Yasmin and depo shot

First of all, Yaz and yazmin are two diff pills, yaz was approved a few years after yazmin b/c it held a lower dose of estrogen.

I am a female who had a bad reaction to ortho and the depo shot. I was turned onto yazmin about 4 years ago because I had bad reactions to the other forms I'd tried. I suffer from depression problems as well, and my doctor said that it tested well among people with my background. I loved it.

Anyhoo, the whole reason I am writing, is because I've noticed a pattern in all of the statements on this website: the women who had bad experiences w/Yaz or Yazmin, had good experiences w/Ortho Tricyclen and vise versa. I just find that so amusing!!!

Thank you for your time,

Mel

I was prescribed Yasmin almost 4 years ago after complaining to my Gyn about side effects of all the other pills i'd tried in the past (and the Depo shot, which was awful). She said women who have trouble with other ones, sometimes do well on Yasmin. For a couple years, I loved this pill, and experienced only one side-effect: loss of body hair (I was excessively hairy and this was a plus for me). However, over the past couple years, I have gained some weight and have developed some other issues. I'm not sure if they're all attributed to Yasmin, but here they are: extreme motion sickness and dizzyness, heart palpitations, periods of shortness of breath, intolerance for fatty foods, trouble sleeping and once when i started taking glucosamine for my joints (I'm a runner) I developed severe leg and muscle cramps and extreme thirst... perhaps messed up potassium levels? I'm curious if anyone else has had these problems, especially the motion sickness, which has become a serious problem for me.

hi greeneternaleyes. i just read your post and i to have noticed some breast tenderness recently. i too am not sure if it is the yasmin but i did read a few mention it in some post. i am really questioning wether i should ever go back on this pill after reading everyones thoughts on it. before i was on yasmin i was on the depo shot. i dont remember any side effects from it other than when i stopped it to have a baby it took what seemed forever to get pregnant again. i only started using yasmin because my insurance wouldnt pay for it. all the side effects of pills is why i dont take anything unless absolutly nessecary.

Okay ladies this kinda weird for me but i need answers!!! I am a 26 year old male, my now x-girlfriend and i were together for almost ten years in which she was always on the depo shot once every three months i beleive was the dosage. Things were never perfect between us but for the last year and a half we both felt things were going in a very good direction. This problem started when we talked about why she she had very little sex drive, so she talked to her doctor and they decided to put her on Ortho-Tri cyclene she was on that for i believe about 5 months inwhich she started to retain water pretty bad so like most women she had to do something about this problem, again goes to the doctor and he doc tells hr that Yasmin was the answer to the problem. Just for the record about 3 or 4 days before she started taking the Yasmin she told me just how incredibly happy she was with were our relationship has gone. Well sunday came and she started the new birth control as the week went on there were no side effects until Friday May 6th (her birthday) she spent the day shopping with her mother and we had dinner plans at 6pm, well we meet up and she tells me we need to talk!!! I sit down on the couch and she tells me we shouldnt be together and that she decided this sometime during the week of the 6th!!! At first I never thought it was the bc but i have since changed my tune. This girl has always made me her #1 priority and all of a sudden she turns into a cold hearted @%^#* doesnt even let me talk or anything, just keeps telling me that this is how it is and i should deal with!! I instantly lost control of my emotions and went in a state of manic depression (basicly just wanted to be dead) Well i made though all this and stopped communicating with her or should i say trying to communicate w her in about the middle of July. Basicly told myself that it was my fault and on and on, well all of a sudden the last week of October comes and she calls out of the blue!! Telling me how she cant get me off of her mind, i felt elated and told her that love is hard to cover up. Then i find out that she was almost done with her period, which means she was taking the reminders and her real feelings were once again comming out, well we have been hanging out and decided that the problem with our past is that we never had a good solid friendship, just basicly relied on one another!! So great we are going to make this work right?? One other thing is that she was very reluctant to start taking the bc after her last period because she didnt want those feeling to go away, i didnt want to be controlling and told her that it was decsision she has to make in order to be happy. Well she wanted to test the whole idea of the bc being a factor and started taking it again and now she tells me that she just doesnt feel the same way about me as she once did, i want to remind you that she has always been confident in us and it just seems like this damn pill is screwing with her head MAJORLY!!! What do i do ???????????? I feel like im being cheated out of the love of my life......
Sorry its so long alot to think about everyday, i just want her back to normal ---Chad----

I am about to start my fourth pill pack. Just this past weekend, I have noticed
*EXTREME HEADACHES (migranes)
*BAD GAS
*INDIGESTION
*STOMACH CRAMPING FOLLOWED MY DIARREAH
I have noticed in the past months, an increase in appetite. I haven't lost any weight. I have gained if anything, due to the increase in my appetite. My boobs are not any bigger, and I haven't really noticed any mood changes. I have however, noticed that my sex drive is down. I also experienced leg cramps the first couple of months.

I was on the depo shot for a year and changed over to Yasmin. I never had a period with the depo shot, and still have yet to have a period with Yasmin. Has anyone else experienced this? By the way... I will be 30 in November.