YASMIN IS POISON!!!! IF YOU HAVE HAVE BEEN EXPERIANCING EXTR...

YASMIN IS POISON!!!! IF YOU HAVE HAVE BEEN EXPERIANCING EXTREME PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY THAT LEAVES YOU GASPING FOR AIR, HEART PALPITATIONS, DIZZINESS AND CLOUDINESS IN THE HEAD, EXTREME MOOD SWINGS, HEAVINESS IN THE CHEST, DEPRESSION, AND ABSOLUTE HELL READ THIS!!!!!! Hello All, Like some other ladies who have posted their stories on this site, I feel it is important to repost my story to alert new readers to the hell caused by Yasmin.... After being on ortho tri cyclene for about a year, I began having some mood swings so i decided to switch my pill. Because I attend college about 3 hours away from my home, I made an appointment at the end of my winter break last year to see the nurse practitioner at my gyno's office. Without any warning, she handed me the Yasmin and told me that it was such a "wonderful pill" that causes little or no side effects. I took her word for it and i was on my way... the next day I left to return to school... About a few weeks after i returned to school, I began having EXTREME PANIC ATTACKS and ANXIETY to the point that I was constantly GASPING FOR AIR and was even taken to the hospital. I was constantly DIZZY, and horribly MOODY. Every day I felt PRESSURE IN MY CHEST and HEART PALPITATIONS that made me feel like I was going to have a heart attack. I literally was gasping for air every single day while in class, and walking to and from class. Even when I returned to my dorm, I would do nothing but sit in bed and gasp for air.... I felt like I was dying. I would call home every night crying hysterically to my parents because I had no idea what was going on with my health... I had ABSOLUTELY NO HISTORY OF HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE PAST. My mom called my doctor and a therapist (who I would call at least 2 times a week from my school because I could not cope- i would see him on the weekends when I would ocme home from school but I had to be driven there because my panic was SO BAD that I COULDNT EVEN DRIVE!!!!!!), who told her that I was probably just under stress from being in premed and having a large workload.....we knew that this was not the case because I have always had a very heavy workload and I had always managed to be VERY OPTIMISTIC and capable of handling stress. As the semester went on..... my symptoms worsened and became UNBEARABLE. My dad was driving to my school every weekend to pick me up because I COULD NOT COPE with the extreme anxiety, chest pains, and dizziness. Every weekend I was comming home and doing nothing but sitting home suffering through the Yasmin symptoms. My boyfriend would come over and sit with me because my panic attacks were so bad that I refused to leave the house because I was afraid of getting another wave of panic. At that point, I considered dropping out of school because I couldn't take the gasping for air and dizziness that made sitting in my bed difficult, let alone sitting through whole days of classes. My parents convinced me every weekend to go back and finish out the semester... I continued perservering. I had no idea what was going on with my body... aside from feeling like I was about to DIE. I was consdtantly crying because I felt so aweful... my parents thought that I was bipolar... and even my roomate knew that something was SERIOUSLY wrong with me. My hair and skin became very dull, and I was missing so much class due to the panic and the other syptoms that even the teachers would ask me after class if everything was ok with me. Finally, with one day of finals left to go, my mom called me and told me that IMMEDIATELY NEEDED TO STOP TAKING YASMIN. After doing much research about possible yasmin side effects, she told me that she came across this forum and was COMPLATELY SHOCKED about how similar my symptoms were to the other women who wrote in. My mom read the stories to me.... for the first time in months, I was SOOOOO RELIEVED that I was not alone. I IMMEDIATELY sstopped taking Yasmin.. At first, I felt soo dizzy and out of it, but my mom told me that my body just needed to 'detox' from the poison. When I got off of the Yasmin, I visited a new physician. He told me that he has heard of some women having sever side effects from yasmin. He told me that my body needed to reblanace itself. To curb the anxiety, he prescribed me ZOLOFT, which is also helping me get back to normal... I HAVE BEEN OFF OF YASMIN FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS NOW.... and I am slowly but surely getting better. The panic has subsided (im sure the zoloft is helping it along) and I am starting to enjoy life and enjoy agian out again. I'm also looking normal again.... my hair regained its shine, my skin looks more vibrant, I'm beginning to drive again without being overcome by exteme panic, and i dont feel like im going to die!! Im definately NOT 100% better yet but I am working on it... I know that it will be a slow recovery. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO POSTED THEIR STORY ON THIS FORUM!!!! YOU HAVE ALL GIVEN ME HOPE AND EXTEME RELIEF AND HAVE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I AM NOT ALONE IN RECOVERING FROM YASMIN!!!!!! TO ALL THE LADIES WHO HAD TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS AWEFUL PILL, DONT LOSE HOPE.... WE WILL ALL RECOVER AND BE BACK TO OUR OLD FABULOUS SELVES SOON!!!!!! THANK YOU AGAIN AND GOOD LUCK!!!!! I am wondering if any of you ladies have been taking medications such as ZOLOFT, or PAXIL or other SSRI's to deal with the effects of the yasmin????????? Please post some comments to let me know.... Also, did anyone file a CLASS ACTION SUIT against YASMIN???????? Write back and let me know!!!