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I have been on Yasmin 2 years. My side effects seem to have been ...

Posted at 3: 0 PM on May 10, 2003 by vreynolds, #1915
I have been on Yasmin 2 years. My side effects seem to have been sore breasts (uncomfortably bigger 'uns, too); a new, continual witchy-gripiness, and loss of ALL sex drive (which never happened with any other pill, and I've taken them 15 years). I also have increased lower back pain (from a drunk-ex-boyfriend injury 8 years ago). I've gained about 10 pounds these past two years. Add to those side effects a DEFINITE, UNDENIABLE loss of hair (only "down there"), which makes me look like my grandmother in that nether region. My gyno said that Yasmin causes hair loss there. I don't see many of you on this site mentioning that side effect, though, and it's not a bad one, especially if one wears swimming suits, but it is very weird. Also, I don't wake up as quickly nowadays (which is quite unusual for me), and I actually kind of drool during sleep sometimes--a very unusual thing. I'm more lethargic, and feel MUCH less hope in life. In a few days I go off Yasmin (after these two years). Now my new gyno has put me on Ortho Tricyclin, a LOW DOSE pill, which sounds much better. Incidentally, if you have no health insurance, or if you do, Planned Parenthood is an easy, low-cost, friendly place to find great female gynos. On this website, all of your posts have perhaps begun to add HOPE back into my life! I wonder if my relatively newfound witchiness, unhappiness, lethargy, sore breasts, and total lack of sex drive will miraculously go away now. Thank you all VERY MUCH for taking your time to write of your side effects! Is the sun rising?
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