I started on Yasmin a year ago because I believed the TV advertis...

Hello, I am a 38 yr old who just recently stopped taking Yasmin/yaz. I have PCOS. I decided 1 1/2 yrs ago after gaing weight and having a cholesterol level of 300 that I needed to do something to control my symptoms associated with PCOS. I started on Yasmin. I lost weight and my hair loss stoppped and my oily skin went away. It was fine for about 1 yr. 3 mos. My chol. level went down. Then I noticed that my weight was up a bit and no matter what I tried I COULD not lose weight and my breasts were ALWAYS larger than not being on the pill. I also noticed something really scary, heart palpitations PVC"S. I have always had palpitations, pretty normal occurences. However at the same time that I noticed the weight issue I noticed very continuous Heart palps. They got to the point where I couldn't sleep. I was sooo scared I saw a DR. and had a stress test etc...Well they found nothing. My heart PVC's got soo bad that I stopped the pill. That was 1 week ago. I have not had 1 palp/PVC since. So the moral of my story is, YAZ/Yasmin is some scary stuff. I have taken the pill on/off for yrs, never taking it for that prolonged a period but I have never had heart problems with it. I literally felt a huge difference immediately after skipping the first dose. So take with caution.

My goodness, I could have written verbatim what you wrote, tracy47. I have a history of thyroid problems in my family so when I was walking 2-3 miles a day 3-4 times a week, doing pilates and other exercise, watching what I ate, taking fish oil and heart healthy multi-vitamins all to be unsuccessful in my weight loss, I figured it was because I too had thyroid issues. Instead, I was shocked that my dr's office called me just today to tell me my bad cholesterol was 200 when exactly a year ago it was 137.

I'd suspected Yaz was the cause of my lack of weight loss and the pills also caused huge mood swings in me so I recently went off them. I now suspect they are to blame for my high cholesterol as well! I'm so glad I searched and found this site!

I honestly feel Yaz does more harm than good.

Tracy47, I had the same thing happen. I went in for a pap and ended up getting sent to the emergency room because my blood pressure was 180/120. I have now been off Yasmin for 2 weeks, but I was put on blood pressure medication. Were you able to get off your blood pressure meds? How are you feeling now?