Unattractive symptoms and conditions

I've had the Mirena in for about 7 months just after my second child.... I haven't stopped spotting/bleeding since.... Its horrible. I have had the most intense headaches, to a point where I feel I cannot function. The pain so bad... It has almost dropped me to the floor.
I am constantly struggling to focus. I cry all the time. Yet have a void of emotion. I am struggling to enjoy the simple pleasures I used to enjoy. My libido...... well what can I say...... I have none....!! at first it was just an effort for my partner to begin intercourse with me.... and I would soon enough begin to enjoy it.... But lately I'm finding it hard to enjoy it at all.
I feel disgusting most of the time.... I have had odor problems... and then there's the constant bleeding!!
I feel unattractive! I feel bloated.
And I am about to start seeing a bowen therapist to help me with my structure. The joints in my sternum keep cracking.... and until I read all of this site... I didn't even begin to think that it could possibly be related.....!!!
I have also had serious suicidal thoughts.
I WANT THIS THING OUT!!!

I only tried these pills for one month because I have high levels of testosterone and the doctor suggested Yasmin would be a lighter pill to fight the androgens without sideffects... I tried Androcure before that and the experience was awful BUT yasmin was even worse...

After only one month on Yasmin I gained 7 pounds, I feel totally bloated, unattractive, depressed, tired all the time, woke up sweaty with horrible back pain every morning (especially the last week), I got massive red spots all over my face, my period lasted for 2 weeks, my libido has disappeared, I got suicidal thoughts every single minute, fought with everyone for no reason at all... and whats worse I got candidiasis (a.k.a vaginal thrush) for the first time in my life, followed by itching, burning sensation, dryness and now I am under therapy to get rid of it.

Supposedly this pill would get rid of my hormonal imbalance but in fact it made me much worse than before... My only advice would be to stay away from it, no matter what. Its the worst pill I've ever been on and I threw away the packages for the next months.

I gained almost 20 pounds that I can't take off (usually i lose weight with just diet, and now I can't with both diet and exercise). Basically I have a period and cramps all the time, which leads to me needing about 14 hours of sleep a night. Caffeine no longer works for me in the morning to wake up. Sometimes I have headaches which last for two days. So basically I'm paying 120 every month so I can be fat, tired, and bleeding- indeed a fabulous birth control, since I feel very unattractive!

Hi, I was on yasmine for 4 months then switched to ortho tri lo. A month arfter taking yasmine I started loosing large amounts of hair. I had long hair with long layers down my back and now I have extremely short layers and shoulder length hair without ANY hair cuts. I came across this site and see that alot of people on yasmine has had the same problem. I'm going off all birth control to see if I can get my hair back to normal. Has anyone had any luck regrowing there hair?

Hi polkanow,
I read your message and I wanted to write to tell you that we all go through the feeling of not being ourselves. It's a shame that we need to go through this for the pills to work on our bodies. Keep reminding yourself that once you are off the medication you will be your old self again. I have been on prednisone for over a year, I started at 80 I think, and we were reducing the dosage like you're supposed to with my disease (Wegener's Granulomatosis), and after my lung surgery about 6 months ago I had a flare up of the disease and had to restart prednisone at an even higher dose, at 100mg. This second time on predisone is much tougher than the first. Somehow, I guess because I've been on it longer, I'm experiencing more side effects, more ups and downs, more round face, more dark hairs on my face and neck. It doesn't help us at all that it makes us so unattractive either!!!! Does anyone know if the hairyness goes away like the moon face is supposed to? (thanks for the encouragement, sanndiego). I am small boned, and yet I've gained so much chubbiness on my face and neck that I can't wear some of the necklaces that I used to.
Patience

i am new here, i wanted to know, if the hair loss is normal after you stop the pill? when i was on it, my hair fell a little bit more than what is normal, but now it is out of controll, it is way too thin and i had so much hair that it used to be bothersome to blowdry or style b/c it was way too much, but now it is way too thin :( i started using NIOXIN, anyone use that here??? well i just want to know if this will stop, i am 22 and getting very impatient with this hairloss, i feel so unattractive, i am getting even more depressed and anxiouse, and i am in college about to graduate so i am very stressed, i know that adds on to the hairloss, but not this severly. Good luck to all of you struggling with this horrendouse pill, i have been yasmin free now for about 5 months. TIP: drink alot of green and white tea, it flushes out alot of toxins, way more than just the 9 cups of water a day, add 2 cups of tea in ur day and it will give you energy aswell!!!! XOXO

I am sorry to hear about everyone elses' story but I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who has been negatively affected by this ridiculous drug. I too received the shot in my right buttock and shortly after noticed discoloration and a rather unattractive dimpling in that area. I too was never informed by the doctor or the nurse who administered the shot that these things could possibly happen to me otherwise I would never had agreed. I'm no doctor I expect the one I go to to look out for my best interests. I am seeking compensation from this doctor because vanity or not, I'm the one who has to live with this for the rest of my life.

Can someone PLEASE tell me if the pimples and soreness of the breast will ever go away? I've been on Yasmin for 2 weeks and I now have very unattractive acne. I didn't even get acne like this when I was a teenager! I'm almost willing to risk pregnancy rather than have all these pimples on my face! My breast are about 2 sizes bigger and very tender. Will these symptoms ever go away?

Oh my god i'm so glad i found this site.. i have been on yasmine for almost a month and the only really annoying side effects i have noticed are a spotting like brown vaginal discharge, anxiety (i suddenly become nervouse and afraid of things that have never bothered me before) and fatigue. The brown discharge was worrying me the most. i thought it had something to do with the birth controll but i wasn't sure (and lack of health insurance keeps me from going to the gyn to find out) i figured i would just wait out the 3 months and hope it got better. Thank god i'm not the only one. Now i know how this stuff works, it makes you a moody, bloody unattractive-feeling mess. who could possibly have sex under such conditions? does anyone know if this stops?