Yasmin & Yaz Survivors

Joined: 06 Sep 2011 Posts: 50 : Items

Does it stay high alot? Mine I feel like hasnt been normal in a long long time. The average is higher than what it use to be. It is driving me crazy!

Joined: 06 Sep 2011 Posts: 50 : Items

Does it stay high alot? Mine I feel like hasnt been normal in a long long time. The average is higher than what it use to be. It is driving me crazy!

Joined: 11 Oct 2010 Posts: 252 : Items

sskane1,

Mine is really bad after eating(sometimes) and during my period. It used to be in the upper 90's while laying down, but now it's in the 80's. I also get chest pains occasionally.

I drink A LOT of water. No soda. No caffeine. I think that has brought my heart rate down a lot.

Joined: 06 Sep 2011 Posts: 50 : Items

How long would chest pains last? I still have a fast heart rate and im in my 5th month off. What would the pain feel llike? I feel like my life has been turned upside down.

Joined: 15 Nov 2011 Posts: 1 : Items

omg I nearly cried when I found this page, The Relieve that it is not all in my mind!. I stopped taking Yasmin roughly a month ago and since then I’ve felt like I’m losing my mind! I feel like a shadow of my former self. I’ve started having panic attacks, low taught’s about myself and no self esteem in any type of public situation for absolutely no reason as I’m usually chatty, friendly and always joking. This in joined by constant mood swings. Crying one minute and over thinking EVERYTHING -the next with a complete lack of enthusiasm for anything. Please tell me if anyone else has gone through this as its really getting me down I miss my old self 

Joined: 24 Feb 2011 Posts: 257 : Location: London Items

Hello aj_o and welcome to the forum.
I’m so sorry you are going through this but, unfortunately, what you are describing are all symptoms of stopping the bill. A lot of women on this forum went through the same thing (including myself) so we know how you feel. It’s difficult to say when it will stop but it will stop!!
Try to hang in there, take one day at a time if need be. Have a read through the nutritional thread on the forum. You might find it helpful. Try to be gentle to yourself. This will pass!!!
Please let us know how are you feeling or come back here if you have any questions, worries or just need a moan. We are all here to support each other.
Hugs,

Kat

Joined: 30 Nov 2011 Posts: 3 : Items

Hello everyone...

I'm not usually one of those kinds of people who posts to forums like these about issues like this but when I found this this morning I felt that I just had to, absolutely had to. Some of the stuff I was reading I can absolutely relate to as I am suffering too. Almost 7 months ago I started a relationship and as I wanted to be so so careful about the intimate side of things I decided to go back onto the pill. (I had used it before years ago, but had come off because I had no use for it back then... it took quite some time for the periods to return and to maintain a proper cycle... ) Anyway this time I was started on Micronor... this was fine for two months and then on the third I started feeling huge signs of irritability and massive mood swings and my family just could not take it. So I went back to the docs and I was put onto yes you guessed it, yasmin. First month went well... and so did the second. Third not so much. My mood swings did decrease, to the point where it was commented on and i thought "Something's going well here" but in the third month I started to spot, in the third week of the strip. Now onto this month... I have been feeling so irritable all the time, I have been spotting for the best part of five days... it started with about 6hrs of breakthrough bleeding. I feel nauseous, I have had headaches that are sometimes sharp sometimes not, and when I get those those tend to come and go like within seconds. One min its there and the next it isn't. when I eat I quite often find that a few hours later I have to go.. I have insomnia anyway from being a night worker for the past nine years.. but just recently I have been feeling so tired and still not being able to go to sleep. I dont feel as though I am me anymore.. I keep worrying about things that don't really matter and then make a small thing completely blow up into something massive that shouldn't be massive. I went to see the doc again last week but I was assured that things were normal. I am seriously considering going back because I just don't feel as though I can take being on this pill for much longer. I want me back, and this isn't me. thanks for listening all. feel better for having got it off my chest.

Joined: 09 Jan 2012 Posts: 3 : Items

I am a 33 year old educated wife and mother of 2 small children. I was put on Yasmin after my son was born 5 1/2 years ago. I am not sure why she put me on it, but I started taking it and did not have many complaints. I have always been thin and remained thin and have always had pretty good skin, but I think it helped in that area because it was always really smooth and evened my skin tone out. I did not gain weight and my periods were fine. However, I never really had bad periods to begin with. I didn't really notice or attribute any of the following side effects to Yasmin until just recently. Today is Day 1 of NO YASMIN- 5/2 years later. When I went off Yasmin and got pregnant with my daughter and nursed her, I was off Yasmin for nearly 10 months. I remember never feeling better, good moods, good sex drive and I could drink alcohol with no problems. I am not a big drinker by any means, however ever since I went on Yasmin I couldn't drink...I mean even if I had one drink I was nausious and I threw up. I never attributed it to Yasmin until I started putting all the pieces together. I felt great when I was off it, went back on and back again. I have attributed the following side effects to this. Can someone please tell me if I am crazy about the alcohol sensitivity. I don't drink much, but in college and after college I could go out and have one or two drinks and be fine, I had a lot more than that in college and never felt this way. It is almost as though I am allergic to it.

No Sex drive[/b][/u]- never in mood, never initiate, not even enjoyable(never used to be this way)
Alcohol sensitivity- cannot drink it without feeling sick; even after one drink
Tiredness- always tired; lack of energy
Depressed- I have always been a high energy, lots of spirit happy go lucky person, I have been struggling with not depression, but lack of that high on life feeling and sometimes really low mood.....Ihave a wonderful life, wonderful husband, two beautiful healthy children, great job, great house, great family....why would I be sad and not happy?

Any advice? Do you think this is really contributed all to Yasmin.. Whoever posted the letter they wrote to the FDA is very intelligent. I am so impresed and wonder if perhaps this is the cause for all of my problems. You see this was a gradual process and nothing that just suddenly happened right away. It was over time1

Joined: 11 Feb 2012 Posts: 2 : Location: texas Items

My daughter (now 20) took Ocella for about 2 years. During this time she started on a slow slide to emotional instability. She's always had moody tendencies and we didn't realize how bad it had become until she developed anxiety, paranoia (accusing me of stalking her), and had an emotional meltdown. She lives with her boyfriend. He called us and her brother (whom she trusts most) and we all took her to a psychologist for evaluation. She'd just had her wisdom teeth pulled a few days before and so I made a list of drugs (antibiotics, pain-killers...) she was taking, including the Ocella. It was then, after doing a search on each drug, that I found out about the emotional side-effects of this birth control pill.

My daughter immediately stopped taking Ocella and says that she is now much better. The problem is I can see that, although no longer having the extreme side effects (such as paranoia) she experienced while on the pill, there are still lasting effects.
She is afraid to be left alone, and remains uncommunicative with her father and I (won't answer a call or text), angry, depressed, irrational and defensive. She says her life is cr*p.

Granted, there are many stresses in her life. Her boyfriend is suffering from a serious and life-threatening illness, they are having financial problems because of this, the house they live in is barely holding together (no power or water), and she doesn't eat or sleep right.
I am considering that my daughter might have an emotional illness. Her symptoms mirror many of those described for borderline personality disorder (although I know the dangers of attempting Internet diagnosis).

Could these be lasting effects of taking Ocella?
How long does it take to recover from this drug?
*She's been off 6 months*

-pattyt

Joined: 25 Aug 2010 Posts: 195 : Items

Patty they shouldnt be lasting effects but may still take sometime to resolve. However, if she had these issues prior to the pill maybe its a separate thing...i got very physically and emotionally sick on the pill and once i quit. I have always been somewhat of a stresser but never had panic attacks or depression like what i experienced from pill..i was also on yasmin and then ocella..its the ocella that was poison to my body!! I became almost agoraphobic..crying all the time, many women on here did, some cant leave their houses, work, drive etc..My family had to have a meeting because of how much i had changed..very scary time, once off anxiety happened less but depression was awful and i had many suicidal thoughts or begging for god just to take me...i am now 19 mths off and i am finally feeling like me..after almost 4yrs of living in utter madness!! If she is suffering from pill she needs plenty of rest, proper diet, supplements etc..or her recovery could take even longer..acupuncture did wonders for me and a few others, no medical doc could help or explain or even admit it could be from the pill. I go by a completely natural approach now..i am also on herbs called cordyceps that have been quite miraculous in my healing..did i help at all??

Joined: 25 Aug 2010 Posts: 195 : Items

Read some stories on here, there are so many of us just like your daughter..usually first mths off are the hardest. Some of us slower healers were still quite ill a yr or more after..

Joined: 11 Feb 2012 Posts: 2 : Location: texas Items

doots,

Thanks for replying.

It's possible that her issues are prior and still unresolved ones, but the pill definitely amplified these. Either way, a healthy diet and lifestyle is the first thing I want her to follow, but then her circumstances and issues prevent her from doing so and, also, me from helping her in this as she is resistant to any help I offer. It's very frustrating!
Her boyfriend can be an asset, somewhat, and he does the best he can but his idea of a good meal is McD's.

I am working on improving our communication and perhaps I can convince her to, at least, take B-12, folic acid, and omega 3 fatty acids that I have heard can help. I think she would be better able to accept these issues as physical side effects rather than emotional illness.
Acupuncture is something that helped me very much when I had menopausal problems and so I'm a fim believer in this. Doctors have their limitations.

Yes, you have helped and thank you very much. I will research cordyceps to find out more.

Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 1 : Location: Pa Items

So I stopped taking Yaz mid to end Nov 2011. I have gained probably 13lbs. most of which was gained in Jan2012 it seems. It is now mid Feb and I can not fit in any of my clothes. I am up at least 2 sizes soon to be 3 sizes. I am very petite and have struggled in the past to gain weight. Has anyone else experienced fast weight gain? I look like I am pregnant especially after I eat.
I have SVT a heart condition that now I believe was caused by the Yaz, it has started to subside but it was very bad the first month or so I was off the Yaz. I still cry about everything, I am very sensitve to things. But that seems to be getting somewhat better.
I went on the Yaz to help with horrible periods and severe PMS. It helped for a while especially with migraines but then after a while they came back even worse and I started having an irratic cycles. The doctors took me off right away and will not put me on any birth control--and at this point I would not go back on any.

Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 1 : Items

I had my annual in October. I have been taking Yaz since 2009. It has helped my mood. Unlike many of you, I have not had the adverse side effects.

I can't equate depression/anxiety etc to the pill - I had an eating disorder that completely overshadowed that until recently.

Anyways, my most powerful symptom = tenderness of my right fallopian tube/area. Could be my ovaries. I told my doctor in October, and he shrugged it off. It is always tender. No bleeding. Sometimes sex is extremely painful.

Not quite sure what this could be, or if it is part of the pill.

Joined: 11 Apr 2012 Posts: 1 : Items

Hi Ladies,

I am thrilled to have found this website as I am going through absolute hell on yasmin and the threads have confirmed for me that it is not for me. I have only been on it for a week and I am so full of fluid it is painful, my breasts are beyond tender, I'm behaving like a crazy person as my moods are so transient, the nausea is overwhelming and no matter how much I sleep, I am exhausted. I thought I would ride it out for a month but after reading the withdrawal stories, I think I'm best chucking it now. Thank god for women banding together and sharing!

Thank you <3