Yaz and 5 months

I have been taking Yaz for 2.5 months and I have to agree with most of these posts that it has been killing me emotionally! I feel like crying at the drop of the hat. I can just look at people and want to start crying. I am police officers and I come home from work and sleep for 12 hours and I am still tired. I can never seem to get enough sleep. I have horrible cramps when I do have a period, which is a hit and a miss. I thought for the longest it was just stress but from what I am reading it seems to be the pill. I would not recommend this for anyone, it is miserable!!

I started taking Yaz 1.5 months ago. During the first pack I saw little to no side effects, period lasted 4 days and was drastically lighter than before starting Yaz. Before Yaz I would bleed for 5 days and go thru a bag of super pads, with Yaz I barely bleed enough to use 6 pads in 4 days, BIG difference!

Now into the second pack I had a headache for 3 days straight, I am having stomach pain, I eat only because I know I have to or I wouldn't eat at all, I have no sex drive even though I think about sex and things excite me I just don't want to be bothered with the physical act, my breast are tender all the time, my lower back is in pain, charlie-horses in my calves and back of thighs, I am constipated, and very gassie!

I'm about 1.5 months into being on Yaz. For the year & a half prior, I had a non-hormonal IUD which I only stopped because of the excessive bleeding it caused the entire time I had it. A month and a half into being on Yaz, my breast are so sore and enormously bloated (like when I was pregnant). I've also had very bad stomach pain - not cramping, but burning and muscular pain. I've also be excessively tired. I tend towards not being super-energetic, but now I feel very, very lethargic. After reading all the posts and researching Yaz's side effects, I may stop after the end of this pack. The one thing I did absolutely love was the ~ 3-4 day, very light period. But, that benefit isn't worth the side effects. :(

Hello, I was on Yaz 5 months and I had a few muscle pains, nothing horrible. One day I started having SEVERE stomach pains. I went to the ER, then my fam doctor and he diagnosed me with gastritis. He put me on Nexium which wasn't helping. I couldn't eat anything beside eggs and bread. I was out of work a few days before I figured out certain foods were irritating it. I saw a Yahoo Answers post from a woman who said Yaz caused gastritis. I took it upon myself to stop taking them and in 2 days it was gone! Something that went on 2 weeks, severe pain and it was gone almost immediately after I quit this pill!(It says gastroenteritis on the side effects in the pamphlet). I was on other pills for 9 yrs and never had a problem except PMS! BTW my muscles were better in a week after stopping! I know it was this pill. When I first started it I read the side effects people were posting I was like yeah yeah it'll work itself out. NO, THIS WAS A BAD PILL FOR ME! I f you notice a gnawing and sharp stomach pain that's intermittent and you're on this pill, stop or it won't go away!

This is by far the worst pill I have ever taken. Before Yaz I was on Nordette, Ortho Tri cyclen and Alesse. I saw the commercials and got sucked into trying this pill. All I can say is proceed with caution. I ended up taking this pill for the unhappiness 8 months of my entire life. I had problems with other pills causing weight gain (Nordette, Ortho Tri cyclen) or acne (Alesse). However, those symptoms are mild compared to what Yaz inflicted on me.

I have always been described as happy go lucky and Yaz gave me extreme moodiness, panic attacks about my future and life, and major depression. I did have the best skin of my life and lost about 5 lbs but I was an emotional MESS! I would cry at the drop of a hat and find fault in everyone and everything. This symptom didn't start right away but each month I was on Yaz got worse. My friends coined my "alter ego" "she devil." I almost felt possessed at times on this pill. I finally realized it was the pill and not life causing these problems when 3 of my girlfriends had the same problems and got off and the problems went away.

Prior to having this experience I thought people tried to blame too much on the pill but my experience showed me just how much these can mess with your body. I switched back to Alesse 5 days ago and it's like I am a different person--even my skeptical boyfriend noticed the change. As for the acne, I am going to go to a dermatologist to address that. I will be happy to have a few zits as opposed to being a crazy woman.

Proceed with caution on this pill and watch your moods carefully. Just because you've been on it for a few months doesn't mean you're safe. The majority of my emotional disorder started about 5 months in. I do have some girlfriends that like this but most have found it to bring out "she devil".

I have been on Yaz for a month and I didn't get my period until the day I needed to start a new pack, so that day was Friday and I felt extremely weak and tired with a constant nausea feeling and I took the pill that night and went to bed and felt fine this morning but around 1pm I started feeling really nauseous again and extremely weak, I was just wondering if anyone else had this and if it is bad..