Yasmin and strange thoughts

Hey abs,

I KNOW it's not just you!!! Believe me!!! Your last post could have been written by me about 10 to 11 months ago!! I felt the same weird things without knowing how to go on any longer... There were days, where I really thought I'd go crazy with all that strange thoughts and fears and I also had doubts every day, if it's really all caused by Yasmin or if it's just me. And a few days I really thought it was just me. But now I know IT WASN'T just me!!!

And one thing I also remember is, that the only thing, which helped me through those hard days was reading the posts on this site or post here by myself. Without the help of those ladies here I wouldn't have gotten where I'm now, I swear!! They always kept telling me, that it WILL get better and all I need is TIME and PATIENCE. And they were so right!!!

So please, don't loose your faith (I know that might seem very hard in the situation you are now in!!!) and chin up!! I know you have the strength to get through this and become the person you have been before that Yasmin nightmare!!

Big hugs and god's bless!!

Silke

Hi Chrissy!!

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DEFINITELY YES!!! I had those weird feelings, too, and still do some times in a slighter way!!!

This was one of the worst symptoms during the very hard time being on Yasmin on December 2004 to around March 2005, when I felt like my life was about to end......

It felt as if anyone took my brain between his hands and shaked it!! Someone here in this forum described it as an "earthquake in the brain", and I think thats how it's described best. Did you mean such feelings??

Well, nearly a year ago that was so cruel, that I wasn't able to watch tv with sound (I always had to switch the sound off or put it to a very low level...) or listen to radio or any other noise around meor even reading anything especially read something on a pc screen, everything seemed to be too much to take for my brain... I had to sleep with some cotton wool in my ears because every slightest noise made me think, my brain was shaking and cramping!!

Well, I found out, that this maybe a symptom of that heavy loss of vitamines and minerals that's definitely caused by Yasmin, especially magnesium and b vitamines (do you say so in english???) is able to cause such weird symptoms, even anxiety and so on....

Well, it maybe worth a try to take some supplements against this. I'm taking some magnesium every few days and it seems to help with these feelings in my head and even with the anxiety and stressed out feelings.

To everybody out there suffering under or after Yasmin: Stay strong, a better year lies ahead!!

A very merry blessed Christmas and a healthy, happy and strong new year!!

Silke

PS: I'm going through very strange thoughts at the moment, because exactly on January, 1st 2005 in the morning I was taken to the ER, thinking I was about to die...... Not easy to forget all these shocks and hard times brought on by this wonder pill....