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I wish I had seen this page BEFORE I finished 5 days of Levaquin 500. The meds were prescribed for a post-upper-respiratory infection hacking dry cough that had been going on for nearly 3 weeks. I finished the meds 4 days ago and still feel super crummy. Levaquin did nothing for the cough (acunpuncturist stopped it with with several well-placed needles in my outer ear) and - before I saw this page - thought of asking the doctor for another round since I was still sick and seem to be getting worse. I have intermittent headaches, a racing heart, blurred vision, am so tired I never want to get out of bed. I'm also having a recurrence of sciatica in one hip and thigh and - new symptom! - the foot on that side is so sore it's hard to put my weight on it. I was told to report any joint or tendon pains but, according to the doctor, "they are very rare." I'm sure he told me about the symptom to protect himself "just in case" but it was clear he really didn't believe there would be problems. I took the medicine for three days, then stopped for a day because I didn't feel well. Then I thought, "Suck it in - there's only 2 pills to go and then you won't infect anyone. You don't want to be Typhoid Mary for the next antibiotic-resistant killer strain of some bug or another, do you?" I am devastated to think these symptoms will persist as long as people on this site say they will. I keep thinking I can sleep this off, or that I'm really sick with something that requires a different antibiotic. ( And how stupid is THAT?) But, from what I've read here, that's not likely to be the case. I'm 67 years old and already have compromised immune system plus sleep apnea, high blood pressure, narcolepsy, and asthma. Is there anyone out there who has been able to resolve these symptoms in less than three months? I refuse to believe I have to feel this way for the foreseeable future. And boy, am I mad! At myself as well as at the doctor. I usually research everything before I take it, but this one just slipped under the wire.

I am a 46 year old female and have had asthma all my life,medication,shots,inhalers.The past year it got very bad and I was going through inhalers almost weekly. My doctor put me on advair in may of this year.I was so happy it really helped my asthma,no inhalers.Then the side effects started-I felt sick like I had broncitis,sore throat ,sounding hoarse,headaches,very annoyed,anxious,moody,felt like throwing-up,not sleeping,urinary tract infection,backache,confusion,weight gain.I thought I was very ill and was almost afraid to go to the doctor,then I thought about being put on advair and when the symptoms started.I looked up side-effects and BINGO! I am going to tell my doctor to get me off this,kinda afraid I'll get really bad asthma again,but what do you do?Feel like total gargage every day?or not be able to breath?What a choice.This all took place in a matter of 5 months.Everyone is different,every body can or cannot tolerate certain drugs.People do know their own bodies and why doctors don't listen or believe them I don't know.But,I sick and tired of being sick and tired and my whole summer was wasted thanks to advair.Hope I have another option.Lisa K.

I went on yasmin about 2 years ago, right before I started my current relationship. Everything in my relationship was perfect, we never fought, it was just amazing. About 4 months into the relationship I started to pick fights with him, about everything possible. I was becoming depressed, insecure, and my anxiety level is at a constant high....still, I didn't realize any of this until this month. About 3 months ago I started getting my migrains back before and during my period...this month, my cramps came back. I kicked my boyfriend as hard as I could last week, and I couldn't tell you why, I immidiately started crying and saying sorry, and hugging him. This pill, I've come to realize, has almost completely ruined my life. It's almost ended my wonderful relationship with the love of my life several times. This month was the final straw, I thought maybe I had pmdd, I looked up the symptoms and realized that was not what I had, then I thought to look up side effects of my birth control, and I found this site...many of the girls mention twitching, headaches, crazy mood swings, treating their spouses awful, sleeping all the time and still feeling tired. I have been suffering from all these symptoms for a long time now. I am stopping this pill IMMIDIATELY! It has ruined far too much of my life. I'm so glad I found this website, I now know I'm not crazy. Now I can go back to being the happy, fun, and friendly girl I really am!

I HAVE BEEN ON NUVARING(THE RING OF DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS) FOR A YEAR AND A HALF I HAVE BEEN MOODY AND JUST NOT MYSELF I WENT TO THE DOCTOR TO GET MEDS FOR DEPRESSION ZOLOFT, WELBUTRIN, AND ZANAC, AND THAT SEEM NOT TO HELP I THOUGHT I WAS LOSING MY MIND OR GOING CRAZY, MY HUSBAND THINKS IM NUT AND MY CHILDERN DO TO, I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH MY BIRTH CONTROL, MY BREAST HAVE BEEN KILLING ME FOR ABOUT NINE MONTHS NOW THE DOCTOR SAID IT WAS CYST TO STOP DRINKING DRINK DRINK MORE WATER SO I DID I CAN DRINK 10 GLASSES OF WATER A DAY AND NOT GO PEE BUT ONE TIME, I WAS LIKE WAIT A MINUTE I SHOULD GO MORE THAN THIS THEN HERE COMES THE WEIGHT GAIN, I COULD NOT FIGURE IT OUT I HADNT CHANGE MY EATING HABITS WHAT IS GOING ON, SO I STARTED EATING RAISINS AND BANANNAS DURING THE DAY AND SPECIAL K AT NIGHT AND I STILL GAINED WEIGHT, THEN I TRIED ON BOWL OF CEREAL A DAY AND STILL MORE WEIGHT, I COULDNT FIGURE IT OUT, AND MY BACK HURT ME ALL THE TIME , THEN HERE COMES THE YEAST INFECTION, THEN I HATED TO HAVE SEX BECAUSE IT HURT AND IRRATED ME THERE WAS ALWAY A BURN DURING AND AFTER, I KNOW THEY SAY THINKS HAPPEN AFTER YOU TURN THIRTY BUT MY GOD, MY LEGS HURT AND CRAMPED ALL THE TIME I STARTED GETTING FLUID BUILD UP IN MY KNEES AND ANKLES IT MADE IT HURT TO EVEN WALK AND IM ONE THAT LIKE TO WALK IN THE AFTERNOON AND WORK IN MY YARDS BUT THIS YEAR I HAVENT EVEN WHEN OUTSIDE I HURT TO BAD, I JUST FELT LIKE I WAS FALLING TO PIECES ALWAYS TIRED AND IN A BAD MOOD, THEN THE BREAST PAIN GOT SO BAD I DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO DO, I KEEP THINKING ANDTHINKING WHAT IS DOING THIS, THEN I THOUGHT MY RING MIGHT I WAS HAVING ALL THE HEADACHES NIGHT SWEATS PAIN JUST FALLING APART SO I GOT UP ONE MORNING AND I COULDNT TALKE IT ANYMORE I WHEN AND TOOK THAT THING OUT AND NOW IM LIKE I NEW PERSON THE FIRST TWO DAYS ALL I DID WAS PEE AND LOST 5 POUNDS MY BREAST DONT HURT AS BAD THEY GET BETTER EVERYDAY I DONT HAVE TO WRAP THEM AT NIGHT ANYMORE BACK PAIN GONE SWELLING GONE KNEES FELL ALOT BETTER , JUST OVER ALL BETTER LIKE IT WAS BEFORE I STARTED USING THIS THING I CAN LOOK AT A TOY ON THE FLOOR NOW AND NOT GO INTO A RAGE, I KNOW ALOT OF PEOPLE LIKE THE NOT HAVING TO TAKE A PILL EVERYDAY BUT ALL THAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH IS NOT WORTH THIS, I HAVE NEVER HAD ACNE NOW I DO BUT ITS GOING AWAY TOO. THE MORE I WRITE THE MORE I CAN THINK THAT HAS HAPPEN TO ME, IM GLAD IT GONE AND DONT EVER WANT TO USE IT AGAIN...........

I have been on Advair for almost five years (on and off for three, but 2X a day for two 250/50). The the symptoms appeared: Tingling extremities, headaches, numbness of my limbs and all other symptoms mentioned above. I thought it was the statin drugs, so I stopped taking them. I still suffer from the symptoms until they continued to exacerbate. Lately, the nerve or muscle pains were unbearable at night. I went to my MD who reoommended X-Ray on my neck. Then I thought ADVAIR could be the culprit!!! Am I so relieved, I found this site. Now I am going to slowly wean myself from it. L.L.R. Hawaii

I have been taking Lipitor for about 5 years now and have had numerous things happen to me. Just trying to find out if they relate to the Lipitor or not. Have developed extreme fatigue and depression over the years. Always seems like I am in a fog. Have tried numerous anti-depressants trying to conquer this. Nothing seems to work and the problems continue. I was thinking that I just have to live with it and then I thought about the Lipitor. Has anybody experienced any of these symptoms too? I am on 20mg.

hum... i'm sorry to read all these messages...
i hope all of you are feeling better in a near future, if you're not already!

someone there asked if there's anything good to take...
i actually ended up on this page because i was considering taking yasmin.
i'm from brazil, i used to take another pill before, called diane
it really made my skin look good

then i switched to nuvaring
i've been using nuvaring for a long time, 3 or 4 years, can't remember
since they first started to sell it
it's pretty good
i never had any problems

but i do get some acne eventually, and then i thought about looking for a pill like the one i used before
but apparently it may not a good idea to quit something that works great

i hope this helps, at least as a different suggestion

good luck :)

Can I just say thank god i found this site... after taking my last dose of this stuff today I needed answers... I thought I was losing my mind... i was nervous, anxious, my heart was beating through my chest, i was dizzy... I thought at first it was all in my head... then I thought I was panicing... and last night, lord I sat up itching like crazy.... too bad it took me so long to even think it was the pills... i'll NEVER take them again. EVER.

I have taken advair now for 3 yrs. at first I started out with the 250/50mg and then decressed myself down to the 100/50. I've put on alot of weight, and have tryed getting off of it. I only inhaled this once a day in the AM. I don't need it in the PM. I do have an albuterol back up if I need it, and when I tried to stop using it, (the advair) I was using the albuterol inhaler twice a day. I also have backaches, headaches, blurred vision at times, (not bad though). achey joints, trying to get rid of the weight gain is harder then I thought no matter what I do it just won't come off, Advair does help me breath, but how the heck do you come off of it if you feel you absolutely don't need it?

My 13 year old daughter was diagonosed with asthma about 5-6 months ago. She was then prescribed singulair along with 250/50 Advair. Not even thinking about the meds being a problem my daughter has turned into a terror. The school has called a few times about behavior problems in school. Her grades are also dropping drastically. She has never had any kind of problems like this before. She is very angry, depressed,with many mood swings. I know that she is 13 but this is not normal. Her teacher reccommends she seek counseling as I agreed. Then I thought of this medication and wondered could this be the root of the problem? I called the doctor and he told me to take her off of singulair and see if I notice any difference in a week. It has only been 2 days so I guess we will see. This is really beginning to worry me. I want my daughter back.. If anyone has anything to share please email me at ****** Thanks, Cindi

My son just turned 5 years old. Singulair is the only medicine my son has been taking in these last few months. He had been off of it for about a year, until May 05 he started taking it again. His behavior became terrible. I did not put two and two together, that the medicine was doing this to him. Constantly in trouble in pre k. Bouncing off the walls, bad temper, head aches, a couple of nose bleeds, muscle leg and ankle cramps (which I thought were growing pains), not sleeping through the night, not LISTENING at all, hyper, sarcastic, rude and eating all the time. I have had him off singulair for a few days and he is getting back to the sweet little boy he use to be. I can't believe the change in personality. Thank you for this website and I hope other parents read this and take their children off singulair. I was thinking about taking him to a therapist because I just did not know what to do anymore. So the other night I was thinking what has happened to him to cause such a change. Then I thought I will do some research on Singulair and boom I could not believe he wasn't the problem, singulair was. I was at my wits end until I found this website and noticed similar patterns with other children. I feel awful I have been giving these terrible pills to my son. I cannot believe doctors are prescribing this to little children. How unfair. He has been in so much trouble lately being disciplined. He use to be on it a couple of years ago and was also bad and I asked the ped and he told me no behavior problems could be caused by singulair. So I just filed it in the back of my mind and choked it up to terrible two's. Well I say bull. My poor child went through hell. Help your little ones and do not let them take singulair.

Wow. After reading these entries I am almost certain what I am feeling is the Yasmin affecting my body. I just went on this pill a week ago. Since then I thought I have had the flu. I have had diarrhea and extreme fatigue. I am constantly dizzy and nauseous. I just had a baby and I have to say I felt like I was pregnant again, though it would have to have been immaculate conception. My husband insists I wait another week, but I don't think I can take this any longer. I just do not feel like myself.

I have been so depressed, crying for no reason, tired, my boobs are overflowing in my bra's and my sex drive no longer exists! I had no idea why I was feeling this way, then I thought to do a little research on Yasmin and I found this website. I am about to start my 3rd week on Yasmin....I have felt better the week before my period (which is why I am on Yasmin). My doctor recomended me to start taking it to control my terrible mood swings and cramping. I called to tell her about how I feel and she is trying to convince me to stay on it for another 2 months, that my body is just adjusting to it. I want to quit, but I am curious to see if it really helps my PMS symptoms......if it doesn't I am done with this crap! I am miserable and making everyone who around me miserable. I would rather have cramps and mood swings 3 or 4 days rather than feeling the way I have the past 2 weeks..