Yoga class symptoms and conditions

I had the Mirena put in two months after I gave birth to my son, around April 2008. I just made an appointment to have it taken out at Planned Parenthood in two days, and I am so excited and relieved.

I now weigh the same amount as I did when I was 8 months pregnant. Most of it is in my abdomen and I had a woman in yoga class comment on 'how good it is for the baby', (on my 31st birthday!), believing I was pregnant. I look like I drink a case of cheap beer a day, while I eat healthily and exercise.

Also, I've gone through phases of those awful cyst-like zits, which I've never been prone to before, not even as a teenager. There are several scars on my chin and around my mouth. The joint pain and achiness is something I've just started to get used to, but the moods and the anger have to go...not conducive to mothering a toddler! I get overly angry over little things and have actually hit my boyfriend. I am in counseling for that now but maybe I just needed to make a trip to the OBGYN.

I will keep my eyes open for a class action suit, it does seem like the pharmaceutical company responsible for this product has pushed it hard through doctors while suppressing information about side effects, and that just isn't right or moral.

I'm glad I'm not raising an infant right now in addition to my crazy little toddler, but this isn't worth it.

Denise,
Thank you for your update after the RE. I find it amazing that no doctor will correlate Yasmin and the side effects that we are experiencing. I too was exactly like you before Yasmin, happy & energetic.
I am having such dizzy spells and anxiety attacks that I too am on Xanax and now Paxil. Never in a million years would I believe that this is happening to me. I am actually seeing a therapist! SCARY for me considering I cannot associate anything else but the BCP with feeling the way I am. I never felt stressed with the kids prior to the last few months of Yasmin.
The yoga (M/B/S) class is an excellent first step. The stress of the kids is alot for me right now so a yoga class might be what I need. I am about 12 days post-yasmin and on my 6th day of Paxil. I look forward to being rid of all of the prescriptions soon.
Take care of yourself!

Back from the RE:

We discussed many forms of birth control (none of which appeal to me) and he agreed bcps are not for me do to my reactions to them. He did question my correlating the YAsmin to my anxiety and said if that were the case I should've been like that from the first month on them. I quickly informed him of many of you here and asked that he not jump to conclusions just because the FDA; the warnings in the Yasmin pill pack and his Medical Journals all say that it DOESN'T cause us to be this way. He quickly let that go!

I was FINE before Yasmin. I was energetic, happy, and went with the flow of my hectic life with kids and an at home business. Then BAM I turn into a whole other person with serious issues mentally and emotionally and NOTHING in my personal life changed to cause this. How can anyone not conclude it a pill full of hormones?!!!!

He reluctantly prescribed me Xanax to get me through the next couple of weeks but said he would NOT prescribe me a refill. Which I said was fine because I really dont want to take anything but I can't just keep trying to make it through the day with my kids and me feeling so horrific.

Each day I feel a TAD better; what I wouldn't give for that magic wand to make it all better in a poof. I signed up for a 'Mind, Body & Spirit" (some sort of Yoga) class on Saturday and Wednesday so I am hoping that helps as well.

Enough of my lengthy reply! Hope everyone here continues to improve; all be it slowly. Everyday that passes is a another day we can all be 'us' again.

Denise