Sweetie symptoms and conditions

I took ambien about 5 years. I noticed I would wake up with food in my bed or candy wrappers all over the bed. I mentioned it to my doctor, and he shrugged his shoulders and laughed. Later, when my dad died I went crazy and would get up at night and talk delusional with outrage. They told me I had became bi-polar at 48. It freaked me out, and I have faithfully stayed on bi-polar meds because I never want to do that again. Now, I am wondering because I heard on the news a few years ago that this man drove his car to get something to eat in his sleep with ambien. I quit ambien immediately, and found I didn't eat in my sleep. Now, I am wondering if I am bi-polar? Several of my friends have never understood how I could be normal and then completely go crazy. They had never seen me angry or disturbed before that incidence. I am now wondering if it was an ambien side affect.

I made my appointment yesterday. It comes out tomorrow. I had my first anxiety attack on Monday Feb 2nd. I thought I was dying and to make it worse I was driving. I'm paranoid. I can't help but cry right now. I have blurry vision I feel awful. I was thinking its only anxiety and nothing to do with the Mirena, but I don't need this in me. I'm not chancing it. I don't want to have children right now especially how things are going, but I'm not willing to go insane just to prevent it. I want my mind back. I want my life back. Even if this isn't the cause of it I won't give it the slightest chance.

I was doing well for a while then this year certain things started changing in my body. I'm not willing to keep it in. I can't feel the strings so I hope nothing bad has happened. I'll find out tomorrow at 3:30 Pray for me. I need your prayers I'm so paranoid.

I am having this THING removed on Friday. I have had it for nearly 5 months now. Two weeks after insertion, I was up 12 pounds. I was working out my same 5/6 times per week and my eating habits were unchanged. My OB, who I adore said after 3 months this would go away. It did not. I'm up 18 pounds now with dieting (which I never did before) and increased exercise. I have rolls on my belly despite 100 crunches every day. Yes, I no longer have the horrible cramps and bleeding but I'm not going to live like this. I hope it doesn't take five months to get my figure back. I looked better 6 weeks post partem than I do now. And, I paid cash for this bullshit.

I had the Mirena put in when my son was a year old....i have had it now for over 2 years...i experienced the cramping, bloating, bleeding, etc.....i did not know that i would probably gain weight.....i chose the mirena because i was already 30 years old, a smoker and was previously on birth control for ten+ years before stopping it to conceive my son. I slowly began to gain a few pounds, but always put it off to work, my routine changing, etc. We moved to Alabama 6 months later and I noticed that I kept packing on the weight. I contributed it to the lack of an exercise routine that i could be consistent with. I realized this , so i began getting back into the gym, eating right and drinking my water. Still no weight loss. I have since started school again and gained more weight. Again, i blamed it on the stress of school and trying to take care of a three year old. But, after a while, I started to question whether it is really those things, or is it the Mirena. No Doctor has ever suggested that it could be the Mirena. My internal medicine doctor even noticed the weight gain and she doesn't even mention the possibility of it being from the IUD. I know that I am not making this up.....something is not right. NO matter what i do, the weight will not come off......and now, because of the extra weight, i have blood pressure problems. I am 5'9 and weigh 185 pounds.....I have only weighed that one time in my life, and that is when i was pregnant with my son.....I am so discouraged , depressed and just totally give out......I hate the way I look and feel. I used to be tall and slender with a few curves, but GEEES.....now i just have curves and alot of them!!! I think that i have decided to get the Mirena removed , also......and i will just have to stay hopeful that the weight will come off, eventually. Any comments, words of encouragement , personal experiences would be appreciated.....thanks .....lmc31

Hi there... I have just found this site and I'm very grateful to everyone who has taken the time to sit down and tell us their story mine is very similar. BELIEAVE me I feel like I am pushing my family away and I'm losing my relationship with the one person who used to make me feel like I was the most beautiful woman in the world.
I'm a 40 yr female have or maybe had a great job that I loved... On April 12 I noticed a small red rash on my lower right leg no big deal went to the Dr. gave me some cream and sent me home well I went to work and by the afternoon things just seem to get bad my legs began to swell and little blisters started to pop up so I went to the E.R. they had no Idea what was wrong with me got me an appointment to see a skin DR. so I went home but the pain from the swelling was so bad I could not walk any longer went back to the E.R. they gave me some pain meds and called in some other DR. things had gone from bad to worse my feet had gotten to big I could not put on shoes and I had bruised completely across the bottoms of my feet they put me on 30mg of PRED. and it seem to be under control sent me home after 3 day in the hospital things were good for about a day or so I thought I would go back to work well that was not a very good idea.... My sister had to come and take me back to the ER where they did 2 biopsies and still have no idea what is wrong with me. so now they put me on 60mg of PRED the rash has gone, lots of scaring on my feet because of the blisters once they broke and dried out but I can live with that....
It's the side effects that they don’t tell you about,
MOON FACE I can't look at myself cause really that’s not me anymore,
WEIGHT GAIN I have always been thick but I can't handle the extra 30lbs I've gained,
MOOD SWINGS are unbearable,
PAINFUL JOINTS, CAMEL HUMP, BLOODY NOSE, BRUSING, SORE TEETH/GUMS, DRY EYES, FAITIGE, and worsted of all
I don’t have a support systems in my life so I'm fighting this by myself everyday, I have 3 kids that I have tried to explain all this to but they don't get it and well my boyfriend he tells me he understands that its the meds pushing him away but if I can't figure away to control this I will lose every thing including my job. I cant even get the energy together half the time to make it up and down the stairs which also comes with the pain of just trying to lift each leg up to climb the stairs, I also have the camel hump which I find very painful, The acne and the hair growth that I have to get wax off once a month cause I feel like a man I feel like a loser and as of the last couple of days I just want to give up I am now down to 20mg per day but I find that I am feeling so sick I cant think straight I hope and pray for each and every person out there that has to take this MED that you get better and I do hope that my symptoms wont come back. Thanks for being here and I’m glad I found this site. I know now that I’m not losing my mind completely. Elizabeth.

My daughter is 5 years old and has been on singulair for 1 week. i have already noticed a dramatic change in her behavior. she has become irritable, mean, nasty, and emotional. she has had me in tears on a daily basis. she has turned into a monster. we will be calling the doctor in the morning!

Dear Chrissy,

im fine sweetie thanks for asking, had the really bad 6 days post period and then i hit energy plus i almost feel like the old me in that respect, im taking each day as it comes and like you have told me so many times there will be the good days more so as time goes on. I have started the agnus cactus but know this takes a while to get into the system but the flax seed oil capsules i believe have made a difference and i have lost 6 kilos also so i feel good about that. SILKE that ligt bulb switched on for me too and this past two weeks i have rediscovered my husband and he is rapt, i almost forgot what it was like to have those wantings again......
I so hope that this good feeling is going to last more and more and not slip as i get post period again or if it does that it might get less each month
thanks again for asking about m chrissy i have missed you too
Lisa

Sweetie...
NO THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE. Not allowed. We are all here to support each other. If you need help with the anxiety, talk to your doctor about going on a benzodiazapine (Xanax, or Klonopin) they are anti-anxiety and anti-panic with a low risk of increased suicidal thoughts. I have been on them since July and they saved my life. DO NOT let them put you on Effexor. It's evil. As far as the weight gain goes...it can be lost. Some times medication for Diabetes can be used to treat PCOS (if you have it) BC doesn't have to be the answer...and there are ALOT of different BC pills to take...not just this horrid one. PLEASE talk to your doctor...you know your body, insist that they listen to YOU. If your doctor won't listen, find one that will.
Hang in there...we all had to at one time or another. Best wishes and thoughts...
Cristy

I started out with 35mg of prednisone to control my severe asthma, I have noticed over time i gained 10 pounds, my calves are very sore (since I do a lot of walking to try to lose the 10lbs) my dad says I have put on weight on my face, I'm often hungry but i try to restrain myself. Am now taking 10mg of prednisone and in 2 more weeks I will finally be finished with it. Hopefully the weight will go away!!! my friend who said her daughter was on Prednisone said that the weight WILL go away.. and no one will say i'm fat now!

I have never felt so psycho, horrible, nasty, alternately aggressive then depressed in my life. I yelled at a very old man in a movie theater! I've been edgy and rude all week. To boot, in 7 days I have gained 10 pounds and have the worst acne of my life --- painful, huge, cystic. My legs are so swollen you can't see the bones in my ankles and my feet keep getting cramps. My boyfriend is completely stunned that his happy positive sweetie has turned into a complete horror show. I keep batting him away from me -- I don't want him to even hold my hand -- how how long after I stop taking the pill will these symptoms subside??? Please post and let me know or email me please!!! Thanks so much everyone for writing in. I am going to go cry now.