Witch symptoms and conditions

I had mirena put in nov 2007 after my son was born
at my 6 week appt it was the worse pain ever I bleed for
months had a uti with yellowish fawl smelly discharge
took 2 rounds of antibiotics before it was cleared up
about 6 months after having it inserted I hemriged real bad
made an appt with a interalist doctor. Under went 2 ultarsounds
blood work and an appt for a cat scan not never did test results came
back as cytes on my overies witch ruptured and indometreosis
this nov2009 will mark 2 years my friends and family think that
this mirena is the cause of all my issues every month I bleed at least 3 weeks out of every month and bleed heavily after sex every time I recently
got a real bad cold and was on antibiotics for 10 days had sex 4 times during this 10 days know I'm showing signs of pregnancy the pre milk from the breast as well as fatigue depression mood swings dizziness over all I think that mirena has a lot to do with all of this I will take aprego test in the morning and hope for the best

I'm almost 16 years old. I'm almost done with my 3rd pack. With the first two packs I had my period off and on the whole time. My mood swings were crazy. I'm just happy I warned my boyfriend before taking the pill what my moods might be like.

When I started my third pack everything got normal. My breasts have got bigger, witch i'm not upset about. But they get very sensitive towards the end of my pack.

Sex after taking the pill is very different. I know I'm young. But my mother put my on Loestrin after my 4th time, maybe. I've only been with one boy, so its hard to compare before and after. But how I feel about having sex is different.

I plan on staying with Loestrin. Other than the mood swings, I have no problems.

I am 21 years old and I switched from Seasonal to the NuvaRing I have been on the ring since May 14 and have gained 10 pounds in two months. I went from 104 to 114 and I am 5.0'. I also have been walking 3 days a week for an hour or more. I also got married a month ago and have been snacking less than what I did when I lived at home so I know it's not my eating habits. I have never experienced this much weight gain with any birth control the most I have ever gained was 5 pounds. I am going off of it in a week and cannot wait!!

I am 40 and done having kids. I had the Mirena put in in Jan 2008 to help with heavy periods. Within 3 months I started to feel numbness in my left arm. It would come and go over the next couple of months. Then the numbness and burning spread to my left breast. I developed a breast lump in Nov.08 which was determined to be thickening of the breast tissue (through mammogram and ultrasound) The breast continued to be very sensitive and the arm pain became worse. In March Through a pelvic ultrasound 2 "tumors" were discovered on my left ovary. The doctor wanted to remove only the ovary. Once in the operating room he decided to do a complete hysterectomy. The tumor was a benign blood fill cyst witch burst and also endometriosis was bad enough to remove everything including the Mirena!! Its been two months now and the numbness and burning are still there! I am going to a neurologist to see what is going on. I always felt like the Mirena had something to do with all of this. Maybe I have irreversible nerve damage?

I am 34 and have 2 children, 11 years apart. I decided on the Mirena to not have to worry about getting pregnant again anytime soon. In 6 weeks I had dropped half of the weight from pregnancy for it to come right back in 6 weeks, I received the Mirena at my 6 week check-up. My sex drive is null and void, it's like I have to psyche myself up for days and then 24-48 hours after sex I start to bleed which lasts for 2 damn weeks. Certain positions are painful. I had attributed all this to being older with my 2nd pregnancy and more stress with my oldest daughter and her schedule, both mine and my husbands full-time work schedules as well as coaching, but it seems as though this Mirena may be the cause. I was even told by my husband that I was not the same person he fell in love with. I know and feel my moods have been different but also attributed it to post-partum...IT's been almost a year since having my 2nd and still feel terrible. I think I will be making an appointment to have this removed ASAP. I am glad everyone was willing to share their experiences to confirm I am not secretly a nasty crazy, senile old witch!! To sum it up, here are all mi side effects:
-no sex drive
-depression
-cramping
-bleeding after sex
-fatigue
-aches
-headaches
-moody
-irritable

Avelox! :-(
I don't no where to start.. I initially went in to the doctor and was diagnosed with bronchitis and was prescribed Avelox. I had been on antibiotics before but never this one. Well I took my 1st dose and with in 30 minutes my mouth was consumed with a very bitter acrid taste. As I continued on taking 1 pill once a day, by pill 2 and 3; I was waking up in the middle of the night in a pool of sweat shaking the glads under my neck aching. It seemed that the floor and room was spinning. Pill 4 and 5, I experienced burning head ache, it felt like acid was slowly being poured over my brain and the diarrhea that I initially had in the beginning got worse not just watery but now slimy and mucusy along with the burning head ache that I'm having trouble even typing this comment, I have extreme heart burn even spiting up bial in my sleep. I have all of this going on while trying to make it to the bathroom room, room spinning and my heart is pounding and my legs are shaking so bad I can barley let my self down on the toilette. Pill 6 and 7, I have slurred speech and I can barely complete a sentence much less write this comment so please for give my typos. I've been lying in my bed thinking that I'm dieing trying to figure out witch one on my family members I should contact because something bad can happen and I don't know how bad it will get. As of right now 6:30pm central standard time May 7th I'm considering going to the emergency room! I just hope there is no permanent damage. I will have since discontinued my prescription and will let you know how it goes.

took lipitor and erythromycin and now have neuropathy

Well I have had the Mirena out for almost 2 weeks now and I'm doing great the moodiness has gone and so have the headaches I can't wait to see how much better everything else goes Ill post again a few more weeks or so I wish the best to all of you ladies out there oh yea and me and my (ex) fiance are trying to work things out again now that I don't have that evil device in me anymore I won't be such a witch to be around thank again to all the ladies on here that posted their symptoms its a great way to let people know what they are getting in to!!

I Have just spent $90 AU Dollars = $120US and after using the ring before, thought i would give it another go...its the 15th April 2009...and after two weeks of being on it i have experienced "The dreaded weight Gain" it feels more like water retention and tightness, not necessarily fat, as i am an active person, weigh 52KG , my height is 156.6 CM witch is considered normal for my age, I am 23yrs old.
BUT......now i remember what my side effects where, i stopped a year ago as i finished with my boyfriend there was no need to use it, as i have a new boyfriend now i have started it again...and my side effects are the same but now i can add two more effects its had on me:

Last year- dryness, loss of sex drive as when your body isn't naturally lubricating during the sexual experience this intern stops or disrupts the sexual process...ie foreplay and flow of intimacy.

This year- Only two and a half weeks with the ring in and i weigh
54-55 KG'S, that is 3 kilo grams (think of 3 bags of sugar) in two weeks tight upper thighs...and bloated abdominal. Pulse dryness and i guess the loss of sex drive will kick in again....so as of today i have taken it out ...and i haven't even finished the first ring....

I am not one to air these things but the weight gain was sooo sudden, i'm not allergic to anything i'm a very happy person, laid back,never broken a bone in my body...thats not important but you see my opinion is that i think the makers prayed on the fact that most of us skipped a pill or two....

( witch I was prone to do that's the
biggest reason i went on the ring)

and thought well so many women want connivance no fuss contraception and rushed an appealing concept to us lady's and the forgetfulness in most of us took it hook line and sinker....I'm a graphic designer so i can see how they may have marketed this....look it worked on me and i study marketing....soo good luck i hope this was helpful.....

Regards,
Cc

I was searching for a site with the side effects of Singulair for my son who is 10 and has been taking Singulair since he was 2. It was a life-saving drug for him and his life has been wonderful since then (as far as asthma goes). He is a very athletic boy who plays every sport he can and he is still a little overweight with cellulite and love handles. I had heard that maybe it might be the Singulair so I decided to check it out. Little did I know about all of these other side effects. He's been taking it for so long that I assumed his depressed personality was just the way he was. He has also had such horrific nightmares and he's convinced he has a ghost in his room that shakes his bed that I was really starting to consider that maybe he might. His brother sleeps in the same room and does not have any of these experiences (also on Singulair). I am SHOCKED! I only read about 20 entries but I'm going to read more. Has anyone had the weight gain problem? Thank you for anything you can share.

Please add me to the list of people with an extremely adverse reaction to Singulair. I had been taking 10 mg Singulair since 2005 after sinus surgery In June 2008 after returning from vacation I didn't get my prescription refilled in a timely manner and went without it for ~one week. In July I got a new prescription filled for Singulair and also began taking Advair Diskus 250/50 and AllegraD after an increase in asthma symptoms. I first thought the anxiety attacks were from the AllegraD as the "D" is for decongestant and contains psuedo-epinipherine. But the anxiousness continued and got worse after stopping the AllegraD. I then stopped taking the Advair (and also a nasal spray that I use called Flonase also since 2005) but was still in a major depressive episode with daily thoughts of suicide. It wasn't until I stopped taking the Singulair on August 23 that I started to return to normal. My normal does include a history of depression for which I take 10mg Paxil daily. Like the post from the psychiatrists wife noted, I am not sure if there is a direct scientific connection between these events. I do know that I never want to go back to that place I was in. I am shocked at the speed with witch I started to feel good after stopping the Singulair. I still have low grade sad feelings but I have stopped planning my own death. I always took my dose of Singulair in the morning and ~one hour later would begin to feel anxious. My evenings were tolerable with emotions slightly better. I simply stopped taking the medication without tapering and I am beginning to deal with what happened to me. Thank you all for sharing. Thank you.

I was on desogen for four months and I got it from planned parenthood. I felt okay on the pill, except i always felt fat and the week before my period I was a total witch, and extremely irritable. So I decided to go off of it, Well now it is worse! This pill has messed me up so badly. I am having a lot of issues with my boyfriend who I have been with for 1 year. Prior to this pill I always knew I loved him, we always had fun and got along and everything with him was perfect. Now that im off it, I feel numb towards him I have tried breaking up with him 3 times, but can never go through with it because some rational part of my brain kicks in and my gut and heart tell me its not right. I don't want to do things I normally do. I don't want to shop, hang out with friends. Its also unfortunate I start college in less than one week, I have a lot of change coming at me and I cant handle it because Im not emotionally stable right now due to an extreme hormonal imbalance. I get really bad anxiety attacks, and panic attacks. I cant stand any change. I feel numb, and just lost. I feel like everyday I get up is just a horrible dream. I anticipate the worst for everything. I just feel so messed up and its all because of this damn pill. How do I know its the pill and Im not going insane? well its no coincidence this all started happening two days after I ended the pack. This pill has fucked with my life so bad and Im scared Im going to loose the love of my life because of it. Its a fight everyday just to feel normal lately. This has to stop. This pill makes you feel like shit on it and wven worse off of it.

Immediately after took the Levaquin and my throat began itching like 40 ants were crawling down my esophagus. My chest started physically burning like I'd drank alcohol. I stopped being able to talk within 30 seconds and within a minute I couldn't breath through my nose and I started coughing and couldn't breathe. My face swelled up like I had Down's Syndrome. One of my eyes couldn't see from the swelling. I turned beet red and had welps all over my body. When I got the hospital I thought I was going to die in the hallway..I felt like I was underwater and couldn't breathe. They shot me full of ephedrine in me and started breathing again. I asked if I could have more to take home and they said it was illegal for me to have. If I didn't live close to the ephedrine, I don't know how long I would have lasted.
The doctors said I needed to quit doing drugs(I was in my 20's). I was too weak and drained to disagree with him. He said the drug wasn't the cause. I can't believe this drug is on the market. I can't believe people are still taking it without any warnings. I talked to 2 lawyers , but they said my hospital bills wouldn't justify this going to court. I am glad this forum is here to warn people.

I'm really scared now!!!

I've been on BC for about five months now but I've been incredibly "hormonal" as you girls can relate...except an extreme. So crazy. crying, no reason.

so i said...maybe the NuvaRing. my friends on it...I'll try it. i put it in and immediately inside my vagina started to feel irritated.

I don't want anything related to depression/weight gain/etc because i already have that shit going on.

I'm also worried to completely change personalities. Witch could be a good thing.

DOES ANYONE! have anything good to say about this thing?

I am 21 years old.1 year ago I had an ACL transplant. I worked hard to get my knee back to strength. It felt good except slight clicking in my knee near the lateral meniscus. I had a second MRI and it showed the new ACL graph healed proper. My doctor gave me a cortisone shot in my knee where the clicking was to see if maybe it would help. I do a lot of strength training and that week it felt better than ever. I went to play paint ball on the weekend like I always do and after sliding on my knees for a few hours (even with knee pads) it started to hurt worse then ever. Then nest day( witch is now) my knee is swollen and hurts to even walk on it. It hasn't swollen up for over 7 months. I don't know if the cortisone shot was such a good idea.

I've had my Mirena for about 15 and a half months and I am having it removed today at 2 o'clock. At first I had sharp pains when I would sit down and I felt like the cords were poking me and irritating me. My OB/GYN requires patients to come back one month after having it put in so he can check it and make sure it is still in place. At this visit he also trimmed the cords although he acted like he didn't believe me when I told him that I could feel them poking me when I sat down and that it hurt. At first I didn't notice any bad side effects, but I did have one good one: my periods stopped, but I still had occasional and sporadic spotting. I didn't think to look for any bad side effects because I got the device under the impression that it had no bad side effects. I thought it only had a rare complication of perforating the uterus, but since mine was in place at the one month check, I didn't think about anymore until I started thinking about having another baby recently. I went online to see if I had to have a doctor remove the Mirena or if I could do it myself, and I found out that it's best done by a professional because bad things can happen and then you'd have to go to the doctor anyway. Plus, I didn't want to hurt my chances of having another baby. While online I discovered this whole world of message boards where women were having a lot of the same problems I'd been having in recent months and they all blamed their Mirenas. Some claimed that their problems had gone away since having it removed. I never thought to link my circumstances to the Mirena, but when I saw how many women are having the exact same problems as me I knew that I needed to go ahead and get mine out ASAP. Here is a list of my side effects, and I've found other women have had them as well with Mirena: weight gain, bloated stomach, depression, short temper with husband and daughter, acne, low sex drive, spotting, cramps, constipation, and back pain. There may be more, but I can't remember them all right now. Some of them may not even be related to the device, but I've read of so many women with Mirena who are having or have had the same issues, so I suspect a link between my problems and Mirena. I hope this helps someone out there looking for answers. God Bless!

i have been taking toprol for three weeks and started itching like crazy hives every where , i was having bad head aches and started to loose lots of hair, and i am not balding? blury vision and lots of water retension weight gain this pill made me miserable i had to stop takeing it , my doctor gave me catapress patches , one patch every seven day and i take norvask, once a day so far its working good. ace inhibitors did the same thing to me but not as bad , thiazide water pills seem to work very well on ocasion when my blood pressure is still high ,they all have side effects it comes down to , witch side effects can you live with.

Ezetimbe, and Zocor: I have a lot of the same problems, muscle soreness, head aches, swollen hands, restless nights not sleeping very much and no sexual drive at all. As well I now have a blocked artiry, and a valve that is not closeing.
I believe this was caused by the Zocor witch caused long and short term memory loss, short temperedness, tiredness all the time (with out doing anything to cause this problem) as well as muscle pain all over my body. I am a man about 64 years old with no heart problems before this. I worry that the Zocor has effected the heart muscle, and has caused the problems with the valve not closeing. If you have had problems with either medication please let me know, also tell your doctor and keep telling them if they don't listen change doctors.

im only on day 2 of the 4mg 6 day pack and im screwed up im taking it for chest congestion and i cant stay still for very long my mind can not focus on one thing at a time witch is hell for me beacuse i have to take semester exams tomrrow at school. I'm am also very irritable it sucks

I only took them for about 3 weeks, I had extrem short temper I have never hit my kids before but my son set me off and I hit him, I have been crying at night when I am laying in bed next to my husband because I cant sleep and cannot perform sex with him anymore, I have had super bad pain in my chest thought it was an anxiety attack but it has last for 3 weeks and the day that I got off the next day it wasnt as strong it felt like someone punched you in your chest as hard as the could and you couldnt breath and the pain just continues I been off of it for three days and still in alot of pain I also got a bad yeast infection witch caused my skin in the vaginal area to be raw and sensitive I didnt even want to go pee because it burned soooo much now I am spotting and have had bad head aches and I have gained 12 lbs in just 3 weeks I am so sad I tried to do something to help mine and my husbands sex life instead I destroyed it I would not recomend these pills to anyone

I have been on yasmin for almost 2 yrs. now. I had my second baby and immediatly started the pill. I had severe anxiety and panic attacks, blamed it on post partum depression and saw a doctor that perscribed me prozac. I took the prozac and didn't feel better. I just thought that I was just completely unhappy with my life. My husband knows that there is something wrong with me, I went from a happy fun and positive person to a miserable witch. I found this site and everything is so true that everyone is saying, and it helps to know that I am not crazy. I really feel bad because I feel like I missed the last 2 years of my kids lives because i have been so miserable, nothing makes me happy! I feel shortness of breath,breast tenderness, anxiety, blurred vision, tiredness,leg cramps and the list goes on!! Thank you for this site I feel such a sense of relief. I just can't get pregnant, any ideas on a new pill for me? micole08@ptd.net