Womens health symptoms and conditions

I had the mirena put in in june after my third child. I did feel a bit dizzy when it was first put in but did not cramp at all. I was still spoting then from giving birth, so it just continued for about 3 more weeks the stopped altogether. I have not had a period since, woooooooohooooooooooo!!!!!!!! I don't feel bad about that at all. I did have a day when I woke up cramping and thought I was going to start but never did. My doctors nurse told me everything I needed to know about the mirena long before i had it put in. I actually made the appointment to discuss it with her. Everyone should have been smart enough to ask questions before it was done, not the day it is. You cant think straight when someone is getting ready to put a device in you. I have to say I love my mirena and would not trade it for a pill, a shot, or any other birth control method. Ladies know your gyn very well before trusting them. I think most of you just think it is your doctors fault. It is not it is yours for not researching it more. And come on what women is not moody a day in her life, not many. How many headaches did you get before the mirena? How were your sinuses before mirena? Probably the same. Some womens health simply changes after having a baby. I also advise against you removing these mirenas yourselves. It is not smart, you could get a bad infection from not being in a sterile environment.

I took Yaz for the first time last night, and I have this fluttering in my stomach. Did anyone else experience this? It almost feels like I'm having stomach spasms.
Thank you.

To the last post:
Anxiety is a major withdrawal side effect once off Yasmin. It has now been close to 7 months for me and I am now feeling ALOT better, but I admit it has been a very slow road to recovery. Be sure to explain how you're feeling to those close around you, as they need to be able to support you through this. You feel like you're 'losing it' sometimes when in fact you are the same old you, but just effected by the low level hormones.

The anxiety is due to your low progesterone level now you are off Yasmin. I'd recommend you have your levels checked out. I am now on Agnus Castus to help re-balance my hormones. I wished I hadnt waited until now to do this, as I may have speeded up this whole process.

You will find you will have good and bad days with this, according to your cycle. The important thing to remember is that you will get better, and the anxiety will go.

Like I said, see a doctor (preferably one that specialises in womens health, and therefore will not ignore your symptoms or disregard them).

A message for voicei...Hi, I've read your posts alot, and we have been leading very similiar lives for a long time it seems with all this (I too have posted alot). I just wanted to ask you how you have been once on the Agnus Castus...did any of your symptoms get worse before they got better? I have only been on it 10 days and on the whole have felt ok, but just wanted your thoughts about it so far...thanks.

Big hugs to all.

Hello All,

To the recent posts about losing hair. I can imagine this would be very alarming for you. The loss of hair after Yasmin appears to be very common and is most likely due to your bodies attempt to re-balance your hormones. Yasmin decreases your testosterone/oestragen and increases your progesterone. When you come off it, your body automatically tries to re-balance these levels causing your testosterone and oestrogen levels to sky rocket, and your progesterone levels to plummet. These hormones are the reason that so many of us have an increase in libido, increase in water retention, increase in anxiety and last but not least, hair loss.

I would recommend that anyone off Yasmin have a blood test (specific to check your hormone levels...usuallly conducted on day 21 of your cycle). Any 'average' blood test will not show these important indicators.

I had the above test last week (almost 7 months after getting off Yasmin as I was still not feeling 100%) and it showed exactly the above....my testosterone was high, my progesterone was low. I have now started the herbal 'Agnus Castus' to re-balance these levels, and assist in my 'recovery'. I just wished I had done this test months ago.

Any doctor that is not able to link your symptoms to your hormone levels is not looking properly. See a doctor that specialises in womens health. A typical GP is unlikely to look deep enough.

Good luck and big hugs to all.

Hello All,

I have posted many times in the past 6 months after getting off Yasmin. I feel it is important to 're-tell' my story for new readers to the site, as I dont want any poor woman go through the hell of Yasmin, only to read comments made a few posts ago about the 'benefits' of Yasmin.

I was on Yasmin for a year and had experienced very little effects, certainly none that I noticed at the time. However, after taking it for a little over a year I became a completely different person. I am a 27 year old, confident and generally very positive about life. I became severely depressed, suffered panic attacks and anxiety daily, had suicidal thoughts, a constant high heart rate (whilst trying to sleep, worried I was about to have a heart attack!), vertigo and nausea (with NO history of any of this). My family were terrified that they'd lost their daughter and sister to an 'unknown' mental illness....I was terrified they were right. I started seeing a therapist, but continued to feel the worst I have ever felt in my life.

I was saved the day I desperately typed in 'Yasmin side effects' into my computer (on a whim) and found this site. I still remember crying into the screen as I read women describe EXACTLY how I'd been feeling. It was a gift from above for me to finally realise I was not suddenly mentally ill, I was suffering due to my Yasmin BCP. I immediately stopped Yasmin that day. My depression and accelerated heart rate stopped within days. It has now been 6 months off Yasmin, and I am only now starting to feel the closest to my 'old self' than I have felt since before I started Yasmin in 2003. I have battled anxiety this entire time (worse according to my cycle) and it is only very slowly improving.

I finally decided to see a doctor that specialises in womens health and I am having my hormone levels checked to look to possible natural hormone therapy to re'balance everything.

I just want to make it clear that if this can happen to me, a 'glass half full' person who leads a very busy work and personal life (although I nearly gave it all up at times because of this) then it can happen to anyone.

Yasmin is pure poison. No time spent on it with positive results means you can feel comfortable that it wont suddenly change you for the worse tomorrow. I am not going to say it effects everyone differently and it's worth a trial. As a health professional myself, I am not willing to even say it is. I would not wish this last 8 months on my worst enemy.

Love to all out there getting off Yasmin. Please dont question your decision to come off it. Mine saved my life and sanity.