Validated symptoms and conditions

Hello Yasmin Sufferers out there, I have currently been taking Yasminfor four months exactly, I started my cycle today which means that I would start to take my new pack of pills come this Sunday, except I have most definately decided that I am going to stop. Especially after reading all of these posts and have come to the realization that all of my health problems seem to be Yasmin driven. I will now list the long list of symptoms that I have expierienced over the last four months:

Water retention, dry mouth, dehydration ( also note: drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day), blurred vision, shaking, headaches, backaches, crying at the drop of a dime, moody, irritable, constipation, nightsweats, coldsores, breast tenderness, as well as numbness in legs. I also have naturally thin hair, but have noticed that my hair has become thinner. I have also gained 10pds.

I am 24 years of age and have been taking this pill for four months. When I was younger I took Ortho Tricyclin for years and gained approx: 60pds. I went off of that pill and dropped the weight almost immediately along with changing my nutrition completely. So, it wasn't just the pill. I then stayed off of the pill for years, and was absolutely fine. Last year I tried to take Yasmin, I went on the pill for one month and withing the 1st week gained 8pds, I stopped taking it after one month, because I am so weight conscience because the pill had made me gain weight in the past.

I tend to have moderate adult acne. I went to my Dr. for an acne treatment, and he suggested the Birth Control Pill. He suggested Yasmin because of the water pill which is in it. This time my Dr. convinced me that I did not give the pill enough time last time and should give it three months minumum.

So, I have given it four months and the symptoms seem to be getting worse as well as the weight gain, and irritability.

I have also felt depressed and wondered if have been depressed which I have never had thoughts of in the past.

One thing that Yasmin has done well for me has been clearing up the acne, which was what I wanted to stop, but after enduring all of these other symptoms, I would rather have adult acne in trade for all of these.

Like I mentioned above I took my last pill last Saturday because that was the end of my pack and I do not plan on starting a new one this Sunday. I can only hope that I do not get any negative side effects when coming off of the pill.

I hope that this helps you ladies out there looking for info and highly recommend researching a birth control pill extensively before taking it.

Wishing you all the best of luck, thank you all for voicing your symptoms as I didn't even realize that these were all pointing to one problem.YASMIN.

I've been on lisinopril for 6 months and have been having this odd gagging sensation. Even before I start coughing, sometimes the smallest thing -- or nothing at all will make me gag. Tonight, despite the fact I didn't feel at all naseous, I had to stop the car while driving in order to gag and vomit. I also have a mild heart burn sensation in my throat and I have never been prone to any kind of heart burn in my life. My lisinopril cough is very small and inconsequential, but is more scratchy feeling than a normal cough. That's the best I can explain it.

I mentioned the feeling of gagging to my doctor. I suspected it was lisinopril since the symptom started shortly after I took the drug. My doctor shrugged off my question re: could it be the lisinopril and I concluded it must be in my mind, or perhaps some bizarre mid-life symptom of a result of being overweight about 30 pounds.

I had taken Benicar and Micardis for high blood pressure a year ago and both worked extremely well and without a single side effect. Unfortunately, my health insurance company (Blue Shield of California) wouldn't cover either, so my doctor switched me to lisinopril.

Fortunately, if my doctor reports my side effects, the insurance company will cover Benicar or another drug like it, so I'm going to fax him tomorrow with the alternative drugs covered by my insurance.

Tonight's gagging / vomitting attack provoked me to look up side effects for this drug on the internet. Now my suspicions are confirmed and I feel very validated. Thanks to all who posted here.

I have decided that never, ever again will I be on any 'hormone therapy' again, including birth control pills. I am now 32, and was having shortened periods that stopped after 1 day for the last 4 months (no wonder I felt nuts!) and had many symptoms of pregnancy but was not pregnant. I went to three different doctors, and the second one wanted me to get a D&C, saying it was 'standard' in my situation - however, I had a bad feeling about someone taking a scalpel to my reproductive organ walls (one of them), so I cancelled the surgery. Thankfully, the third doctor told me it would have been unnecessary, but after many ultrasounds (that revealed a thickened endometrial lining, which is normal before you start your period) I was put on Yasmin. I HATE these and all birth control pills (incl. shots, patch, whatever). First of all, they basically abort any egg that may have mated with sperm, which I have a bad feeling about. Second, they make me feel absolutely psychotic. I have had blurred vision (I kept ignoring it until I read the other posts here that validated that I was not imagining this!). I was walking up the steps to the house and had what felt like a heart attack or stroke - thank God it stopped but scared me so much. I have been much more depressed, with psychotic thoughts rampant, since taking this drug (tonight was only my fifth pill!). I have determined that it was completely normal for my hormones to be 'out of whack' due to stress - In the last 2 years I have been through a marriage, a divorce (I was abandoned in a new city by him), moved 8 times, had to give up almost everything I owned (including my pets), had a couple of bad 'rebound' relationships, financial problems, etc. Is it REALLY any wonder I felt unlike myself???? I have decided that I do not care what guys in the future say about them wanting me to get on these awful birth control pills - they can take them and see how THEY feel! It simply is not worth the risk of heart attacks, blood clots, stroke, etc., not to mention the other side effects like vomiting, nausea, dehydradation, etc. When I was married we used contraceptive gel, but in the future I will stick with natural methods or gels. It is just not worth it to take these - tonight will be my last night of these horrible pills.