I'm so glad I googled side effects of Yasmin and found this site....

My daughter (17) has the exact same symptoms - especially the crying and depression. She thought she was losing her mind. After she saw your posting, we decided to yank it - I want her to have her life back.

im glad i googled this too.. i have been on yasmin for the past 2 yrs now and have had barely any side effects until about a week and a half ago i was on vacation with my boyfried of 2 and a half yrs and all of a sudden i had almost no sex drive at all. I have been feeling very WEIRD since then. I feel like i'm not even myself... my body is here but my emotions and my mind are not. I want to cry all the time and i cant get a grip..i feel like i cant find myself. I am all of a sudden not the same person ..i feel different around my boyfriend..at work ..and at home.

Wow I feel the EXACT same way! I'm taking the MCAT on the 9th and have been trying to study all summer also. It's been hard to focus because of moodiness, irritability, & depression! Same thing- great life, family, boyfriend... it's just those damn pills! Who would have thought synthetic hormones could create suicidal thoughts?? Well I know that when I'm a doctor I won't be prescribing any of this stuff!!

I am also feeling the same way as you: anxious, depressed, like i'm going crazy and cant concentrate on school anymore. I also feel I have no real reason to be depressed (life is good) and the thought that it could be something bad makes me feel worse and have panic attacks. I am hoping that stopping my birthcontrol with help me get back to normal and no more thoughts that my life is aweful. It makes me feel alot better to know that others are going threw what I am and I'm not the only one. I hope it makes you feel a bit better also. If you have any advise on what to do when you start feeling so down I would love to know. I feel like when I start getting into my depressed anxious moods I will never get out of them and need help dealing with it. Good luck and I hope you start getting back to normal! and if you are feeling good again let me know it will give me some hope!

Yeah - I started Yasmin in January and this year has been filled with a lot of changes - but I noticed I have been crying a lot too. Yasmin gave me bursts of energy at first....but when I try to get back in the routine of working out at the gym, I am hit with TOTAL exhaustion and can't get out of bed. That is then followed by insomnia. So strange!!!

I was on Loestrin previously and gained 10 pounds of water weight that I quickly lost when I went on Yasmin. I'm scared about trying a new pill b/c of the weight gain (and I am planning a wedding) - so I'm curious to hear if anyone has any recommendations.

BTW: I went to see a nutritionist yesterday who said to try a more "tried and true" pill. If I have to be on one, be on a "safer" one. And she said she would not and could not help me while on Yasmin b/c it is so unsafe. Apparently we are not supposed to be taking vitamins or supplements while on this pill - would've been nice for the doctor to tell me!

I am 35 and I have been on Yasmin for over 2 years- primarily to control acne. It worked great for that. Unfortunately, I started getting malasma (hyper pigmentation) over my upper lip and have had zero sex drive for quite some time. Because of the hyperpigmentation, I decided to go off Yaz. Within the 6 weeks off it, I have experienced quite a bit of weight gain and extensive hair thinning, Didn't expect that! And no labido to speak of yet....

I'm hoping to hear back from someone about this. I've been on Yasmin for about 1 1/2 years now. I never had any trouble with it until this cycle of pills. The first night I started the new pack I woke up in the morning with a metallic taste in my mouth. I kept taking them but now on day 6 of this pack I still have the taste in my mouth and my tongue is starting to feel numb. Anyone else have this side effect? I'm really concerned and ready to stop my pills.

I am so glad I typed in this subject. I have been on Yasmin for 10 days now, and I too am a total nutcase. I get totally enraged over the stupidest stuff, I cry constantly, I am so sick of feeling tired and weak all the time. Tomorrow I am calling my doctor and getting something new. Thanks, I am so glad I am not the only one.

I took Yasmin for 10 months with very little problems mainly had more headaches than usual. I have been off of it for 2 months now. Since, my headaches are more frequent, more hair loss and I have developed irregular heart beating, tightness in chest, heavy/hard to breath, numbness in my arms. After much testing I am coming out to be a pillar of health but the symptoms greatly mimicwhat a heart attack is supposed to be like. I have been told it is anxiety or possible sleep dissorder and that all tests show I am a pillar of health. However, I have never had anything like this happen before. After these episodes occur, I feel completely drained and even a little depressed. These things cannot be a good sign.

i have just recently started taking yasmin. i have headaches every day and they seem to be getting worse. i have only been using yasmin for 10 days and it seems to be draining me of my energy. my period has also gone longer than usual. i went to the doctor and she told me that i could try another pill or, see how i go in another weeks time on yasmin. was just curious to see if anyone has experienced similar side affects.

Was wondering if you had these side effects all the time or did you notice if they had any relation to where you were in your cycle. My daughter has been having these very same things, and they have diagnosed her as being bipolar. She is going to come off the Yasmin to see if this makes a difference. How long have you been off the pill?

I was on Yasmin for a couple of years and noticed a very low libido, I was suicidal and put on anti depressants. No one said anything about the possibility of Yasmin being the cause. For other reasons I changed pills but thought my improvement was only related to being on anti depressants! However I have just started Yasmin again (acne) and after only 2-3 weeks I'm already very short tempered and have no patience - my poor children! I'm going to the Dr's to change again after reading these posts - Thanks

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Hi ladies or gents, my names mark & please, please can you help me? My partner Joanne has been on yasmin for 6 months & her health has been realy bad since. Her state of mind has realy changed for the worse. She's always depressed & sad. Everything is doom & gloom to her & she's not happy about anything anymore since been on yasmin. She worries about everything & is always very moody & picking faults etc & has withdrawn emotionaly from me, its her depression. She's very tired on a night after work & in bed by 8pm which is not normal & sleeps during the day at week ends. She has realy bad headaces & takes iburefen & often gets infections of most things, herpes & been sick in the first 3months of taking yaz. Her immune system is down. No sex drive at all. She's just started to drink coffee & redbull to give her a lift & give her energy but it makes her even worse afterwards. Im worried for her & feel like letting her parents know about her health because they are concerned but dont know like i do. Any1 with any advise & help? I love her & have been so patient & understanding but its starting to get me down now the way she is. Thanks Mark.

I too am glad I googled this. I have been on Yasmin for 3 months and while it has been like a miracle acne cure, I have slowly been becoming depressed and on occassion feeling acutely irratable and very anxious. I didn't really put 2 and 2 together until I googled the side effects. I had put it down to other stresses in my life but I now realise that the Yasmin is definately not helping. I will go back to my old pill and see what happens... I think I would prefer acne to depression and anxiety!

... oh I forgot to mention how tired I am. I don't want to sleep, I just don't want to move!

Wow, thank god I am not losing my mind!!!! I am having the exact same symptoms..... I am 23 years old and more depressed than I have ever been in my life, and for no reason in particular other than for the fact that I just switched my birth control pills from levora to yasmin.... what a mistake that was! I feel really off... like Im always in a funk and nothing makes me happy.... it really sucks. :-P DO NOT take this pill!! I try to avoid taking newer medications that havent been tested for very long but my doctor was really pushing this one so I caved.... the funny thing is that its supposed to 'improve' your overall mood during the time of the month when you're experiencing PMS symptoms. My acne went away, but Im not sure its worth the trade off......

joanna (I'm the original poster)
It took me a long time after I took Yasmin to get in and see an OBGYN because I was in Lubbock and my doc was in Houston. When I did finally go in and talk to this new lady she said that in most cases Yasmin does imrpove the mood, but they've found in a select few it makes it worse. She put me on a generic brand that's been around for a very long time (Sprintec) and it's worked well for me so far. The only complaint I have is that my period is longer than it was on other bc's I've been on, but I don't feel like a psychotic b*atch. My acne got worse again after I stopped taking Yasmin, but I can deal with that. There are other ways to deal with acne, I just have to find them.

I was on Yasmin for about 4 months and I just stopped taking it about a week ago. I have tried about 5 different types of birth control in the last year and Yasmin seemed to work the best for me. I became way too moody and depressed to keep taking it. I would literally cry over nothing and over react all the time. I felt like continuing on this birth control would only make my life worse. It was like living in someone else's body and knowing I should be so sensitive but there was nothing I could do. I'm glad I saw this and know I'm not the only one. I think things will be much better now that I have myself back.

I just recently found out about the really negative side effects of Yasmin, and realized that the my most anxious points in the last few years have all coincided with when I was taking it! It really is insane to think that synthetic hormones were the cause of panic attacks and life-affecting anxiety. I recently switched pills, but after this experience am contemplating going off birth control entirely. I want to help get the word out about this so other people don't think they're going crazy when in fact its the Yasmin they're on! A friend just told me that she started having panic attacks for the first time in her life, and low and behold she is on Yasmin as well. I definitley think that anxiety is caused by life events etc, but it seems that Yasmin makes it much harder to cope/ deal with it. Best of luck to everyone who has had similar experiences, and at least once you realize it you can go off it and get on with your life!