Yasmin and bingo

Yasmin ruined my libido. Sure, it cleared my skin, solved a dandruff issue I always had to struggle with, not to mention less PMS and predictable periods. Plus, my breasts got slightly bigger. But it killed my sex drive. So I discontinued it and, bingo!, sex is great. But I can't sleep, I have dandruff again, and some acne, not to mention the awful PMS and mood swings. I don't know what to do. Enjoying sex is great, but having dandruff is awful! I wish I could get some help :(

I have been taking Yasmin for over a year. Since taking this particular pill I have been getting awful ear pain and ringing in my ears- as well as the usual it seems- low sex drive, anxiety, depression, snapping at people for no reason etc.
I went to the doctors so many times for the ear pain until they decided to put me through an operation to sort out the inner ear canal.
I heard randomly through a friend that someone she knew was going deaf and they found it was due to the pill.
Bingo!
Sure enough I came off Yasmin two weeks ago and haven't had this ear pain since. It went from everyday- bearly being able to hear and having terrible difficulty at client meetings etc- to having no pain and perfect hearing.
I am never taking that stuff ever again.
Has anyone else experienced this ear trouble due to Yasmin??

Bingo Bitter RN!

I had trouble sleeping for about the last 3 weeks (very weird dreams and just somehow agitated and anxious), I felt about 30 years older than in the past few months and my concentration is so low, that it sometimes really "hurts" to think about complex things or read something or watch television. Everything my brain has to do is so exhausting!!

Even cooking the meals seems to be overwhelming to my head. About 2 days ago I felt like I was going to faint after cooking a meal with lots of vegetables and other ingredients (I had a lot to cut up small and to prepare). I thought I could not finish it, because my brain wouldn't be able to work any longer and my eyes couldn't fix a point!!

For another example: We are due to getting our house completed (the upper floor (attic) is still not ready) and had an architect here about 3 days ago. It was so exhausting for me to think about his plans and get anything together in my head (imagining how the rooms will be and what should be changed in his plans and so on...). After that discussion my head felt totally drained out and I felt so tired and dizzy, I nearly was about to faint!! It was so frightening!!

And also that "eye problems" are there again!! As the last poster wrote: << ...feels like severe eye strain or I'm going cross eyed>> BINGO! That's exactly how it feels to me too!!! Yesterday I had problems at our weekly shopping. It was so hard to look around and find the things I was searching for in the supermarket!!

And today my brain feels, as if it was still "asleep" somehow and couldn't be waked up by nothing!! Feels a little like comatose (dazed and sleepy)...

I'm so astound and a bit relieved (ok, though not about the fact, that you, guest, are also still suffering from Yasmin while you were only on it for 2 months!! This is so shocking....), that there really is someone, who still has the same problems as me!! And how you explained your problems AFTER your period: I felt EXACTLY that way after my first period in August 2006 (anxiety, dizzyness, weakness!!)!!! But those problems went away again than in about 2 weeks or so.

OMG, ladies, this all sounds so relieving! After reading your posts (guest and bitterRN) there really is some hope for me, that I'll be better again in a few days/weeks and I won't be going down the hill again constantly like it was about 2 years ago (in that time I still was ON Yasmin)!!

BitterRN, You've asked, if anything has changed since that first heavy period in August. Yes, I must admit that I had more stress than usual during the last months because of the band practices we had (even joined a new band on top of my other band) and I started performancing again with both of them (had already about 6 gigs in the last 3 months). I had a lot of work to do in my job (MUCH more than usual!! I'm working as an attorney's secretary). And surely not to forget the stress, that your body has during a virus infection or bad cold, which I had in starts October...

I also realized, that my weight, which was constantly going down for about the last 8 months (about 1 kg per month) has a bit levelled off. It didn't rise again but it also didn't go down very much more, which is absolutely unusual (did not eat more than before!!).

So I think my next thing to do is getting my hormones checked again. Well, if there's no specialist here in Germany, I think I'll get that test done at my gyn and try to get a copy of the results to go on with the research by myself. I'll surely visit the website you've mentioned, BitterRN, and see, what I can get there!!

Ladies, thank you again so much!! I don't know how I would be feeling right now without your encouraging tips and kind words!!

Thank you, guest, for praying for me!! I'm sure it will help, as it already did somehow in the past 2 years!!!

God bless you all and stay strong. I'll try it, too!!

And all of you ladies, please keep in touch. I think there are so many women out there who need your/our help!! Especially those, who got off Yasmin more than 1 year ago, please keep up posting and telling us, how you're doing, just to spread a bit of hope to everyone and finally find a resolution of our still lasting hormonal problems after that Yasmin chaos!!

love,
Silke

Dear Chrissy,

thanks so much...yes i take my pulse a hundred times a day...lol how can i not and last night the doc said u know it should not be this high, wont kill me but gotta get it donw,,,duh thats what im trying to do, and bingo today i received my period (happy new year).
I know its gotta get better read some post back in sept and some woman had lost the palpitations and high bp after 1 mth and i was just stressing
thanks for responding
Lisa