Tremendously symptoms and conditions

The first month on Yaz was great because I was better able to control my mood swings and had less of them. However, during the four day placebo I felt like I was having withdrawals because I would bite my boyfriends head off at the drop of a dime and I hated life in general. I also had diarrhea and nausea prior to the beginning of my period. I experienced spotting the first
13 days of taking Yaz. My sex drive increased tremendously.
During the second month on Yaz I noticed my libido declined dramatically! Three nights before my period started I had horrble stomache cramps and nausea at 4:a.m. and had horrible diarrhea at 4;a.m. before my period started the next day. My flow is a very dark red, almost purple, which is different than it has ever been. I will try Yaz for a 3rd month and see how things go. So far I have do not have enough of a reason to want to continue taking this drug.

I wouldn't try the patch because of skin sensitivity, shots just seem really wrong to me, but I have been taking different oral contraceptives for nearly fifteen years. Fortunately I haven't had a pulmonary embolism which was definitely a risk because I was a smoker the whole time. Every time I switched pill brands, it was because of insurance copays, it would be non-preferred. However, I was still diagnosed with endometriosis and had one ovarian cyst removed laparoscopically and one ruptured on its' own. Endometriosis is less common in women on the pill because of the ovulation regulation...so I imagine things could have been so much worse. I was able to ask to take the pill continuously, meaning I'd skip the sugar pill week. Oh heaven! Without the pill I have severe cramps, PMS, heavy bleeding, pain and numbness in the crotch area, diarrhea, and was emotionally unstable. Although I suffer from depression, I don't feel that the pill has affected that much at all. I've recently quit smoking, and now am on the Nuvaring because of drug interactions. I've been spotting for 10 days now at least, and been on the ring for a month. I know there is a transition period, but this is not acceptable. My request to my doctor is to get back on some sort of pill on my insurance's preferred list. I'm starting to break out too. I want my pill back!

I have been on Wellbutrin for the past 2 years for the depression and the only side effect i have had has been memory loss, occasionally at work. I start to do something and after a few minutes if a question is asked i'm not able to remember. It felt like i was getting dimentia, but i started to use Gingko Biloba and my memory loss has improved. On Wellbutrin i haven't really had any side effect. It has helped me tremendously with my depression.

I have never had any of the side effects listed on this site. Advair has helped me tremendously!

Benicar as with all blood pressure lowering drugs causes weakness, numbness, heartburn, leg pain, will affect the eye sight tremendously, and when discontinued of course your bp will soar to new hights. Should with all the others be taken off the market.

I was just put on Levaquin today, for a very bad urinary tract infection.
My doctor prescribed a 5 day treatment, i was suffering terribly.
Let me say, that after just taking the first one, how much better i
feel. Yes, i had some naucousness(however you spell it) but let me
tell you, compared to how i was feeling, which was horrible, in pain
frequent urination, burning, like a knife going through my urethra.
Feeling a bit sick to my stomach from this medication, was well
worth it, compared to how i was feeling....this drug has helped me
and i only took 1 so far, i was on this antibiotic before, and it
also helped me...When we take any type of medication, none
will be without some kind of side effect, to me, the side effect
is worth it, knowing im going to be better from the horrible
suffering. Its only a 5 day treatment, its not like you have to
take it for 1 mth...im a trooper and hang in there, nothing can
be worse than a serious urinary infection, i couldnt take it
anymore...this pill so far as helped me tremendously, maybe
you all should just hang in there for 5 days, and give it a
chance, just my opinion...! Good Luck to All!

I have had depression, weight gain, my breast size has gone up tremendously, and i get frequent mood swings.

I don't know if what I'm experiencing is side-effects or old age (55), but I thought I had arthritis in my left big-toe (taking aleeve to help inflammation), and the toe felt as if it was trying to 'turn' my foot. Now this morning my left calf-muscle felt that it was trying to 'turn' my leg inward. It still feels uncomfortable after getting out of bed, but very disturbing. Advair was first given to me when I was using my inhaler too many times and I felt wonderful relief at being able to breathe freely, but now I'm not so sure if this is the cause of the other problems. How can you know for sure what is causing what problem?

I have not taken Lupron. In fact, I refused to take it at my doctor's insistence. I am a healthy 45 year old woman - why would I give that up for a temporary fix (6 months at most) for my endometriosis when I may have other options?

I don't want to trade my low blood pressure, healthy body weight, healthy bones, ability to sleep, clear skin, normal bowel movements, lack of severe migraines and lack of irritability for lack of endo pain.

I do not discount the endo pain - it can be crippling - but so is this drug! Everyone must make their own decision regarding whether or not to take Lupron but please, please do your research. Most doctors don't let you know that you have options. Call the Endometriosis Organization and ask for a specialist in your area. Endo is a little-known and often misunderstood disease. Find yourself a surgeon with a great deal of experience with endo - NOT an OB with a great deal of experience delivering babies.

It really upsets me to see so many women feel that they have to pay this price to relieve the pain. I am going to an endo specialist for a second opinion in a couple of weeks. I don’t know what he’ll say about my case but I am pretty sure the answer won’t be Lupron.

I am not usually a person who senses a doctor or a drug company is unethical, but remember, there will be no greater advocate for your health than yourself! Educate yourself, and ask your doctor lots of questions. If your doctor gives you a hard time – find another one. It’s your body and you have to live with the consequences.

I started on Topamax 3 days ago and am taking 25 mgs. My appetite has increased tremendously compared to the other posted on this site. Is that normal? I don't have the other symptoms; other than a little liteheadedness and sillyness....Any one else have any suggestions?

Hey,
My name is Krysten im 14 and im in the 8th grade. I'v been taking adderal for almost 4 months now. Before taking adderal I wasent doing good in school, I would always get into fights. My life was miserable. So I asked my doctor if I could try adderal agian. Before when I took adderall my stomach hurt and I wasent feeling the same. Then I wanted to give it a try. A week after I started to feel my self agian, my family and my teachers noticed a huge diffrence in my academics and my ADD. I went from getting E's and D's to getting on the honor role last quarter. I got the most improved in my grade and I was very happy. Now its the final quarter and now im feeling that adderal isant helping as much as it use to I'm worring about if I'm going to do as well as last quorter and im feeling a little anxiety. I went from taking 30 - 40mg in less than a month, Since I take 10mg after school. I also have been exeirencing weird things. When I get up from sitting down, I sometimes get a huge headach, I cant breath for about 30 seconds, I sometimes see stars and Its like a black out also, I get up then I cant see anything its all black, then slowy I can see agian. I would really like to know if i should raise my Mg higher for me to focus more and be happyer over time. I think adderal was a life changer for me. Please answer my question as soon as poosible!

After taking Levaquin 500mg for 7 days I developed
muscle aches and pains and could hardly move. After contacting my doctor, they put me on another antibiotic to finish the term. I continued having muscle and joint pain.
My doctor told me that it may take 2wks for this Levaquin to clear my system and if I didn't feel better to call back after this time if I continued to feel worse. For anyone who has experience this and would like to know what relief for the pain that helped, I started taking ALEVE a over the counter medicine for arthritis and it helped tremendously! But I will never again take Levaquin again. I will finish taking the ALEVE and hopefully my condition will not return but I feel great now. Make sure you take the ALEVE after meals. This can cause ACID REFLUX which is another condition that I had after taking NAPROXEN. I will never take NSAIDS for a long term ever again either and if I do I will make sure I eat a FULL COURSE MEAL!!

I started about the first of year having asthma type symptoms and was prescribed Singulair. My breathing did improve greatly, however I started having severe IBS symptoms even though I was taking Zelnorm. I also suffered from extreme constipation, pain in my side and back, headaches, backache, pain behind my knees, numbness and tingling in my legs and anxiety. I was on a restricted diet and I treated with my gastroenterologist and had an Endoscopy which was negative.

One evening after taking the Singulair I suffered a severe headache and decided to quit taking the drug. I have been off since March 18th and I feel tremendously better, the side effects have diminished greatly and I have resumed a normal diet and activities.

Singulair helped my asthma symptoms tremendously. i started on it about 4 years ago when my breathing was assessed as that of a 90 year old!!! ok i was 50 at the time.... My problem is that it does cause me to experience anxiety and makes me overly emphatic and aggresive when discussing/arguing a difference of opinion. When i stop using it, the anxiety and aggresivness go away. I use my regular steroidal type inhalers most of the time, but absolutely need singulair at times of the year (Winter) when my breathing gets bad; so i do have experience of going on and off the drug and how it effects me.

After jsut 1 pill I had swollen hands, felt like head was swollen but it didin't look like it! Tremendously sore jaw and ears-like a very severe sinus infection. Intense head ache, felt like I was crawling out of my skin, fidgty-yet tired, severe muscle aches in upper body...This was after just one pill. I stopped and I was fine 24 hours later...none of the symptoms remained.

I've been taking Zoloft 2 years. Little by little I began to feel joint pains. Pain is only concentrated in the inside part of the elbows (the little bone which hurts tremendously when you hit self accidentally when the elbow is bumped). I've also noticed I loose my grip on tools, ie: pliers, screwdrivers.

I have been taking ADVAIR and it has helped tremendously. I have never been a smoker, but would wake up feeling tired and like I had walked 10 miles.I took two years of complainng to docotrs before I got the right answers. My muscles were sore , it was brutal . I had no idea you had to take Advair for two weeks for it to work. I was taking it here and there because I try to aviod taking meds constantly, due to the worry of side effects.
However if it helps me get less chest infections, wake up feeling almost 100% , because I am getting the required oxygen ..I have nothing bad to say , except I do find a slight dry throat.

I wanted to add one final post (hopefully my last). I did order the Linden method, and although I have not followed it exactly....it had 99% of my symptoms listed. Instead of meditation cd's I prayed and studied my Bible. The changes in thinking, diet, exercise have helped tremendously. Then again, I have also reached that magic point of 1 year 4 months off Yasmin. I am now 99% better! NO MEDICATIONS at all. You guys have helped me through that past year and 4 months. Without you, I would have ended up on psycho-drugs and much worse, but I have made it out! Thank you so much for sticking it out. There is hope for all of you; it just takes a LONG time... I will not be back to the forum. God bless you all...I pray for your speedy recovery!
Virginia

I started taking Advair 2 years and it has helped me tremendously. However, I did notice some side effects like the dryness of throat and the constant need to clear my throat which I can live with. My main concern is blood sugar levels. I have been told by my doctor over the last year that my blood tests shows I have hit the diabietes numbers on the fasting tests. Is this a side effect of Advair? Is there anyone out there that has experienced this?

After the second day of taking Prednisone I noticed a dramatic difference. I was not in pain anymore from the inflammation. I thought it was a miracle drug, but with-in a week I started to gain weight, even though I eat a very healthy diet. I have been on Prednisone for almost 5 months and I cannot believe the amount of weight I have gained. I am now weaning myself off of it due to Doctor's instructions, and am experiencing anxiety and depression and the pain is coming back, almost immediately. Although it helped me tremendously in the beginning, I would definitely try another remedy before I ever take Prednisone again. They call it the "nasty drug" for a reason.

It must be that Yasmin is okay for people already depressed or experiencing PMDD. The first time i was put on Yasmin it was for those reasons and it helped me tremendously. After 1 1/2 years I did get Yeast a lot, UTIs and some break through bleeding..but no depression/axiety/insanity that all of you are talking about. Now I am back on it and once again, no side effects yet! I guess for those who are already a little anxious/depressed/crazy, it helps. Thats the way it seems to me. The only BCP I can take without crying every day or being in pain every period.

Hello, I have started my second month of singulair. It was prescribed to me for allergy relief. It has helped me tremendously. HOWEVER, I have recently noticed that my mouth feels really dry. Further, it feels as if it is somewhat raw. When I eat something salty it feels as if I have a cut inside my mouth and I put salt on it. Just wondering if anyone else has this side effect. Thanks

I am 32 years old. I have had asthma since age 8.
I was prescribed Advair by my obgyn 1 1/2 yrs ago when pregnant. It helped my asthma tremendously. I had been using my albuterol inhaler up to 5 times a day prior to starting the Advair. However, my side effects have been consistent weight gain since having the baby - I weigh almost as much as when I was 9 months pregnant. And it's all in my mid section like many other people. I have always had a slim waist. My hair is also thinning on the top.
I have tried unsuccessfully to quit the Advair. I currently take the 100/50 and have cut back to once a day.
Is there any other long term asthma medication out there without the steroids?

Word finding difficulty is annoying. eye weariness is annoying. But 200 mg a day over the last 2 years has helped me tremendously with moderate/severe bulimia. It's worth it. Food doesn't control my life for the first time in my life.

I guess I am still trying to figure out if the Kenalog has been the reason for my unbearable leg cramps/Charley Horses. I am 62 years old and need knee replacement but tried the shot in each knee first. I must admit the shots have helped the pain tremendously...BUT...now when I do any type of standing on my feet for several hours I am awake all night with the worst leg cramps ever. I have never had leg cramps like this. I may have had an occasional cramp over the years but this is over and over all night long. I would be interested in knowing of anyone else has these same leg cramps.