I need some help. I have been on Yasmin for almost 4 years. Previ...

I was taken off of ortho for the exact same reasons I gained a ton of weight and went a little crazy....I've been on yasmin for almost 5 years and I feel likeI have almost no sex drive, I got off the pill for a couple of monthes last spring and my sex drive came back completely, so now I definetly know that yasmin was doing that to me, but I'm back on because I was too afraid to try another pill. I'm going to the doctor in december to see if there are any better options. I just am surprised that decreased sex drive is not mentioned on the yasmin side effects, cause it definetly does it to me.

I'm going through EXACTLY what you are: I'm 21, graduating in December, and I've been taking Yaz for three months, and have (in the past two months or so) been feeling depressed, anxious, stressed and totally unable to control my thoughts. I have no sex drive, my vision is blurry and spotty, and my hearing even feels strangely off. And my hair?! It's SO, so thin. I also thought that all of this just must have been a subconcious "breakdown" with looming graduationg and the real world ahead, but this week, I made the connection between my feelings (or lack thereof - I feel so dettached from my body and so unlike myself!) and the Yaz. Ironically, I'm on the placebo this week and needless to say, I'm totally done with the stuff.

I've been on birth control (before this, Ortho Tricyclen) since I was fifteen and I'm just going to give my body a well-deserved break. I'll use condoms and get a in-case-of-emergency prescription of PlanB to keep in my medicine cabinet. I cannot stand feeling like this any longer --- neither should you. We're graduating!! We've got lives to live!!

Good luck! :)