Yasmin and time of my life

I started taking Yasmin a month or so before I got married. I didn't notice too many side effects at that time (probably because I was stressed about the wedding plans) but the two months following my wedding day were terrible. I couldn't figure out why I was so unhappy. It should have been the happiest time of my life. I had so much anxiety and depression, and my poor new husband had to deal with it all! The worst part of all was that in those two months, I gained 25 pounds for no reason at all. I have been off the pill for another 2 months and have tried desperately to get the weight off. It's not going anywhere. I feel terrible about my body now.

The anxiety, depression, and mood swings are gone though... I will never go on a birth control pill again... Especially Yasmin.

Sorry to hear about everyone. It truly makes you think you are going crazy!

Yasmin basically ruined my life for the 6 months I was on it. I was 22 when I first started taking it, and for the first 4 months on it everything was great, then suddenly I started having extreme panic attacks - laying in bed shaking uncontrollably, my chest so tight that I felt like someone was sitting on me. Every other hour I felt like either crying or screaming or pulling my hair out. I started questioning everything in my life, including the great relationship I was in at the time. I was absolutely miserable to my boyfriend - either mean or crying for no reason. I had to miss work because I couldn't get out of bed because I couldn't stop crying in the morning. If I did go to work - I would have to run to the bathroom to cry. Eventually I ended up seeing a doctor and going on antidepressants. That didn't help either. Finally, I decided to take myself off of everything and just try to pull my life back together. It took about 4 months to get back to being myself. Needless to say, the boyfriend couldn't stick this one out, and quite frankly I don't blame him. Just a few days ago, I tried going on Yasmin again, thinking maybe it was just circumstantial last time - graduating college, new job etc. Literally, on day TWO of taking the pill, I felt all the symptoms come rushing back. I stopped the pill yesterday and feel pretty much normal again. PLEASE don't take this pill, and let anyone you know that's on it know how much this pill can ruin your life.

Hi ladies... I'm not surprised that you folks comprise most of the posting population considering the fact that this drug is prescribed to you. Well I'm quite interested in this drug and I do prescribe it to my patients however I am surprised at the magnitude of side effects listed here. I am based here in south-east Asia and I do prescribe Yasmin to my patients and I rarely here of these side effects. Perhaps this can be contributed to the fact that it (Yasmin) is available here under a different brand name however consists of the same chemical position. I am interested in the ones available in the U.S. Does anyone know how I may go about purchasing them. You can contact me personally on ****** thank you.

I started getting panic, palpitations, anxiety, bouts of crying, no sex drive, odd taste in my mouth. I only had the taste and lack of libido since early on but felt fine and than whammo the crying and palpitations and anxiety hit. I asked the doctor if it could be the Yasmin even tho id been on it for a while, i got the royal fob off and some lame comment about 'us girls doing funny things sometimes' whatever that means!!!!! It got worst, i couldnt stand to be in the college where id gotten the palpitations to start with so dropped out and i couldnt understand why, but i was cool to still work nearby the college, I had some odd behaviour tho, like i suddenly couldnt park on the ground level for fear of the levels collapsing, i was scared of dying, of freak events, of flying and i LOVED flying, the syptoms waxed and waned and then a few months lather while still having intermittent anxiety a stressful period popped up and that was it i was gone, worst time of my life, allergies, nauseus, paranoia, depression, nightmares, horrific mental images and distressing thoughts, suicidal thoughts. Crux of it was it sucked big time!!!! That was 3 years ago and im still trying to put myself back together! The original syptoms did get better with time but ive never been quite the same.

I started taking this crap when I first went to college. I hate that it ruined 2 years of my life. I am still struggling. I cant even explain to you the anxiety I had. In highschool I was so outgoing and I loved people and I had alot of friends. I didnt make one friend in college and I stayed Isolated, i even stayed away from my boyfriend. I put on weight. I then became OCD about losing it. I became anorexic and I was 20 lbs underweight. I got on anti-anxiety and anti-depressants. It was the worst time of my life. I hated everything and everyone. I got off yasmin before I knew about all of this. I feel better now. I still have my days but it is getting better. I WISH I COULD MURDER THE OBGYN THAT GAVE ME THIS SHIT. I hope the best for all of you, and if u dont want to be a crazy hag and lose all everyone that means something to you, i suggest you get off this pill.

Hi ipj!!

So you've experienced the "logic" of those gods in white with your magnesium levels too.... Here in Germany we have a sentence, that tells exactly how it is: "Two docs, three opinions..."!

I found another part of your post very interisting: You've said, that you went through a normal hormonal change in your late twenties, early thirties... Well, that's exactly where I am now (I'm 32) and my agony started in the age of 27!!! Well, and that was exactly the time where I started the Yasmin. I think that this was the biggest fault in my life, to start that poison and on top in such a "time of my life"...

I hear from many women in my age, who have different "problems" with their health which no one can really explain.... So I found it very interesting that your doc told you, that within that age a normal hormonal change is going on... Somewhat relieving for me!! (I'm going through very hard times again at the moment, 2 years OFF Yasmin!!)...

Something seems to be wrong with my thyroid which on top can bring the sexual hormones out of whack and so on... A really damn circle.... I hope I'll find a solution soon; had an appt. with an endocrinologist last Friday and got another bloodwork (hormones) done. I'll let you all know, when I have the results back...

Bitter RN,
I hope you did get my last 2 posts. They were pulled to the next site of the forum pretty quickly so I don't know if you had caught them... Thank you again for always trying to help!!

Dear ConcernedBoyfriend:
Well, I think everyone of us here can imagine what you and your girlfriend are going through right now... I felt and still feel so sorry for my husband, who had gone through this all with me (and has to do that now, after 2 years OFF Yasmin again...) and still thinks positive and is the only one, who keeps me going sometimes...

So I think the most important thing for your girlfriend is your love and care. First of all, please try to get her to STOP that poison thing immediately!! It makes me so angry to hear, what such young women have to go through because of this "wonder pill" from hell!!!! I think she has the chance to fell better much sooner than many of us here, because she's so young. Please, take the chance!!!

Who cares of a few pimples or oily skin, that's definitely not worth staying your whole life in such a constitution!! The pimples and oily skin and weight gain were my slightest problems within that agony... Some months I didn't care at all about how I might be looking... I just would have been thankful to be able to get out of my house again someday, even if I had a few pimples or such in my face... And before that nightmare I was such a health and look caring person (I've been a singer in a band for 15 years now....).

I hope your girlfriend will come to this site and see, what is doing all that to her and stop that thing asap!!! I wish you both all the best!!

Best wishes to all.

Silke

I have been taking Yasmin for about 3 months and I am getting married in less than 2 months. Along with having a 6 month old baby, I have been stressed to say the least. I have felt like I was loosing my mind in the past month or so. I've been so numb and all I can think is that this is suppose to be the happiest time of my life and I can't find joy in anything. I have no sex drive at all. This has made me rethink my upcoming marriage and basically my entire future. Thank god for this sight. I am not crazy, and I can stop beating myself up, over this.

I've been off Yasmin almost 7 months and had the same withdrawal symptoms: anxiety, panic, ocd in the form of completely irrational frightening thoughts. I thought it would never get better, but it has gotten much better with time. I never felt this way before yasmin and it has been the scariest time of my life. Now I only feel a bit of anxiety during my period and around ovulation. It is not near as severe as before. Good luck to all of you in Yasmin recovery. Remember, the thoughts are just thoughts, they're not real. Don't believe everything you think. It does get better--hang in there.

hi all

i went on yasmin about 14months ago 6 weeks after have my 2nd son .
well this is my story a very upsetting one for myself as all this time of my life i feel ive wasted and god knows how much more to recover .
well since being on yasmin ive been to see the doctors every 4-6weeks guarennteed where hes percribed me with quite a few courses of antibiotics over the 14months. Ive been admitted to hospital as i was getting so out of breath i couldnt even as much read a story to my son. well in the 3 days in hospital i had chest xrays and blood tests etc... all came back clear. i was sent home still no answer for the problem when that same night i was so bad again i had to go see my doctor where he said i might have a infection in my throat pipe or something so he gave me a course of anti biotics.
i thought these helped my loads until after my 7 day break and restarted the pill and it was happening again well this is what ive been suffering for 14months and over the past 6months ive really got bad
chest pains
vomiting
nausea
pains in breasts
numbness in left arm constantly, especially at night
hot flushes
alot of wind
my stomach feels so awful and painful as if i have always got wind very painful i been takin rennies to try and relive it but every day the same
it take me ages to sleep
i am aucusing my husband of alsorts*(especially looking and fancing other women)
paronoird (big time)
panic attacks
i carnt even go shopping anymore
scared of people
all this has been haunting me
i get so out of breath and im 22 years old
i feel like 100 sometimes.
well finally after all my workin out and nothing found, me and my husband decided that i should stop taking yasmin pill
which was on sunday 5th june 2005 i went to the outer hours surgery at the hospital and explained it all to the doc there on the sunday and he said stop takin and see what happens but i have a appointment with my doc tomorrow which is the 10th june see what he says .prob not much

5 days i have been off the pill now and im still getting pains in my chest and numbness of the arm but one thing is i have finally been smiling and laughing but i still get down and i am not myself. i just need to know how long if anyone is in the same boat will it take for me to get my normal happy self back i miss myself bigtime in the past 5 days have been alot better, but today i feel bad with the chest pains and feeling sick and numbness. i just am so glad i found this site on this as i did think i was going crazy myself. its not nice but now i know there alot more out there like me it makes me more confident knowing that one day i will be the old nicola again. i finally found out myself that it is the yasmin that has took away my life for all this time + time to recovery????
it has took away my first year with my son were i havent been able to enjoy him because of this took away my confidence everything especially the first year with my son .
please help anyone in same boat and please give me some advise thanks again good luck all nicola age 22