Two and a half symptoms and conditions

I am 29 years old and was taking Loestrin 24 Fe. Six days after taking the pill I started having severe pains in my right leg and trouble breathing. Come to find out about two and a half weeks later I had developed blood clots in my leg and had traveled to my lungs. Thank God it was caught in time. I spent 6 days in the hospital on total bed rest, they wouldn't even let me go to the bathroom. I was on blood thinners through the IV and in pill form. I also had to have a blood transfusion because of the periods I had two weeks apart from each other, which were extremely heavy. I went through 80.tampons and 48 pads. The ER doctor said if I had not come to the ER that day I could have died that night.

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I am so greatful to God that I saw this website. I was prescribed Yasmine two and a half months ago for the reason of acne. I wanted Diane35 since I used that in the past for the same purpose i.e to cure acne and it worked very well but this doctor wanted to put me on yasmine stating it has less side effects. Now the first week of taking yasmine i HAD BAD ANXIETY ATTACKS. I had a feeling it was this pill but I wanted to cure my acne so bad that I continued I had to go on anxiety medicine I was not sure it was yasmine but since I have been taking Yasmine I am suffering from bad depression crying almost every day on stupid things without any reason getting cranky with my husband. My acne has gotten even worse. now I am in the middle of third pack but I just want to stop. Is it okay to stop in the middle.

Well, I am not the type to post things on line but I'm so angry and disgusted with the whole medical and pharmaceutical industries for promoting this product FALSELY. I got the mirena 5 weeks ago and am having it removed in two days- and counting. I am extremely anxious and depressed. I feel "raw"- like I want to cry for absolutely NO REASON. I just gave birth to a beautiful boy two and a half months ago and have a lovely 15 month old boy as well. I need my mental health for these babies and MIRENA has taken it away. I was told (as most women who are posting about Mirena complaints) by my doc that there would be no side effects despite me telling him that I did not do well on the pill. When I had to go to the psychiatrist because of how MISERABLE I felt, she called the ob-gyn and he said it was "absolutely not" the Mirena- leaving me to feel like a basket case. Fortunately I looked on line and realized I AM NOT CRAZY and I KNOW MY BODY better than all these doctors. I had read about Mirena before getting it inserted but only on their website- obviously heard no horror stories there. I wish I would have read websites like this one before having it inserted. Anyhow, NOBODY is going to tell me that what I feel is NOT because of Mirena- I KNOW IT IS. I am having this awful thing removed and no doctor will persuade me to "try it a little longer." They can say it's not the Mirena but we all know the truth and the truth will prevail eventually.

I recently discovered that my Yasmin birthcontrol could be what is making me feel anxious and depressed lately.It comes in bursts one or more times a day where I feel lots of axiety, depressed and thoughts that I cant live like this anymore. I have stopped taking it and was wondering if anyone knew anything that could help me to relax when ever I start feeling out of control. I'm hoping to get it all out of my system soon and start feeling back to normal again. I'm tired of feeling scaired and sad and anxious. Any one else feel the same way? Any success stories from stopping the pill and how soon did you start feeling good again?

My husband went on Lisinopril in Feb 07, his bp went down and was regulated his headaches almost left but then he had sinus surgery in mar or apr. He has now developed muscle twitching and now the "doctors" say he has Motor Neuron Disease.... I refuse to believe after reading everyone's side affects that this 41 year old with no family history of this other than 1/2 siblings with high bp that he has this disease. He has experienced neck stiffness like it is broken (had MRI) no broken bones or slipped disc, he has had the chills, hw has vision blurred issues, heaviness in his legs, left side of his body more prominent than the right, he has crazy dreams and thoughts, he feels like he is dying, he doesn't however have any coughs, he has anxiety which they put him on anti depressant. After reading others comment I researched this med, it was developed by venom in a poisonous Brazilian snake. My husband as a child would get bitten by wasps, fire ants etc.. they would rush him to ER for meds and he used to take shots if stung, swells up like a balloon. So in my theory this med has the snake bite affects and I believe this has caused him to have this neuron disease but I can't prove it. His muscles twitch all the time. I believe this drug has been slowly poisoning him to a eventually paralysis to death. I have begged the doctor to take him off. He has but now he is on Atenolol, which is not much better but has no snake venom or ACE inhibitors. Please people email me. I am desperate we need to band together.
Thanks you Joann

my partner went on nuvaring about two and a half weeks ago. since then she has become severely depressed and lethargic. we had chalked it up to unhappiness at work and some emotional disappointments with her family, but after reading this we have become convinced that the nr is a major part of the issue. she just took it out and we hope that tomorrow she will wake up and notice a difference. also, although she does suffer from migraines, they were more or less under control until the past week. she has had headaches everyday and has had to take imitrex for them. she has been nauseous and has also had problems sleeping. she also cries alot. she is not normally a depressed person. in fact, she is normally really positive. this is a horrible drug. does anyone know of a good option for regulating menstrual cycles? she is not on this for bc, just to regulate her cycle. any advice is welcomed. thanks.

Has anyone who has been on Yasmin for more than two years noticed post-sex vaginal bleeding? I'm 24 and I've been seeing the same guy for three years, been on Yasmin for two and a half years, and all of a sudden (please forgive me being graphic), when we have sex in the doggystyle position, I start to bleed. It's only a little bit and it doesn't continue. There is no pain.

The only thing I can think of is that having been on Yasmin for an extended period of time has led to this side effect.

Otherwise everything is fine. I haven't become pregnant, my cycles are regular, I haven't experienced mood issues or the dreaded recurring yeast infections that one poor girl described. The bleeding freaks my boyfriend out and dampens the mood, to say the least.

Has anyone else experience this? Please let me know, I'm hoping to eliminate the most likely causes of this symptom so I can figure out if it's my body or what....

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after thinking back i was started on privivil if spelled correctly then switched to lisinipril and was on it longer than six years,
after finding this site i have been off a liitle over two months
i have now can actually say i am beginning to feel like my old self, the tightness in the chest has slowly gone away i don't sleep all hours of the day like i did,i was lucky on the cough
i only got it when it was enough of anything to start it then i felt like i was throwing my inside out.I am very glad for this site also the joint pain is gone I can bend down now and get up without the pain jsut about all the symptoms that i have read I did have except the cough and I don't really know how long it takes to purge the body of this toxic pill but i have been off a little ovewr two and a half months or so and am not completely rid of it.

I am on my 5th day of taking 25mg of lamictal and I have developed a sore blister cluster on the right side of my lower lip, a slight sore on the side of my tongue, my eye lid rims seem to itch, and I have to scratch a random itch on my body. I was just diagnosed as having bi-polar 11 disorder and had already have been taking prozac for a number of years for anxiety. The prozac was not helping by itself anymore and I am finding it harder and harder to keep a job. I, not to long ago, held Director positions in the Human Service field, and am now settling to take a job at a local retail store for a little more than minimum wage. Anyway, I was hoping to get the help I need from this new med but, feel it is probably not the right one for me. What will I be given next? I was given lamictal because of my fear of gaining weight an either depakote or lithium. I will call the clinic tomorrow and hope I will be squessed in to see a Dr. who can tell if this blister is from this or because i ate alot of fresh tomatoes recently. In the past , my love for tomatoes was worth the sore. but, sometomes i stayed away because i did not feel like dealing with the discomfort. Now I am rambling, but worried about this being a potential harmful side affect. Also, I do not need to become any more scattered brain then I have been lately. My own sanity seemed to deteriorate since my daughters behavior since 6th grade became umbearable. She is now in 10th grade and as of 8 months ago is not living with me. She called the police and I was jailed for a night and a day.My bility to cope with life became more and more difficult. I hope to find a regimen that will keep me from applying for disability. I am now 53 years old and have worked all of my life up until now. I feel like a kid trying to find out what I want to be when I grow up. Rambling again but this certainly has been helpful in that It gives me a chance to sort out my concerns. ThankYou

it made my penis 5inches longer before i had a two and a half penis so its quite a difference thank you propoxy :)

I just started taking prednisone for my arthritis and will be on it no longer than 6 weeks, probably less than that. I start off taking four pills a day at 5mg, which is 20mg a day. I do this for 5 days and then reduce down to three and a half pills a day for the next five days. I keep decreasing after that. My question is will I get the moon face and gain a lot of weight off of this for as short a time as I am using it? I go back to the doctor in two and a half weeks and he hopes to take me off of it then. I am just really scared because I worked so hard to lose almost 30 pounds and I do not want to gain it back. Any advice would be helpful!

this is for my mother, im VERY worried about her. she has HORRIBLE leg pains that come on all of a sudden, it hurts her so bad she literally crys. Her back bothers her alot so she was sent to a physical therapist, she has depression also. the doctor here seems to think its just side effects of tamoxifen, but she is on her 3rd year of taking the drug, why is this happening to her now? she didnt seem to have problems in the first two and a half years. does anyone know what could be the problem?

I've been having problems being thirsty. I've only been on zyrtec for about two and a half months. I was depressed and sad the past teo, but i thought that was because i'd recently moved. Now i'm having problems being thirsty all the time and then urinating because i'm drinking water so much. It leaves your mouth dry. I dunno about the hunger thing, but i've stpooed taking it for about four days and already my therapists says i'm like a new person: happy.

I have not been able to breathe through my nose for about a year or year and a half. I have tried all of the prescription allergy medications, nasal sprays, etc. None have even remotely worked. Two and a half months ago I ended up with a sinus infection that Augmentin did not help, so I received my first Kenalog shot with a second dose of Augmentin. It was amazing! I could actually breathe through my nose and smell again. It lasted about two months perfectly, until my allergies came back and I ended up with another sinus infection. Today I had my second Kenalog shot and I hope it works as well as the first time. But now I am reading about all of the side effects and wondered if anyone has tried anything else that doesn't involve Kenalog for their allergies.

I have been on celexa for about 4 months. Since two and a half monthes ago my left jaw started to clicking. I dose not happen every time that I open my jaw, but it happens 50% of the time. I do not have pain, but It realy bothers me. Has any one else had this problem?

I have been on Zoloft for two and a half weeks, and in a constant mental struggle with the fact of being on psych medication (one minute I'm going to stop taking it, the next I'm giving it another week). Have seen few benefits, although early in the course of usage. One benefit is I'm tiring out earlier at night and getting good sleep. Another is probably a placebo effect of feeling a little more calm and less tempermental. But the negative side effects have been a minor sexual problem in finding great difficulty achieving climax. The worst side effect (assuming it is a side effect of the drug), is urinary incontinence, especially at night. I wake up with urgent bladder pain only to release a small amount of urine with almost no force behind it. This is followed by several daily episodes similar in nature and lately a mild pain in my lower left abdomen. I am visiting the doctor today in hopes of determining the cause of this, but it seems too coincidental to not be related to the Zoloft. I'm stopping cold turkey today.

I had been taking Yasmin for approximately two and a half months, when I discovered that the strange feelings I had been having could possibly be linked to this method of birth control. I have been experiencing panic attacks, one of which sent me to the emergency room (I'd never had one before), headaches, anxiety, lowered libido, increased hunger, more frequent urination and fatigue. After I got tired of feeling like death was at hand from the panic attacks, I stopped taking Yasmin altogether. That was just a couple of days ago. I hope no long-term damage has been done. I think doctors know about the side affects but because of plush deals or agreements with pharmaceutical companies, they push these drugs on us as the alpha and omega of our options.

I thought I was losing my mind until I found this website. My two and a half year old son has been on Singulair for about six months and he's had a huge personality change. He's aggressive, has nightmares and wake up screaming about monsters and tigers. He used to sleep in his own bed but now gets so afraid he runs into our room most nights. He's begun to hit and yell at us and is making the kids in his preschool room cry. He's not the same little boy he was before he started taking Singulair and after reading all of these other messages, I'm taking him off the drug and will see if his allergist/ENT has another suggestion. I think he'll tell me I'm paranoid, but I'm sure this Singulair is the problem. Thank goodness I found this website!

I have been using Yasmin for two and a half years now and have not experienced any of the side effects listed on this page. In fact, I took Allesse for six months prior to starting on Yasmin and suffered horrible mood swings. I spoke to my gynecologyst and he explained that one women may do well on a specific brand of birth control pill while others may experience side effects on that same pill. You have to find waht works best for you.

I've been suffering from insomnia for 4 years on and off (the off when I used cannabis/alcohol). I took ecstasy every weekend for about 19-20 months, that ended two and a half years ago. And since then i've also suffered depression. Anyway I've been pescribed effexor XL 75mg, the first night I took it I'd been to the local pub (or bar for the Americans) I had a couple of pints of larger and went home. About 2:00am I still wasnt asleep and I felt like I had taken ecstacy. I kept thinking that someone had spiked my drink with XTC, got about 1 hours sleep. My pupils were very dialated and I looked like I was on drugs (the illegal ones). But it turns out it was the Effexor. I'm on my second day with it and feel like i'm on a downer and my head kills, my teeth hurt, my stomach kills, and my eyes look very starnge. Is this normal should I stop or just grit my teeth and bare it (pun intended). There is alot of bad comments about this drug but there is good ones aswell. I start college in less than a week this will be my 4th attempt I only hope I can sleep properley by then.
Stu (Beverley nr Hull, England)

My thirteen year old daughter has to take 40mg(total)daily. She has Down's Syndrome and can't describe her side effects. I've noticed that after about two and a half hours of her taking it, she becomes so drowzy that she will fall asleep anywhere. It knocks her out just like that. In my opinion, it is too strong for her. She becomes this way just from 20mg. This must be some powerful medication!! She slept for about 13 hours after her first dosage. She can't take it before going to school.