Hello! My name is Lisa and I had a HORRIBLE experience with Yaz....

I'm having similar side effects. I visited the family doctor, the gyno, urologist and gastro. The gastro gave me a colonoscopy and found nothing. Then he looked in my stomach and found chronic gastritis with byle in my stomach. I tried changing my diet and it helped a little. The family doctor suspected endometriosis and the gyno said no. And again, this pain is always everytime I eat and sometimes just for the heck of it. I still have a month on YAZ but then I will ask my gyno to change my prescription. I'm so glad you wrote this article. Thanks!

I had a similar experience. I took Yaz for about 3 months. One day, I started having really bad stomach pain. I figured it was something I ate. Next day, stomach pain again. The pain became worse every day. About a week after the onset of the pain it I started to wonder what was actually going on. I went to the doctor and had a few tests for things like parasites, bacterial infections... I have to wait about 2 weeks for the results. While waiting for the results, the pain was so bad I couldn't leave the house. I couldn't eat regularly and I was so weak I couldn't hardly get off the couch. I spoke with my gastro doc who said I probably had an infection. When the results finally came back from my tests they all turned out negative. Talked to my gastro doc again who was basically clueless and decided I needed a colonoscopy. I mentioned that I was taking Yaz to both sets of dr's I spoke with. Neither seemed to care. My pain started getting so bad I couldn't sleep at night and I had horrible headaches every day. I was dehydrated and weak. I finally talked to another dr. I told him my symptoms and that I was taking Yaz. All he said was BC can do some strange things. Believe it or not, that was the first time I started thinking it could be the Yaz. No other dr's were concerned so it never crossed my mind. I stopped talking Yaz and regained all of my energy within a week. DON'T TAKE YAZ. I gained the courage to try a different BC - the Nuva Ring. Been on it for quite some time now and no stomach pain.

FYI..I have been on YAZ for 3 weeks and have been suffering with severe symptoms: belching, nausea, diarhea, and epigastric pain. I did not associate it with the pill at first, kept thinking it was something else. It finally has gotten so bad that I called the pharmaceutical company who said that gastritis was reported in the trials but for some reason they do not list these side effects in the package insert. The pain is so bad that it radiates right through to my back. Thought I was going crazy....guess not!

Everyone, my 18 year old daughter has been on YAZ since October 2008. In December she started complaining about about stomach pain. I took her to the Family Doctor and after blood work they said it might be a virus or gastritis, they told her it would go away and to take Prilosec. Nothing helped so in April I took her to OBGYN, he did a peliv ultrasound and found nothing so he referred us to the Gastronenterologist. He did a sigmoidoscopy and an upper endoscopy and only found byle in her stomach. He put her on a powder to mix with juice to take twice a day to help bind her food. She is still in pain! After reading your messages I am now thinking it could be the YAZ and I stopped her from taking it immediately.