Yasmin and lunch

I posted a while back about the symptoms I was experiencing from Yasmin. Well, I've been off of the drug for just about a month now. My libido has DRASTICALLY improved, my moods are better, and I am getting along with my boyfriend like I haven't in a long time.

The only problem I'm now having is that my weight is continually creeping up. I have been very busy with various things for the past few months (searching for and finding a new job & new apartment in a different state, going on a week-long food-filled vacation, packing, moving, unpacking etc etc). I thought that I was up a few lbs (3) as a result of being very busy and not having as much time to commit to exercise and eating healthy. Don't get me wrong, I have still been exercising and eating healthy, I just haven't been able to commit quite as much time as normal to these things.

In the past two weeks I have gotten back into my old routine and have been doing 60 minutes of cardio approximately 5 days/week and really not eating very much. Most days I have eaten a big bowl of oatmeal for breakfast and not been hungry until dinner. Since I've gotten back into this routine I have done nothing but gain MORE weight. Additionally, I have absolutely no appetite. My stomach looks poochy and my pants are getting tighter.

I have been able to keep my weight in the same range (127-129) since I started running, 4 years ago. It would VERY occasionally creep up to MAYBE 131, but I haven't seen a higher number than that until now. I feel that I literally LOOK at food and gain a pound.

Has anyone else experienced this? Could it be that my hormones are just adjusting? Honestly, I'd almost rather deal with the side effects of Yasmin than deal with gaining weight as a result of not being on it.

I started taking Yasmin in May of 2006 and all the benefits that they talked about (helps with acne and weight in particular) i experienced. Recently I decided to come off the pill it's been about a month now just last week I started experiencing a few break outs (in the beginning) but now the break outs have gotten pretty bad, last night i had some headaches and this morning when i was to work they were occurring to fast one behind the other at one point i had the feeling as if my period was coming but it didn't and then today at lunch i felt extremely bad and wanted to vomit my coworker came in with some KFC and I could not stand the scent of it. For one brief moment i thought maybe i was pregnant. I decided today to go back on the pill. Didn't have any problems while I was on it.

I am so relieved to have found this site, like many of you I thought I was going crazy. I had just been to lunch and nearly cried because I didn’t’t like anything on the menu (and am usually fussy, but serious this is just being nutty). I have been taking Yasmine for just over a week and have been so depressed, tired, moody, my weight is out of control, but most of all just feeling like there is nothing to wake up for. I am usually full of life and driven to achieve, but recently I have not wanted to ever bother to get out of bed. I was going to wait until the end of the packet but now I am going off Yasmine ASAP.

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 have a question for you ladys. I have been on Yasmin for a little over 2 months. It seems like everyday I am STARVING in the morning even when I eat breafast and a snack. Then after I eat lunch I get sick, my stomach hurts so bad and I feel sick for hours and usually dont want to eat dinner or anything. Also I am very bloated and tired all the time. Anyone else have this issue??

Thanks
D

im on yazmin at the moment and have been for 3 months, in this time i have been crying every other day from the smallest things like not being able to meet a friend for lunch to other peoples problems.
i am strong girl but this pill has made me so emotionally weak its unbearable, im coming off it today. which was a desicion i made earlier, but after reading these is a definate.

I've been taking Yasmin for 3 days now, this is sort of a last resort birth control method for me because I've had problems with just about every other method, including depo and the patch and ortho tri-cyclen. I'm really hoping I can overcome my most recent issue because I don't want to swicth again, I'm beginning to think I was never meant to take birth control at all.
I suddenly felt sick to my stomach after lunch today, it's almost unbarable and won't go away. My lunch was not unusual so I don't think it was the food, and I've never experience morning sickness before but that was the first thing that came to mind. I've noticed that I'm not the only one who feels sick, so any advise on getting that feeling to go away quickly? The thought of eating anything makes me want to puke...

Anything advise is appreciated
"J"