Post your symptoms since stopping Yasmin!!! Hey everyone it's ...

OH man. I just stopped it but it has only been two days and you are worrying me. My doctor said i shouldnt lose my hair or have any terrible side effects, so i didnt feel too nervous about it. but now...crap....Im sorry no one has said anything....i have only been on it for five months and i hate how it makes me feel. im getting married so i figured it was no big deal to stop the pill completely. i have been on other birth control pills for years. 7 to be exact but yasmin only for five months. i hope i dont fair as bad as you. im so sorry. i feel so badly for u. im so terrified now. why do they put us on these things if the willl kill us!!!! who will sleep with us now if all our hair falls out!!!!

I quit the yasmin and started zovia about one month ago.I was having horrible emotional symptoms,wanted to cry everyday.I was taking them to help symptoms of early perimeno,I am only 31!So when I started feeling worse,I knew something was wrong.Well,I am now feeling much better emotionally,but am also losing hair,can anyone tell me when this will stop?I was on Yasmin for 5 and a half months.

I hope your hair has grown back I need help my hair is so thin now I hardly have any and my hair use to be soooooooo thick I stopped taking Yasmin 4 months ago Does anyone know does it grow back
miss my thick hair
any info would be greatly appreciated
Cindy

I've definitely lost about 1/4 of my hair in the past few months -- i've been off of Yasmin for 5 months now. I'm SO happy I'm off of it!
I've posted in other threads here about the horrible side effects I experienced while on it.
Since being off of it: The hair loss, weight gain (about 10 lbs, with NO change to diet or excer.)
every other nasty side effect has vanished... but I hope all of my hair doesn't...

Hi girls
I have only just been off Yasmin for 3 months now, my periods are regular, but my side effects from going off it include: weight gain (8kg in 3 months), water retention, depression and mood swings, pins a neddles? I am hoping I will return to my normal self after 6 months... i have not suffered from hair loss (but now will look out for it?) I have been on Yasmin for 5 years and decided my body needed a much needed break, but its tough when the side effects for me going off have been wrse than being on it!
ps. I am so glad I found this site to read and know others are going through similar problems whilst trying to do what best for SELF! :)

I stopped taking yasmin about a month ago. I had been taking it for about 7 years. I liked it better than ortho or ortho-lo (which sent me spinning into severe depressions). I think I am naturally prone to being sad, but the hormones make everything more pronounced. I have been diagnosed with PCOS due to facial hair, which is why I have been on the pill for so long. Anyway, my husband and I will be trying to have children in a little while so I decided to stop the pill. Now I am having slight pain in my abdomen. It doesn't hurt so much as I can feel my uterus and ovaries when I sit down. LIke they are inflamed or something.
Has anyone else experienced this? Should I see right to my doctor right away or see if it goes away on it's own?

I'm not the only one! I stopped taking Yasmin 3 months ago, I was on it for 7 years and loved it but I knew it was time to stop and get my tubes tied. I bled for the 1st 2 months and now I have a regular period (started today) however...the past 3 weeks have been horrible. I have very painful heartburn, bloating etc., I can tell I am losing hair (especially in front), my facial hair is crazy and I all of the sudden have painfull acne. Not to mention I am very MOODY! I am seeing my doctor on Friday and today I went to a nutrition shop and they said it sounds like estrogen overload. Apparently we get all kinds of synthetic estrogen in our bodies from foods and even plastic bottles along with our own levels. They said the first key to aid in anything basically is detoxify our digestive system. Then restore balance. So, I bought a few things and I'm going to give it a try and see my doctor too. This acne and hair loss can't go on for too long right? Otherwise wouldn't we have heard about it before we went off Yasmin if it was that big of a problem?? Did anyone out know this could happen?

I stopped taking Yasmin about 5 months ago and since then my periods - while regular for the first two months - have been irregular and extremely light (very unusual for me). I have also had significant weight gain and greasy hair and complexion. I am very annoyed that I wasn't warned of these potential side affects before taking it and before coming off of it. I'm so glad I haven't experienced hair loss or any other more serious side effects - I think that would be the last straw! What's a girl to do? Don't want children yet, but I want to be intimate with my man. Condoms don't cut it when you've been in a relationship for over 5 years and they haven't really developed the male pill for confident use yet. I tried the implant (it was a disaster), I've tried the injections. The concept of the coil scares me half to death and the four other makes of pill I've been on had far worse side effects than Yasmin.

Hi, I was taking Yasmin for about a year (swapped from Dianette because I thought that was sending me wappy), I thought I'd put on weight while i was on these pills, but since coming off it 7 months ago I must have put on at least half a stone that I havent been able to attribute to any other factor, or shift. Also my hair has been falling out by the bucket load, when I first saw my doctor about this, he suggested it may have been due to coming off the pill but assured me it was temporary - but it has continued. My hair is really long, so people think I'm going crazy when I say my hair's falling out because it still looks like there's a lot there - but there isn't! My periods have been really irregular since i stopped taking it, and the PMT i got before my last one was so bad I actually started taking Yasmin again (before I read this page!) to regulate my cycle, but I've been feeling so sick +bloated every day, I'm not sure I can carry on!!

Hey there, can anyone tell me a positive experience when going off Yasmin?
I have been on the pill for a little over a year, I felt great with it since a week ago when I noticed dark brown discharge which varies in the flow (never happened to me, not even the first months on the pill). I decided stopping it, for at least a half year. But you guys really scared me. I didn't expect such side effects, especially not the weight gain... Can anyone give me an advice what to do?

Hi, in reply to the last post - I think it's fair to say that any of the side-effects people experience when either taking / stopping taking Yasmin can be attributed to other causes too and they may or may not be the real reason they are experienced. Everyone is different, and if you are experiencing undesirable effects while you are taking it, you should definitely stop, anything that happens as a result of stopping it can only be temporary and should return to normal eventually; personally i think my hair loss must be the result of something else due to the length of time that is has continued. it hadn't actually occurred to me that the weight gain could have been due to stopping the pill until i read the posts on here...I think because I was expecting to lose a little weight once I stopped taking it, I was still kind of waiting for that to happen ( but I don't think it's going to!) I'm definitely going to speak to my doctor before I decide what to do and I would recommend anyone else do the same thing...
Tho that didnt really answer your request for a positive experience, sorry!

I stopped taking Yasmin 2 and half months ago, I was only on it for 5 months and the side affets were crazy. I have never had any type of health issues or symptoms like heart palpiatations,anxiety attacks, stomach cramps, horrible hormonal migraines, high blood pressure..the list goes on, along with extremely moody and over emotional..so i had to stop it. I was previously using ortho for 7 years, but wanted to try something different because ortho was giving me migraines and weight gain. I had heard that yasmin had an ingredient in it that help manage water weight gain and was great. They were wrong!! Since being off of it, I have been having stomach pains, some hair loss, over lubrication the first month, (because i am no longer getting the level of hormones which counteracted that) which grossed me out! I thought something was wrong with me until I did some research. I've gained like 10 lbs, and I havent changed my workout routine or my diet, so Im guessing its water weight gain like 2 fold! Hopefully this will level out over the next few months..also alot of boating and still moody, but not as bad as when on the pill. Im just gonna have to stick it out until my body gets more back to normal. I would NEVER recommend yasmin to ANYONE. This BC should be pulled off the market along other meds that are dangerous,but since pharmacuetical companies make so much money off the health industry..im sure there will be more harmful meds produced. I hope I dont lose more hair!! I cant believe this!

OMG, these responses are really scary. I was on Loestrin 24 for about a year but recently started getting naseous, tired, and hungrey all the time. I tried Yasmin for 3 weeks and I was feeling naseous every day so I stopped it 2 days before the end of the pack. I'm scared though about your comments.

I started taking Yasmin in 1999 to regulate my periods. I never really had PMS symptoms before starting on Yasmin, & even while I took it, I had no problems. I stopped taking it 10 months ago because I got married & we're trying to conceive. I got pregnant in December & miscarried in February, and ever since the miscarriage, I've been EXTREMELY hormonal. No noticable hair loss that I can attribute to being off the pill, but I always shed & thought that was just normal. However, my face has been getting oily (never happened before), I've had some break-outs each month (never had more than 1 pimple on my face at a time, even through puberty). I started experiencing anxiety, especially this month! Mood swings have been terrible, and headaches even worse. I've also been kinda sluggish & tired. I'm not sure if my hormones are even more out-of-whack because of the miscarriage, or if it's from being off of the pill, or both.

P.S. I forgot to mention in my previous post that I also had PCOS, which is why I needed to start taking it to regulate my period. Yasmin did help with that, & since I stopped taking it, I havent' had any cysts in any of my last check-ups, and my period has been pretty regular at 28-30 days per cycle. Again, I did become pregnant about 3 months after stopping Yasmin, & micarried at 8 weeks, so I don't know if that helped the cysts stay away or not. My symptoms (headaches, nausea, loss of energy, anxiety, etc.) are all extremely persistent this month, so I think I'm gonna call my doctor to get checked out.

Hi. This is my second month off Yasmin and its HORRIBLE!!!!!!! I got my period about 2 days late (the first month, it was a week late) and now this period is so painful, i can't sleep at nights. I even get indigestion! I am so angry about the side effects and was secretly hoping I would be pregnant as soon as I came off the pill. No such luck!

I stopped yasmin about 2 weeks back as i had horrible side effects like stomach pains, vaginal itching after intercourse, dark medicine like smelling urine and gstritis when i was on it.
So i thought stopping yasmin would make me feel better. But, after stopping my abdominal pain became worse, have severe gastritis and my lower abdomen also hurts. I am not sure if i got IBS symnptoms. I never had gastritis or IBS before. Even my stomach looks bloated now. I am not sure if this is common. But its driving me crazy!! Please let me know if any one has similar probs....going to my gp tomm...

I was on Yasmin for only 5 months, but decided a few weeks ago to discontinue use. My main reason for discontinuing its use was that it absolutely KILLED my sex drive. I am a newlywed and this just isn't fair to me or my new husband. However, since stopping this pill I have also noticed a much more settled stomach (while on Yasmin I was constipated 90% of the time -- horrible!) I have also noticed that I no longer have an irregular heartbeat and can exercise without becoming nauseous. I am still strugglng to re-gain my sex drive, but I understand that can take time after getting off the pill. I would say that stopping Yasmin was the best thing I ever did for my self and my new marriage. I am not yet (and hopefully will not) experience any of the side effects mentioned by previous posts.

I was on Yasmin for 4 years. Off 2 months now. My period was normal the 1st month. But this month is late and still have not come yet. My reason to get off is because me and my husband are ready for a baby. Just tested and is negative. My side effects are bloating, small weight gain, abdominal pain, hot flashes, lower back pain and uncomfortable having intercourse.

I was taking Yasmin for over 6 months to regulate my periods and to get my progesterone levels balanced. It seemed to work. I lost a lot of weight while on the pill and it did wonders for my sex drive. My tubes are tied so I didn't need it for protection. Now that I'm feeling better and lighter. I do want to come off them, but it has been tough. My breasts hurt like crazy, I feel my hair is falling out in batches and my chin is hairy too. I'm miserable. I am hoping the effects wear off shortly.

I was on yasmin for 1.5y to regulate my hormones and for the most part loved it. I lost weight on it and didn't have a single break out. However, I started to have pre menopause syndromes from the pill and and decided to give my body a break to see if the hormones are better (I didn't consult my doc first which i'm regretting)

So, it's been 3 weeks and the first 2 were fine where I had my period and body seemed ok. This week, I'm experiencing very tender breasts and horrible bloating. The bloating is so bad that when I walk, I'm cramping. I'm hoping I don't experience more weight gain or any of the hair loss and that my body calms down in the next few months.

I was on it for 7 years. I didnt even think about side effects until i started to think about coming off of it. I relized that sex drive has died, constipation all the time, and probably alot more that i didnt notice. Now that i have stopped i have gained 4 to 5 pounds. I have never had a problem controlling my weight but i couldnt figure out what was going on. My hair is greasy and i hope it doesnt start to fall out. I have noticed that i am lazier and more depressed. Not so bad that it is a problem but i am usually all smiles. Other than that i am scared of my first period. I just stopped like 4 weeks ago and it should be coming soon. Does anyone know if the weight gain stops or returns to normal after a while???

Hi all. I stopped taking Yasmin 27 days ago (after taking it for just 12 weeks). 14 days after stopping I began to have the most sensitive boobs, worse than after giving birth...the symptoms increased:- including frequent urination (even waking during the night), feeling sick, metallic taste in my mouth, constantly hungry and feeling completely exhausted. All of these symptoms mirror the early stages of pregnancy but I have done two tests, both are negative (period is due tomorrow)......just wondered if anyone else has encountered these phantom pregnancy symptoms since stopping Yasmin. I would love to hear about it as I was convinced I was pregnant.

I was on Yasmin for 5 months. At first it was great, minus the couple of days of nausea and headaches, but they went away after the first week. I gradually started to notice that my moods were getting worse.. I couldn't control my emotions anymore and so I decided to go off. I went off on July 23 and had my withdrawal bleeding three days later. I felt great right away, but around the two week mark I had very sensitive breasts, nausea, bloating and lots of gas. I also noticed my skin and hair becoming very greasy. However, all of it minus the greasy hair and skin, disappeared by the 3rd week. I had a reagular period which was one day late (but I've never been normal). I am now on my 8th week off and my period is due next week. However, for the last 3 days I have had mentrual cramps, can't sleep, nausea. I never have cramps except the day before or the day of my period. I did have unprotected sex while I was ovulating, but that was only a 8 days ago, so I doubt I would have symptoms of pregnancy this soon. Has anyone else had cramps after 2months? I haven't read anywhere that anyone has ever had this symptom without having their period.

Hello, I took yasmin for 2.5 years to regulate hormones and keep cysts away. 2 months ago I ran out and therfore didn't take anymore. Last month my period was fine it came a tad bit late but nothing big. This month I am nearly 3 days late and have horrible acne. I gained a significant amount of weight 15 lbs actually. I haven't changed anything about my diet or exercise. I'm thanking God that I didn't lose any hair but my period is M.I.A and being the worrywort I am, I'll probably stress my period away. anyone else have this problem?

Hi, I stopped taking Yasmin four months ago (after taking an oral contraceptive for the last 13 years) and haven't had a period since. My stomach is really bloated, I've put on weight, my hair and skin is very greasy, I'm spotty, I'm argumentative, negative and I'm feeling really low and tearful. I tried stopping about two years ago but 'gave up giving up' and started taking them again as I just felt so awful.
I'm gonna go to the doctor I think as I don't know what to do. I want to get pregnant so I can't start taking them again.
It's reassuring to see others going through the same thing, I'm a bit annoyed that I wasn't warned about any of these symptoms by my doctor.
Carrie

I wonder if there are any updates on this from anyone who has posted here a while back? I have just come off Yasmin (nearly 3 months now) after being on it for nearly 2 years, also to 'settle' hormones...and can concur with all of these symptoms. Hair loss has been awful, greasy skin and hair (which I never had before), to the extent that I have been to the doctor and specialist, who has now suggested Female Pattern Balding - a very scary prospect, but interesting that it might be related to the pill. I had heart palpitations a year ago, but no doctors put it down to Yasmin! I am concerned and wondering whether or not to pursue the dermatologist with hair or wait for it to settle. Any updates on this would be very gratefully received.

Hi, I came off Yasmin 2 months ago. I found while i was on Yasmin i was very snappy but since coming off the side effects have been horrific. I am crying and depressed one minute and the next I am eating everyones head off. To throw into the bargin, I am experiencing the worst cramps ever. 12 hrs straight of one continous cramp? Has anyone else had this sort of extremities?

I've stopped taking Yasmin about 2 months ago and I'm still waiting for my period to come. I want to get pregnant (I know I'm not, serveral tests, same results - negative). Anyway the doctor stated that it can take a while for the body to resume. On the good note, my estergen level has came back to normal, my progestrone is low but that should be if I'm not post ovulation. So that is normal. All my hormones are normal and the ultrasound came back perfect. So I'm just waiting to see when my period shows up. I love Yasmin, besides spotting most of the time on it, the other side effects worked for my body (cleared my skin up, less moody, lighter periods, etc). If it wasn't for trying to get pregnant I would still be on it. I took Yasmin for 2-3 years, the last 1.5 I took it continueous - which I think is why it's taking my body so long to have the first period off the pill.

Hello..I took Yazmin for about 6 years until I decided to stop taking it on Feb of this year 2008. The first months I had teh same problem...a horrible hair loss and abad depression...I was desperated. I went to a naturopath, I have been on ultra strenght complex B that I take in the mornings before working out, and a daily multivatimin with extra Biotin that I take at nights. My hair started growing again and my mood was much better within a week after taking these suplements. Complex B plays an important role on hair, skin, nials and mood...and Biotin is the hair suplement. SO, try to don't be too anxious, take suplements, eat right, and you will feel much better. I have been off yazmin for 10 months and the only thing is that I still have the brown discharge right before the period. I got that when I started taking yazmin,now 10 months after stopping the pill, I still have it. But that is it.

I forgot to mention about the weight gain..yes I experienced that..but if you continue with your regular eating habits, you weight will be back to normal in about 4 to 5 months. Or at least that is what happend to me. I tried to exercise a little more and actually now, 10 months after I have lost the weight I gain the first 2 months after stopping the pill plus 4 more pounds...so Everything seems to be getting back to normal...yes is not easy to be patient...but be all worried and anxious just make things worse.

I was on Yasmin for about a year and a half (bad memory, sorry) and I stopped taking it early 2008 and have gained almost 25lbs. It's so annoying! I can't tell any emotional side effects, but I definitely notice this annoying weight gain that feels like it happened overnight. Other than that, my period has been really irregular (but it was irregular before I was on the pill). My face has been breaking out a little more than usual, but the weight gain and bloating is the most dominant effect after stopping Yasmin. Hopefully things will get back to normal soon...

i was put on yasmin for 2 months because i was hypoestrogenic and had not gotten a period for 9-10 months since i stopped nursing. i gained 11 pounds almost right away. i stopped taking the pill a month ago and i have not gone on the scale, but i am pretty sure that i gained more weight. i am depressed every morning because my clothes don't fit me anymore and i don't like how i like. how long will it take to lose the weight? is it permanent? no matter how much i work out, nothing has changed.

Hi. I stopped taking yasmin end of November, two weeks ago I started my period only lasted two days and since then I have been spotting every day, i this normal?. I feel bloated all the time, but as yet no hair loss.

Hello ladies,

I stopped taking yasmin the end of march08' because of having pretty much all of the symptoms as you all. After stopping yasmin I have experience a lot of hair loss, it is growing back now but taking plenty a vitamins will help alot. My hair loss is so worth it because as females we can always get extensions or even wear wigs. Now I am 95% back to normal. Oh and I was on yasmin for about 5yrs. Good Luck ladies and God Bless

Hello to all!

I am 26 and got off Yasmin a year ago. I started taking it when I was 20. So five years of Yasmin. I noticed hair loss when I was actually taking Yasmin. About a month after I quit taking Yasmin I developed horrible anxiety. My anxiety attacks would get so bad that I actually thought about suicide. And I had never had anxiety in my life like this ever. Also, my skin totally changed as soon as I got off Yasmin. I now have horrible ACNE that won't go away or get better no matter what I do. And the ACNE is all over my face, chest and back. I will never get on birth control pills again because of all this that I have been going through since I quit Yasmin. It has been over a year and I am still waiting for my hormones to go back to normal!!!

I stopped taking Yasmin about a month ago. I gained about 4 pounds, which I attributed to holiday overeating, but have been working out like crazy and watching my calories for the past 2 weeks and have only lost 1/2 pound. I've also been getting dizzy, had some weird stomach cramping, and had a LOT of very brown , gooey discharge a few days ago. I never imagined there would be side effects going off of Yasmin, because I really had no side effects when I went on it (other than a slightly decreased sex drive).

I only took Yasmin for two years after having my son in Dec 2005. I've been off of it for almost 8 months now and feel awful. I got off of it because I feel emotionally better off of it. Since stopping it, I've gained over 20 lbs and have not had a regular period. I've never had regular periods off birth control but this time is WAY worse. Every month I take hpts and of course they are negative. Since October I've only had two periods and both times just had brown discharge. I've had horrific cramps and headaches. When I talk to the nurse, she says its 'normal'.

Hello ladies
I been on Yasmin for about a year. At first, it’s fine until there’s some side effect such as became emotional, leg cramp, headaches, breathless, chest pain, etc. since July ’08. Had stopped on end Aug ’08. Since stopping it, I feel much better emotionally but was feeling so sick every day as had gained about 9 Lbs, stomach bloating, indigestion, abdominal pain, headaches, water retension (swelling on my finger & legs), having acne on my face, skin become very dry & skin allergy and the worst is that I’m losing lots of hair everyday (about 1/4 of my hair in the past few months and it’s still dropping & some portion already bald).

I've been on Yasmin for about a year. At first, it’s fine until there’s some side effect such as emotionally, leg cramp, headaches, breathless, chest pain, etc. since July ’08. Had stopped taking Yasmin on end Aug ’08. Since stopping it, I feel much better emotionally but was feeling so sick every day as had gained about 9 Lbs, stomach bloating, indigestion, abdominal pain, headaches, water retension (swelling on my finger & legs), having acne on my face, skin become very dry & skin allergy and the worst is that I’m losing lots of hair everyday (about 1/4 of my hair in the past few months and it’s still dropping & some portion already bald).

Could anyone give some advice through their experience?

Thanks
Cindy Teo

Was on Yasmin about 3 years and just stopped a few weeks ago to try to have a baby. The last 2 weeks Ive had continuous pain in my lower abs and lower back. Also pain during intercourse. Not pregnant and just saw a doctor today that said if it doesnt stop it could be an ovarian cyst. :( any advice to make me feel better....im freaked out now!

I was too was on Yasmin for 5 and half months and have come off it the last 2 weeks. At first it was brilliant - no weight gain, great skin, normal libido. After 14 yrs on Depo - started at 17 yrs old and I loved it but told I had to come off it if I want to have children within next 3 years. I tried Microgynon (7 months) which gave me bad acne. Diantte (3 months) which gave me migraines. After 4 months on Yasmin I started getting moody and depressed (not good after the previous year suffering from anxiety attacks - not related to the pill) really bad water retention, libido completely went and was feeling starving constantly but still I gave it another month and a bit and then came off it mid way through a pack as the bloating got so severe it was causing stomach cramps. Within 3 days I had a withdrawel bleed for 6 days, my stomach has gone down, within 2 weeks I have lost 5 pounds and do not feel as hungry, libido is back and im feeling great! To be honest I dont want to be on any pill but at the same time dont want to fall pregnant yet. I have now been given Cerazette which I will start when I get my next period and advised this is the closest I will get to the Depo which I was happy with. Anyone had similar experiences with trying all these different pills or has anyone tried Cerazette and what I am likely to expect?
Ta
Kerry x

Hi girls,

I was on Yasmin from February 2005 until February 18th, 2009....so four years exactly. While I was on yasmin, there were no side effects...that I knew of. In April 2008 I started experiencing anxiety attacks, some so severe that I would have to take something to ease the intensity of it while having an attack. I would get extremely nauseated when having these attacks and my breathing was short and heart palpitated. I would pace until the attack passed which usually took about 30 minutes to an hour (an hour with a bad one). Anyway, I have been trying to figure out why I had these attacks and saw the doctor but he didnt seem to care much...(weird I know) my fiance just left for Iraq and I saw no reason to be on birth control anymore so I researched "side effects of getting off of yasmin" and came across this site as well as many others and after reading all of your symptoms I have had so many while being on yasmin that I never noticed or would have associated with my BC. After I read the side effects I thought about it and I had been having vaginal dryness during sex, HORRIBLE mood swings where I would get mad about nothing and raise hell and then cry and wonder "why was I so upset" and everything was fine again and like I said anxiety problems. Well I took myself off the yasmin feb 18, 2009 and it seems my anxiety has gotten WORSE!!! My mood and everything seemed great the first couple of days but after that I have felt so sick everyday with stomach pains, nausea, gas, bloating, shortness of breath, and heart palpitations CONSTANTLY...litereally. If this is the side effect of getting of the yasmin then oh my gosh when does it end??? Has anyone had my problem??? My doctor gave me some lorazapam to help with the panic attacks as needed for right now but I do not want to be addicted to some stupid drug the rest of my life....someone please help me if you have any advice or have had panic attacks since getting of yasmin....they are so bad they control my daily life and I have lost my happy go lucky personality....thanks so much!

Hi. I took Yasmin for 3months, and stopped taking it 2 weeks ago. I suffered a lot of side effects, like you guys. However, what made me come off it was the hair loss!!! I had fine hair anyway, so any excessive hair loss was VERY noticeable. My hair loss started a couple of weeks after starting the Yasmin (hard to pin point exactly when).

However, even though still shedding... I have seen regrowth! Just a bit, but enough to make me think it will all grow back in time. Body needs time to heal from this horrible pill. :-) I've been taking additional vits/minerals and praying a lot!!!

So please keep the faith, and all the best to you all.

HI, I have been on yasmin for about a year now, and more recently the crap generic Ocella. I have been on birth control since I was sixteen and I am twenty-two right how. I am really wanting to get off bc because I feel like my body needs a break of six years of nonstop hormones. I also gained a lot of weight when going on birth control - about thirty pounds in six months. I used to be very small and now not so much any more. My appetite is out of control and I am so tired all the time. I am pretty much too depressed to do anything. I have found that lately I am pretty much unable to lose weight, even with proper diet and exercise. This has never, ever happened before. Before, losing weight has never been a problem for me when I did what I was supposed to. Now, even if I do exercise (a lot) and eat right I may lose a pound in two weeks if I'm lucky. I really don't have any emotional mood swings or anything like that. I just broke up with my boyfriend and would like to see if getting off this crap will make my appetite, and therefore figure, return to normal. I am sure part of the reason I am so depressed is because every time I look in the mirror I just think "Ugh" - what happened to me? I really, really would like to get off of this but I am so very worried about gaining MORE weight, growing a beard, having acne (my skin is perfect now), losing all of my thick, beautiful hair, wanting to kill myself, as it seems like most of you have experienced. I would just ask my doctor but generally I find them unhelpful and lacking compassion for their patients - a pretty much "it's not my problem" mentality. My mom and I have had the same experience with doctors of them dismissing our symptoms as imaginary and I don't think I could handle that one more time. I am really stuck here. Please help!

hi everyone, I came off yasmin 5 months ago - i have regular periods but they are heavy (which is why i took yasmin in the first place). I don't have hairloss yet but I do have constant bloating and stomach cramps with permanant nausea? I also have facial fluff and acne - always had a perfect complexion in the past so this is very depressing. I feel rubbish most days and can't wait for it to pass. I came off yasmin to get pregnant and I hope it happens soon! Good luck to everyone.

I have been on Yasmin for around 3 years. As someone said, I also felt fine the first year or so. Then as time went on I started getting these spurts of nausea, heart racing and dizziness. It was so sporadic that I didn't think much of it. It eventually got regular and I experienced something similar to anxiety attacks on a daily basis. By June of 08 I decided to talk to a doctor about it. We did a battery of tests: blood work, MRI's, Ultrasounds, etc. One unusual thing did come up: we found out I have something called hyperaldosteronism (which can have similar symptoms to anxiety attacks). This led me to go to an endo. My endo thinks maybe the Yasmin is causing this hyperaldosteronism. Currently I'm off Yasmin so I can get more bloodwork done to see if in fact it's the medication causing these symptoms or if it's something unrelated. I wanted to mention this because I noticed a lot of other people saying they had anxiety symptoms. Maybe you'll want to check into this. I've been off Yasmin for about 6 weeks. My current symptoms/problems are regular headaches, occasional dizzy spells (nothing like before) and some digestive problems (stomach cramps, discolored stools, etc). Seems to me the problems birth control brings outweighs the benefits.

Hi after coming off Yasmin in Feb this year, my periods stopped completly and still havent come back. I went to the doctor to see what they would say and she said it was common and will evenutally come back. I researched Yasmin after that and found that all my symptoms are on here. i gained 5 pounds after coming of Yasmin and i am so angry about it.

Hello, I've been reading through these posts and it's just scary. I was on Yasmin for 3 years and recently attributed the drastic changs to my hair over the past 3 years to yasmin - my once spiral curly hair is now half straight/half wavy. I went off yasmin about a month ago and I'm now starting to experience the hair loss. I'm pretty much freaking out and am really frustrated. I'm hoping that my hair will eventually return to what it looked like a few years ago but I think that's just wishful thinking. I think I will have completely straight hair by the time I'm 30 (I'm 26) and it just makes me really sad. Anyways, I was just wondering how long the hair loss went on after going off yasmin. thank you!

I was on Yasmin for about a year and a half and now it has been 5 months off and I am so glad I found this website because I knew my hair loss was excessive and due to something. I figured it was like after you have a baby, since the borth control pills trick your body. I am wondering if anyone can tell me how long it falls out and when you get back to normal. Problem with me is I think it was the Yasmin that helped my hair grow so long in the first place. I never have had long hair but while on Yasmin it grew longer than I have ever had it I am 38. It recently started becoming increasingly noticable in how much thinning was happening. My ponytail is so thin now but no balding spots just an overall thinning I do notice alot of baby hairs on my hairline and wonder is this normal and need to make sure I wont go bald!! I keep thinking it has to stop but dont want to wait too long before I do something about it. Any advice ? Anyone been off for longer with hope for me?

What an eye opening website! Like everyone else on here I hadn't attributed any of my "side effects" to coming off the pill. I saw my doctor for the first time in 2 years yesterday and talked to her after gaining 20lbs, of course she asked whats going on. I stopped taking Yas about a year ago and have since gained 20lbs, lost tons of hair, have had stomach problems (a dull, aching pain in my upper abdomen) and I've been really tired lately. I have seen a doctor meanwhile and have had my thyroid tested numerous times and everythings in check, but she never mentioned anything about these effects coming off the pill. This is scary because I asked to go back on it to regulate everything and we are going to see if that helps.. I'm kind of nervous about this now.. has anyone ever gone back on it? Did it help alleviate these symptoms?

I have been off this pill for 2.5 months and have gained 10 pounds of weight(first month 2 pounds, rest between last month and now), have acne on my
neck that's spreading to my face, and my cycle is insane I haven't had a proper period since going off of it. At first with the mood swings,2 weeks late
period that lasted 2 days, and weight gain, I thought I was pregnant. Now I am getting baby hair
down my hairline to my jaw...if I start growing acial hair I will loose it.
I have gone off of other pills such as OrthoTri and a generic of the same four years ago
(I was on this pill for 3) and I have never had all of these issues. I literally had all the symptoms of pregnancy at first(nausea, food cravings,
breast discoloration and sensitivity, mood swings ect), and the weight gain
causes me to appear as though I have a "bump". I have indigestion as well
in greater frequency, I have an ulcer already though. I also have been having
anxiety attacks I have had them before but am now getting them frequently,
where as before it would take a lot of stress to get that bad. My skin has
become very oily as well.
At first my blood pressure spiked but it has since returned to normal.
This pill must play merry heck with the hormones to be causing all of this
and as I said, I have been off the pill before and haveswitched a lot also,
none of them have done this to me. With such similar cases as these
perhaps they should stop selling this pill.

I came of Yasmin pill in January 2009, and was ok for while i noticed my skin breaking out badly however after a few months and then i started putting on weight to, i kinda blamed that on quitting smoking as well however now September 2009 and things have got really bad, my hair too is falling out, massive clumps in my hair brush not very attractive, it falls out expecially when i wash my hair, my periods are very painful, my skin is terrible both on face and back of neck and im up and down all the time im an emotional wreak,i know now its not quitting smoking but the pill as i have no cravings for smoking at all and im off them 6 months now. i have considered going back on the pill to avoid these side effects but wats the point il have to come off it eventually, my boyfriend and i have discussed it and he wants me to stay off it, cos well he has put up mood swings to now lol, nah he loves me really.. but im going out of my mind here, does anyone has any suggestions for the mood swings and my skin, my confidence is really suffering now aswell. i mean if i could change time i def wouldnt go on the pill or recommend it to anyone... i was on the pill for 8 years straight aswell, never had a break. im going to see the doctor to see if they have any suggestions for my behavior and skin.. but if any idea's there id love to hear them.. another thing is has anyone had problems getting pregnant since coming off yasmin? all comments welcome! and thans again!

Oh and about my last comment can any one tell me how much longer this will last its been 9 months now and im freaking out!

I stopped taking Yasmin at the end of November. I had been taking Yasmin for approximately 5 years. My husband and I want to have a baby. We were using condoms up until June so I could track my cycle. I got my period like normal in November, then it was 37 days until my next one. After that my periods were coming every 33 days. Since I was getting regular periods, my husband and I stopped using condoms. My last period was July 8 and I have not had one since. I have always had regular periods. I have taken 4 pregnancy tests (including 1 at the dr's office) and they were all negative. I had my annual exam at the gyno's last week and the doc said I wasn't pregnant and she blamed my weight gain on poor diet and lack of excersize. I haven't changed my diet at all and I excersize(a lot) on a regular basis. She gave me a prescription for progesterone and told me to come back in 2 weeks. When I first came off Yasmin I gained 10 pounds in 1 month. In the next 2 months I gained another 15 pounds. I have horrible mood swings and a constant lack of energy. The weight gain has made me depressed as I can't fit into any of my clothes any more. I also went to my regular doctor in may and she did blood tests on me because I was concerned about the weight gain. All the blood work came back fine and my doctor said the weight gain was due to my eating habits. I am really frustrated because no matter what I do I can't drop the weight, and now my period has stopped coming which makes it difficult when my husband and I want to have a baby. I wouldn't reccomend Yasmin to anyone!

This is my second time to go off of Yasmin. I honestly prefer to just stay on it bc I feel normal when I am. I was dumb enough to get on the Depoprovera shot when i was 18 and every since the only thing that has regulated my weight has been yasmin. I got off of it for a year with my ex husband a few years back and the only thing I really had was the weight gain. I decided to get back on it and lost the weight right back and then some. Yasmin has a diuretic in it. I'm thinking of taking water pills or something to help with it. I've been off of it for about 2 to 3 months now and my second period is lagging. But I was told by my dr. that birth control isn't fully out of your system until a year or so. So Please be patient ladies and just try to seek alternatives as far as the weight gain goes. Women's vitamins are good too.