Yasmin and yahoo

HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS FROM YASMIN!
I am 21 and I have been on birth control pills for 4 years. I used to be on a generic low dose hormone birth control until i developed an ovarian cyst which the doctors told me was because of the low hormone. So now im on Yasmin and i have been on it for 2 months. So far i have gained 6 lbs ( i have weighed the same since 9th grade until now), and i eat healthy , my eating habits have not changed. I am also super moody , i feel depressed, can't sleep, constantly crying, me and my fiance are constantly fighting because of my mood swings. I also get horrible cramps during my period and i bleed about 11 days after i have just had my period. The side effects are awful and Im thinking about switching to Mirena because I cant handle this anymore. Hope my experience is helpful.

In 2006 at the age of 38 after 4 years on Yasmin I had a mini-stroke. I am writing a non-fiction memoir about my experience and am very interested in hearing from anyone who has had a bad experience with Yasmin (or indeed, any other hormonal contraceptive.) I invite you to have your story included in my book. I am particularly interested in incidences of blood clot and of course, stroke, plus any withdrawal symptoms experienced from the drug. Please email me at ****** including your full name, age, location, a brief gynecological history, and the main facts of your experience. Thanks!!

Hello my name is Tony.This so called Yasmin took my wife life last week June 27.2008..She is gone because of it..It must stop where is the Corporate world and stop the Madness My wife is dead because of this drug.And here is the sad news she was only 35 years old.. 36 on 08/10/08 and our 13years anniversary on 08/11/08 ..Please is there any class action lawsuits happening .please let me know ******

I have waited long enough to tell my story. I am a 29 yr old single mother of 3. I started YAZ in Feb of 2008. I took it for 11 days. ELEVEN DAYS. It was about 4 days in that the headaches started. I couldn't stand light, I wore hoodies and sunglasses. I was nauseated. Saw double, black spots. Motion sickness.I could barely make it to work. I was out of control. I did not have control over my mind. I was crazy. My friend almost took me to the hospital to have me committed. There is no history of this in me or my family. The headaches would last from the time I woke up til the time I would go to sleep. Painkillers was the only thing that would keep me asleep through the pain. My dr immediately stop the the pills. I saw an eye doctor and they found nothing. They ordered an MRI. They found T2 Foci scattered throughout my brain. VERY unusual in someone my age. What that is, is my protective covering of my brain cells had been damaged there were gaps in its covering. I soon developed a stutter and a slur in my speech. The pain then moved throughout my whole body. They said fibromyalga and daily migraines. I'm now on topamax daily which gives me breaks in my headaches. I still get them daily. I still have pain in my body daily and I'm on painkillers daily. I have found a new dr who is wonderful. Who has recently taken blood. Who thinks that maybe it could be lupus. So I started researching Lupus...my symptoms and rashes match up. There is also a DRUG INDUCED LUPUS. and ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES is a KNOWN drug that can cause this!!! BUT IS THAT ON THE LABEL???? NOOOOOOOO!!! I was perfectly healthy before yaz, in kick boxing and now I walk and have the memory of a 60 yr old and my brain is permanently damaged. I have another MRI coming up to find out if there is more damage and I will find out the results of the blood work to find out what is wrong with me...but I blame all of this on YAZ and I hold them responsible. I SAY CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT....just have to find a firm with big enough BALLS to do it!!!

Hi! I can't believe this all....I am reading your stories... I am on YASMIN for 14 days. I have two little children and I choose birth control again after almost 5 years. So I thought all my side effects are because my body needs a chance to get use to IT and I am over reacting, etc... Well NO, I am NOT!!!
Headache, mood swings, itchy skin, breast tenderness, got my period 4th day after my first pill (my doctor said it's the "breakthrough period") dizziness and feeling very nervous and sad, etc.....
My doctor said to stay on it, that my body will adjust to it...well, I am NOT!!! My body it totally resisting IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But now, I am stuck with 4 month worse supply....any idea where to sell it?
thank you

I first found this site and made my first posting on April 23rd, which you'll find if you just scroll down to:
"Hi, my name is Bobby..."
Sadly, I couldn't make things work and I moved out 2 weeks ago.
I keep running into people who ask me,
"what happened? You were so perfect for each other... "
I only wish I had found this site sooner.
I hope that as you read what these women have written here, you take it seriously.

(I just realized that 3 people wrote me responses, but I guess I didn't figure out how or where to retrieve them.... Or maybe they went to my spam box. Please write me at:****** if you think discussing things might help you to make the right decision for you, your health, and loved ones.)

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.

Ok, here is my deal. I am 22 years old and have been on Yasmin since I had my son in 2004. I have IBS, and now that I think back, until I have been on my pills, its gotten worse. I recently went to the doctor this week because of the inability to get enough sleep or good sleep. I wake up often in the middle of the night, am always tired and never have enough energy to deal with my 3 year old. I get saddened very easily. Get down on myself quite a bit. My doctor has prescribed me zoloft. I don't know what to do. If someone should have any opinions please contact me at ****** same email.

Please email me or respond if you have found this. My little toes go numb, like they lose circulation or get too cold... I thought it was my boots were too tight...and one day it happened I was only on the sugar pills. But just now they were yellow no blood color and the bottom of my foot was yellow and pink.. I tried everything to get them feeling normal, they moved but they were stiff. I put them in front of a heater and massaged. After 20 minutes total they have gotten back to normal. I read that this could possibly be a side effect. This is my second pack. The first pack I can recall no side effects.

Hi I am 20 year old Female. I have been on Yasmin for the past year and a half...I am on it because i have PCOS....PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome....I have to take it to regulate my period, hormones and etc....I been keeping track....on the week off...the day I get my period....I get 3 day migraines that are so brutal.....I was put on Yasmin because it was the lowest hormone birth control pill out there.....I need to go to my doctor soon and do something about this situation...I can't stand these migraines because they take away from my daily routine...so its either double or nothing....period + migraine...fun combination.... I have been on ortho evra THE PATCH and ortho tri-cyclyn low...that was a while back ago..don't really remember any symptoms from it..but the Patch did make me nauseous......so I am actually feeling depressed today, unproductive, frustrated and it keeps going....

I started taking Yasmin 2 years ago, and after about the first 2-3 months of taking Yasmin, I started experiencing horrendous pains after sex. Once my doctor figured out what was going on, I was diagnosed with Endometriosis. Not long after that, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Now I am more than likely unable to have children, and am at risk for cervical cancer, cardiovascular disease, and Diabetes.
If anyone else has recently been diagnosed with Endometriosis, or PCOS after taking Yasmin....PLEASE reply or contact me!!!!!!!!!!!

My daughter has been on Yasmin for almost a month and the side affects for her are terrible. She has experienced major depression and pms symptoms. I'm relieved to know that these symptoms are "normal" for this type of BC. We will probably switch to something else.

Okay so I JUST started taking Yaz today and I was laying on the couch and I had ringing in my ears which I've never had... so naturally I went up to Yahoo and put in ringing of the ears and Yaz and up popped this website. I'm truly terrified after reading all of this. Do you think I should switch to something else asap? Any advice would be great!

I started using Yasmin right before I was married May 2006. We wanted to have children but, wanted to wait a little bit. I bled the whole month and experienced major weight gain. I had cramps and felt awful on it. I didn't feel like myself. My husband and I started to try for children in Sept of 2006. We stopped taking it. I continued to bleed when I stopped taking it.

A few weeks later we got a positive sign on a pregnancy test. We were so excited!! A few days later I started to bleed. I went to the doctor and after blood tests and ultrasounds they found something on my right ovary. At first they thought it might be cancerous. After more tests we found out it wasn't cancerous but there was a cyst.

I had had previous doctor visits with nothing showing. A clean bill of health. Now all of a sudden I take these pills and I have a cyst on my ovary. We continued to watch it and they came to the conclusion that I would need to have it removed. In November I had my right ovary removed.

Our chances have lessened since the removal, I stopped taking the pill at the end of January. We have yet to get pregnant, and have been trying most of the year. I continue to have my period monthly but, we are not pregnant yet. I find it difficult to lose weight too, although I'm still trying. I don't know if we are ever going to get this stuff cleared out of my system. No one ever warned me of possible cysts, of the dangers of using vitamin C, and we were told that we should have no problem, as soon as we stopped taking it we should have no problem getting pregnant!!
LIES, LIES, LIES.

I'd be interested in participating in a class action lawsuit. We may never have kids because of this.

I've been off this evil pill for four weeks. My hair is now falling out. Anyone quit yasmin and have the hair loss stop eventually? Any input would be helpful. I'm horrified.
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please help!!!
I have been on Yasmine for almost nine months, I am 22 yrs old and had my first anxiety attack two months after taking it. I was a normal, out going, FUN person and then all of a sudden I changed. I didn't know the cause until last week when I found this web site. My doctor put me on Lexapro three weeks ago for the anxiety and I still haven't felt better. I did have a really rough year, with the death of my bestfriend who was also my cousin, and I had some major family issue's with addiction. I figured my symptoms were do to a tough year. In finding this web site I realize there are others out there with the same problems. I would like to know if there are others out there with stomach trouble. My doctor told me I have IBS, which is a common problem in women but my anxiety seems to be causing it. With the anxiety comes the stomach aches. I worry about not getting to the restroom. I cause the stomach aches because of my anxiety and I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. Proir to taking yasmin I would go camping, out to dinner and to any social function without a worry. Now it's hard for me to leave the house.
I need to find a new B/C, I have been off Yasmin for 3 days. If anyone has a suggestion please let me know.
Thank you!!!

Hi everyone my name is Ashley, ive been using yasmin for about 4 months and recently i have been getting leg cramps. is this a side effect of yasmin? should i switch to another brand? your help would be greatly appreciated. thanks. my email is ****** for anyone who wishes to get back to me... thanks again :)

OMG!!! I have PCOS and my doctor suggested this "GREAT NEW B/C that really seems to help those with PCOS" I was on yasmin last spring for about 5 months...hated all the nasty side effects, racng heart, anxiety, moodiness, you name it i had it including IBS. Finally in July I couldn't take any more and quit, with out letting my dr. know, because I wasn't ready to try something else.

My husband and I liked how it helped me to loose weight and the spontanity we could have (granted with 2 little kids in the house - things aren't all that spontaneous) without having to fumble with condoms and or inserts, but the 2 little pros were not worth the way I was feeling. I hated it and it wasn't me!

Well, seeing as how I had no period in Nov. and have tested negative on 4 hpt's I figured great, my body is back to it's usual - I better get back on the pill again to try and regulate my cycle before I get more ovarian cysts. So I refilled my yasmin, figuring ok I'll give it another shot...big mistake!!!!

Today is Wednesday, I started this pack on Sunday - I have only been on the damn things for 4 days and I feel like HELL!!! I have the racing heart again, my anxiety level is way up there (my poor husband had his head bitten off last night for no reason what so ever - I'm surprised he talked to me this morning!) and to top it all off now I have the diarhea and nausea again. This is so not worth it, I can't believe that I can feel this way after only 4 days! Actually, myhusband said to me this morning, "honey I don't think you should take those pills any more - they aren't good for you and make you someone else completely."

So I called my doc. to see what my options are - I can't start on anything else until I have my annual exam on 12/15 - there is no way I'm staying on the Yasmin until I see her again!!!!

I'm throwing that pack away as soon as I'm done typing this! God I was soo stupid for thinking it would be better the second time around....I'd rather deal with my PCOS than feel like I'm feeling now.

Thanks for letting me share! Please think twice before you take Yasmin.

Shawna

i am interested in anyone who has advice/experience with breaking out or skin clearing up with this pill. i was on depo and bad effects. it made me break out in addition. then i was on otho evra and that made me break out the first two weeks. it's wreaking havoc on the skin. i am going to try yasmin but the facts seems to contradict the experiences of people. i know everyone is different but there seems to be more people bothered by it than loving it. thanks. email me at ******
best of luck to all!

Hi i am 15 years old and i am have been on Yazmin for 3 months. since i have i have had terrible headahces, moodswings, tingleing and numbness in my left arm and foot. axanity. very run down. hot flashes. sometimes out of nowhere my heart starts to beet really fast and i feel like i have just ran 10 miles and i can't breath. the only good thing is that my boobs are bigger which my bf and i both like... cramps are gone...but when i start my period its only for like 3-4 hours then its gone. also somedays i m very very ...you know...and others its like i don't have a sex drive... also when i do have sex...there us no lubrcation and sometimes i bleed. If anyone has had these problems PLEASE email me at: sweet_sinner06@yahoo.com.

Has anyone had this happen? The 'blank pills' week is hell week for me. The mood swings are almost unbearable. My poor boyfriend didn't know what to think until I finally narrowed it down to these new pills. I'm in 'hell week' of my second pack of pills and am trying so hard to be patient and give it the full 3-month trial.

I was on Ortho Novum 777 for 14 yrs then my HMO decided to switch to somthing very similar, chemically, but I had these wild mood swings with that and so I went to my dr, told her it wasn't working for me and she prescribed Yasmin, told me to try and if it didn't work for me, that we'd switch me back to Ortho. So other than the 'hell' week, Yasmin is actually working out for me, my sex drive is up, my energy is up...just hate this week.

After reading some of the above posts, however, I see that I can probably just skip the blank pills and just take the active pills continuously, but I'm not sure exactly how to do that. Would I ever let my body have a period? I've seen some postings that say they have a period 4 times a year?

Any info would be greatly appreciated. aiownk@yahoo.com

Hello.. I just did a search on Yahoo and I found this website. I have been taking Yasmin for NOT EVEN a WEEK and I'm already feeling like another person. I am very moody, depressed and today I just started crying. I am usually very happy and energized a week or 2 after my period and now I just feel horrible. I have also experienced TROUBLE SLEEPING. I have been NAUSEUS too every day. Not enough to where I throw up, but enough to where it bothers me. I am also experiencing Low sex drive. I am thinking of switching to Alesse, has anyone here taken that? I used to take Ortho Tricyclen for 2 years but it gave me horrible migraines and moodiness along with no sex drive. If anyone has similar problems, please email me, or if u have taken Alesse, any info would really help! I want to stop taking Yasmin after I finish my first pack.. Bluextacie@msn.com

I have been taking Yasmin for 4 months now. I have noticed at first that I stayed fit and maybe even lost some weight. I workout just about every day and I eat right. Howeveer here lately in the 4th month and end of the third, I began to gain weight in my hips and thighs. I am really bothered by this. especially because I work out every day and eat right. If anyone knows of a birth control that is a natural alturnative please let me know at siennamh@yahoo.com- Thanks

I have been on Yasmin for over 6 months, i've had heart palpatations around month 3 and 4. Constant fatigue, no weight gain, great periods, lower back pain which i now think may be kidney related,great skin, absolutely no sex drive nada theres nothing there its all GONE any solutions iamsoican@yahoo.com

I can't believe I found this website! I have been on Yasmin for 1 1/2 years. For the past two weeks I have been suffering from almost unbearable foot spasms in the bottom of my feet. Also foot cramps off and on for the past year or so. Has anyone had this before?

Also, I have been telling my doctor for months that I feel as if I'm having huge mood swings along with severe depression. I feel like all I do is cry lately--and I'm usually quite a positive person!

One year ago I started having severe anxiety attacks, to the point that I had to start medication for that. Until I read this website I never once thought that there could be a link between Yasmin and that situation. I would love to hear from anyone else who has experienced this.

E-mail me at: ss111131@yahoo.com

Major headaches, anxiety/depression (to where I had to see a therapist), very dizzy and blurred vision and inability to concentrate, stomach bloating and GI problems. No cramps (yet)! I just finished my first cycle of Yasmin after being off BCP for 6 months (was on Allese). I had heard that Yasmin was so great hence the reason I tried it. I have never experienced these neuropsychological symptoms before and was convinced I was going crazy until I saw this website. I thought I would just give the Yasmin another month to see if my body would adapt. I also have really watery, excessive discharge during intercourse?? What's that about? Does anyone share that symptom? email: amberae_n@yahoo.com

Hey everyone. I am 15 years old... and i am getting put on yasmin for bad cramps and break-through bleeding...after reading all these posts i am kinda scared...except for the increasin cup size...but all these side-affect depend on the people taking it right? it varies? Well please email me someinformation if yall have any. Thanks// sweet_sinner06@yahoo.com