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I had a sore throat. The first doctor said mono. The 2nd doc. said no mono or strep --must be viral. Third doc says viral and puts me on predinsone, levaquin and darvocet because my uvula was swelling from infection. White count was elevated and had low grade fever. That was Friday..............................The Monday after that I had severe pains in my left side. After teaching went to ER they said gas after 2 minutes. Next day level 8 pain same side went back to ER. They said skeletal prescribed me 4 more drugs and told me it was viral too. Went to internist on Wednesday had to miss teaching he scheduled CT on Thursday morn. Level10 pain almost passed out on Thursday eve missed school/teaching. Friday admitted to ER at different hospital beyond any level of pain I have ever had, blood pressure through the roof, heart palp, they gave me morphine and phenagrin and muscle relaxer for spasms.

Here I am a perfect state of health get a sore throat and the next week I am in the hospital because of the 2nd ct saying that I am full of poo. 4 weeks later I am still in pain, missed 12 days of teaching and now they say i have ibs. I miss my active life before. I believe the combination of these drugs caused this. I am young no children and very healthy. Ultrasound,s blood works, 2 ct scans with dye, colonscopy, xrays show no probs. Which is great but still in pain. Anyone PLEASE HELP the doctors are taking their sweet time while I have lost weight and stay in bed which helps the pain. Bending over, lifting, eating, pooing, sneezing, coughing, hiccuping can make it worse. It is intense SHARP pain. I have cut out everything med wise except for Miralax and now I have diarrhea and joint pain.

They want me to take Dicyclomine and IMIPRAMINE, MIRALAX and Levisin sublingual and Diflucan.

I am 47-year old, male. I started taking Singulair about 4 months ago to treat my allergy. I had very bad running nose and itchy eyes and was sneezing a lot. None of the antihistamines were effective. Amazingly Singulair has been very helpful. I stopped taking it few days ago thinking my allergy has gone as the season has gone. But everything is back. After reading these much about the side effects of Cingulair, I am scared that it might be dangerous to continue taking it. I have not experienced any bad effects, but don’t know to tolerate the allergy symptoms or keep taking Cingulair. Is there anyone who has had no bad experience with it after taking it for a long time? Please advise. Thanks.

I'm a 36 year old triathlete. I started taking Advair 3-4 years ago. I noticed immedialty that my wheezing stopped. For this reason, I thought the medicane worked well. I also noticed that heavy excersion activities became a little harder. Initially I thought it was allergies. I had less wind. I kept taking Advair because it stolpped the wheezing. 3 months ago I changed my dose from 100 to 250. My lungs started feeling heavier and it was harder for me to breath. I decided to stop taking Advair 3 days ago. I'd have headaches once in a while with Advair but I never noticed any other problems. I've stopped taking Advair for 3 days now. I feel like I can take deep breaths again. I also feel like I'm going through a withdrawal. I've had an intense headache. I'm sure it will go away. The big test will be over the next week. I'll see how I feel when I'm training. I'm not sure if my Asthma is bad enough to take medicane but I'll see. I'll keep Albueteral close by just in case. I'll post again in 1-2 weeks.

Hi Guest 31031!!

Well, out of my experiences with getting off Yasmin, everything looks "pretty normal" (as far as you can say so though....) what's going on with your daughter!!

I've been off Yasmin for about 1,5 years now and still struggling with those problems around ovulation and the time, where my period should start (didn't get it regularly ever since stopping Yasmin!!!).

And another thing: 4 weeks off Yasmin isn't really much, I fear! How long had your daughter been taking Yasmin?

I had been on it for about 5 very long YEARS... And therefor I think I'm having harder times to get back to normal than someone whou only took it for about 1 year or even shorter...

But give it more time, please! At the time of 4 weeks I still felt totally ill and down. And after that time I had those problems every few weeks again, and always around ovulation and starts of my period!

The only thing that you could do is stand by the side of your daughter, keep her going with always telling her, that it WILL get better again after a few days or weeks. And this is one thing I CAN REALLY PROMISE!! It WILL get better again!!

That's what everyone around me (my husband and my parents) always kept telling me, when I was again at that point, where I thought I couldn't go on any longer. And it was the only thing that helped me not to loose hope!! And they were so right!! The nightmare always stopped again after a few days or weeks and I felt myself getting better again!!

Hormonal problems are nothing which can be solved within a few weeks. And the Yasmin-poison takes much longer to get out of your system than only a few weeks. And only when it is completely OUT the hormonal system can start to rebalance without that artificial hormones.

I can imagine how hard it is to see your daughter in such a bad constitution. It was the same with my parents and husband. They were all so worried but a very important thing is: Don't let her know, how worried you are!! Always try to stay strong and sure in telling her, better times are ahead!!

I wish you all the best and god's bless and I swear, you'll get through this with your daughter. And please tell her, that she's not alone, we're all feeling with her!!

Silke

I think what you mean is your daughter is down to 2 pills and went back up to 3 pills? each pill is 5mg so she is now back to 15mg? I also started at high doses like that, two times. Once at 50mg and the second time at 60mg because of a complication due to a surgery. I don't know if any problems that you mentioned are specifically due to prednisone. It does affect the adrenal gland hormones, but I'm not sure it affects the sex hormones (menstruation and breast soreness). My cycle was not affected by prednisone. I do know the mood swings and anxiousness are normal with prednisone. But even though it is the nature of the drug, my particular doctor assured me that at the low level of 2 pills or 10mg a day, it shouldn't be as severe as on the high doses. In fact, we should be feeling a lot better. But of course it depends on our personalities as well. It is normal though, I feel, to have depression, fears and anxiousness just because we have been sick, and perhaps been sick for a long time. Please, with any mood problems, don't dismiss it completely as the drug's fault, especially if you are at a low dose and still feel miserable. We need support if we are sick, and need to understand and deal with our changed lives. It is very stressful to be sick. Good luck to everyone and I wish you strength and healing.
Patience.

I have just been on Yasmin for 1 month and I am experiencing terrible heartburn and heart palpitations. I also notice that I am very tired all the time. And I have notice a large change in my mood swings, I seen to get very upset at the very smallest things.

I have a 1 year child and I can't be feeling like this all the time. Please help!

MAD

I took just one tablet of levaquin 6 weeks ago and I need to urinate frequently and there is a lot of urine each time.Please let me know if anyone had this problem and how long will it take to get better.My neck and shoulders feel stiff and heavy and also I have tingling and pain in my right knee.

i had seasonal allergies all my life (47yrs.) and took over the counter allergy meds. Suddenly, 8 months ago, my allergies became severe - eyes constantly tearing and itchy, nose itchy and runny, roof of my mouth and even my scalp was itchy. The dr. put me on Zyrtec and Optivar eye drops. They seem to have helped but he sent me to an allergist who told me he was going to give me a "shot" to shock the allergic reaction out of my system. He said a minor dimple at the site for a month would be the only side effect. It's been a week and a half and the shot did nothing, suddenly I realized it was Kenalog as I remember hearing him tell the nurse which shot to prepare. Now I'm panic stricken after reading all these horrible remarks from the poor people who've had this shot and are suffering terrible side effects. I do not know the amount of med. i received in the shot but i have to go back in one week to tell him the results and if they're not favorable he will order bloodwork to help pinpoint my allergies. I am so upset that they did not inform me of the serious side effects that I have read on your site. Thank the Lord for help from all of the day-to-day people that respond to this website. I will never let a dr. administer anything to me without being better informed. Does one shot cause all these muscle killing side effects of the buttocks? The dr. called it a small dimple??? Greying of the hair - loss of hair - are these things because people have been taking shots over long periods of time? please help....

I have been on Yasmin for 6 months now and I have had constant nausea and vomiting from time to time. I had no idea it was the Yasmin. I have been on every b/c on the market and never had any of the side effects till now. The worst part is that I had no idea it could be the Yasmin. I just found out yesterday and still have 2 more pills to take..ugh! I have been to a GI dr for the nausea and he agrees that it is most likely the Yasmin but I have to go for x-rays and an endoscopy anyway to be sure. I kind of hope it is the Yasmin at this point and not something more serious. I just want to say THANK YOU to every single person that took the time to post ...I was in tears when I started to read all the suffering we have done but at the same time I feel so alive right now to finally have something to link my being sick all the time. Please e-mail me ******

I am not sure, but for some reason my breasts especially the left one has enlarged. I have noticed this for the last 4 or 5 months. I still weigh the same and have used the estraderm patch for many years. Last week when I told my doctor and he told me to only use the patch for the next two weeks and only use one, not two each week. then stop all together. Hopefully my breasts will get smaller in time.
Please let me know if anyone has had this problem.

Ihave been on Levoxyl for about 2 1/2 yrs now. I am now taking 100mg. I ache in my hips and arms and sometimes have a sore throat. I have gained weight (about 20lbs) and feel confused and almost like a panic attack at times. My vision is shot and now I'm going for laser surgery. My libido have been effected by this too and that has caused problems. I have not lost any hair but my hands swell from time to time. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestion for this. I don't want to stop taking it for fear something will happen.