood pressure went back to normal in three days, the muscle aches disappeared, but we are still fighting with his mouth problems. He has been to the dentist; who referred him to a specialist. The specialist has given him numerous mouth washes, and two prescriptions. Nothing is working. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

My bio stats: Male, age 41, bodyfat 12-15%, 5'8, 200lbs (I gym a lot). BP without medication range from 150-160/90-110.

Only started treating my BP this year.

Developed a persistent coughing immediately after taking Lisinopril (20mg). Coughing especially bad round 12mn to 4am before being able to fall asleep. Lost of strange and almost blacked out twice in the gym. Lost of libido and penile erection after about 2 months of use. Horrified, I saw my doctor and he swtiched me to Losartan about 1.5 weeks ago.

With Losartan (25mg) I developed a sore throat within 3 days of use which become a really bad chest infection a week later. This was 2 wks ago and I'm still fighting the chest infection with erythromycin and codine.

Obviously, this completely spoiled my gym workout schedule.

Also, I realised that about 4-5 hours after taking Losartan, I'd develop and really bad lower back pain (almost like a slip disk). It would go away after about 6-8 hours.

I never felt more sick this long. Is it worth taking the medications?????? Is there a way to do this naturally without drugs???? HELP!!!!!!

I'm almost ready to give up eating out and just making plain boiled chick breast meat everyday!

May name is Ana and I want to add a little more to the information I provided you all back in december. After December I had more infussions, I noticed that each time I had an infussion; I kept feeling worse side effects during and the day after the procedure. The doctor added steroids and benadryl to knock me out during the infussion, but even then I felt the chest pain and the head aches the day after. Finally the doctor decided that remicade wasn't for me, but I had to give him a scare; an even bigger one. 3 weeks ago I had my very last infussion. I went in 1 week earlier because I was in alot of pain (previous treatment didn't work) and I had been for 5 weeks, but now I could barely move. The nurse placed benadryl in my IV and it knocked me out, about 30 minutes into the infussion; I started getting chest pain and remember I was asleep. I tried to tell someone, but I could barely talk. The nurse noticed me turning red and shook me; asking if I was ok. I tried to tell her, I couldn't breathe; but I was struggling with the benadryl. I finally began to cough and it woke me up a bit, I then kind of told her that I had chest pain. She immediately stopped the infussion, called the doctor, got oxygen and helped me sit up. I was still fighting the benadryl. Finally the doctor came in and said, remove the IV; this isn't working for her. As soon as the nurse removed the IV, I couldn't stop shaking and I was getting a rash. I was kind of scared, but I tried my best to stay calm. But then I began to feel very cold and they noticed a tear in my eye. The nurse then asked why I was shaking and I told her I didn't know, but that I was very cold. Then one nurse took my blood pressure and noticed that it was sky rocket high. One nurse ran to get hot packs, blankets and pillows and she began to shove the hot packs under my clothes and cover me up; while the other nurse ran to get doctors again. Finally the doctors noticed that I was shaking off the chair and even though I tried to stay still I couldn't. One doctor said for the nurse to get a shot of something, I was too sleepy I can't remember the name of it (drug). It did help and it calmed me down and put me back to sleep. It was scary and until now, I still have a very sharp pain in the back of my neck that comes and goes. But I just want to think that it'll go away soon. So I finally got on Enbral and it works wonders with me and I feel no side effects (yet atleast).