Xo symptoms and conditions

Many strange things have been happening to me for the last year and a half, that I did not ever experience before. I just turned 38 years old. I am now suspecting these are side effects from the MIRENA. I want to get opinions about what I'm experiencing and what happens when it's removed.

The most profound thing is the feeling of being in a mental bubble. Even though I'm aware of it and I try to be alert, I feel cloudy minded and can't even rely on myself to remember things or commit to things because I never know how I will feel when I wake up each day. Some days are okay while others are completely LOST because I may have struggled to sleep the night before, sweating and soaking my pillow case and waking up with a rapid heart beat, panicking for no apparent reason right out of sleeping. Or, I'm irritable due to discomfort which takes several forms like these:
- major moodiness, like feeling totally peaceful one minute and then something small triggers me and I'm angry for hours, later realizing that I was overreacting
- visibly shaking hands, especially when I drink just 1/2 cup coffee.
- increased oily skin and acne on face, back, shoulders and even in ears, along with thinning hair around face
- fatigue and stiffness in the morning, so it takes me forever to get out of bed
- off and on fatigue that has me uncontrollably dozing off during the day
- bloated tummy (visible), gas and menstrual cramps in no predicable pattern, but I never go more than a week without these things
- strange libido, one day I wouldn't care if I ever had sex again, the next night wake up horny as heck at 2 am
- ears ringing, jaw pain, mystery pains in back and joints regularly

All along I've been assuming these odd things were stress and age related but the more I think about it, there's just too many things, and these things don't necessarily represent the stress of a typical stay at home mom.
Sure, I have had stress and anxiety in the past, but they could always be connected to something large going on in my life. Now, the anxiety and moodiness hit unpredictably and indiscriminately, it seems. For a long time now I feel like I'm a total mess physically and mentally, even more so because I realize something is wrong
I am pretty sure as of right now that I should get this removed. If the symptoms go away I'll then know what caused them in the first place.
I am wondering what happens upon removal, will it also be a roller coaster of physical and mental anguish???????? How long will it last?

Hello all.. I had posted after being on Yasmin for about a week and now I am into my second month. Last post I reported no side effects whatsoever and now I can say my first period ever on birth control (20 yrs old) was perfectly manageable, 5 days and pretty well painless. Still no weight gain or loss and no change in personality, if anything I'm a little happier because I am not so constantly irritated by my own menstrual unpredictability lol. The only thing I can say that has changed since taking the pill is the appearance of cystic acne... I used to encounter one of this type now and again but in the past few weeks they've been coming in the night, 2 or 3 at a time, usually chin and forehead. Yikes. Definitely a major annoyance but for anyone else who is experiencing this.. I have always found my skin's saving grace to be TEA TREE OIL!!! Love it. I wash every day with a bar of soap called Thursday Plantation and it is amazing (especially if you leave a bit of soap on as a kind of spot treatment overnight). Anyway it continues to be extremely helpful in managing this annoying side effect so that I can enjoy the benefits of a regular period and no pms or cramps, oh and no babies. lol. Good luck to everyone, and remember do your research but don't let all the negativity scare you away from something that could be good for you, because everyone is different. Glad to see some positive posts here this time tho! I will return again myself if anything changes :) xo

Chrissy - You are absolutely an adorable charm! Right now I'm in bed, as I've been all day, my 'watermelon' is too heavy to lift so I've propped my laptop up. I'm glad, unfortuantely, to know that there are other people that have been here and are still alive! I ate a small bowl of oatmeal to keep my stomach from eating itself but I have no desire to even cook for my family.

So many are on Yasmin for birth control but I'm on it because of the cysts so I don't know if I can stop, yet, or if there is an alternative. I've considered a holistic center just to get my body off of any foreign substance but I'm afraid of the cysts growing. My doctor is on my poo list because I have to wait until 30 January to talk to her. I have two more packs to go through, but remember that I don't do the white pill week, I keep doing the yellow so that means I have about seven weeks left.

This is just insane. Here I thought I was getting sicker from the cysts growing and my estrogen increasing, but I'm experiencing illness from the meds that are supposed to be CURING me. Ouch. The first week or two of the Yasmin I felt disgusting but not at ALL like I do today. If it gets progressively worse I'm definitely going to take my ovaries out and mail them to the company that makes Yasmin.

Ewe. That's gross, but not as gross as how I feel right now.

Thanks for listening - AMEN for this board!

XO
Kelli

to the last posting.. im not sure of your name...
im chrissy.... im 23 and some of the things you wrote sounded very familiar to me especially this paragraph..

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i can tell you this month i was convinced i had a tumour... seriously i had such sharp pains in my head and it felt like it was as heavy as a watermelon... all i wanted to do was curl up in bed and pray i wouldnt die.
not to mention my eyes, i couldnt move them from left to right without getting dizzy and it hurt so much.
believe me these are yasmin symptoms... and the loss of apetite, that got me too!! i love food and for my height my weight is pretty good.. i weigh 52 kilograms i think in america u say 104 pounds???
but sometimes the though of food makes me feel so sick.. or if i eat like two bites im full... its weird but i promise it deos go away... i am 5 months off yasmin and im starting to really feel alot better....
u will too but you have to get off this pill... its poison!!
its a slow process but all the girls on this site are great to talk to and this site is wat saved my life...

hugs to you
luv chrissy xo

hey lisa,

to answer ur question yes my sex drive went totally back to normal... it was only for a couple of months really...
but di dyou see how they said that hormones from the pill can still be in ur body up to a whole year after stopping!
pretty scary....

but yeh i guess we have to just try help each other to get through it...
hope ur test results come back all good....
luv chrissy xo

hey ladies...

its chrissy, i just wanted to post something that i just heard on the news...
they were saying that they have proven that the pill can permanently destroy a woman's sex drive...!!!
and one of the pills they showed was yasmin!!!
i wish they knew all of our side effects too so more woman would know...

i just wanted to post what i head cos i know lots of you were concerned about ur sex drive.... please get off this pill!!!

luv chrissy xo

My mother was on Zocor for about a year, she was experiencing a lot of muscle pain and blurry vision. Her doctor thought it might be the Zocor and suggested she get off of it. She has been off of it for about 1 1/2 months and the muscle pain is increasing. The pain is unbearable at times, described as a charlie horse that lasts up to 5 minutes at a time. Has anyone found any relief in anything? I've never seen my mother in so much pain. Please e-mail me if anyone has any suggestions. amanda.bitton@xo.com