Rant symptoms and conditions

Hi Guys

I had the Mirena fitted 9th May 2008

I had it fitted because I have two kids, one with CF so had decided that was me finished, and they said I was too young for sterilization (29 I don't think so), So we agreed on the Mirena

It has been the worst decision ever, I have suffered from the thing was put in.

I had discomfort pain with insertion but not too bad, but felt really faint and dizzy like the whole day, just had to go to bed!

So then I bled non stop for 6 weeks, the bleeding stopped a few days before my 6 week checkup which showed everything was fine and it was in the correct position.

My symptoms include:
Extremely oily skin, especially on my face
Spots!!! aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
Hot flushes and generally hot all of the time
Tired all of the time no matter how much sleep I get
Lack of concentration, really bad even when I try to concentrate mind just clouds
Dizziness and faintness feeling
Much hungrier and crave chocolate all the time
I suffer from heartburn always but it has gotten worse
I have pain in my lower back every morning
I have had this thing in for 14 weeks and I have had 7 bouts of thrush, it just won't go away
And my sinuses are so well blocked I feel like someone has poured concrete into my head, my ears are blocked my nose everything it's terrible

Anyhow, sorry for the long rant!, I'm having this thing removed on Friday (22nd August 2008) I really hope things improve quickly

It took me quite a while to realize maybe it was the coil, although hubby said all along it was the mirena!!

I will let you all know how it goes

It is so funny to read all of the negativity but nothing positive! I came here looking for side effects and get a bashing about how horrid Yasmin/Yaz is! Let me first start off by listing my side effects that I wanted to know about:

breast tenderness
change in appetite
tiredness
red spot in eye

Next, let me tell you that I researched BEFORE taking this medicine because 1. I have MS 2. I suffer from migraines and seizures and 3. I take a whole boat load of medications! My doc recommended Yasmin for PMDD coupled with Sarafem to help my mood right before and during my time of the month. I must say that I have only been on it for about 10 days so I do not know anything of how it works with my period.

I am APPALLED at the fact that there are few, if any, positive comments about this pill! I know for a FACT that it works because I know 7 people personally that are on it that have NO PROBLEMS! So, I ask you all that have negative comments, what is wrong with you, other than you HATE the pill? What OTHER meds were you on while taking it? I read a few comments about stopping for a month and then starting again and then wondering why they felt like crap?? Well HELLO?! You are effing with your body's hormones! And there is a difference between Yaz and Yasmin hormones. If you had a bad experience with Yaz, make sure you are not confusing it with Yasmin! Yaz is a 24 day hormone pill where Yasmin is only 21 days.

I am not a doctor, but like I said, I have done my research. I have suffered with adult acne and PMDD for years. It sucks. If Yasmin helps, I want to know. I don't want to read a bunch of bull about people who mess up their cycles by taking the pill and smoking or taking the pill with meds they shouldn't be taking them with. I know what I can and cannot take. Most of what I take is natural and what is not, well, it CAN be taken with Yasmin. Like the website for Yasmin says and like most of the informational, non-biased websites say, Yasmin and Yaz is not for everyone. Some people cannot handle this type of hormone.

I can guarantee you that some doctor or pharm company can tell you that whatever symptom you are having is from something completely unrelated to the BC you are taking. Warnings are clearly marked...read them and obey!

I am so glad to see other people have had extreme mood changes with the Mirena! I was starting to think I had lost my mind. Got mine about 5 months ago and got it out yesterday. I had fits or rage and generally negative about everything. How long until I feel like myself again?!?

I lost my job, my family, my dog, I'm dying, THANKS YASMIN...good lord some people on here are blaming every *** problem on the pill, come on now...going from a size 2 to a size 12, UMMM HELLO...how long would you let yourself gain that much weight, before STOPPING the pill??? Good lord..I understand that the pill isn't right for everyone, but it amazes me how long people continue to take something that isn't doing them any good.

I am on 300mg for bipolar. I am having trouble concentrating, remembering (i forget what i'm doing while i am doing it!), I often worry about driving-just don't feel like i can focus well enough-riding down the road thinking "hope i know what i'm doing". It is like i daydream constantly with periods of not daydreaming. I feel pretty cheerful and not having any real emotional problems, but the physical problems are a mess. I am so tired that i feel like every single day is a "well i'm sick today, i'll give myself a break, maybe i'll feel better tomorrow". i do have better days sometimes, but for the most part, i feel kind of useless-not "useless" like i'm depressed-i mean "useless" like i get nothing done and it takes me two hours to get some lunch for myself and my three-yr-old child, and i mostly sit around because i'm "taking a break" and my legs are so sore or i have a headache or i feel shaky, or nauseated - each day, i feel so sleepy i am desperate for my husband to get home to care for my daughter (and me)-it feels like i took NyQuil or Benadryl or something! So, i am literally pretty useless. It's such a shame. I can't find a medicine to help me cope, it is always a trade-off...and going on and off them to try another is a nightmare. At least, right now, it is just a daydream...

Guest, #36378-

Go get "touched" at Hallmark if that's what will help ya. No one needs that kind of nasty rant here....no place for it. Yuck!

Flowerbabies , how you appreciate how this person expressed themself-no idea. Hideous!

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:03:10 -0600 by Guest, #36378

This is just plain rude and talk about petty. Please, raise your standards here and remember what this site is about for God's sake. I think that you should remember that when post things like this here, new folks coming in are likely completely confused or think that someone such as yourself has just plain lost it.

If you want to be supportive of other women like yourself, as you are clearly in a rant, than exercise less judgement and some kindness for goodness sakes. Everyone here is trying to be helpful. And I would definately say that your comments are about the least refined, helpful or thoughtful in months of coming to this site. If anyone is trying to get some help, it certainly helps for all of us to hear how long someone has been on, off or trying to come off. There is nothing "petty" about that and many women that do find it helpful.

I have no idea who you are, where you come from or what your "hell" has been like on yasmin but it certainly sounds like it is still taking its toll if the way you are coming across says anything. While personal experiences are helpful, so is information. I also don't even know who all the folks are who have been posting but I discovered that alot of what is there-highlights a good majority of the symptoms I experience and many of the other women here have.

While being more "touched" may help you, for others, havinng "information" to apply may be just as valuable to others. Ya follow?

Sarah, I think that making your own site is helpful and am consistently impressed by your level of maturity and kindness and wanting to reach out and help others.

Whoever this person is that made this post, I certainly hope that you get the help and support that you need as you sound rather crude and out of control. Good luck to you.

Its really so disappointing when women do this kind of thing with eachother. Really. Keep your chin up will you. For all of us, you set an example.

hi murph 70,
not sure if this site will help you work out your results,i looked my tsh level up on here.
www.pinelandpress.com/faq/hormonelevels
you could give it a look. i am also having problems with my cycle. i have started to ovulate again (thank goodness!) my periods are still coming between 33 - 38 days instead of my old pre yasmin cycle that was 28 days on the dot. i have some periods that are really heavy and some that are so light they are more like spotting. i suffer pms (with mild anxiety) about 12 days before my period starts until 2 days after bleeding starts. i get an outbreak of acne about 10 days before my period and savage backache just before my period too! all are symptoms of pms,i never had any of these symptoms before i went on yasmin except for the odd monthly spot on my chin! i really wish i had not messed with my perfectly normal cycle but i was totally ignorant to the fact that any of these awful things could happen just from taking a pill,i was told it would improve my life not wreck it!
sorry for the rant murph 70 but i find once i start on the subject i can't stop! hope the site i suggested is of some help.

silke.
my heart goes out to you...... remember you are strong and you will beat this! please feel better soon!

I am seriously considering getting BACK on the Yasmin... I only got off of it because I forgot to refill my prescription. (I don't take it for birth control, I take it to level out my hormones.) The side effects I had while on it were headaches, sinus infections, 7 day periods: stuff like that. My issues started AFTER I got off of it.

I've been off of Yasmin since Sept 22. I went one month without any other BC, then started Loestrin 1/20 FE. I just started my second week of it and I AM MISERABLE... I'm eating out of control, I'm weepy, angry, irritable, my boobs have grown at least a full cup size (and they hurt like HELL) and I have funky discharge!!!! I was just fine until I started mucking around with these pills!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm at a loss - I sincerely do not know what to do. I don't have insurance until Dec so I don't have a whole lot of options... Do I stay on Loestrin? Do I go back on Yasmin? Do I stop taking them altogether?!? How do I get back to feeling OKAY?????

Sorry. No one ever responds to my posts anyway and I just needed to rant. I don't know what to do. I have Bipolar disorder so having my hormones out of whack doesn't help...

i don't think yasmin will be removed from the market as it does seem to help some people,i have no idea why some people do really well on it and others like many of us on this site suffer some awful effects. i have seen on some web pages that yasmin is actually prescribed for pmdd and pms...... maybe it works well for people who already have a hormonal disorder by overriding their system?????? but for the rest of us who were fine pre yasmin maybe it over doses us with synthetic hormones. i have no ideas really but i have heard people who started out with hormone related emotional problems have improved on yasmin..maybe it should be presecribed as a treatment for hormonal dysfunctions instead of a cure all wonder pill! I don't necessarily believe it should be taken off the market as i can help people but i do believe that the health care professionals should at least recognise the terrible effects we can get from it instead of sending us out of the office saying we have suddenly developed an anxiety disorder or depression or testing us for hundreds of different things when the only thing that has changed is that we started taking this pill. women should be monitored more carefully when taking synthetic hormones.
sorry for the long rant ladies!!!

sitting here staring at my xanax pill. I am anxious enough to 'need' it right now but I really don't 'want' to have to do this. Odd as this may sound; I am afraid to take it because it may make me feel better and thus it will become a crutch for me to take it. My doc has already said no refills and only gave me enough for 2 weeks @ one per day.

I know I probably sound crazier than I already feel but I don't want to become relient on a pill to get me through the day but I know if I don't take it I will feel like hell until this goes away. WHY OH WHY did I ever agree to take Yasmin? Oh yeah, that's right because my husband won't even talk about a vasectomy. Forgive my rant today; I just wondered if I was alone in wanting/yet not wanting to have to take meds.

Denise

Here's the deal - you are all reading about the negative affects about yasmine...WHY? Because when a birth control is going WELL for someone..they usually don't look it up on the internet...they just let it take its course and never have a problem. HOWEVER - when someone is having a bad experience with a particular medication - they naturally look up the side effects to see if anyone else is experiencing the SAME thing. I swear - ANY medication I have ever taken....I've come across sites such as this that have people complaining and comparing the negative symptoms.

If you look up ANY type of birth control - I assure you, you WILL find a website like this. It all depends on the PERSON. Yasmin isn't THAT bad for some people..it just happens to be that 90% of the people it DOES affect..happen to find this forum and want to rant about it..(which I would do the same too)

I, however...so far - have nothing bad to say about it. I've taken it in the past - and I'm taking it now due to Endometriosis..and needing to regulate my period. So far so good!!!! I got my period @ a normal time and cramps weren't that bad. My hormones were out of whack before due to the endo..and now they seem to be back on track!

I don't notice any noticeable side effects...but I do notice that my breasts have gotten noticeably larger. I may have put on 4 pounds (although to be honest...I think it's all the crappy fried food I've been eating lately..and not sticking to my diet/exercise) lol..but overall - I don't have anything bad to say about Yasmin.

For those who are looking into taking it....every person obviously reacts differently -this just happens to be a site where the people who are disattisfied...found...and want to compare. The ones who ARE satisfied..simply haven't made it a point to look up info on a drug that is working for them...I just looked it up, to see if it was TRUE that breasts get larger on this pill lol...so yes..don't fret - give it a shot.

I've taken Yasmin for nearly two years now and I was always suspicious of it, but really only in physical ways, like putting on weight, having ENORMOUS breasts that really don't suit me and make me so selfconscious and unhappy, cramps that I never had before before and during my periods, leg cramps that I would wake up screaming with in the night etc. I'm actually so angry now just because in Europe they don't advertise its weight loss/diuretic effects, which means for the past two years it didn't ever occur to me that I had to pee every five minutes because of this stupid, hateful pill! But now after reading about all these women, all of them thinking THEY were the crazy ones, or they were to blame or they were neurotic or going mad and not being told by a doctor (my doctor had me in and out of his office in under 5 minutes when he prescribed this for me) that there could be emotional repercussions - it makes me more and more furious at the things women go through for men. I know it's a cliche but how many men would take a pill every day that not only made them infertile for the duration, but made them feel like some of the women I've read about here? The word "depression" in a list of side effects doesn't do justice to feeling like you should be alone because you're too nuts for your closest friends/partner to be near you, or that no one should have to tolerate you, or to cry all the time and not know why you're getting so angry because of something stupid or nothing at all, or afraid of something really minor, or so ugly you don't want to go out?
Ok - I know this is a bit of a rant but this is my first time hearing that other people feel like this too. I know some people probably get on great with it, some people are no better or worse than they were before, but it's the way in which it's prescribed, without any serious warning or education about risks like these, and this idea that you won't be taken seriously by a doctor if you tell them-
I'm very glad there's a forum like this where people can tell their stories in a balanced and open way.
Thanks!