Where to start! I started Yasmin in Sept. of 2005. So I've been o...

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Posted at 8:32 PM on Mar 13, 2008 by blaise_2001, #28011

Where to start! I started Yasmin in Sept. of 2005. So I've been on it 2 and a half years. Things were fine for a while. It did what it was supposed to do, including no weight gain. That's how its been marketed here, so that's why i got it. Nothing has happened all of a sudden. Its all creeped up on me very slowly. Headaches, pressure in my sinuses, tiredness...all pretty simple. But here's the thing. I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and put on Prozac. The Prozac didnt help. I came off it. Now here's the more troubling symptoms I've experienced. Heart Palpitations, squeezing in my chest making it hard to breathe, increased fear and anxiety (which cause heart attack-like symptoms which can more commonly be described as a panic attack). I've had my finger on the 911 buttons several times in the last 8 months. Now I'm discovering the joy of incontinence. Do you have any idea what its like to be in the store buying groceries and then all of a sudden there's a puddle of number 2 around your shoe? I do. I'm 23. Abdominal pain, stomach distension, constipation followed by diarrhea. Hair loss. Cold feet. LOSS OF SEXUAL DRIVE! My God! I've said all this to my doctor. He ran blood for everything, there's nothing wrong with me medically. X-rays, mri's, cat scans, ekg's. Nothing nothing nothing. I changed doctors and told the new doctor my story. He figures that because i was put on Prozac for depression, that I must have developed Hypochondria (aka extreme paranoia and a belief that I'm terminally ill). Not true, I know its not terminal, i just need to be put on a new pill. My husband and I have regular sex, he's allergic to latex, and even those non-latex condoms. We're not ready for babies yet, so I dont know what to do. But if this helps someone else, then taking the time to write this was worth it. And as a side note, if you're on the pill and have the choice, and your doc wants to put you on prozac...Don't do it. Try switching your pill first.

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Reply about 1 year ago on Mar 17, 2008 by everyonesmom, #5609

Call your doctor and insist on changing pills. You have the right to make that decision. Keep changing until you find one that's suitable for you. Good luck

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Reply about 1 year ago on Mar 29, 2008 by katielew, #6174

I am in the same boat you are! I have been taking yasmin for about 3 years and everything was great until this last couple weeks....first I started breaking out (and I've rarely had any pimples since I was 15 and I'm 23 now!) then my period which is normally regulated down to the day and hour I get for the last 5 years started coming a day or two later.....then this past week I doubled up on the pill since I missed a day and within hours I was having severe chest pain, brain fog and full blown panic attack for no reason!!!! this has been truly the weirdest week of my life. I called my obgyn and she said it absolutely COULDN'T be the pill then i went to my family practitioner and he checked everything and gave me Lexapro and diagnosed me with anxiety, which is fine even though i dont think I do. I have been irritable, waking up with heart fluttering in the middle of the night, etc. etc. I am stopping the pill today even though I have 5 days left...has it worked for you? I can't live in this brain fog any longer!!

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Reply about 1 year ago on Aug 27, 2008 by cjean16, #11678

Blaise,
Hi, I'm Crystal and I know yo posted on here a while ago but I experienced pretty much exactly what you did. I'm 24, newly married and the anxiety that started in January after being on Yasmin for 2 months was unlike anything I have ever experienced. The hardest this for me were and still are at time the scary obsessive thinking! How are yo doing now? Are you fully recovered from the panic and anxiety? I find I feel great like, 90% of the time, but it's like my mind can't fully go back to my normal self after suffering that much anxiety. I'm scarred!! hahaha! I hate yasmin!
Well, I hope to be hearing from you!
Thanks!
Crystal

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Reply about 1 year ago on Oct 20, 2008 by sunshine0269, #13648

wow, ladies. I love Yasmin, it's been the greatest thing. I have PMDD nad it helps control the symptoms with that, my period is on time +/- a day or two b/c I don't take the pill at the same time every day. I was on Prozac a LONG time ago for PMDD before Yasmin came out and then we switched my BC to get me off of that. bad stuff that prozac is- weight gain out the ying yang.

This is the first I've ever heard of problems with Yasmin. I think it's great.

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