Yasmin and fever

I am 21 years old and I was on Yasmin for three in a half months (i stopped the last pack half way through). The first month i was on it, i had a lot of leg pains especially at night and sometimes to the point where i couldn't sleep. I went to the doctors and told her about this and she said it had nothing to do with the pill. My leg pain stopped after the first month i was on it and for two months i was fine. At the end of the third pack i began to get leg cramps again, but this time it was different i had little sharp pains here and there and tingling and my legs became extremely itchy. In the matter of two months i got spider veins and cellulite on my upper legs. Before the pill i had NOTHING on my legs. I searched the internet and found that birth control can cause spider veins because of the hormonal change so I thought my legs were itchy because of the spider veins so i stopped using the pill and made a doctors appointment. Three days after stopping i got my period for the second time that month. I also broke out with lumps that are red and extremely itchy. The doctor told me that the bumps are eczema and i also have a lymph node, which she said is from the eczema (which i find very strange). Two days after i broke out and got a lymph node, i got sick with a fever, extremely soar throat and a swollen neck. Today is my 7th day off the pill and im still sick. Hopefully i get better. But from being a 21 year old whos 95 pounds and having nothing wrong and starting this pill and getting spider veins, cellulite and then eczema all around the same time, i feel like im aging before my time. If anyone else has had any similar effects please let me know. Thank you.

I took Yasmin for about 2 years. When I first started taking it I noticed that if I took it at night, like, any time ater about 6, I'd have awful nausea the following morning, and usually end up vomiting. In fact, even if I took it before a nap I'd wake up and feel sick. I figured if I just avoided taking it before I slept I'd be in the clear. I started taking them in the morning and I noticed that about noon time I'd get headaches and I'd feel nauseous. Within the last 3 weeks (it could be the summer heat, but I'm almost positive it's the Yasmin) no matter when I take it I feel awful. Nausea, headache, fever, and consistent vomiting. I finally could not take feeling so sick anymore and today I went to my gyno and she suggested that I take the NuvaRing, because it's not something you ingest, which could prevent the nausea I had with Yasmin.

@ipj:

Thanks for your immediate answer.

Those are symptoms I'm also experiencing......

But here in Germany it's so hard to get a magnesium test (and even some other tests) done. Everything seems to expensive to test for our docs here and so they refuse them... But after reading your posts and the result of your magnesium test I think I should at least ask or beg my doc again, if he perhaps could do that test... I feel that there has to be something still not ok, even being off Yasmin for about 2 years now....

Everytime I got a cold or I got my period I'm feeling worse again, and this time I fear it's gotten very bad... So there has to be still a lack of something in my body which gets out of balance when the slightest change in my body is happening (as my period or a heavy cold with loosing lots of sweat because of the fever, and so on....).

Thank you so much again ipj for sharing your story!!!
Perhaps my doc gets a bit more cooperative if he hears, that there is really someone whose magnesium test came back much too low......

Greetings
Silke

Hey Sophie and everyone!!

So nice to hear from you.... Well, I'm still or should I better say "again" doing very badly at the moment. My weakness seemed to get better around Sunday/Monday of last week and I already was so delighted about that fact and felt happy to slowly get better, when I was hit by another very heavy cold during the night of Monday to Tuesday.

I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night with fever and a sore throat.... I couldn't believe it. The second cold within 4 weeks!! I fear I didn't feed the first cold in starts October enough, I should have given my body the rest it surely would had needed... Well, I felt so bad that I couldn't even leave my bed for cooking lunch or so. I stayed in bed for about at least 3 days with again loosing very much sweat because of the fever and what should I say: This week the weakness has rosen up again and in a much much heavier way as it was 2 weeks ago when I posted here.... :-(

My muscles seem to have no energy left at all... Even lifting one of my arms feels impossible to manage... I nearly can't hold my head over the wash basin while brushing my teeth.

The other thing that has hit me on top around Thursday of last week is my period. It came up so regular that I nearly could set a clock at its arrival (well, perhaps the only thing which I'm still very proud of, my period is here after 1,5 years without Yasmin and it came up completely by itself)... And the bleeding was very very heavy again (after the last two periods had been very light and short and nearly not there...) and it's still not stopped completely until today...

So I think you can say that there are too many facts together at the moment, that are bringing my whole body in a mess.... And today I'm feeling very sad and despaired about all that, and not to forget: always afraid of getting where I was 2 years ago (ok, though I'm not really believing this, because I know that the Yasmin was the cause of all that and it's no longer there!)... It's so hard to believe, that I will be feeling better again in a few days or weeks, though everyone around me keeps telling me. OMG will this nightmare ever have an end??

I'm trying to take some Magnesium and such things to help my body with the loss of elecrolytes (which I guess has happened because of the cold). I hope it will help somehow....

Thank you so much Sophie, you caught me in a very weak moment with your post and it was so good to read your words!! Thank you (and all the other wonderful ladies here) for thinking about me and still helping me through this.....

Best wishes
Silke

PS: I'll let you know how things go on in the next few weeks......

I just stopped yasmin yesterday..I only took it for 4 days. I had heart palpitations, got a fever, my anxiety and tiredness got much worse and by the 2nd day I started getting bad chest pains. I went to the hospital cause the chest pains were so bad. They did an EKG and CT scan of my chest and I was fine. So I kept taking yasmin. But 2 days later my left lower leg started hurting. The chest pains have gone away but my lower leg is still hurting (its been hurting for 2 days now) :( Should I be worried? I'm only 24 and don't smoke. Could the pain be something other than a blood clot? I can't afford more tests!
Thanks,
Kate

@ Guest 20952:

Well, after only 1 1/2 years ON Yasmin I would surely have said the same things as you do now! I never expected to go through that hell I went through after 4 (!) YEARS on it. And after my first fainting spell and really severe panic attack it still took about 4 months for me to realize WHAT really was causing me such pain and torture (well, I never expected MY Yasmin to do such things to me!! I swear!!)!!

So please be careful and watch your body!!!! If I would have done that and would have found this site earlier I'd surely gone off that pill much earlier and perhaps wouldn't have gone through all this agony I did for the last 2 years!!!

It seems as if in some woman the side effects occur slightly over the years because Yasmin has this diuretic in it which slightly causes an imbalance of electrolytes and vitamines in your body. So it may help, to always drink enough water and perhaps take some supplements like magnesium and so on during times, you are sweating more than usual (a hot summer's day, during workouts, during illness with fever (like the flu or a cold, etc.)).

Everyone out there: Please be extremely careful with that drug, even if you seem to be ok at the moment!!!

Remember I was very well on that pill for over 3 years until everything hit me at once!!!

Greetings
Silke

I started Yasmin on Sunday and have had headaches, nausea and dizziness and a bit of a fever since I started the pill (I even had to miss a day of work on Monday). I think I'm going to call my gyno and see if I can switch to something else. I used to take Alesse and had no major problems with it except for lowered libido, but this pill I think is making me sick!

I began birth control about 6 weeks ago and I'm not sure if these things that have been happening to my body are because of it. Anyone had severe stomach pains, so bad that you have to go to the hospital and you vomit? Also, I have been constipated for several weeks. The past 3 out of 4 weekends, I have had horrible stomach sickness with fever, vomiting, and diarrhea -anyone else experienced this?
Also, will this extreme breast tenderness ease up?