Sufferer symptoms and conditions

The experience is not with me, but my daughter, who is a sufferer of PCOS and experienced acne problems She's been on Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo since January 2007, and received positive results for acne and regulating menstrual cycle, with minimal side effects. Since being switched to generic tri-lo sprintec (July 29), she's experiencing lethargy, some headaches, moodiness, acne, and slight depression, which is very unlike her. What I recommend to everyone on this website is to submit adverse event to the pharmaceutical company, Teva. They should have a website and or a call line for presenting your concerns. I will be doing this because this drug definitely needs to be reported and possibly pulled from the market.

This is to serve as a personal warning to ANYONE taking
Effexor XR or thinking about taking it.

After my husband and I experienced HORRIBLE withdrawal symptoms within a week from coming off of our medication, and has continued for 4 months now. I feet compelled to inform people about the risks that this drug carries with it.

This drug helped my husband and I immensely while we were on it, but I just wish that I had been more knowledgeable about the risks of going off this medication so abruptly.

I understand that the medical professional that is prescribing you the drug is supposed to inform you that you are not to stop taking the medication abruptly (which is exactly what I was told). IN NO WAY was I told the consequences of NOT taking the medication.

So here are some of the symptoms that I experienced within the first two days (there are many more symptoms that other Effexor XR patients have experienced, but I feel that it is only right to list mine):

• Akathisia - a syndrome characterized by unpleasant sensations of "inner" restlessness that manifests itself with an inability to sit still or remain motionless.
• Ataxia – Loss of the ability to move the body with coordination.
• "Brain Zaps", "Brain Shocks," "Brain Shivers" or "Head Shocks" Descriptions include dizziness, electric shock-like sensations, sweating, nausea, insomnia, tremor, confusion, and vertigo.
• Cold Sweat – The skin is clammy and moist and you feel chilled. This is a reaction to a shock or pain as well as to fear and nervousness.
• Colitis – A condition where the large intestine becomes irritated from the use of the drug.
• Dehydration – An extreme loss of water from the body or the organs of the body as in sickness or not drinking enough fluids.
• Depersonalization - A feeling of watching oneself act, while having no control over a situation. (A sufferer feels that he or she has changed and the world has become less real, vague, dreamlike, or lacking in significance.)
• Diplopia – A condition where a person is looking a one object and instead of normally seeing just the one object he sees two. This is also call double vision.
• Disequilibrium - Dizziness, light-headedness and vertigo with a sense of losing balance.
• Dysarthria – The inability to control the mouth muscles when forming words so the words are not clearly spoken and heard.
• Gastric Irritation – An inflamed and sore stomach.
• Hyperhidrosis – The triggering of an excess of sweat being produced on the soles of the feet and/or the palms.
• Hypoesthesia – A partial loss of sensation or general loss of awareness.
• Influenza-like - Fatigue, lethargy, chills, sweating, headache, weakness and palpitations.
• Insomnia – Not able to fall asleep or sleeping for a shorter time than desired, thus not being able to properly rest and feeling un-refreshed. As a result, a person can become irritable, have difficulty concentrating and feel a lack of energy.
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome – A painful condition where the either the muscles or the nerves of the lower intestines, are not responding normally. This results in an alternating condition of diarrhea followed by constipation, back and forth.
• Mania – Unusually irrational, excessive and/or exaggerated behavior or moods ranging from enthusiasm, sexuality, gaiety, impulsiveness and irritability to violence.
• Mood Swings – An emotional shifting as from a state of happiness to a state of depression for a period of time.
• Night Sweats – With night sweats you become wide awake in the middle of the night shivering and cold and wet with your sheets/pajamas soaked in perspiration making it difficult to go back to sleep.
• Nightmare – Dreams that make you afraid or leave feelings of fear, terror, and upset long after waking up.
• Abnormal Orgasm – Unable to have an orgasm with normal sexual stimulation.
• Pain in Extremity – A painful feeling in the legs, arms, hands, and/or feet.
• Paresthesia - A sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of a person’s skin with no apparent long-term physical effect.
• Photopsia – A condition where a person sees lights, sparks, or colors in front of their eyes.
• Pressure of Speech – A condition where the individual cannot voice his ideas fast enough with the pressure of there being not enough time to say it.
• Pyrexia – Fever or the increase in body temperature that is usually a sign of infection.

Now some of you may be thinking that I might be overreacting, but I assure you that I am not. Quite the opposite actually, I feel that there are probably more symptoms that I am leaving out.
When I went online to research the symptoms that we had been experiencing, there was little information that I could find. I went onto the website for Wyeth (the company that produces Effexor XR) and the only thing that I could find was, and I quote,

“When people suddenly stop using or quickly lower their daily dose of EFFEXOR XR, discontinuation symptoms may occur. Talk to your doctor before discontinuing or reducing your dose of EFFEXOR XR.”

Wyeth also states that Effexor XR is, and I quote AGAIN,

“ Effexor XR Is Not Addictive. Effexor XR and other antidepressants are not addictive. You cannot become addicted to an antidepressant even if you take it for long-term maintenance therapy. An antidepressant is not a controlled substance like a narcotic or a stimulant.”

I am very sorry Wyeth, but I disagree.

I was prescribed the doxycycline hyclate 100mg twice daily for 21 days for lymes disease, I am on my 4th day, I had a hard time getting to sleep last night, I usually just fall to sleep in seconds. I am a 40 year sufferer of IBS "diarrhea", my worst time is usually in the morning, I noticed by the first day that my IBS symptoms were less severe and this morning I have been up for 4 hours and have not had to go yet.

I only negative side effect I have had so far is difficulty going to sleep, If it works to reduce or eliminate my IBS symptoms along with the lymes I can deal with the insomnia for a while.

I have been using probiotics for a while prior to starting on the doxy and the probiotics did seem to help with my IBS symptoms but not to this degree, I drink plenty of water with the doxy, so far I would have to say so good but it is early in the prescription so who knows, thank you to every one for posting your experiences with this drug

well i am am African American and over 40 yrs of age my obgyn at the time in 2008 prescribed Alesse (aviane) for me due to awful pains with endometriosis (returning) so for a while just like most of these reviews i am reading i like other people suffered headaches, weight gain, full feeling and a little bit of other things that soon went away after 3-6 months, but you know just recently (past 4 to 6 mos) or so i have had really bad dreams, abnormal dreams to night mares....i have come through a whole lot of adversity with my health (fibromyalgia sufferer and osteo arthritis etc) NEVER HAD I EVER HAD AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THIS BEFORE...I HOPE SOMEONE OUT THERE CAN TELL ME HAVE THEY WENT THROUGH THIS...I hope not....but in my opinion I am aiming to ask the good ole doctor to move me to something else...in short i blame the birth control Alesse(Aviane) Thank you

I am a 35 year old woman and my doctor put me on lisinopril 10 mg at first I had the cough that I see almost everyone gets,but I could deal with that then I started getting very tired all the time,I had started working out and was feeling better since I had been diagnosed with hbp,I ws following the dash diet ,it is said to be real good for hbp.I started taking lisinopril in may and by November I was a complete mess, My doctor never told me of any side effects so I read the little paper that the drug store give you on the side effects but it does not do this justice!I was so weak and tired I could not get out of bed,On thanksgiving I went to the hospital and told them I have no energy I feel sick all the time and dizzy,of course they sent me home thinking I was insane because I was crying ,I felt depressed all the time I did not know what was going on .About two weeks later very close to Christmas I started having palpitations at first I just thought it was stress from the holiday then they came more often ,I was so scared I went to my doc. told her I was have palpitations and she blamed it on my weight! ok now I am overweight but I have lost almost forty pounds and was walking four days a week ,then I said to her do you think it could be the lisinopril ,then she said something I will never forget she said well who put you on lisinopril? I was done then I said well you put me on the drug ,her face went white she said oh yes you should stop taking it I will give you a different one ,so I went home and took it for week and the palpitations kept getting worse so I went back to her and told her I was still having palpitations so then she gave me an e.k.g. and found nothing of course.I told her I was going to stop taking the meds all together and she then said she wanted to see me in two weeks ,In the meantime my boyfriend made an appointment for me to see a heart doc. ,he took another e.k.g.(did I mention I have no insurance)and said there was nothing he could do that I need an echo and a holter moniter for 24 hours to tell him whats going on .I had been off work for a month now so I had no money left so I started crying but my boyfriend paid for the tests to be done which cost a pretty penny .I am still waiting for the results of those tests yet but the more I think about it the more I wonder if I was having lisinopril panic attacks?I have stopped taking all blood pressure meds and my bp is most of the time 120/80 sometimes it is lower sometimes it is higher but I would rather not deal with the side effects of the drug until I really need them!

After having my third child I wanted different contraception. I was over 35 now and could not continue on the combined pill and I definitely did not want to remain on the mini pill. I was not keen on the coil as I had one many years ago. The mirena however sounded perfect. The initial 6 weeks after having it were uncomfortable however I was advised of this. It has since been great.. the only issue that I now have is thrush, having never been a sufferer I have had it 3 times in the last 8 months sine the introduction of the coil. I am therefore linking the coil with thrush, Is this normal with this coil??

THE P.ORANGI REPORT
VERY VERY VERY ANGRY.
THE FOLLOWING IS AN abbreviated EXTRACT FROM MED SAFE NEW ZEALAND.
A watching brief for health professionals from the New zealand goverment's web site called MEDSAFE. I assume our equivalant of the FDA.
The centre for Adverse reactions Monitoring (CARM) is receiveing an increasing number of reports of psychiatric reactions occurring with statins, fibrates and ...ezetimibe. ...... aggressive behavior, memory impairment mood cognitive sleep and perception disorders. In Australia 9 cases of depression 3 cases of depressed mood ....... with ezetimibe use ..... onset happened within 4 days in 7 of the cases.

This reminder goes on to STATIN REMINDER to PRESCRIBERS of myopathy rhabdomyolysis and interactions.

In my small town this last week alone I have personally met 4 statin sufferer's. The last one yesterday was a charming wonderful 79 yr male, who could not see or hear properly, was aggressive to his wife and having hallucinations so severe in his words "I was to f'n scared to go to bed at night and wanted to leave (sell) his house. He stopped his medication (Fiblap 200 mgs) and the hallucinations stopped his other problems are improving.

It is now very obvious to logical people that not just statins but most cholesterol lowering medicines cause an extremely unacceptable amount of cruel dangerous adverse events. It is also very clear and almost undisputable by the statistical and very definitely UNDER reported number of these adverse effects that unnecessarily interfering with the body's cholesterol is extremely dangerous to all of us.

I can right at this moment show 3 middle aged men who are a complete danger on the road - their memories are completely shagged, they are agitated, not remembering simple landmarks and they are driving.

We have pilots in the air on this stuff, I would rather my pilot was on cannabis than this this shocking stuff.

Mr and Mrs prescribe it is you that are NOT reading the instructions it is you that are criminally negligent when the presentations are given to you and you fail as the safe process of elimination to cease this medication to your patients.

We the younger middle age are accepting of evolution, the trial, error and mistakes made in the pathway to achievement. Their is no shame in error, error in develpoment aids development and the end result.

BUT Messer's prescribes your negligence in failing to report adverse events, failing to take notice of your own government's warnings and consequently destroying the quality of life of society's grandparent's golden years is shameful and criminal and you can expect little sympathy as this debacle is inevitably exposed.

My own case in brief over a 5 year period shut down my weeze pooze and manhood. Gave me excruciating pain in every joint muscle and spasming eyeballs. Rashes, itching,muscle spasms, tremors. Insanity stopping a car and smashing my walking stick over the roof with a lady inside, hearing voices and stalking the house with an axe, being sexually suggestive to elderly lady customer, abusing customers, wife mother and friends. Driving with no recollection of towns I'd been through. Leg muscle cramps that dropped me. Decrease eye sight and hearing, when swallowing the food going down the wrong pipe. Unable to speak coherently, crying, hugging people in a special needs manner, selling my cars (2) for fear of failure of a warrant of fitness. An unnecessary hip replacement, that had me on a crutch for 6 months and 18 months later still severely limping and unable to lie on the THR side (weaken muscle). I swallowed almost 3000 pills in a 6 month period. Terrifying hallucinations, sweats that soak the bed. Completely unable to think, unable to print my own name, unable to remember neighbors names etc etc etc. Burst out in a totally deranged fit of laughter in a solicitor's face in the swimming pool changing shed. Obscene language in places where I never in my life used before To scared to go to bed at night for hallucinations and my heart stopping. Unable to keep up with my 6 yr old mate on our push bikes Almost 12 months since ceasing statins I have All the same problems though substantially reduced, I still need oxycontin, predisone coq10 fish oil. I am embarrassed about going out because of what I have done and because I'm still scared about what will come out of my mouth. I still blackout and "whiteout" (I know what is around me but I can't speak) I still have micro hallucinations and loose touch with reality.

DRUG COMPANIES, you have bought us fantastic medicines thank you. We know with development there are inevitable failures so why not own up do not cover up. The oxycontin makers and their directors were fined in the millions for their misrepresentions and they weren't giving a "safe preventitve" drug to airline pilots that are now known to cause mental impairment.

CHILDREN of the elderly, check your parents overall health, memory agitation aches and pains etc since starting cholesterol lowering medicine. Check whatever and all symptoms they have suffered since starting cholesterol lowering medication. If you are suspicious respectfully ask your doctor if your parent as a process of elimination can cease the medication for a while. Two major hassles are 1) We are not aware these adverse effects are happening to us or we may blame another cause, old age etc 2) Like me there is no way I was prepared to stop my medication, even though i knew I was dying, until I got my "TRUSTED" doctor's ok. I would never interfere with my mums meds.

TO OUR DOCTORS in our society, dog people, school groups, all clubs, trades, lawyers and even sick p*****s all have access to a data base of events that interest them but you don't. In todays easy communication society with a computer on your desk your are unable to readily access current helpful information. Shame on you.

TO MY DOCTOR, Over 3 years I complained of severe upper leg muscle cramps that made me squeal and dropped me, I complained of excess tiredness, I complained of loss of muscle power, you witnessed me in a trance in your surgery, you witnessed me 6 months on a crutch after a THR, you witnessed me with notes in your surgery (memory), you witnessed me loose my ability to talk and humor properly. I caught you red handed on several occasions not reading lab results and letters from other health professionals, you witnessed, stood up behind your desk and took off my hunched ape like stance. You completely ignored at least 2 med safe warnings I asked you for an apology you held your bunched fist in my face in your surgery and told me I was an ungrateful c&*t and to get another doctor. I wrote to you in my deranged state offering you forgiveness and hoping for medical help, you ignored that letter. When I started "sobering up" 6 months later I called you and told you of my insanity whilst under the influence of statins. You told me to tell another doctor or a medical specialist. I told you I would publish these events - you told me to go ahead. Doctor . . . . . my wife and I did not only like and respect you, I had a very grateful "love" for you and your staff. When I asked you for an apology and wrote to you, had you been reasonable and a little sympathetic to my life threatening condition, I would have warmly embraced you, forgiven you and been grateful that others would be safe. When I phoned you several months later, had you have been humane, though difficult, I would have done my best by you and society. Doctor ..... you had 3 very sincere approaches that you declined. Well bud do I know of others or not? Audit all your patients for their safety now. You told me to publish, well Doctor . . . .you may now become internationally famous. Do you think I will put a complaint to the Health and Disability commissioner where they will on proof order an apology - I don't think so, you have had 3 genuine chances for an apology. Did you report my severe adverse event to CARM? Doctor . . . . . I do not think this is conduct "unbecoming" I think it may be crime.

I sincerely wish I had never become "responsible" for my health. Given this web site, the victims I personally know, my own tragic events with statins, I now firmly, sanely and sensibly believe that JIM BEAM BOURBON and ROLL YOUR OWN CIGGIES are far more deserving of a heart foundation tick than statins.

This medications web site has saved the quality of life and indeed the lives of many people. Please take the time on the contact us to send our friends at medications an email with 4 wordS only " THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH"

Signed Mr P. O.

PS To the police and lawyers in NSW Australia where the tragedy of the fellow who chopped his wife and grandchildren took place, please check whether he was on this medicine. My heart goes out to him and his family

PPS I DO NOT UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES wish to be contacted by anyone, with the sole exception of any authority, whose sole purpose is to benefit mankind, over this matter only, I wish to rebuild 5 traumatic years of painful destruction quietly with my family.

PPPS Any pilots in any country please forward this site and medsafe nz to your medical examiners.

PPPPS Prescribers COQ10, ubiquinol not the cheaper ubiquone, oxycontin, prednisone, large quantities of fish oil, vit C, time and patience are the only things that have been of aid. After almost 2 years on oxycontin, I have no hankling for it, I have built a resistance to it and I am now trying miniscule amounts of cannibis (I am filthy angry that I have been put in this situation) to replace the oxycontin. The fish oil calmed my agitation, the coq10 reduced pain by about 20% increased energy by about 20% 3 x 100 mgs a day, The fish oil and coq10 together stopped all irregular heartbeats showing in my BP meter. The vitamin c 6 x 1000 mgs through the day within days put pressure back to the urine and aided bowel movements.

Hello Ladies. I was a mirena SUFFERER for 3 1/2 years. Had all the symptoms including hair loss. Terrible drug. Had it removed in sept 2008. Just a heads up girls, If you dont want kids get another form of bc right away. I am now 5 weeks pregnant again. LOL we did try the vasectomy route for my husband so you can imagine our surprise when we got the news. LOL Mirena was the worst thing to ever happen to me and my family but there is light. After almost two months my hair loss is down and my acne is almost gone. Joint and back pain gone. Mood so much better i feel like a new person. And you can get pregnant again.LOL So chin up girls. Always listen to your body and decide for yourself, but for me getting it removed was the only answer. HOWEVER, one note. After removal the risk of ectopic preg is much higher for the first year. Be careful and if you do turn up prego again make sure you discuss with your ob/gyn and get an ultrasound as soon as possible to be sure of location of the fetus. Good luck ladies.

This is my third posting. At this URL thousands of people have recounted how they were were poisoned by medicine that was supposed to make them well. Reading these accounts is like watching a science fiction horror film. One after another over the course of five years since medicines.com began posting their respective experiences, another hapless victim falls headlong into the levaquin trap. It's like watching cars crash on a fog-filled highway. Suggestible doctors rely upon marketing representations by pharmaceutical reps. Doe-eyed patients fill with confidence their doctors' prescriptions. A small percentage of these presciptees --- what % we likely will never know --- suffers severe adverse reactions that change their lives forever. There are several thousand accounts of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) re: levaquin on this website alone. There must be ten times that number of computer illiterates or incurious who experienced ADRs but who never posted their stories on medicines.com. Insofar as Levequin poisoning can appear many months after the prescription-taker discontinued taking his/her prescription, one wonders separately how many people became blind-sided by symptoms which the ADR sufferer never remotely traced back to quinolones. Suddenly out-of-the-blue a hapless victim is felled by symptoms that require exhaustive medical testing. No-one intended this DNA-changing drug to create full employment for medical personnel. Ironically Levaquin poisoning has created a pharmaceutical aftermarket for medical professionals who occupy a no-lose proposition: Either Levaquin will cure what ails you now, or consequent Levaquin poisoning will put you at the head of the line for additional testing. The right hand unwittingly prescribes a poison while the left hand tests you and treats you for a possible antidote! It's really a half-wit's delight with possibly deadly consequences. The FDA bows to the invisible hand of deregulation and social Darwinism: What doesn't kill you makes you better. If enough people complain about their ADRs, the FDA might or might not post a black box warning about the prescription drug's adverse effect. But unaddressed is the crucial link between commission-incented pharmaceutical marketing reps and their prey ---- harried doctors who are too busy to read the contraindications' fine print. Big pharmacy knows well the drill, and has earmarked a percentage of company profits and set them aside to cover the inevitable lawsuits from crippled Levqauin consumers and/or their heirs. Big pharma's profits exceed big pharma's court-mandated awards. The hubaballo dies-down about the time the FDA has weighed-in with warnings and after big pharma has retired its belatedly discredited antibiotic in favor of marketing a **miracle** new generation replacement. It's Sisyphus (look it up) all over! It's hard not to be cynical and bitter. This is the equivalent of taking incoming "friendly fire" in the medical profession. With ADRs like these who needs illness? Just take the medicine and proceed right to sick.

I'm not sure how these sites work, but preteandsheila and phylisrn have both responded to me....you or anyone else who wants to discuss lisinopril may email me at ******, but it has been 11 weeks since I stopped taking this med and I'm still having a problem getting a deep breath, they are setting me up with a stress test.

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I had extreme anxiety so the dr. gave me .5 Ativan. i have been taking it for a month now 2 times a day. it worked great up until last Friday. Since then my heart has been pounding and i have extreme anxiety again, not as bad because i still am taking the meds but the rapid heart beat has taken over my life right now. I can't sleep, eat, concentrate on television. i barely go to work. I don't know what to do. Another doctor i went and saw told me that Ativan is only used temporary and that if you keep using it as a long term thing you are going to have to keep uping the doses and depend on it more and more until you go to the highest dose and it dosent help at all. Now I am scared about depending on them and not being able to get off them. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP. i need some help through this.
i am going to a therapist and all she can say is practice deep breathing so it doesn't really work 100% for me.

Lisinopril robs the body of Zinc. I have been viciously researching this med and I found that a lot of symptoms posted here are zinc deficiency symptoms. Maybe a zinc supplement will help especially with the hair loss.
Signs of Zinc Deficiency
• behavioral and sleep disturbances

• dandruff

• delay in wound healing

• diarrhea

• different kinds of skin lesions such as eczema, psoriasis and acne

• growth retardation

• hair loss

• hang nails

• hyperactivity

• increased allergic sensitivity

• inflammation of your nail cuticles

• inflammatory bowel disease

• loss of appetite

• loss of senses of taste or smell

• loss of sex drive

• mild anemia

• pre-eclampsia (toxaemia) in pregnancy and post-natal depression

• pre-menstrual syndrome, disturbance in your menstrual cycle

• reduced fertility

• skin dryness and rashes

• white spots on fingernails, transverse lines and poor nail growth

I'm surprised I haven't seen this one here. After taking 2 sprays in each nostril for a month, I woke up with a swollen throat and hard to swallow. Thinking it was strep throat I went to doc and right away he said, "you have thrush". It was not a fun thing to have, it even went down my esophagus. The treatment for that was not fun either, sucking on big pills 5x a day for a week, they left the roof of my mouth sore. I think the manufacturer should pay for my side effect treatment, I was just an unsuspecting seasonal allergy sufferer.

Wow! So glad and sad to find other sufferers. I wish our doctors would listen to us and take us seriously! Why are they stuck on forcing Synthroid on us? At this point, I think I'd rather not take any Synthroid. I stumbled upon this site while looking for something I might take to counteract the effects of Synthroid. I had to halve my 112 mg pills because of the side effects: frequents headaches, bloating, weight gain, irritability and anxiety, dry mucus membranes (eyes, nose, throat, etc.), allergies, muscle fatigue, achy joints. Of course, my doctor is slowly upping the dosage again, because my TSH is chronically high, but I feel like sh*t, physically and mentally. I used to feel so much more normal and like myself before I was diagnosed and "forced" to take Synthroid.

Having been on omeprazole on and off for 15 years I have finally come off it.
My Gerd symptoms were worse at the end of the working day, probably due to me being a dentist, not an ideal posture for a Gerd sufferer. I could control my symptoms with 10mg daily but still got occasional side effects. The main one was slight diziness/ visual disturbance esp with bright light.
Have been using DGL 20 mins before my evening meal and just take magnesium hydroxide based antacid at night if required. Feel it is better to let the bodies natural buffering sort out the acid-base balance.
It has taken 3 months of cold turkey and the odd bout of severe symptoms but seem to be coming out the other side and now have several days at a time with no symptoms at all.

I have been on Topamax for 4 months and so far the migraines I have suffered for 40 years are gone. Great Some side effects like can't stand carbonated drinks. Reaction time is a little slower. I stress out a little more then I used to. I get really tired at the end of the day. I used to be a night owl but now love my sleep. Question to you all. Any one had problems with their teeth? Such as pain, fillings falling out? Let me know.

I have been on Warfarin for 6 months, and have had a lot of the side effects that I have been reading here since I found it. I thought I would chime in now. I was on Prednisone for Colitis when I was rushed to ER with a clot in between my eyes. I was started on Warfarin when I left the hospital and within a couple of days my legs swelled up really bad. I had to go buy slipper 2 1/2 sizes bigger than normal just so I could walk around. I have lived with them since. My Doctor says it is the Prednisone, but I was on that about a year before the swelling started.

I have a lot of weakness, and feel I cant get anything done home or work due to no energy. I have gained a lot of weight. The thing that bothers me the most is the pain in my legs and arms. I cant take anything for the pain due to the Colitis.

I have to say I went in for extreme headache and that is when they found the clot. I am a long time Migraine sufferer, and when I told my Headache Doctor that I was having headaches again they up my meds for that. I have not even had a Migraine since I started the Warfarin. My Wife is even surprised. I usually have at least one a month.

I was told to stop the Warfarin on Friday and am wanting to know more about if the side effects are going to go way. I would like to get my weight down, and the pain to go away. Guess time will tell.

I've been on Lisinopril/HCTZ about 2 months, and am losing lots of long hairs. Will my body adjust to the medication and grow new hair? Does anyone know if total baldness will result? (82 year old female) My blood pressure is now excellent!

Where do I begin??? I have been taking Yaz for six months. Migraines! The worst migraines ever, I cannot function for one full day and sometimes more, the pain was so intolerable.

Hives! For the past two months, I keep thinking that I had a food allergy; even my doctor diagnosed it as that. After going to the allergist, I was told that I have developed an allergy to the Yasmin pill. No part of my body has been discriminated with this medication. Hives from the top of my head, in my eyes, right down to the bottom of my feet! This has been the worst experience of my life with this pill.

Fatigue to the extreme! I fall asleep sitting up and never feel rested. Yaz has caused me to go up two cup sizes so far, I went from being a 38C to a 40DD and I can't fit into anything. My boobs are sore a lot.

Weight gain, at least 20 pounds heavier. Nausea; Indigestion; Diarrhea & Constipation; Decreased Sex Drive; and Mood swings; Uncontrollable Rages; Severe body aches; Hot Flashes/Chills; Crying Spells; Blurred Vision; Lack of Concentration; Trouble sleeping; Dizziness; Shaking; Restlessness mainly after 9pm when I should be winding down to go to bed; Terrible night sweats; Never ending cravings for junk food; Inability to cope with stressful situations; Feeling of being inadequate; Can’t concentrate; Gassy; Hate family & partners; Irrational.