Take the chance symptoms and conditions

I was put on Lipitor in 2004 and didn't realize what was happening to me-I thought I was just getting old. (I'm now 66) I went from a very active person to one who struggled to get out of the car and my entire body ached. I was constantly tired, I had trouble putting thoughts together. I would sit at the kitchen table and cry because I felt so awful. I started losing my balance and falling down. In one of my falls in December 2006 I injured my left hip. I went to a chiropractor to see if he could help relieve the pain in my hip. While going over my symptoms and medications he pointed out that the Lipitor I'm taking could cause most of my symptoms. He suggested I call my doctor and talk to her. I did and she said that Lipitor could cause severe muscle aches-she wanted to do a blood test and said that I could just go off the Lipitor. My blood test was normal. That was in March 2007 and I have been off the Lipitor since. The fatigue and muscle aches have gone away. I still have the hip pain (bursitis) and have been going to physical therapy for that. My memory is improving but I still have to concentrate, repeat names and write things down trying to remember. I'm trying to lose weight (most of it gained around my middle). I go to the gym and exercise to try to build my muscle strength. I'm not tired all the time, I've read that the symptoms can last a long time and sometimes may never go away. I've been told by the doctor that if my cholesterol is up at my next visit that she wants me to go back on Lipitor. She also said that if it had been the Lipitor, the symptoms would have gone away right after I went off the Lipitor. I will absolutely refuse to go on any Statin-I cannot take the chance of feeling so badly again.

Since getting the Mirena inserted in April of this year I've noticed a few changes in me. I've been just kind of out of it. I'm in college and that's not a good thing. I have a decreased libido, headaches all the time, pimples on my forehead, depression, etc. I've never had pimples in my life, so I know it's from that. I just feel like I'm in a fog or something. I want to get Mirena removed, but I don't want to take the chance of getting pregnant. I'm not good with remembering to take a pill or whatever, so I'm really at a loss.

Hi, I have come across many websites after promising my husband of 13 years that I would look into the side effects of my IUD. I had NO idea! I thought it was only me! Reading all of this almost made me cry to know that there might NOT be anything wrong with me and just by removing this IUD that I can get back to a normal life! I have had it for almost 2 years, and the last year has been an emotional rollercoaster of all kinds of events! The only good thing that I can say came out of it is that I didn't get pregnant in the last 2 years (have 4 boys already) and I haven't had to deal with a "real" period in about that same amount of time! HOWEVER...I HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH OTHER THINGS, THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW EXISTED WITH THE USE OF THIS DEVICE!!! Including, but not limited to, SEVERE fatigue, cramps, SEVERE acne (never even had as a teen!), headaches, SEVERE mood changes and swings (as by the pleas of my husband), loss of of the hair on my head, and regrowth of hair in places women shouldn't have hair, i.e. breasts and chin, vaginal dryness, loss of libido (my poor husband), SEVERE depression and worthlessness, and those are just the ones that I have been able to see myself now. I am sure if they were pointed out to my by a loved one or friend I could probably link that with the IUD also. MEN~ do NOT let or make your wife get this...she could NOT be the same person you thought you knew and it is a rough and rocky ride! WOMEN~ I beg you, do NOT get this, it is horrible! Why take the chance? I have hated myself, my husband, my kids, my extended family and friends and couldn't figure out what was "wrong" with me. I am getting mine out Monday Sept. 24, 2007, and hopefully I can get back to the life I had known before these last 2 years of insanity took over. Good luck all and GOD Bless!

Glad to find your site. I have been on Lisiopril for 2 years (ever since my Insurance stopped paying for my Aceon and I had to have a substitute drug for blood pressure control). I have had increasing cough and horseness for the past 12 months to the point that I now have 24 hour symptoms! I also have been having leg cramps at night the past few months.
I will stop Lisinopril TODAY. Plan to monitor my blood pressure and see what happens. Does anyone see any problem with doing this?????

Wow, I'm so glad I found this website. I am not an anxious person, so when I began feeling really anxious and having heart palpitations it was really unusual for me, but I figured it was something situational. I never suspected Yasmin. I wanna go off of it, but am concerned about the side effects people have had in going off. Can anyone share how long it took to feel "back to normal" after going off of it, and anything that helped in the meantime. Thanks so much.
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HI, I was prescribed Levaquin for a sinus infection. I took it for 9 days. I could not sleep but worse than that I got pain in my knees. It started in the back of the knees and felt like a pulling sensation. Then the pain moved into the front of the knees and limits me to how I bend. I can not kneel down or squat since taking this medication. It has limited me considerably on how I do things. It has been 2 months since I stopped the levaquin but I still have the symptoms. Does anybody else have these symptoms and if so does it ever go away????

I have been given Kenalog twice..once at the Emergency room and once at an orthopedists. The first time I got a shot it just made the pain worse. I told the doctors at the orthopedists and they did the same exact thing even though i said it makes it worse. Ive taken evry NSAID known to man for pain but nothing helps. What should I do? Dr. hardly ever prescribe pain killers and would rather you suffer than take the chance of the pain killers actually working. I cut my hands bad thr vicodin i was given for the pain made my pain in my arm disappear, but i cant just walk into the doctors n say i want vicodin cuz it helps can i?

MY SON WAS GIVEN ADVAIR BECAUSE THEY FOUND THAT HE HAD PNEUMONIA A LOWER FORM BUT IT WAS STILL PNEUMONIA. HE HAS ONLY BEEN TAKING IT FOR 2 DAYS BUT I WAS A LITTLE LEARY ABOUT GIVING IT TO HIM SINCE HE WAS ALREADY TAKING THE ALBUTEROL FOR HIS ASTHMA. HE SEEMED TO BE A LITTLE BETTER YESTERDAY BEFORE HE STARTED TAKING IT. HE COMPLAINS THAT HE STILL ISNT FEELING GOOD AND HE IS ALWAYS TIRED AND HIS CHEST HURTS. HE IS ONLY 13 YEARS OLD. I REALLY HATE GIVING HIM ALL THESE MEDICATIONS THEY GAVE HIM OMNICEF & SOME ANTI INFLAMATORY & ADVAIR AND COUGH SYRUP WITH CODINE. I DONT THINK THAT I WANT HIM TAKING THE ADVAIR WITH ALL THOSE SIDE EFFECTS. HE TOLD ME THAT IT REALLY DOESNT FEEL LIKE ITS WORKING ANYWAY. WHY TAKE THE CHANCE? MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT KIND OF SIDE EFFECTS YOU WILL HAVE LATER ON FOR TAKING THE MEDICATION.

Pain at front of left shoulder, so Doctor wrote prescription for Voltaren, which I then read up on at this site. Too many side efects so I told Doctor no. He then said a steroid shot would be quicker and easier with 'no side effects' as it would be injected deep into the shoulder, not near the surface. I read your side effects long list, called the Doctor's office back, and canceled my shot appointment tomorrow. The Doctor said I may only have to have 1 or 2 shots. There is no way I would take the "chance" of getting any of these side effects to lessen my shoulder pain, especially now understanding this is not a cure but apparently just a temporary relief which means I may have to keep taking these shots to keep the pain down. I'll put up with the pain until it either heals or I get surgury. My Doctor applied for permission from my insurance company to get an MRI but they declined saying that it wasn't the 'proper procedure', that drugs or steroids must be used first. Seems like the MRI would be least invasive and provide the more exacting diagnosis. I shouldn't have to subject my entire body to drugs and inject steroids wih known bad side effects just to get an MRI from an Insurance company. I intend to write the insurance company a letter contesting their decision. There must be a better way!

Yasmin made me psychotic and depressed. It was crazy and it's hard to describe how bad it was. I've never felt that way before. I know what it's like to be sad, I've been really sad when someone I loved died, but that's not what this was like. Being on Yasmin was scary. On Yasmin, I was evil. I was afraid to use knives or sharp objects. I never before understood how people could cut themselves-- on Yasmin I wanted to. I wanted to hurt myself and others. I couldn't feel empathy or sympathy. I felt like all joy and light was gone from my life. I was on it for a month and a half and I stopped taking it cold turkey in the middle of a pack because I was afraid of what I was turning into. After a couple weeks I was myself again. THIS IS A DANGEROUS DRUG. Please don' t take it. Maybe some women can tolerate it, but why take the chance?

I am a 62 year old female, in great shape (or at least I was) until I took 6 doses of Levaquin for a UTI. After the 6th dose, I went to sleep perfectly normal and when I woke up, my arm muscle or tendon located about 2 inches from the shoulder could not move. I immediately knew it was the Levaquin, because my husband took this medicine and could hardly walk due to the achilles tendon soreness and he power walks every day. His tendon did eventually get better so I decided to wait it out, of course, I didn't take any more of the medicine. It is now 2 months later, I am starting physical therapy, and my arm cannot move without pain. It has made me very depressed because it was no unnecessary and is causing me so much difficulty. Why arn't we told these horrible side effects by our doctors before we take this horrible medicine. I urge everyone NOT to take this medication, there are others around, so please don't take the chance I took.

I don't know if this is related to recent S-M IV of 1GM/day x 3 days + extended graduated taper off with prednisone.
There is excruciating pain in legs, more left side than right but both. Every atom, waist to toes hurts on maximum volume, in surges and dips of indescribable pain, for hours and hours. Usually back to normal, daily pain level of raw skin with sunburn on waking after so so sleep of 4-5 hours daily.
I have chronic, secondary progressive MS of 14 years. Ambulatory with walker and cane. Also exposed to Agent Orange in heavily sprayed areas of I Corps, Vietnam, 1968-69. I have 100% service connected, permanent and total, combat related PTSD rating.
I am on Methdone and Percocet 3 months, and just started Lorazipam. M&P do not work at prescribed dosages. Yesterday I took 8 10mg Methadone pills and 6-7 5mg Percocet tabs, and it was inadequately bearable, and I barely made it out alive, again.
I'm going to the VA soon to see what they say, but I would greatly appreciate any advice some nice, knowledgable person may take the time to give.
Thank you

I have cellulitis in my lower right leg. I have been through many test and they can't seem to find out why it wont go away. I went back to my family dr today and instead of giving me loracet plus like I have been on and what didn't make me sick and helped the pain, he gave me ultracet. One of my family members said that I would like them, that they would really help me. Well that goes to show how every medicine effects everone differently. I took my first one at around 1:30pm today, it didn't do anything for the pain, so at about 6:00pm I took another one. Well let me just say that will be the last one I take. It is now 1:30am here and I am not sleepy at all. I have no energy, but I just can't sleep. I keep itching everywhere. My legs, arms, back, face, and my hands. My pain is still present also. I am going to go back to my dr in the morning if I can get in to see him and I am going to go ask him if he has ever taken these before, and if not, for him to get a few and take them and see how they do him. Maybe that will stop them from being perscribed. I would not recommend them to anyone. I know everyones body reacts diferent, but why take the chance on having these symptoms and many more.