Yasmin and mom

I've been having problems ever since I started Yasmin, and now, stumbling upon this site, I'm SO glad I'm getting off it!

I'm only on the second week of my third pack, and I've felt horrible the last few days. I get anxiety attacks once in awhile - and have since before I started Yaz. But the last few days, it's been worse. Constant is the best word I can think of. Also, I feel weird "down there" (not to sound childish, but I don't know if this bulletin is censored. never been on here before). Down there, I feel rubbed raw, irritated, itchy, etc. And it only started recently, after I got my period for the second pack of Yaz. My period is always late, and this time, it's irregular (i get it one day, then not the next, then again the third day, etc)

Also, my mood has altered. Aside from the increase in my anxiety attacks, I've gotten really tired, mopey, and depressed. Even my mom has noticed. She says I'm a totally different person, and not fun to be around. I suffer from migraines, but when I was on my last pill (Seasonale), I got very few. On the Yaz, I have one almost every day! it's awful.

I called my doctor and he called in a prescription for my Seasonale, which I can pick up tomorrow and I'm starting IMMEDIATELY. From reading this board, I can see this pill is dangerous and I'm so glad I came across here because now I see it's not just me. It's the pill!

Last week I started to have this pain in the chest. I thought they will go away but they didn't. I went to a chiropractor that said it is my back that couses all this pain, the tingling feet and arms, dizziness. But 2 days ago, my mom told me that on the news they showed a 22 years old girl from Croatia that died because of Yasmin. Today I looked online to see if i can find something about it. and I found this site. And i read more then half of the posts. I am taking Yasmin for 14 months. And everything that is in these posts i felt in on me. Except the weight. I am still the same at 120 pounds. but, the anxiety, the panic attack - my first ever, emotional problems - which i never had before - OMG - i don't want this anymore. I love life - i didn't get ther to have suicidal attempts. But it is bad. No libido - from a person who loved to have sex, painful intercourse, crying for no reason. etc. Tomorrow no more pills. that's it. My chest hurts so bad that i feel like crying.

Did anyone find they where extra paranoid and jumpy while on Yasmin especially towards your loved ones? and that your blood was boiling inside you over the smallest things?

This site has put so much worry on my mind about Yasmin. I started researching Yasmin because I had my first spotting this weekend. It started on Saturday and now it's Wednesday night and it has not stopped. Why do I want to be on something that makes me spot..I use to be on Portia which I really liked. I never spotted....I got on Yasmin because my mom and sister think I am moody (which, three woman in one house...do the math?) I have been feeling so tired lately. I go to bed about 8:00 or 8:30 and get up around 5:30, but I am still tired. On the weekends I can sleep anywhere from 12 hours on. I come home from work and nap and then go right back to bed. I have started to get leg cramps, which I haven't had since I was a sophomore in high school (junior in college now.) I've had a few more head aches than normal. I've put on weight....nothing feels good on me, I feel like a balloon. I have been more "depressed"...it's something that runs in my family but when I was on portia I was really happy...now I feel like I just want to say something or bring people down to my level. I am seeing this guy who works out of town and it never bothered me that he did until I started on Yasmin. I have stomach pains sometimes. What really upsets me is I told my sister about this site and she doesn't believe me. She thinks ALL birth control will give you these side affects and she says that they are not suppose to happen, which in theory she is right...but she doesn't leave any room for anything like this. She thinks I am feeling this way because of something else....well before the pill I was different. I like my face being clear but I don't like everything else but yet she can make the decision about her meds. I'm blaming Yasmin because it's the only thing I am on! I am going to use my last three months but I am not taking it anymore....I cant be a full time college student and hold a job while taking something that could potentially ruin my life before I even start it.

Please let me know if a class-action lawsuit is ever filed against this Pharm Co because I will file a suit to get this dangerous drug off the market. Yasmin/Yaz almost took my life in January 08. My OB/GYN put me on Yaz in Oct 07 for bad periods and cysts on my overies. Within a month my entire personality changed and I started losing my hair. I experienced a complete loss of sex drive, became depressed and was either constanting crying or raging at someone. However, my adult acne did clear up. On 1/27/08 I experienced extreme pain in my calf that moved up to my thigh within 48 hrs. I went to the ER and was told that no only did I a condition called DVT (Deep Vein Thrombisis-blood clot) in my leg but that the clot had broken off and moved into both of my lungs and I had bi-lateral pulmonary embolism. I can't even describe how incredibly painful this was. I was admitted into the hospital for 1 week and was put on powerful blood thinners, which I will be on for about a year. It's now been nearly 6 months since I was diagnosed and the DVT and it is still in my uppper thigh. But am grateful to be alive. If you would like to contact me I would be glad to answer any questions regarding this situation and my email addy is ****** PLEASE DO NOT TAKE YAZ OR YASMIN OR LET ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY TAKE THIS MED, IT COULD KILL YOU.

Hello! I'm 27 and I've been taking Yasmin for probably 7 years and never had a single problem. My weight stayed the same, my periods got VERY regular, to the DAY, and things were ok.

Starting about 3 months ago I was on my honeymoon and decided to skip my period that month which I do a few times a year and Yasmin never let me down! Anyways my period came anyways and not only that, but I spotted an extra week after! It was most noticable in the mornings after having sex. It was just brown and yucky. Then I didn't have a period the next month, only 24 hours of brown and this month I had a regular one. On top of that I've suddenly gained 5 pounds without changing ANYTHING. I wonder, can Yasmin suddenly screw me up so many years after I started taking it? I hear horror stories about Yasmin but I only see it from women taking it for a few months or maybe a year? It was always so good to me. What's going on? The weight gain terrifies me too because I so easily gain weight and I've been trying so hard to eat well and I feel like it's been pointless. It ticks me off more because I have to pay $50 a month for Yasmin even AFTER insurance pays 15, and now I think it's messing my body up too.

I have a OBGYN appointment in a few weeks and I'm going to talk to her about it and see about getting on a new pill anyways for price reasons, but do you think all these weird sudden symptoms are from Yasmin? Can you recommend a pill? I can't afford to gain anymore weight. I just can't...

i am on my second pack of Yasmin. In the beginning,i got really sick to my stomach, probably because my body was getting used to the pill. As soon as i began the week of sugar pills, i had terrible headaches on one side of my head. the headaches lasted about a week, and by the end of it, i was ready to lose my mind. now, today,i woke up and began feeling very dizzy and numb all over my body.after a few minutes my vision was fading until it got to the point where all i could see was outlines of things. Everything looked like a picture with really high contrast.i looked at my mom and her face was bright white with black detailing. it was really weird. i also noticed a sort of white glow all over everything. i was so terrified. i am not the type of person who ever faints or anything, so this was really odd. it went away after about 5 minutes, but it was so scary that it felt like an hour had passed. I'm not 100% sure if this is caused by Yasmin, but i haven't done anything different that would make this happen to me. i am going to the doctors, but in the mean time, i'm going to stop taking the pill. please let me know if anyone else has had an experience like this

you can't seriously think you got PCOS from taking Yasmin. PCOS is a syndrome, and taking the pill is used as one of the treatments for it.
One of the possibilities is the it is genetic, and it can be caused by insulin resistance or problems in your adrenal gland. You can't possibly get PCOS from taking yasmin. And PCOS does in fact increase the risk for cervical cancer, cardiovascular disease, and Diabetes, but has nothing to do with taking the pill or not.

Hi ,
I am 16 years old and I'm taking Yasmin for a month without my mom knowing it.
She just found out that I was taking it so she got really pissed off .
And I hate to see her like that because it makes me really sad.
The first week I hadn't have any side effects but after reading all this it makes me scared.
Does it depend on the person or does it takes time to develop these side effects ?
PLEASE I NEED A REPLY ASAP !! :)
Because I need to know if I should stop it...

I took Yasmin for 2 years and about 6 months after starting Yasmin I started getting migraines at least 3 x per week and sometimes 5 x per week (before not even really getting many normal headaches). I thought it might be my birth control and saw my OB who referred me to a Neurologist who put me on a medicine for migraines. About another 5 months later I noticed I had a small bald spot in my hair line. Saw a Dermatologist who diagnosed it is alopecia. I immediately stopped Yasmin and migraine meds and decided to get an IUD (GREAT CHOICE!) My migraines stopped almost immediately, however my hair loss continues to progress. I now have 3 additionally bald spots on my head and areas on my scalp that are very thin. I feel great otherwise, no headaches, no depression (other than losing my hair), no anxiety, appetite is normal. I'm so desperate to find someone else that has had this specific problem as no one believes the hair loss is connected to Yasmin. I just pray after awhile the hair will grow back. Please if anyone has experienced this same situation please post what might have helped you get through it and if it does ease up! One more thing - I have scalp pain, like burning on the front and top and back part of my scalp, wide spread, not only in the bald areas.

Like within the first couple of weeks taking it I started to cry about anything, my boyfriend would hang up the phone weird and I would start crying my eyes out cause I thought he hated me and like any little comment would make me cry. It also made me break out a little bit, and I cant have that. Oh and my mom was reading this book and Yasmin is one of the 181 do not use pills, cause it causes a serious rise in your potassium level. I am finishing this pack, which is my second and I am going to start taking Ortho-Tri-Cyclen.

Oh my....I thought I was having a heart attack or something!!! I had no idea that this stupid pill was doing all of this, when I found this page and read through a few of them I was so relieved!!!!!! I have not been on Yasmin very long I started in October and I hadn't even went through my second pack. I stopped taking the pill today because I started these chest pains a few days ago and I told my mom about them tonight it really scared me.So I called and told her and she looked it up and told me so I looked it up and found this page. My side effects didn't start happening until recently I have had pains through out my whole body, chest pains, back pains, stomach pains, leg, arm, etc., I am tired all the time and depression is starting and I have never had that. I thought my tiredness was just from having a two year old but I now know that it should not make me feel like this I am only 19 years old and will never take this stupid pill again or recommend it to any one thanks to all that made me see it was really Yasmin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took Yaz for 7 days. In that amount of time, I began experience the most horrific symptoms I have experienced in my life. They included: chest pains, nausea, vomiting, arm pain, and the feeling of imminent death (these caused me to go to the emergency room since they are classic heart attack symptoms for a woman); leg and arm weakness; lethargy; migrane; panic attacks; severe insomnia, diarrhea, and vision problems that caused my contact lens perscription to change and night time vision had profound halos when driving, etc. I was literally unable to stomach any normal food portions I was so nauseous. I normally run 3 miles and could not even make it to the gym for weeks. I was afraid to stay home alone with my 4 year-old and 17 month-old for fear something would happen to me while they were in my care. At the ER they found low potassium levels (which makes no sense given Yaz has a potassium sparring diuretic component). In another blood test, I had elevated iron, which I have never had previously.

I am 35 and have been on bcp's periodically for 12-15 years. I have never had any of these symptoms prior to this experience. I have never had anxiety, depression, or any other underlying health condition. I immediately stopped taking the pills once I made the connection. So far, my recovery has been slow, but at least it is improving. I resent that my ob/gyn and internist both said that the pill would be out of my system in 24 hours. The effects are clearly long lasting (I am approximately 7 weeks off of Yaz).

Finally, my eye doctor, of all people, said that he has seen and heard of people having problems similar to mine and that it was understandable that I would have anxiety when I felt like I was dying from a heart attack. No one perscribing this medication bothered to tell me of the diuretic component or any component that was going to affect depression. I am attorney and have always thrived under pressure, not turned into a panic attack ridden mess like this medication caused.

As for the previous post who stated these are common symptoms described by women, at 35, I know the difference between my normal body function and the hell that began when I started taking Yaz. Unless you have experienced this, then you clearly would not understand. I appreciate that Yaz and Yasmin have worked well for some, but that clearly has not been my personal experience. So, I write this not to discourage someone who has had a positive experience, but to provide support for anyone else who has suffered like I have.

i'm 21 and have taken Yasmin since i was 15 to control horrible horrible cramps. i have been so pleased with the Yasmin, it totally made my cramping go down a lot. i stopped taking the pill in june when my insurance stopped covering it. i also wanted to see if my cramps had changed at all while i was off. so i've been off the pill for about 4 months and for the past 3 weeks i've had these weird red spots on my scalp (kind of like pimples - but my scalp has never been oily). i've changed all my hair products and they wont go away. my mom suggested maybe it was hormone related. has anyone else had symptoms like this coming off the pill? or ever?

Hello,

I read about how YAZ birth control pill affects the body and psych and I am now scared. This is my 2nd day of YAZ (I've never been on birth control pills ever and I am 27 years old), it's all new to me but after reading all these negative posts about Yaz I don't know what to do. Before the birth control pills, I was depressed, annoying, serious weight problems - 210 lbs :~~((, low energy, low libido, always tired, terrible migraines every 2nd day, ridiculously increased appetite and excessive hunger, hair where it shouldn't be, menstrual blood clots, excessive cramping etc
I have all these problems for 3 years now and now that the family doc. put me on YAZ birth control pill I am even more scared - mainly of more weight gain, it would be a tragedy for me, I am fat enough already and what's worse I can't lose the weight, exercise doesn't help, diet doesn't help, NOTHING. Will YAZ birth control pill worsen my already tragic condition? I just don't know what to do and what to believe ... I appreciate any advice or help you can give me ... Thank You to all!

I've been on Yasmin for about a year now and over the last 6 months I noticed small brown patches forming on my face. I though they were age spots cause I'll be 30 in a few weeks. I always wear makeup and it has SPF in it so I know it's not from the sun. I just spent a week at the shore and though maybe when I get tan the spots will belnd in. To my suprise my face is destroyed. I look as if I had a very dark tan and now my face haswhere the spots are and nothing on the rest of my face. I am so upset cause I take really good care of my skin and Yasmin has stopped my face from breaking out completely. I do have 4 children that are 10 years, 8 years (twins) and 5 my mom though my hormones were messed up from having them so close at a young age. I also have experience severe headaches but they have been something I had before the Yasmin. I just don't know what to do or what to change to.

I came to this website because my period came on ealry this month, it was on time last month, but i was late in May. So I am really confused. But then I satart reading these other girls side effects with YAzmin and realize that we are all in the same boat. I dont like to leave the house except to go to work, I have even been distant and pissy with my boyfriend. Ive snapped on people, and I do have a quick temper, but I dont snap that quick. And also my libido has been weird, sometimes I have to sike myself to get interested, and sex with my man has always been off the chain. I appreciate you all sharing your experiences. I kept a log of whats been going on with me, I also experienced a little breakouts, but hen my skin has been really dry. And I gained alot of weight within that first month, which is not normal for me. I had to drastical eat like a rabbit just to get the weigh back off because exercise alone was just not doing it, and if you ask my friends, I was always a picky eater from the beginning. My mom has talked to me about the IUD (inter uterine device) and it is completely hormone free, and 99.9% effective. I think I may go that route.

I took this pill for 2 years. Soon after starting I became severely depressed. I was hospitalized for depression twice while on this drug, and began self mutilating. My mom heard from a coworker that Yasmin causes depression, and she took me off the drug. Within two weeks I felt better. And I'm trying to get my life back on track. I am happier now than I can ever remember being. Now, even at my lowest points, I am still happier than I was for the two years I was taking Yasmin. I went from being an honor roll student, and now I am barely graduating. Please, if you are experiencing depression after taking this pill, take yourself off of it. Nothing is worth feeling like that.

My daughter is 19 and has been on yasmin since 16 for heavy periods and pain in the last year she has experienced severe kidney pain and horrible mood swings all blood work, ultrasound and catscans show nothing...neddless to say we are at our wits end the only thing i can keep going back to is this yasmin with dsrp. is any one else out their having kidney or liver problems or unexplained renal back pain? Help!!! anything at this point would benefit my research.

Concerned Mom in the south

Hi Ladies,

I am stunned by everything I have read on this site. I am crying as I read each posting. I felt like I have been completely alone and adrift with some of the same symptoms.

I have been on Yaz for approximately 6 months and I am not sure what to do. I am irrational, at times scared and inconsolable and overly emotional. I cry and take offense at the smallest thing my boyfriend or anyone says. My personality has done a 180 since I started Yaz. I have always been a happy, loving, outgoing person.

Last night was the last straw. I had a panic attack during a disagreement with my boyfriend - which I escalated. My outrageous behavior has isolated me from my boyfriend and my family. Everyone around me is confused and not sure how to help me. At this point, I don't think I can salvage my relationship with my boyfriend. My Mom is begging me to stop taking Yaz. Is it safe to just stop taking it, or will I continue to spiral?

Any advice you can provide would be helpful.

KCK

Silke

We are here to support eachother and thats totally what I want to do just hard for me I still feel weird my daughter is so sad and my mom is so frustrated.

I want to be well thats all

Dont know how to do it I have always been the picture of great health

Hi

Just re reading old posts gosh somany poor women on here

Does anyone have any clue how long till we feel better regardless if your on anti anxiety pills or not???

Dejays therapist and doctor said if your on anti depressants about 3 months if your not it will take about a year???

Does anyone have insight??

I need to be normal and work again havnt worked in a month

I need to be a mom again to my teenage daughter.

What is the deal???
Iam debating whether to stay on the pill or go off unsure what to do????? Lexapro iam referring to

Hi Sarah

I was hoping the Lexapro would reduce the anxiety and the tingling would diminish no such luck yet. Iam only taking 1/2 tab oLexapro each day low dose so Iam only on pill 5 maybe its too soon Dejay felt back to normal on her 3rd week Iamon my 2nd and running out of patience

I was at the earlymenopause.com site and i have alot of the symptoms there although my hormone levels are as I said where they were a year ago so Iam all confused on whats causing my symptoms

Is it the anxiety is it the hormonesI dont know
If my hormone levels are low but what they were a year ago and a year ago I didnt have this than I attribute it to anxiety

Which Iam waiting for the Lexapro to get rid of

So furstrating!!!!!!!!!
I need to work be a mom a daughter live my life

I took Yaz for 3 weeks and Iam not 7 weeks later and still a mess

RN

Thnaks so much its tough I just went to the Walgreens with my mom and got lightheaed and anxiety what is it. I never use to feel this way. The anxiety is horrible!!

When is it going to stop??

I just get scared it will never stop I know all of you said it does but its scary I dont look like myself when I look in the mirror I dont feel like me anymore where did I go how could being on a pill for 3 weeks do this to someone. I was only on it for 3 weeks and off of it now for 5 weeks.

No I dont live in Arizona Dejay does.
I live in Florida.

Iam drinking a ton of water walkiing trying to work trying to get out
I just want my life back

Iam so sad your letter made me cry but in a good way

I just want to be well again
I goout than I feel bad again I have a good day than one or two bad

I cant be a daughter cant be a mom I cant work Iam going to lose my job my house my car my life.

No one around me understands just Dejay and you guys.
i feel like Iam living in a nightmare and cant get out.
I feel like I was thrown into full blown menopause and cant control it.

Yes I think the progesterone is good its natural but what you said makes sense me tooIam afraid but than iam desperate. Dejay told me not to take the progesterone until I get my bloodwork back on my progesterone levels. I dont know what to do nothing helps

I want to be best friends with my daughter again and go shopping and laugh and have fun

Its not fair.

Iam so sad
Everything I try doesnt help

hello

I'm 18 and Yasmin WAS my first BCP ever. It's not anymore...I took the first 3 weeks of the yellow active pills and started my mom and boyfriend started to notice a change in me. I all of sudden have panic/anxiety attacks about a volcanoe, fatigue, upset stomach, numbness in my arms, sick, vomiting, I don't want to be alone, I get nervous when it get's dark. I rock back and forth, I just stare at one spot, I all of a sudden don't want to take care of my baby. I would give her to my mom a lot. I thought I was going crazy until my mom found this page for me a few days ago. Since then I stopped taking Yasmin. My symptoms are starting to lessen. Saturday will be a week since I have taken a yellow pill. My Panic attacks have lessened but are not yet gone. My other symptoms are still here and probably will be for about 2 weeks (I've read that on other womens stories). I can't stand the panic attacks..I do not like volcanoes they do scare me, when I saw this show a few weeks ago about a volcanoe under Yellowstone National Park I started to get nervous about it, until eventually I had panic attacks about it...I don't get why though....then I find this page and it all makes sense. See I knew the volcanoe was there, but I never freaked out like this until I got the Yasmin in my body and system, since then all hell broke loose!!

If anyone knows a way and wants to get the word out about Yasmin let me know, I will gladly help. It's not a fun pill and I hate to think that there are women who are being prescibed it. I'm afraid my GYN is going to say that it's not the pill when it is. Your stories help support me and get me through this. I know it will all soon be over...that's all I can say to all of those who are going through it as well...it will all be over soon.

Hello,

I'm 18 and Yasmin was my first birth control ever. I took the first 3 weeks of the yellow active pills, and started having all these symptoms that I have never had before: panic/ anxiety attacks about a volcanoe erupting, fatigue, sick, upset stomach, vomiting, numbness in my arms, I don't like to be alone, I panic when it starts to get dark, I have a month and a half old baby that I sometimes just don't want to take care of so I give her to my mom. I have never been this way before. My mom and boyfriend noticed a change in me so my mom got online and found this web page for me. I'm so glad she did because I thought I was going crazy for a while. I was on my 3 white pill when I quit taking it. Saturday will be a week since I have put anymore actual hormones in my body. I am scared to death of any other bcp and I really don't want to talk to my doctor about it because I know he will just say that it's not the pill...but it is!!! After reading other womens stories I feel much better. I'm not the only one. I've started to feel a little better lately, just today my panic/anxiety attacks have not been so severe. For a while I wanted to cry when I got them, I just wanted to die. I would stand and be rocking back and forth, I would just stare at one spot. Please keep posting your stories. It's what really gives me support and gets me through this.
If anyone knows a way to get this pill off the market let me know...I will help. I really hate to think that other women may have this happen to them. I believe it's the drsp hormone that does this to me...it's awful!!

Hello,

I have only been on Yasmin for 1 month, and already have some of the same side effects. Lately, I have started to have small panic attacks, I've never had them before. I started to freak out about volcanoes. I've always hated them, but since on Yasmin I panic about them a lot. My mom has noticed that I am sleeping a lot lately. I have no hunger, I am nauseated and vominting. My mom also told me that she believes my panic attacks about volcanoes are from Yasmin, as do I. My boyfriend is worried about me because I seem down a lot. I haven't had a sex drive either. I wake up everynight dying from thrist. I'm not only calling my doctor and getting off this stupid pill, but I'm never taking it again. I will not recommend this pill to anyone, actually I will try to discourage them from it.

two girls mom...I have the same thing, except mine only happens when I wake up first thing in the morning. do you have it other times during the day too and did you have it before going on the effexor? I'm not on any medication, just a small .25mg of clonazepam every night...my doctor said it could be that my hormones are extra sensitive to my body's "wake up chemicals"...also has anyone noticed that after going off yasmin your sleep cycle is different? I wake up every morning now between 7 and 8 am...I'm a college student and used to sleep till 11 or 12 on the weekends.

im so glad i found this page. i wasnt sure if my extreme mood swings and short-temper could be from birth control. i originally started out taking the patch for about 8 months (i was 17) and then my mom told me about its recall. i asked my doctor and he said it was nothing, but i insisted that i change my prescription. i have been on yasmin for about 6 months and the first few months were fine, then i started to get cramps and EXTREME depression. i would cry so easily and i would start to shake, and id cry so hard that i couldnt breathe. i honestly thought i was going insane. im so glad to find out that i was not the only one. i noticed that some people mentioned hair loss and dandruff....i havent noticed any hair loss but i have had a lot of dandruff.

Hi Two Girls Mom what are brain zaps? Towards the end of being on it, I would be talking and mid sentence I would completely forget what I was talking about. Just wondering if that's the same thing?

To all of the other ladies out there, if you gained weight, how long did it take to lose it? I gained about 30 lbs in 3 months. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Just wondering if I'm going to now be fat forever or if it will go away. I'm doing Yoga 3 hrs. a week and running or walking 2-3 times.

Thanks,
Hill

Dear two girls mom,

just a thought has effexor got any side effects, just that my girlfriend was on it and got a little ill and i certainly do not want you to go through any unnecessary pain

Lisa

Hello reading a few pages seriously thinking of getting of Yasmin pill I just started taking for a half of month. I am also on a compounded thyroid medicine and I started taking Yasmine and I am having stabbing pains in my chest can birth control combined with thyroid meds cause this does anyone know?. My mom thinks I should get off them and see if it goes away, but my skin is starting to look great so I am a bit disappointed I guess I could try not taking them and see what happens if the chest pains go away. If any one has any advice let me know.

DEAR TWO GIRL MOM,

COngrats you have made it through period 1, just remember thats the beginning of the end, it was hard I KNOW, its was STRESSY i know and the palps were horrible , been there eah month also but you are 1 period closer to being rid of all the bad things yasmin has done.
I too stopped the pill and restarted it i was on it for 2yrs went off and had mirena inserted for 1 month ( pure hell) and then restarted the pill for 3 months before i found this haven of yasmin sufferers.
remember the anxiety and everything is always worse when youre period is due , just after and ovulation so maybe take that into account and you made not need the paxil as high in the inbetween of your cycle ( just a thought) .
My BP is that also if that makes you feel any better and the lighthead i had also for first 3months really bad with the blurred vision.
YOU WILL GET THERE. STAY STRONG

Lisa

hi kelly,
saw my dingbat md thursday about my left leg.he said my knee is shot because i'm obese.he wants me to take 12 tylenol 500mg a day for 6 months & an x-ray before he would send me to a bone dr.my knee has never given me any problems.i did see on the news that to much tylenol can cause liver damage i only take 3 tylenol 325mg a week when i can't take the pain.i'm going to see my mom's dr next month to see what he says.
take care thank you for all your help
michellep

Dear Two Girls mom

I remember the blurry vision being realy bad first 3 months its settled a bit now but as SILKE said to be its worse around stress and being this your first period then thats also a factor.
Let me know the bp results, h9ow are you feeling otherwise.
The anxiety is always bad around period time i found so maybe thats a time to take perhaps something herbal eg chamomile tea or something to relax you so you are relying on a natural helper. DOnt get me wrong i totallyunderstand why you are on the paxil and zanax as im sure anyone here would i just dont want to see you go through another type of withdrawal thats all. I understand having kids and going through this is HELL i have 3 ages 10,7 and 2 so im there with you but battling it out each month now is gonna save you later i assure you....
You will get there and just like the others were there for me im here for you..........
Lisa

Dear SILKE AND CHRISSY,

have you had any blood tests done since being off yasmin eg cholestrol etc , after a extended time especially you Silke as its been a year ( congrats on that).
Silke also you said you blood perssure is st8ill up a little do you measure that yoursef or by doctor and do you need to take any meds for that.
TWO GIRLS MOM, how are you, you can guess know that the pals and anxiety are period related and it will ease as your cycle goes on. My first two months were really realy hard but its getting better coming into my 4th month could never have made it without the girls here, also how did you go with the bp monitor ???

Big Hugs
Lisa

Dear two girls mom,

very very normal almost every post i ever read said the anxiety and palps were bad around ovulation and period. I am 4mths off yasmin and am due for my period any day and have them also and i posted the other day to see if others still got them the same way.
stay strong
lisa

thanks kelly,
i would switch dr's but not many are taken new people.i like my mom's dr but he's always booked.i will be calling my gyn office up on monday to found out my test results.i've been thinking i should go see an eye dr to make sure nothing happened to my eyes.my gyn dr never told me about the blood clots if he did i would've thought twice before taken any.
i know the er has to treat me fed law but a nurse 1 time treated me so bad i signed myself out without seeing a dr yet i got a 533.00 dollars bill for the er dr.
i'll keep you posted
take care
michellep

i am never going to take bc again, my husband is going to get the vas. i just want to feel normal, i cant stand the anxiety, it consumes me and makes me feel crazy, i had to cancel my little guys 2 year old bday party today because i cant handle it. as a mom i feel i have let my kids down, yesterday was good i took my paxil and a xanax and i was calm then 1:30 in the morning i wake up to it terrible anxiety i hate that i ever took yasmin i have never been this way in my life tank god for this site i know i am not alone

Dear two girls mom,

ur welcome.
have you thought about relaxation tapes also chamomile tea helps a lot. u are detoxing and it will get better. Which country do you live in??? I am in australia and mirena is free ...a joke really when you think of the side effects although yasmin is really expensive here.
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big hugs
lisa

two girls mom and everyone
i felt embarassed to be on paxil but realize i need it to get me back to normal.the first two days i took it i made myself sick just thinking about taking the pill, today i could not wait to take it because i want to get well, we have kids we need to be there for, mine are 5 and 2 we proably will not have to be on it for life, our hormones need to be regulated. i found an all natural anxiety supplement its called Seredyn you can look it up online at Seredyn.com its by bioneurix corp i ordered it, i also drink a Natural calm drink by peter gillhams and yerba mate organic greentea we need calcium and magnesium to stay calm and vitamin b is also very important it helps the nearvous system my mom and sister are health food nuts hand in there

two girls mom

have u seen the side effects from MIRENA i had it 6months ago without even knowing what yasmin had done to me and had to have it removed after 3weeks, it wsa horrendous to say the least and guess what it made me feel worse than yasmin and beofre i put two and two together and realised that yasmin was doing what it did to me i went back on the yasmin and hence i found this site (THANK GOD) and knew i was not going crazy i was normal. Mirena is made from the same drug company as yasmin

Lisa

Dear Two girls mom,

STAY STRONG.... I have been off the yasmin since nov 9 2005 and let me tell you the first 2 months were just like you have described, i thought i was going to die, is has started to get better although i had horrible headache and anxiety and depressed on day 4 off my period this month it was not like the other months that it consumed my entire life.
it is hard i know and you feel like its never going to get better and i am still struggling with high bp thanks to the pill but its gotta get better, i just look at all the people like silke,chrissy,and shelly who continually post and that gets me through, they are longer than us and they are surviving and are getting better so can we....
YOU WILL GET THERE, deep breaths,a natural relaxant ad magnesium help with the palpitations...
good luck
lisa

twogirls mom, denise and everyone,
I also feel very embarassed my family and husband are taking care of my boys. Last night i had a similar experience. yesterday i was good went outside, played with the kids, was able to figt off the anxious feeling. by 3:00 we went for a ride and the anxiety and panic started when it comes it does not leave i took a half of xanax my mom came over cried to her when i get like this i feel like i am crazy i only slept for two hours and was up for the rest of the night fighting off panic and anxiety went for a walk in the morning and took a whole xanax feel spacy but better, walks help , dont know how i will go back to work i cant eat my stomach is in a knott

I have been on yasmin for about 8 months. I have had a hard year and I associated my depression, anxiety, IBS, and insomnia to that. When I first went on yasmin my mom who is an RN advised me there were no serious long term side effects related to yasmin. When I had my first anxiety attach it was after being on Yasmin for 1 month. I never though it could be related to my B/C. I have developed IBS, which causes horrible cramping, gas, diarrhea, and anxiety over "where the next bathroom is." This has really ruinned my life and has cause me to give up everything I enjoy. Please if anyone else has had stomach trouble please let me know, I will go off asap!!!

Denise-
I agree that our kids deserve a happy and energetic mom without anxiety. I have not been myself since I started Yasmin. I finished my last pack on Sat.
Today I went to the psychologist who AGREED that my symptoms most likely were from the Yasmin! My reg. doc gave me Paxil and Xanax. I am already feeling a little better so I am going to hold off on the Paxil and see how I am doing. I take a low dose of Xanax as needed.
Take care of yourself and I hope that you are feeling alot better soon.

My mom took yasmin for only 2 months and she has been having NIGHTMARES,HAS TO GO TO THE BATHROOM 2 OR MORE TIMES A NIGHT,HEART SKIPIN' BEETS, AND COUNTLESS MORE SIDEFFECTS!SHE HAS ALSO BEEN SUISIDAL.SHE DIDNT KNOW IT WAS YASMIN ONTILL MY SISTER CAME AND FOUND THE BOX AND TOLD HER THAT HER FRIEND TOOK YASMIN AND IT WAS AFUL! Im surprised YASMIN is still on the shelf! anyway,....DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!

Hi -- I've been posting on this site for awhile, but I had to switch my user name for some reason, it used to be HoovieDoo. Anyway, I am so frustrated with this pill! It's been almost 7 months (next week) that I've been taking it. And the last period that I had was so horrible I thought I was really going to pass out. Right now I'm supposed to be on my period but it's not here! And, I've had a vaginal infection all month, thanks to Yasmin, so I haven't had intercourse = not pregnant.

What really irritates me is that my mom went to her Gyno, and her gyno's nurse practioner is who I see -- but she went to her Gyno with some questions and concerns I had, all he did was tell her all of my side effects were stress related and gave her another, DIFFERENT kind of pill to 'try' for me. I am so frustrated by this it's not even cool. I've tried to have a positive attitude this whole time because I don't want this pill to get the best of me. I'm not sure what to do because my body is, unfortunately, used to Yasmin now, and I don't particularly want to change again. Her gyno also told her he doesn't advise IUD's for women who haven't had children :( hmm... I'm just frustrated.

As for the ladies that are dealing with weight gain after getting off the pill -- I am afraid of the same thing happening to me, as I did not gain, but lose weight while taking Yasmin, I'm not losing anymore, it has leveled off. However, as words of encouragement, it is probably just the change in horomones or it could be water weight, remember that it is a diretic, so now you're body is retaining the water that was once lost -- which will cause 5-10lb weight gain on some days. I don't know, but I know what its like to gain weight quickly and in unwanted places! This happened with me and Alesse & Levlite & Aviane.

Sorry for all the complaining. I needed to get it off my chest and I know my boyfriend, friends, and mom are tired of hearing me complain about how frustrated I am :) I guess it doesn't seem as bad typing. Feel free to email me and we'll chat about all of this crazy mess {******}

Have a good one ~ Aaron

UPDATE OF GYN APPT AFTER STOPPING YASMIN!!

Well, I had my GYN visit today. I told her about the symptoms I have been having since I stopped Yasmin 7 weeks ago- hair loss, dry skin, hair growth (on chin and chest), increased acne, no period, etc. She says that I just have anxiety which is causing my hair to fall out. She says that stopping the pill doesn't cause hair loss and being on the pill should not have caused the amount of anxiety I have. When I told her that while on yasmin my blood pressure, cholesterol and heart rate had increased she said nothing. When I told her that I had muscle aches which another doctor attributed to my potassium being low while on Yasmin (the most common side effect due to the diuretuc), she said nothing. When I told her I stomach problems, urinary problems, chest pains and numbness, she just kept going back to anxiety. How can anxiety cause hair to fall out from my head and grow everywhere else? I cried for almost an hour after my appt. For once my mom, sensed my frustration. After a lot of persuasion, she agreed to run hormone tests to check my testosterone and DHEA. Well, I had my GYN visit today. I told her about the symptoms I have been having since I stopped Yasmin 7 weeks ago- hair loss, dry skin, hair growth (on chin and chest), increased acne, no period, etc. She says that I just have anxiety which is causing my hair to fall out. She says that stopping the pill doesn't cause hair loss and being on the pill should not have caused the amount of anxiety I have. When I told her that while on yasmin my blood pressure, cholesterol and heart rate had increased she said nothing. When I told her that my potassium was low while on Yasmin (the most common side effect due to the diuretuc), she said nothing. She just kept going back to anxiety. How can anxiety cause hair to fall out from my head and grow everywhere else? I cried for almost an hour after my appt. For once my mom, sensed my frustration. After a lot of persuasion, she agreed to run hormone tests to check my testosterone and DHEA. But she siad that if they were normal, then nothing was wrong and I should see a therapist. Well, I had my GYN visit today. I told her about the symptoms I have been having since I stopped Yasmin 7 weeks ago- hair loss, dry skin, hair growth (on chin and chest), increased acne, no period, etc. She says that I just have anxiety which is causing my hair to fall out. She says that stopping the pill doesn't cause hair loss and being on the pill should not have caused the amount of anxiety I have. When I told her that while on yasmin my blood pressure, cholesterol and heart rate had increased she said nothing. When I told her that my potassium was low while on Yasmin (the most common side effect due to the diuretuc), she said nothing. She just kept going back to anxiety. How can anxiety cause hair to fall out from my head and grow everywhere else? After a lot of persuasion, she agreed to run hormone tests to check my testosterone and DHEA. But she siad that if they were normal, then nothing was wrong and I should see a therapist. She refused to believe that any of my problems could have been caused from being on Yasmin. I cried for an hour after my appt and couldn't return to work. Am I really just crazy???