Yasmin & Yaz Survivors

Joined: 23 Jun 2012 Posts: 23 : Location: Turkey Items

Hey,
not so many people reply anymore but i'm new to here. i was on yaz for 20 months&have been off for 7 weeks now. when does the first lights out of the tunnel usually appear?

i've shared my side effects on that topiv as well.

hope someone can help me. the things i suffer the most are nausea, anxiety, fatigue and sometimes shortness of breath. (plus the bloating kinda GI issues). i used to have fatigue&nausea and occassional anxiety. but having gone off, the anxiety worsened. it's generally like 1 week i'm so bad, and then the next week better. and this one started out as a bad one,too. but as soon as i have nausea or fatigue, generally i get anxiety attacks as well. i want to get better. i want my old energized self.

i'm taking b1-b6-b12 supplements, plus vitamin c + calcium.

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:28 pm

I've seen most people say the first 3 months are the worst, then gradual improvements are seen.

I know how you feel - I've been off 9 months and I have had major improvements, though it seems every 3 months I relapse. The first 3 months were hellish. I didn't even know why, at the time, weirdly enough. I just quit Yaz because DH and I were trying for a baby.

The supplements you're taking look good - I'd try adding Fish Oil and Magnesium too, though. You don't want to take too many at once, or your body gets very confused.

Good luck!

Joined: 23 Jun 2012 Posts: 23 : Location: Turkey Items

Hey Silmarien!
Thanks for ur answer. i was also wondering how the relapses are. Like you were saying every 3 months. are they shorter? like about a week, or a month?

with me, the first acouple of weeks after i quitted were good, not great maybe, but pretty good. then after the 3rd-4th week, the anxiety appeared, stronger than the small episodes i used to have while i was on the pills. and fatigue-nausea.

though i should say that the fatigue is better than the times i was on the pills. the thing is i did not feel it the first 9 months i was on them. then the fatigue severed and the nausea came up around 2011 fall. after that i started to use b vitamins, and started to eat better, and that helped. did not disappear completely, of course.

the other problem is i dont know whether they were related but i assume some relation. when i was on the pills, like everybody, i got depressed and since i did not have great opportunites and my love life was hurting me, i started to be obsessed with my weight, which was not even high, (105-110 lbs. and i'm 5' 6'') and that led me to some sort of anorexia nervoza. i'm improving tho in terms of that. i fell down to 89 lbs, but now 92-95 lbs (it really keeps changing in terms of bloating i got after stopping pills. so i stopped weighing myself all together. just makes me more anxious)

i was using magnesium powder for a while, then i got a feeling that the powder version makes me nauseous (tho, i doubt. it might just be the side effect of yaz). now i'm gonna start the tablets, i ordered them. i can consider fish oil as well. i dont want them to stimulate my appetite too much, i get anxious when my appetite is out of my control :S

also i live in Turkey and surprisingly no women talk about these here, they dont even know. it really makes me feel even weirder.

best.
TugCe

Joined: 03 Feb 2012 Posts: 67 : Items

I have a relapse at the six month mark. Am so so disappointed.

Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 271 : Location: Texas Items

The first 3 months off were the worst for me. I feel like I would make gradual improvements and then fall back a bit. It was a slow process for me, but I was one of the ones who was VERY ill when I came off.

Some recommendations:
1. Eat LOTS of protein... more than you think you need. Calculate it. Make sure you are getting upwards of 100g a day for awhile. This really sped up my recovery.

2. Magnesium.. you need a lot to recover.

3. Vitamin C

4. Stay off ALL medications!

I am now over 2 years off the pill... while things aren't 100%, I am so close to being "fully recovered"... this is coming from someone who had so many symptoms and could not get out of bed when I came off!! Just hang in there! It WILL get better. Your body will heal given time, rest, and proper nutrition.