Yasmin and scary stuff

I started on Yasmin a year ago because I believed the TV advertising. I had no noticeable side effects for several months, then began heart palpitations, anxiety attacks in the middle of the night, crying for no reason, severe headaches, and my blood pressure, which has always been low, skyrocketed to as high as 160/130. I asked my gyn if Yasmin could be the cause and he said maybe, so I took myself off it. I had to go on blood pressure medication, but I'm hopeful that after that poison pill is out of my system I can get off the meds. The doctor's office called yesterday to say my cholesterol was so high they wanted me to go on medication for that. I last had cholesterol checked in Nov, and it was fine. I've been off yasmin for two weeks and already feel more hopeful and less anxious.

Warning: I'm a healthy 22 year old (non-smoker) and my doctors are worried about a pulmonary embolism. My anxiety has sky rocketed after reading up on what a pulmonary embolism was. This is scary stuff and its all caused by this pill.
DON'T TAKE YASMIN!!!

Thank god for the internet-I don't know what I would have done if I had to feel the way I did from taking Yasmin any longer without knowing why. I took Yasmin for two months. In the third week of my second month I suffered from severe anxiety and panic attacks along with irrational fears and obsessing on random thoughts that wouldn't normally bother me. When I would somewhat calm down, I would then feel so depresses because I didn't know why I just couldn't go back to feeling like myself. I am a worry-er, I admit, but never to this extreme. I was so nervous, I had no appetite and the anxiety really began to take its toll on me physically. Now that I look back on it, I was more nervous than usual in my first month, I have lost my sex drive, I have had small dizzy spells and blurred vision, random pains in my left lower abdomen area, but I never put these all together. When I found not only this website, but tons others with women writing about all of these side effects, I already started feeling like myself again. It's been 4 days off the pill and I still get a little anxious, but nothing like it was last week. I can't wait for this stuff to get out of my system. I did take the pill at 7:45 every night and I do notice I'm more nervous in the morning when I get up and by late afternoon, I start to relax and feel more like myself. Synthetic hormones are not natural and I really feel like we shouldn't put this stuff in our bodies. We are messing with scary stuff. God only knows what would have happened if I had to endure any more of that physical and mental pain!

sabresgirl123, I had the same problem where my BP escalated to 140/110 after being on and off Yasmin for 12 months total (on for 8, off for 1, on for 4). It was so frightning to have my BP go so far up the scale and I had a panic/anxiety attack, which hit me in 12/05. The Yasmin caused me severe side effects. I am not going to ever take another BCP/hormone/Mirena etc.... I can't risk it. I had leg cramps and all kinds of scary stuff.
I am now on 37.5mg of Effexor XR to counteract the anxiety and hopefully rebalance my brain chemistry.
I have been posting here for several months and found it very helpful. I hope that you will keep us posted. Stay well.

Hi,
I just want to share, I also have extreme headaches, bloating, breast inlargement, lose of sex drive. Due to heavy periods my doc. put me on yasmin. I told her of all my side effects, she now has be on another birth control. I just rather not, It is not worth. I have no energy anymore. When I first started taking the pill, I felt like I had the flu, nausea. I had to start taking the pill in the evening cause my stomach could not handle it. I am on my fourth month of taking the pill, my husband & I feel its just best to go off, and let your body be natural. This is some scary stuff, I wish I would of done some research first before messing up my body.

This website is unbelievable godsend. I am in my 2nd cycle of taking Yasmin and the first was nothing compared to this one. This whole month I've been a lunatic with mood swings, suspiciousness and crying jaggs. I thought I was becoming Bi-Polar. I got my actual period today and I'm in bad pain. Headhache, stomach and leg cramps, all over weakness and hot flashes. Scary stuff.

I will not finish the pack. I am going back to my old pill.

ok ok ok-i've put on loads of weight. But this week has been sheer hell . i have had a very dark bloody/brown discharge and i'm not supposed to be finishing my pack for another 4 days. This is scary stuff! PLease ..tell ma has ANYONE EVER HAD THIS DISCHARGE?