This is by far the worst pill I have ever taken. Before Yaz I wa...

I have been on Yaz for almost a year, and I have been suffering from the same emotional side effects. I am absolutely astonished at how many postings I have read that say the same thing. Like you, I have always been a happy-go-lucky person, and NEVER used to cry. Even by closest friends had never seen me cry up to about 6 months ago. It's the craziest thing. I started a relationship a few months after I started Yaz, and I cry all the time! We've been dating for 10 months now, and I tell him all the time, "I don't know why I'm a crier all of a sudden! I never used to cry! Ask my friends!" I'm sure he thinks I'm just lying...haha. I seriously cry all the time now. Both when I'm happy and when I'm sad. I thought it was because I was in this relationship, but I recently started questioning the bc I was on. And apparently that's the real culprit. I want to tell my boyfriend it's the pills to blame, but I don't because then he'll think everything I was crying about wasn't a big deal! haha I'm such a girl. Anyway, looks like I'm going to find another bc pill! Thanks for your post. If you're on YAZ and you are crying all the time, you're not alone!! Oh and I just graduated college and I'm trying to find a job, so along with that comes anxiety and panic about the future, so I thought it was all due to my life's current situation. It's just a terrible coincidence that I'm going through some life changes, and I'm taking a bc pill that is making my hormones go nuts!

I love reading these posts. I am in the same situation as both of you. I almost wish there was a support group for the girls that suffered so much on this pill. I started taking this pill 3 months into a relationship. It took about three ish months to finally get the side affects. But after 3 months I was a mess! This pill is unbelievable. It has made mine and my boyfriends last 5 months unhand-able. It has taken him a little while to understand but he finally read just one post and finally understood. I want this pill to be off the market for what it is doing to women. No doctor should be prescribing this to any woman. Has either of you had any luck with any other BC or are all the same? My anxiety is the worst side effect!!!!!

I started taking YAZ to help my terrible mood swings before my period. I was skeptical about taking anything because I am on depression medicine. My doctor told me that there were no side effects. Let me tell you there are plenty. This is the pill from hell!!. It made my anxiety and depression worse and did not help my acne. I had extreme fatigue to the point where I basically did not work for two weeks. I was very sad and felt "out of it". I thought I was going CRAZY. When I called my doctor, and asked if the pill had anything to do with my symptoms he said NO. Then, when I went for my follow up after a month on YAZ, and I told him I still had the symptoms, and was he sure that it couldn't be from the pill, he said ABSOLUTELY NOT. He was ABSOLUTELY WRONG!!!. Ladies that is what the panflet is for. Many or all of these symptoms that I had, are listed in the panflet that you receive with the pill pack. My doctor just disregarded the information written in the panflet, acting like no one had ever complained to him about YAZ. Ladies, listen to your bodies, you know yourself better than any doctor. If you have any side effects at all my advice is to STOP taking YAZ, the symptoms will only get worse.

As soon as I stopped, I felt totally like old self. It's not worth the risk.

God bless you.

I'm 25 and I've experimented with different types of birth control pretty much my whole life. I've tried the patch, the pill with higher and lower amounts of progestin vs estrogen, the ring, everything. Every time I switched brands, I hoped my mood wouldn't change. I mostly felt sadder, depressed, and cried easily when on the pill. It pretty much effected the quality of my life overall. I cant believe so many women don't know to correlate their mood with the drugs their taking every day! I started taking higher levels of B vitamins than were in a multivitamin alone and that helped. I also made an effort to eat b-vitamin rich food such as bananas, shell fish, and chicken. Magnesium and folic acid are a huge help as well and shown to be depleted by birth control. My only advise is to do your research on the full side effects of the pill and make sure you do everything you can to stay healthy.

This website has a lot of helpful information on vitamins depleted by the pill - www.thepillpill.com

Totally experiencing the same as you ladies....... anxiety, depression, panic attacks, nervousness... I'm engaged, and Yaz has made me panic about getting married, wondering if I'm making the right decision, irrationally fearing the future with him (which doesn't make any sense because he's wonderful). My fiance has been very supportive and I'm very grateful for that. But it's AWFUL. I stopped Yaz about a month ago (and I was on it for only 2.5 weeks), and I'm still feeling the side effects. I can't wait to get back to my normal self!! Normally I'm so happy..... This pill has made me a nervous wreck. It definitely taught me to research side effects before I ever put another pill in my body!!! And I agree with laurenmarie6325.... I think a support group would be very helpful.

wow thats amazing. I never thought it was the yaz for me. I started off with mild headaches that would not go away. Then into the 5-6 month was the worst with my moods. Ive never been as depressed in my life. Much like yourself teh anxiety and severe mood swings distroyed me. I felt like another person. My husband noticed I would cry for no apparent reason, I would have panic attacks over the smallest things. It ruined my life for quite some time. I figured there was an adjustment period and gave it time so I ended up pn iot for about 6-7 months. The worst pill Ive ever been on hands down. I had been on lo-ovral for many years, changes in my life took place and I needed something that would level my moods. So i tried Yaz. I have great skin but I was an emotional wreck. Now im not longer on yaz and am back to taking lo-ovral. Can;t wait to be myself again.