Yasmin and antidepressents

Been on Yasmin for about 3 years suffered from Loss of Sex Drive, grumpiness, being nasty to my kids and husband, weight gain - I look like I have a beer belly, I run 2-3 times a week and watch what I eat, I walk and cycle still the weight gain. The last month I have had sore breasts - cant bear hardly to put on my bra, spotting, sharp pain in the right hand ovary (in that area), crying, depressed. My doc put me on antidepressants so i have been taking them over a year now. I am not going to take Yasmin anymore, I will keep you all informed how I get on. Cant believe all the same symptoms as mine.....thanks for sharing girls.

I was put on Yasmin not for birth control but for the beginning of fertility treatments. I was on Yasmin only 1 months. After about 2 days I started getting symptoms. I called the Pharmacist and my fertility doctor and they both told me the pill wasn't the culprit. But after the 20th day I just couldn't take it anymore I went off of it. After starting Yasmin I had TERRIBLE Panic attacks, Anxiety ( still have to this day two months later), Heart Palpitations, leg cramps, boobs hurt, breathing trouble ( still to this day), HORRIBLE thoughts, adrenaline rushes all hours of the day, tingling in my hands and feet, my mind feels fuzzy, no appetite, no sex drive, depression, crying fits for hours, I felt like i was going insane.... You name it I had it. I stopped the pill two months ago and I still have the horrible anxiety/attacks, feel like i cant breath properly, OCD about my breathing.

I went to the hospital and got checked for blood clots in my lungs, legs, Asthma test, EKG, blood tested, was put on heart monitor all came back normal. I have started seeing a therapist, on depression meds and none of it is working. I feel like this pill has ruined my life and i wasn't even trying to stop life i was trying to help create it.

Here i am two months after stopping the pill and yes some of the stuff has went away but i still suffer with Anxiety from the time i wake up in the morning till the time I go to bed at night. And sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with anxiety. My head is getting a little clearer and I am not as depressed as before. But I am just praying that this anxiety goes away. I have NEVER been a person who can't handle stress or gets anxiety/panic attacks and since it started it hasn't stopped. I am so very weak, muscles ache so much which i think is from the anxiety attacks and the muscles tightening.

So if you have this... you are not alone! I am suffering with it everyday. It is so debilitating I cant do much. Has anyone else had this months after stopping Yasmin?

Hi,

My name's Linzi.

I stumbled across this site because i am at an all time low and am trying to find out a reason. My life is fine, with no reason to be depressed. However I finally had to go to an emergencey psychiatrist to get an injection because my panic attacks got so bad i was scared to be left on my own incase i didn't know what i was doing.

All my anxiety, worrying, panicking and depression started in may, when i broke down, convinced i'd gone crazy, and just screamed and cried waiting for someone to come get me and take me in a straight jacket. Never happened. Since that point i have been fighting with my thoughts, being scared that i will not have control of myselft and so on.

I pin pointed the other day that i started on Yasmin after i had my copper coil removed in May, exactly when this started.

Other sideeffects, I weigh 69 kilo, that is 10.5 stone, I am 6 foot tall, 24 years old, have gorgeous boyfriend who i haven't kissed for i don't know how long. Sex drive in non existent, we have sex maybe 1 time per month if lucky, then it is like robot sex, no passion because i feel nothing. That upsets me more. I am prone to tantrums, when i get my period i sink, he sees me spiralling out of control, we discuss everything, i threaten to leave, then next day, bingo! all is ok.

I have done little girly tantrums, jumping up and down, going red in face and screaming with frustration over...a broken plate, a messy table and other such things. I feel the panic building up like a knot in my chest, and i can't cope anymore with simple things like eating at his parents house. I spilled a whole bowl of soup because i couldn't deal with the pressure of trying to be neat and tidy.

Ridiculous i know, but i am going on antidepressents, well a drug for panick and anxiety and nervousness. I have zero appetite, eat maybe 2 slices of toast in a day and don't notice being hungry, i lost weight over christmas, which isn't normal.

I have had suicidal thoughts and still do, but mainly it is a major panic that i will kill myself and not realise what i am doing, even thought it is something i don't want to do. Lost all purpose.

I found this site, and realised it is regularly read. How long will it take before i feel better. I hate this, i am hanging on between shrink appointments just so i don't run in to the street screaming, it is such a horrible feeling.

I was a straight A student, really succesful, got my degree and everything, now i sit at home, stare at a wall and don't go to work anymore.

Will this stop? I need it to before i lose it.

Linzi

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Hi,

I have been suffering from depression and an overactive imagination leading to panick attacks, anxiety and nervousness (i panic that i will go crazy and kill myself and not realise). I started feeling like this last may, exactly when i started with Yasmin. Having read through some of these posts, my decision last night to stop the pill finally, has given me some hope that i might start to feel better. I am going to be put on antidepressents soon, and i hope i feel better before then. The time scale of my feelings and Yasmin coincides perfectly, I hope I have found the cause of my grief.

Linzi