Wks symptoms and conditions

cramps, tired ALL the time, no energy, sinus type headaches, sever bleeding, periods lasting 2-3 weeks with only a week in between, no sex drive, moody, on edge, gained 20lbs in last few months despite diet and exercise. can't wait to get it taken out!!

im a 28 yr old male taking this med for 3 weeks i developed a rash type thing on my balls and penis they are itchy and red kinda raw ive also had swollen lips that cracked in the corner of my mouth. ive also developed a allergic rash on my face that made my face swell to the point i almost cant see out of my left eye my ears are red hot swollen and f ing itchy my doctor told me to take a couple bennies and stop the LISINOPRIL to see if that was the issue at hand ill come back to reply to let you know if this is my allergic reaction any body know a good bp med that doesn't suck ?

I was taking 20 MG of Lisinopril for approximately 1 month, getting a bp reading of about 155/95, so my doctor increased the dosage to 40 MG. About 2 weeks after that, my BP is up a lot, to about 190-200/95-110. Anyone have a similar reaction?

I have a huge indention on my left hip, supposedly as the result of an injection I received 4 months ago. I got a steroid shot (not sure the name) for a rash and itching. No immediate side effects and then about 2 mos. later I notice a lump on my hip about the size of a marble that was brown discolored spot. Then I remembered about the shot and thought it was a result of that. Forgot about it until about 6 weeks later when I got out of the shower and noticed a huge indention about the size of a golf ball on my left hip. A week later, I started having pain at that site which would radiate across my entire lower back, down my leg and up my arm. Sometimes the pain was dull, sometimes like a bad burning sensation with tingling all over. I went to the dr. and he thinks the indention is from the injection but is sending me to an orthopedic dr. this week for more testing due to the pain I am having. Maybe related, or not, I found a lump in my left breast this week, had it checked and have to go to an imaging center next week for more testing. Could this be related?? Also I missed 2 periods after the injection and my last period wasn't normal. Please keep posting these comments from others. I'm going to call my dr. Monday to get the name of the injection.

I'm 23 and just started Loestrin 24. I noticed the negative side effects immediately- nausea, cramping, constant headache, breakthrough bleeding, and severe depression. In general, I feel sick and unwell; ironically, I feel like I'm in the first trimester of a pregnancy. My doctor told me it may take a few cycles for me to adjust to this pill but I don't think I want to commit to a pill that causes this many adverse health problems. I think a baby would be less hassle!

my 85 yr old father had a slight heart attack recently. they put in a stent and a pace maker and sent him home with a slew of prescriptions- lipitor, plavix for 4 weeks, 2 BP meds, nexium for his daily baby aspirin.
he decided to only take the baby aspirin and a licorice supplement i gave him to protect his stomach instead of the nexium.
his doctor talked him into taking plavix for 14 days but he gave up on lipitor. he knew dad would never take it.

anyway, i talked to dad tonight and he stopped taking plavix after just 9 days. he didn't like the way it made him feel. he said it made him tired. he felt great before he started taking it and he's feeling better now that he's stopped

I started taking Yaz 4 yrs. ago after the birth of my daughter. I thought I had postpartum & began taking Lexapro too. Then I gained weight almost 40 pounds. My doc. thought the Lexapro stopped working & prescribed Cymblata. I stopped getting my periods & when I did have them I was crampy & irritable. In addition, I was experiencing menstrual migraines. Decided to change my pill. Now 3 weeks. exactly on another BC & I'm a NEW WOMAN. Too bad I lost my marriage in between as a result of my eratic/psycho behavior. I read this could cause respiratory symptoms too...I always have sinus infections I contributed to where I live. I HATE YAZ. It has wrecked my life!!!

I took Cipro for 3 days back in March 2009. After 24 hrs, I was completely disoriented, had HUGE blisters appear on my feet (they are scars now) and lost my memory. Thank God my husband realized something was very wrong and took me to my Dr (the ER had prescribed the meds) He took me off of it, and my symptoms got better.

Since then, I have had pervasive short term memory loss, loss of vision (periods of blindness), and extreme exhaustion, joint pain, and body aches. My doctor is getting ready to send me for an MRI and EEG- this is after full body X-rays and huge amounts of bloodwork.

My life is not what it used to be. I have 3 small children, and I am terrified to be alone with them for fear of forgetting something crucial. My grades have suffered, and I can barely function.

I've posted here before right after I removed my mirena. Well it's been 27 days since I've had it out. At first I felt great. I had a period two days after I removed it. That period lasted a week long. Right after my period I CRASHED MAJORLY!!!! I had severe depression, severe anxiety and really bad leg and joint pain. All of that lasted about a little over a week. I got put on clonazapam and 20 mg. of celexa. So far I'm doing pretty good. I still get a little leg and joint pain, but not as bad and it doesn't last as long. I feel 90 % better and am expecting my second period on the 9th. I really hope I don't crash again. It was awful!! While on the mirena I had high blood pressure, fast heart rate, low grade fever, joint and leg pain, anxiety and depression, bloating like I was 4-5 months pregnant, nausea, heartburn, headaches, body aches (like I was sick), carpul tunnel syndrome (which I only get when i'm pregnant just like the heartburn) and more! Everything went down or completely away within a couple of weeks of having it removed. All except my heart rate. I am on a low dose of beta blockers to keep my heart rate from going over 100. Just like many of you I have been tested for many things like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and so on. i have also been suspected of having hyperthyroidism, but with negative results from blood work. We are experiencing a major hormonal imbalance from this mirena. I just hope and pray our dr.'s will do their research and realize we are all right about our experiences and something can be done about this IUD. There is hope. Your bodies will regulate. It's only been about 4 weeks for me, but I am feeling better so far since my crash. Don't hesitate to tell your dr.'s about any depression and anxiety you may be experiencing as those are very serious side effects and can be treated even if it's just temporary to get you through the crash. I also take a one a day multi vitamin. So maybe that will help to.

Now it makes sense why doctors were so eager to prescribe Lipitor. Pfizer has been hit with a 2.3 billion penalty for illegal marketing promotions of 13 drugs that includes LIPITOR. They were awarding doctors free golf, massages, and resort junkets for "pushing" Lipitor, Viagra, Zoloft and 9 other drugs.

I just had my mirena removed after 4 1/2 years in hopes of becoming pregnant. I can't say that I had any complaints about the mirena while it was in, I didn't have any periods ever, I only had mild cramps every 2 months or so, and I didn't notice my mood being affected. However, after having it out for about 3 weeks now, I notice I have increased energy in general and overall I am feeling "better", even though I didn't realize I wasn't feeling great before. The most astonishing thing is my increased sex drive...I'm sure my husband isn't complaining but its like we are newlyweds again! I didn't realize how much my libido had dropped off. I honestly don't think I will ever do a birth control with hormones again, I feel like great now and I don't want to ruin it with artificial hormones anymore.

i have been on NR for 3 weeks now. i am no longer taking anti depressants, ive lost 20lbs. i feel great about my self and don't have to worry about taking a pill everyday. i have had dark brown mucus discharge with little blood in it for going onto 3 days now but is said to be expected. i have taken almost every oral b/c under the sun and have been close to self mutilation many times, sex angered me, didn't even want to be around my child or family, cried at everything then screamed at everyone for making me cry when it wasn't them at all. the nuvaring has saved my family, my relationship, and my life. i am very pleased.

I m Asian 5ft 5, started on simvastatin 3 wks ago cause doctor advice. Feeling cramp and numbness in my right leg 3-4 times a week and my hands and legs felt so tired and weak when i get up in the morning. Told my doc about this but she said its normal! How am i suppose to go through the rest of my life like this? I m only 37 years old!

My 14 yo son has UC, he has had 2 infusions and now the MD wants to try to go without it and stay on Lialda only. Which sounds great, but for the past 2 days he has had a severe headache and fever, wanted to know if this is related or not its been 7 weeks since last infusion.

I was prescribed topiramate (it finally went generic- I've been trying to get this med pre-authorized by Medicare for years) a couple of weeks ago for off-label use related to bulimia, more specifically, for weight loss. I also take lamotrigine, an anti-convulsant, for bipolar disorder.

I began at 50mg/day for 2 weeks then titrated to 100 a few days ago. The side effects I've noticed so far are opposite to most of the ones noted here. I am not lethargic or sleepy at all. It's 3:10AM and I am wide awake, as I was last night. I had an excess of energy today and plenty of words to express my ample thoughts. However, my brain working in a sort of backwards fashion, these are the exact sorts of symptoms that signal mania and are extremely dangerous to somebody who has my condition, so I am on strict notice with the doctors and will most likely be either taken off the topa if this continues for another day or two, or put on an anti-psychotic as a preventative, which of course would be counter-intuitive to the weight loss idea as atypical cause gain. You can see from my writing style of run-on sentences that my thoughts are a bit jumbled.

Also- numbness in the heels, irritability, neck pain, itching.

I shall try to post back if I don't wind up in locked ward :-P

Im reading these stories and crying... So many lights keep going off the more I read... Im 30 and had my first child last June. They put the "thing" in 6 weeks post-pardum and it made me dizzy and sick to my stomach instantly, hut like hell, and I spent a couple days in bed on pain pills. But I figured a week or so was worth five years of freedom... HA!!! I had barely stopped bleeding and getting energy back for a couple weeks since before from having the baby, but this started that back up with a vengeance. I have been walking around like a b*tchy zombie for almost a year now. I actually went to the doctors in November to ask them if a pain I was having in my pelvis and my grumpy, irritable mood could be from the Mirena. I was told I probably had post pardum depression and possible a cyst, instructed to wait until after 6 or 7 months post pardum to see if my mood improved and get a follow up ultrasound if the pain in my pelvis got worse. Well that particular pain did go away, so I figured they were right, I let the "thing" do it's job and tried to forget about it as I was instructed to do. But the moodiness NEVER went away! I forgot who I was altogether, could not go to work any more, and attributed it to being a new mother, things change! Another 6 weeks later I actually split up from my fiance as I had driven him crazy... I spent Dec-Feb alone with a tiny baby, depressed out of my mind, and TOTALLY out of it everyday. Zero energy, but I figured I was just depressed. My fiance and I have since gotten back together after I practically had to tear him out of the arms of another woman, and convince him I could change. Still in all that time I never thought about the IUC. I still feel sooo freaking tired all the time, which has progressively gotten worse, and would have kept on except that about two months ago my back started hurting. I thought I pulled a muscle, so I stayed layed up resting. I thought I needed a new mattress so I went out and got another one, no change... Then I started thinking I might have some sort of infection, because Ive never had any muscle pain that lasted 6 weeks for no reason. I remembered the Mirena having PID warnings about people with multiple sex partners. Even though I have only had one, he had another, so I'm thinking I must have an infection and set up an appt to see the OB and get tested... In the meantime I came to this site after my mother sent me link of side effects... I read a few more each evening and have become more and more convinced that this is the problem, not only with my debilitating back pain (which has progressed into abdominal pain shooting down my legs as well), which has now progressed from irritable to severe, and not being able to function day-to-day. But also the moodiness, angriness, depression, foggy headedness, dizziness, headaches, lack of sexual desire, bloated feeling, insomnia - big time, I can be tired all day and it takes me two hours to fall asleep at night, then I sleep 10 hours and spend the next day tired all day - its not any way to live and I'm fed UP!!! - And then the hair thing... this topped it off for me, just too weird that all these people have the same problems, convinced me that I was fixable! It would have never occurred to me before I read this, but one day about 5 months ago I woke up with a weird new layer of very short hairs at the front of my scalp, not noticing severe hair loss, but my hair is VERY thick, so I cant really tell, but I did notice the short ones popping up. I actually thought my fiance cut my hair to use for voo-doo or something, I also thought my mother in law gave me something to dry up my breast milk, because shortly after having the "thing" installed my milk inexplicably dried up while we happened to be staying a week with them, now I think it was the Mirena. I have an appointment Thursday to take the "thing" out, and I am nervous about the pain, disappointed because the "thing" was so expensive, and I'm unsure what else to do about BC. But REALLY looking forward to finding myself again, I miss me, I know my fiance does, and I think my child would like to meet me too ;)
... Even if it isn't doing all these things, the paranoia and psychological trauma Im feeling just thinking about it is enough to convince me that this IS NOT for me! Wish me luck - I will follow up in a few weeks

I've been on the Nuvaring for almost a yr to date & could not be more excited to be getting off it next week!!! No sex drive the 3 weeks I'm on it, horrible migraines, sinusitis, upper respiratory infections followed by the excruciating pain of costochondritis, leg pains, neck & back tension, extremely tired all the time, nausea, horrendous cramps, angry mood funks as we call them, bloatedness to the point it appears I'm 5/6mths pregnant, acne returned, weight gain, discharge is out of control & the newest symptom had a yeast infection for a month that just seems impossible to get rid of not to mention attempting sex was very painful. I only switched from the pill b/c of acid reflux and my body not digesting it promptly or correctly but I'm switching back to a diff pill. The only positive things I can think is the irritableness was not not AS extreme as the pill & you don't have to remember to take the pill every day. That's it. I really wish I had discovered this website a year ago as it probably would have changed my decision.

I was just prescribed Lisinopril 10 mg about 3 weeks ago. I now have severe pain in my muscles in my butt....yeah my butt and really bad joint pain in my knuckles..I thought it might be arthritis, but now I guess it is all due to this med. which I will be stopping as well. Does anyone have a natural/homeopathic way to decrease blood pressure? I know the Chinese and jungle people have been using nature to cure themselves for thousands of years and I am going that route now once I find it.

I just got my mirena 2 weeks ago, 6 weeks after the birth of my 2nd child. A few hours after the insertion i had an intense ringing in my ears which lasted for an hour, it was like I had a radio on in my ear. It was so bad I called the on-call doctor to ask if I should come back and have it removed (I was told to wait until the next day to see if it went away--which it did). I was also very dizzy the first day. I have bled every day since the insertion, like a period but alternates between bright red and brown, and I have cramping. Past 2 days I have pain in my lower left side. Today I tried to find the strings but could not....I think my fingers are too short, to be honest. The pain in my side was quite bad today, i postponed my 2 week checkup because i haven't stopped bleeding--perhaps that was a mistake. The only good thing so far are the intense dreams, very vivid and interesting--almost out-of-body-type lucid. I guess I will find out next week if I'm perforated or if this is normal.

I have had the minera coil for about 5 or 6 years over the past 4 years pains; have got so bad i am due a scan on this Friday. I have very sharp pulling pains each side of my belly button ;a swelling on my left side a dull ache on my left side ;psoriasis dry skin ( and it used to be greasy) ;blotted cant loose weight ;sore boobs tiredness cant get on with house work ; my back aches all the time ;if i lift anything iy brings the pain on cant stand for too long ; this brings the pain on. i cant take this anymore the stomach cramps are so nsty i feel sick i now have thrush piles and just woke to a very sore burning bottom and have a small hard lump in my rectum. one of my gp;s thinks i could be worst off having the coil removed ;how i ask.when the pain is so bad i can hardly lift my left leg for the pain on my left hand side. please has anyone else suffered kile me.

*Update* Mirena out for 2 days
So i posted a few posts down about having an emergency removal due to the pain after only 3 weeks. I cannot believe the difference in the way i feel. The bloatedness has gone down finally. I don't feel sore and tender everywhere. my head is actually clear now. and my favorite part...NO CRAMPS. I spent 3 weeks of my life in utter pain and cramping with mirena. I'm finally back to my old self. This product should not be on the market. It is ruining lives. Please..anyone thinking of getting it...read these posts and really think about it. I read these posts before i did it..BUT i did it anyways thinking i was different than the ppl posting...I WISH I HAD LISTENED to what i was reading. The women on here are telling the truth, including myself now. The side effects are NOT WORTH it.

I had my mirena removed yesterday as an emergency appointment after only three weeks. The cramping was so bad i had to leave work and humiliating as it is, i cried on the bus ride home i was in that much pain. I thought i was losing my mind because for three weeks i have been sad and didn't know why. I was so bloated unlike ever before. I had put on about 9 lbs in 2 weeks. I had headaches and I never get headaches. I lost my sex drive completely. and the one time we tried to have sex, it was painful. The cramps in my stomach i referred to as "my uterus falling out" feeling. my legs hurt. I was "lazy" all of a sudden and just wanted my couch. I started getting panic attacks the past 3 weeks. The cramping was so bad yesterday but within 5 mins of having mirena removed, I started to feel better. I looked my symptoms up online and saw there are so many women who have felt the same thing and I am not crazy. My doctor said the same thing everyone else's have said that i read about.."There are no side effects". Well, in three weeks I experienced things I never experience. Looking back now, in the past 3 weeks I felt "hazy". I would forget something i just thought about a few mins earlier. I thought i was going insane. Nothing in my life was making sense. headaches? Fatigue to the point of depression? I always loved walking my dog after work on long walks. For 3 weeks, i hardly went shopping unless i had to.
Its not fair these side effects aren't published. I could have saved the money and the time and the pain.
back to the BC pill...at least i know who i am on that...

I've had my Mirena for 4 days now and I'm going to my physician today to get it removed!!! I'm so relieved! This has been the worst week of my life!

I am glad I found this website. I thought I was losing my mind. I had a migraine for 5 days before going to the doctor. He didn't think the headache was from the Doxy. Ended up in the ER for the migraine, I was literally at my wits end. They gave me the cocktail to get rid of the headache and I woke up with it the next morning. I stopped taking the Doxy and started on Levaquin. Finally back to myself, no headache and energy.

YAZ BELLY!! anyone else got it? I have been on this pill for 9 months now & about to switch back to ortho novum product. Within the first mth of Yaz I developed a very round (almost menopausal or pregnant shape) lower belly. It has increased over the past 8 months to a ridiculous size that no pants fit but go figure....no weight gain for 7 months. How does ones shape change that much with no weight gain?? I actually am diligent on diet & workout 3 - 6 days a week. Have looked the same for 2 years til Yaz. Now I have to size up due to the belly & rollover. Also past 3 months I started to experience ovary pain that has become significantly worse. Ob/gyn brushed off my issues at first & passed me on to GI. I have had every stomach test & all good! Remarkable they say! So back to GI to switch this week. The only plus of this pill has been a much improved complexion & actually unlike the rest of you...increased sex drive. All I want to know is I am the only one with Yaz shape belly??