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Hi Everyone, I am a fourth year medical student and recently I ...

Posted at 12:44 PM on Aug 27, 2007 by joinneworleans, #23222
Hi Everyone, I am a fourth year medical student and recently I started having horrible panic attacks, I feel like crying all the time and I actually feel depressed. I am a "hypochondriac" generally (I guess it comes with the territory of knowing about different diseases out there), but I have been feeling like I am going crazy. I started Yasmin in November of 2006 and I was fine for a few months. Lately, with stress at school and exams, I started feeling like I've just crumbled. I get anxiety/panic attacks (the latest one was at the movies), horrible heart palpitations, nausea, I am sweating, I can't sleep, I feel this knot in my stomach. It's horrible. I thought it was me cracking under pressure, but I was never like this before I started Yasmin. Recently, I was placed on an antidepressant because everyone assumed it was depression, but after reading this post, I really think it might be the pill. I got off it a week ago, so I hope I will see a difference. Thanks guys!!!
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Reply 11 months ago on Oct 07, 2007 by sahana, #2265

I just stumbled across this site after a typo in my google search about anxiety stuff and given that mine started on Yasmin 3 years ago i thought interesting and il have a read of that and i am blown away!!!!!!! Id had been on Yasmin successfully (or so i thought) for months and then just one day for no obvious reason just lost it, i didnt wake up properly that day and felt weird and broke down crying for no reason, than my heart went crazy, it was beating out of my chest, i didnt know what was happening but i felt bloody scared. I went to the doctor saying i though i was getting anxiety, maybe from the pill but given that id been on it ok for a while i wasnt sure. I just got shrug'd off and told 'us females do funny things sometime' RIGHTO whatever that means!!! I stopped taking Yasmin but i still wasnt right, anxiety and panic and crying and moody thro the roof, i had to quit my college coz i just couldnt manage to go there anymore as it was where it first hit, i had no idea what was going on but knew i was losing it. I was still fine to go to work down just around the corner from college but had some odd thoughts and behaviour, like i couldnt park on the ground level anymore, and it had always been my fav place to park. A few months later a stressful time hit and that was it, ive never been the same since suffereing varies severities of anxiety panic agoraphobia random phobias paranoia and ocd stuff. That period when it all started and for the months that followed stopping were undoubtedly the worst weeks of my life and ive never trusted myself or my body since. Its such a relief to think that I wasnt mad to think it was the Yasmin and that if it was its something i can fix up. The people who make this and market and prescribe it as safe should really be accountable for this. How dare they **** up our lives and hormones and emotions and leave us to pick up the pieces
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