Women do symptoms and conditions

ANY BIRTH CONTROL (INCLUDING YASMIN) MAKES ME CRAZY!!! THANK GODDDD I had a friend who had the same thing happen to her, and she pretty much made me get off, b/c she knew how I started acting was b/c of my birth control. It almost ruined my new marriage...I would cry because of anything and it was SO NOT ME. I even started waking up with anxiety attacks. I was totally depressed all of a sudden, after a year of being on it. I got off of Yasmin and it was like some one turned ON the lights. I am totally back to normal,,now I cry b/c I am SO HAPPY! and looking back I really was crazy, and I couldn't have done anything about the way I was acting. I am SO happy now and my husband doesn't mind the "natural family planning" method b/c he has his normal confident wife back. I guess women do have a needy crybaby stigma.....they're all on birth control. If you're crying for no reason....EVERYDAY.....GET OFF BIRTH CONTROL!!!

Girls everywhere . I have one question and please you can reply in private or on here, whatever you like. Did any of the doctors that prescribed Yasmin to you ever give you a hormonal test? I have been going through really bad emotional mood swings for a white but did not have insurance so never really go myself checked out. So last month I went back to my home country and visited a gyno(where medicine is not so overpriced) who has been recommended to me by numerous people and he did a bunch of hormone tests on me concluded (by blood work) that I have a hormonal inbalance. Before the tests were done he obviously asked me a bunch of questions and I warned him that last time i had gone on a losely prescribed birth control(which is was suppose to be very low hormone dosage) I went practically nuts. After seeing my results and finding my inbalance he has prescribed Yasmin to me because apparently I have too much estrogen and other things I couldnt really understand because I am not a doctor but I think one of the things it does is to block some of these hormone from going to your brain. So My point after all this rambling is that ALL of our bodies are different and all birth controls are different and have different hormones which could drive a normal person insane with or without taking the pills SO my suggestion if you are having trouble with Yasmin is to get your hormone levels checked, Yasmin may be the devil to you but its probably because you dot need certain components that are in it or lack some. Get real tests done!

Flowerbabies-

Posted to the site you created as well to see if others would like to weigh in on this:

lowerbabies-

so heres is what I wonder. If the chest pain we are both experiencing is in fact due to the loss of magnesium as part of taking this pill, than how many other women that are experiencing that are having direct heart damage and being told that instead, to cover it up, that it is anxiety and stress? I mean seriously? Afterall, if magnesium prevents the heart muscles from spasming-and Yasmin causes a deficiency in magnesium ......then what, I am wondering is the link to the week before our menstrual cycles that this chest pain shows up?

There is an article in Health magazine I read called A Woman's Heart. Basically cites/talks about the fact that the public nor most doctors are taking the time to understand the single largest killer of women in America-Betsy Berne was the example they provided and that often women do not take themselves and doctors do not take women seriously enough. She ignores her chest pain for a week. Then is encouraged to see an internist who detects a murmur. This is true in my case as well...., then they did an electrocardiogram, and a chest Xray to discover that her heart was enlarged. An transeophageal echocardiogram (a more invasive test) that required she undergo open heart immediately.

This article goes on to state how many women are often not taken seriously who complain of chest pain and are often misdiagnosed with panic attacks while what's actually occuring is a misfunctioning valve between the left ventricle and atrium-with severe leakage and improper blood flow. Ordinary MVP is nothing to worrry about . They say it effects between 5 and 20 percent of population-mostly women.

In this article she also mentions that classic symptoms for women are: chronic fatigue, shortness of breath, nausea, abdominal pain, dizziness, and swollen feet. Also advises that for women, who have smaller arteries than men, when they have a heart attack there is usually no plaque in their arteries-a heart attack is when one of the vessels occludes-and they're more prone to artery spasms.

Other symptoms/warning signs: uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, or pain in the chest that last more than a few minutes, or pain that spreads to the shoulders, neck and arms. Chest discomfort with lightheadedness, fainting, sweating or nausea. Unexplained anxiety or weakness, palpitations, cold sweat, paleness. Shortness of breath, chronic fatigue, jaw pain. Isn't this alot of what many women are describing experiencing?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:03:10 -0600 by Guest, #36378

This is just plain rude and talk about petty. Please, raise your standards here and remember what this site is about for God's sake. I think that you should remember that when post things like this here, new folks coming in are likely completely confused or think that someone such as yourself has just plain lost it.

If you want to be supportive of other women like yourself, as you are clearly in a rant, than exercise less judgement and some kindness for goodness sakes. Everyone here is trying to be helpful. And I would definately say that your comments are about the least refined, helpful or thoughtful in months of coming to this site. If anyone is trying to get some help, it certainly helps for all of us to hear how long someone has been on, off or trying to come off. There is nothing "petty" about that and many women that do find it helpful.

I have no idea who you are, where you come from or what your "hell" has been like on yasmin but it certainly sounds like it is still taking its toll if the way you are coming across says anything. While personal experiences are helpful, so is information. I also don't even know who all the folks are who have been posting but I discovered that alot of what is there-highlights a good majority of the symptoms I experience and many of the other women here have.

While being more "touched" may help you, for others, havinng "information" to apply may be just as valuable to others. Ya follow?

Sarah, I think that making your own site is helpful and am consistently impressed by your level of maturity and kindness and wanting to reach out and help others.

Whoever this person is that made this post, I certainly hope that you get the help and support that you need as you sound rather crude and out of control. Good luck to you.

Its really so disappointing when women do this kind of thing with eachother. Really. Keep your chin up will you. For all of us, you set an example.

hi guest 36018.
i have no idea how we would go about gathering evidence about this pill and bringing a law suit. i live in the uk so it is not something we do often.
you mentioned in your post about ear trouble. i have had problems with my right ear since august of 2005 (6 months after i started on yasmin) i have a constantly stuffy ear that popps about 10 mins after i get up and stays that way for 4-6 hours. feels like when you are on a plane and your ears pop and you cannot get them to clear again no matter what you do! one doc said i had a perforated ear drum. no treatment that i have been given so far has worked for me. i have been off yasmin for 8 months now so i am hoping that it will go soon! I found it interesting that you say your gyn gave you this pill for anxiety... i have read a few posts both on this site and on others that women who have pre-existing anxiety seem to do better mentally and if they also had pre-existing pms it seems to help with that too. (of course that is not always the case,some women do much much worse) i had no pre-existing anxiety or pms apart from the usual get a bit grumpy before my period that many women suffer from! when i was on yasmin i developed pretty much every symptom of pmsa (pmsa is anxiety lead pms) and a few besides but they were magnified a hundred times and i suffered them all day everyday not just pre-menstrually. instead of tender breasts i had agonising,couldn't bear to even be touched or hug my kids breasts, instead of mild water retention my legs and ankles felt like they wobbled when i walked,instead of feeling a little low i thought my world was going to end,and the mild anxiety felt like i was in a state of perpetual terror! If you look up the symptoms of pms i am sure you will find all your symptoms but yasmin just makes them really really bad.
It seems like if you already have symptoms when you start yasmin it can help and if you don't it will give you symptoms, it obviously has a major impact on the hormone balance,if you are already suffering before then maybe your hormones are out of whack and yasmin balances them and if you are hormonally stable when you take it maybe it throws you out of balance,i'm afraid it is all if's but's and maybe's and as most doctors either do not know or don't want to believe that our symptoms are caused by yasmin then we are not likely to find out why or how this happens.

sorry if there are loads of spelling mistakes in this post but i am pre-menstrual and my brain just turns to mush and i cannot concentrate,i lose my line of thought!!!!
best wishes to you all ladies.

sarah.

p.s silke, you asked about leg/foot cramps when standing still. i get that if i am on my step excerciser or if i am standing in one place for too long,my feet also tingle and go numb.

I get yeast infections a few days before I start my period. Sometimes every couple months, once in a while two months in a row. Most of the time they are very mild & always go away on their own. Sometimes I dont have any symptoms at all. The only way I knew I had one one time was because it was detected during a pap smear. I never had any symptoms. But if I do get one, its always in the first few days before I start my period at the end of my menstrual cycle. I've read that this could be a side effect of BCP & also many women do sometimes get mild yeast infections at the end of their menstrual cycles. I'm wondering if there is a different BCP that I can try. Other than that, I have no other complaints.

thanks, gina

Hey again
I feel the same way most of you women do. I am the one with the panic attacks about the volcanoe. I know it sounds stupid, but I saw a little segment on tv about the volcanoe under yellowstone national park. It really freaked me out because of course they say it may erupt in the next 100 years...so why does it bother me so much. It never used to. I honestly thought I was crazy until my mom found this web site. It helps alot. I have panic attacks, night sweats, dry throat, numbness in my arms at times, tired, I don't eat much, I was vomiting for a while. IT SUCKS!! I was on my first pack of Yasmin, I took the 3 weeks of yellow active pills, and when 3 days into the white inactive ones, I started to have this symptoms really bad, so I quit the pack. I'm glad I got this early, and not after a year or so, from what I have read on this web site is that in about 2 weeks I should start feeling like myself again...I really hope so, my mom and boyfriend are so worried about me. My mom said that I am just not myself. I have a month and a half old baby, sometimes I just don't want to take care of her. I never had that feeling before, until Yasmin got in my system. I can't wait until it's out. I don't like living my life this way, in anxiety.

Please keep posting your thoughts...it really helps when I start to go into a panic attack......can anyone tell me how long it took to feel normal again after quiting Yasmin?????