I have just spent the last hour reading some of the post about Ya...

ive read all the postings as well and i was also diagnosed with pmdd. i was on yaz for three months. the only other birth control i had ever taken was when i was a senior in high school...i am 24 now...and that was yasmin and i didnt react well to that one. at first i was very excited about yaz becuase i wanted my pmdd syptoms to go away...they were affecting my relationships with my family and boyfirend of two years. i was also looking foward to the extra safety net of it being a birth control. the commercials sold me. i have good things and bad things to say about yaz. within the first week of taking yaz, i was at work (server) and had a very very severe anxiety attack where i was crying uncontrollably and had a nervous anxious feeling all in my upper chest. for no reason. ive only had two panic attacks before in my life. and they were nothing like this horrible experience. i felt like i was going crazy. i was also very bloated and SO EXHAUSTED. i cant describe to you how weirdly tired i became. i stayed that way up until i took the last pink pill. however i was not fatigued during my period. i gained a total of 12 pounds, eating the same way i did before the pill. i was nervous , anxiuous suspicious and like the previous post always asked my boyfriend if id gained weight. i couldnt concentrate on my school work and i really never felt like going anywhere. as for the pmdd symptoms it did calm those a little bit. i also didnt have really bad cramps. my breasts were sore the entire month, for three straight months, and they also grew, which i didnt want to happen bc i had a breast reduction. i took yaz for three months. i have been off of it for two weeks. i am not bloated, i wake up every day feeling AWAKE and i can go through the day with out feeling overwhelmingly fatigued. i have also lost 10 pounds. my skin never got better on this pill either. starting in the first month i would get these very painful zits that were way under the skin. they would be there for a wek or two and then surface and then go away, before a few more came back! it wasnt just normal breaking out before the period, it was all month long! anyway, i didnt see how yaz was going to help me any longer. how could it help me if it made me feel horrible about myself (weight gain, zits, painful breasts, anxiety, nervousness) when it was supposed to make me feel better?
i gave yaz three months to make sure i wasnt being hasty and to let it set my body right. the only thing that it did do was regulate my period to an extent. i had my period last week, and today it came back. great. just another perk.