http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639 I'm so glad I googled side effects of Yasmin and found this site. All of the sudden my mood swings for the past almost YEAR make sense. I started out fine. The pill was great, and I haven't had to worry about acne at all. Of course I gained a few pounds, bu Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:41:36 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=999 My daughter (17) has the exact same symptoms - especially the crying and depression. She thought she was losing her mind. After she saw your posting, we decided to yank it - I want her to have her life back. http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=999 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:04:36 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1012 im glad i googled this too.. i have been on yasmin for the past 2 yrs now and have had barely any side effects until about a week and a half ago i was on vacation with my boyfried of 2 and a half yrs and all of a sudden i had almost no sex drive at all. I http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1012 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:25:17 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1076 Wow I feel the EXACT same way! I'm taking the MCAT on the 9th and have been trying to study all summer also. It's been hard to focus because of moodiness, irritability, & depression! Same thing- great life, family, boyfriend... it's just those damn pills! http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1076 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:35:55 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1112 I am also feeling the same way as you: anxious, depressed, like i'm going crazy and cant concentrate on school anymore. I also feel I have no real reason to be depressed (life is good) and the thought that it could be something bad makes me feel worse and http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1112 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:26:14 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1487 Yeah - I started Yasmin in January and this year has been filled with a lot of changes - but I noticed I have been crying a lot too. Yasmin gave me bursts of energy at first....but when I try to get back in the routine of working out at the gym, I am hit http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1487 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:36:09 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1510 I am 35 and I have been on Yasmin for over 2 years- primarily to control acne. It worked great for that. Unfortunately, I started getting malasma (hyper pigmentation) over my upper lip and have had zero sex drive for quite some time. Because of the hyp http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=1510 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:41:46 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=2500 I'm hoping to hear back from someone about this. I've been on Yasmin for about 1 1/2 years now. I never had any trouble with it until this cycle of pills. The first night I started the new pack I woke up in the morning with a metallic taste in my mouth. http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=2500 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:55:03 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=3300 I am so glad I typed in this subject. I have been on Yasmin for 10 days now, and I too am a total nutcase. I get totally enraged over the stupidest stuff, I cry constantly, I am so sick of feeling tired and weak all the time. Tomorrow I am calling my do http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=3300 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:11:00 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=3343 I took Yasmin for 10 months with very little problems mainly had more headaches than usual. I have been off of it for 2 months now. Since, my headaches are more frequent, more hair loss and I have developed irregular heart beating, tightness in chest, he http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=3343 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:10:07 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=3954 i have just recently started taking yasmin. i have headaches every day and they seem to be getting worse. i have only been using yasmin for 10 days and it seems to be draining me of my energy. my period has also gone longer than usual. i went to the doc http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=3954 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:26:14 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5115 Was wondering if you had these side effects all the time or did you notice if they had any relation to where you were in your cycle. My daughter has been having these very same things, and they have diagnosed her as being bipolar. She is going to come of http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5115 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:51:21 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5586 I was on Yasmin for a couple of years and noticed a very low libido, I was suicidal and put on anti depressants. No one said anything about the possibility of Yasmin being the cause. For other reasons I changed pills but thought my improvement was only r http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5586 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:45:13 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5604 dfsdf http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5604 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:20:46 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5605 Hi ladies or gents, my names mark & please, please can you help me? My partner Joanne has been on yasmin for 6 months & her health has been realy bad since. Her state of mind has realy changed for the worse. She's always depressed & sad. Everything is doo http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5605 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:57:52 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5637 I too am glad I googled this. I have been on Yasmin for 3 months and while it has been like a miracle acne cure, I have slowly been becoming depressed and on occassion feeling acutely irratable and very anxious. I didn't really put 2 and 2 together until http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5637 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:02:29 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5638 ... oh I forgot to mention how tired I am. I don't want to sleep, I just don't want to move! http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=5638 Sat, 17 May 2008 17:19:40 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=8379 Wow, thank god I am not losing my mind!!!! I am having the exact same symptoms..... I am 23 years old and more depressed than I have ever been in my life, and for no reason in particular other than for the fact that I just switched my birth control pills f http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=8379 Mon, 19 May 2008 12:55:21 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=8419 joanna (I'm the original poster) It took me a long time after I took Yasmin to get in and see an OBGYN because I was in Lubbock and my doc was in Houston. When I did finally go in and talk to this new lady she said that in most cases Yasmin does imrpove t http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=8419 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:42 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=11563 I was on Yasmin for about 4 months and I just stopped taking it about a week ago. I have tried about 5 different types of birth control in the last year and Yasmin seemed to work the best for me. I became way too moody and depressed to keep taking it. I wo http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=11563 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:29:08 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=11567 I just recently found out about the really negative side effects of Yasmin, and realized that the my most anxious points in the last few years have all coincided with when I was taking it! It really is insane to think that synthetic hormones were the caus http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=11567 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:14:13 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=12526 I have been on Yasmin for almost 3 months now.... I HATE IT!!!! Im wishing I never switched now b/c for the past 3 months I have had the worst acne, no sex drive, severe water retention, bloating feeling, fatigue, irregular periods, trouble breathing, anxi http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=12526 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:19:47 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=12527 I would definitely prefer anxiety over acne. At least with anxiety you can ride the wave as I like to say. I suffer from anxiety anyways so Im able to deal with myself when I have an attack, but as for ance, and self asteem, to me that is most important, i http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=12527 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:48:40 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=13279 I have been on different types of birth control since I was young due to an irregular cycle. Earlier this year my doc switched me to Yasmin, and I was on it for about 6 months, I would just cry all the time, then I had gotten so depressed and had recurrin http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=13279 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:34:39 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=15913 i have been experiencing awful side effects with yasmin. I had chest pains that feel really heavy, constipation and numbness in my limbs. I was wondering what other people who had these symptoms did about it. Did they just go away when you stopped taking i http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=15913 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:47:15 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=16304 I have been taking Yasmin for two months now and I have been extremely depressed, suicidal, unmotivated to do any studying and generally very bitchy. I am 36yrs, have very good friends, a very supportive and loving husband and family but there are days whe http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=16304 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:14:33 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=16694 ive been taking yasmin for about 2 years and have had no problems what so ever... until now. about a month ago i all of the sudden started to become very moody. im always wanting to cry, and im bossy and bitchy. im not any fun. ive never been like this at http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=16694 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:43:34 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=16746 To me, this is very strange. i've been on yasmin for about 2 years or so. I've been on birth control since i was 16 and i am now 22. At first yasmin was great. But lately , probably in the last year i've been emotionall down, something is always wrong. I f http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=16746 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:47:09 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=16801 I have been on Yasmin for 5 years. It has been great for the most part: no weight gain, light periods, etc. I have just recently connected the dots however between my extremely low sex drive and yasmin. In the beginning, my sex drive was great, but over ti http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=16801 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:54:58 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=17385 I have been on Yasmin for almost four months now. I started it for acne and within a month I had the clearest skin. Yet after that I began having serious mood swings. The littlest things started to bother me and make me cry. Like many of you that have alre http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=17385 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:14:28 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=18686 I have severe headache and abnominal pain right after i take the pill at night. Ive only been on it for 3 days and i stopped because i was scared of what i was becoming. I was tired all the time. I am a mom of 2 and just turned 28. I never had that overwhe http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=18686 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=18719 Yes, Yasmin can get you depressed... big time. I broke up with a very good boyfriend just because I was depressed from being on Yasmin and little things seemed huge. Don't be surprised if it takes you a few months to be back to your normal self... and take http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=18719 Wed, 13 May 2009 16:05:10 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=19803 I am so happy to find out the responsable for my panic attacks, depresion, and low sex drive. Having a panick attack is like you are dying I dont recomend this to anyone. I was using Yazmin fot 2 years and thigs got worse than ever. The Oby Gyn did not be http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=19803 Wed, 13 May 2009 16:07:25 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=19805 dont ruin your life!!! stop this! the sad part is that the doctors say is not the pill!!!!!!!! please read all the posts from the people who are sufering as I did!!! stop it know http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=19805 Thu, 28 May 2009 13:43:16 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=20184 THANK YOU to all who have posted your experiences. I have been on yasmin for about 1.5 years and I totally agree with the side effects that have been posted. I am unable to wear my contacts anymore due to extremely dry eyes, numbness in legs and arms, ex http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=20184 Thu, 28 May 2009 18:29:24 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=20198 After reading through all this, I am kicking Yasmin in the keyster! Currently 22, I was on Ortho TriCyclen since I was 16 (with no complaints), and the switched to Yasmin after hearing all the raves about it. For almost a year and a half it worked just fi http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=20198 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:53:09 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=20253 Cant believe, this seems like a conspiracy; and the most weird thing is every GP is prescribing it with or without reasons....I am wondering how much money some people are getting paid to keep their mouths shut. If you dont know what I am talking about- th http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=20253 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:29:24 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=21602 OMG .. Im so happy i googled this, you have no idea!! Im 14 years old and have been taking Yasmin for 10 months because of a cyst in my ovary and to make my period regular. Anyways i Cry ALL the time for the littlest reason and im SO stressed for the st http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=21602 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:04:52 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=21642 I tried Yazmin once before and had nothing but bad symptoms so I went off of it. About a year later I decided it was time to be on a regular cycle again (I hadn't had a period for 6 months, then went a year spotting) so I started taking it, just thinking http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=21642 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:26:06 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=21984 Wow, reading all these posts really makes me feel better. Was on yasmin for two months and could NOT stop crying about the smallest things. I've never cried so much in my life! also had depression and heavy mood swings which are -thank goodness- over now t http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=21984 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:58:56 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=22403 Im am sooo glad I found this web page!!! I have been on yasmin for 3.5 years. I found it very hard to lose weight and always hungry at first. Then now 3 years later I had my colon removed due to UC, a major surgery and I thought that my horrible mood swing http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=22403 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:04:59 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=22651 I have been using the pill for over too years now and have not experienced any extreme side effects. I do have episodes of stress and extreme tiredness but this i feel is mostly accounted to my demanding student lifestyle and my negligence for exercise. Bu http://www.medications.com/effect/view/22639?item=22651