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Hello Gang, I have never felt so sick in my entire life. I st...

Posted at 10:35 AM on Feb 27, 2007 by natdogg20, #20044
Hello Gang, I have never felt so sick in my entire life. I started taking Yasmin two months ago (I only went through two packs of pills). I have felt like I am going to die every day of this last month. I have had severe migraine headaches, body aches, chest tightness, dizziness, SEVERE anxiety and EXTREME fatigue. My sex drive has packed up and gone, I have terrible vaginal dryness and I am never hungry. I used to work out every day but now find that the very thought of lifting weights puts me to sleep. The strangest part is how the "illness" kind of comes in waves, I'll be fine all morning and then I'm freaking out/sick all night. I have panic attacks and I'll start crying for no reason. Sometimes I lay in bed and worry that I have cancer or a tumor or all types of various diseases. My boyfriend has been extremely patient throughout the whole thing but I feel terrible because we hardly have a chance to get romantic because I'm constantly sick or simply worrying that I might get sick later on. I actually just had four vials of blood taken yesterday to make sure that I'm doing okay. They also gave me chest xrays due to the chest tightness. The thing that really bugs me is that aside from being frustrating, confusing and scary, it is proving to be quite costly since I now have to pay for my doctor's visits and doctor's expenses. I just switched over to Loestrin two days ago so I'm hoping that will help get me back on track. Until then, I'm just gonna have to hope that this stuff gets out of my body and that the feeling of looming death vanishes. I'm all for going to the news or Oprah or maybe dateline nbc. Women should know what they're getting themselves into because it seems obvious that if doctor's are prescribing this to us, they must have no idea what they're doing. And that thought is equally as terrifying as the constant sickness.
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Reply over 2 years ago on Jul 09, 2007 by tweekeee, #689

Oh my G-d!! Thank you Jesus. I'm on Yaz too. I've been on it since late January, I was also taking Lexapro and Depakote, so I'm thinking that those drugs sort of masked the effects of Yaz. This is no joke, last week I went out to California to visit a friend, mind you, I've also been on antibiotics for the last three weeks for a tooth problem, these two drugs tend to compete for absorption, anyway, suddenly, I'm on the beach, the most relaxing environment, and I start freaking out and having these waves of extreme anxiety that would come and go, my mouth was sort of watery, I started thinking crazy thoughts, like I have rabies. Suddenly, I could not get these thoughts out of my mind, I admit I am a bit OCD at times but the anxiety was a constant, come and go, one day I have it, the next day I don't. I've been to the hospital twice in one week. I thought at first that may be the antibiotics messed with my body chemistry and all the ibuprofen that I had taken perhaps messed with the lining of my GI tract and caused me to have problems with some nutrtional absorbtion. Then I though, hmm, what about the Yaz, its relatively new on the market, uses a different hormone than the usual progesterone, maybe... After seeing this posting I almost want to get off the Yaz completely.

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