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Hello all Yasmin Survivors. I stopped taking Yasmin in July 2005...

Posted at 6:22 AM on Jun 30, 2008 by saraheharrison, #31914
Hello all Yasmin Survivors. I stopped taking Yasmin in July 2005 and three years on I am still re-building my life! I feel this pill and its side-effect stole some of my best years, I am 33. My main side effects were extreme anxiety, agoraphobia, pounding heart, panic attacks, fear of doing anything (even going 10 minutes away from my own home). I was on it for 12 months and the side-effects started very gradually at about 5-6 months, I barely noticed them creeping up on me. It took me another 6 months of taking it to start to question whether Yasmin could be causing the extreme change in my personality. I think if I hadn't stopped I'd have had a major breakdown. I had lots of weird physical symptoms too including, bloating, passing urine all the time, leg cramps, dizziness, hair loss. Anyway, all the extreme anxiety and stress caused by Yasmin left me with exhausted adrenal glands - which I'm now trying to re-build. Anyone feeling fatigue, nervousness, anxiety, inability to handle stress in the same way as you used to, PMS several months after stopping Yasmin should look into Adrenal Fatigue as a possible cause of their symptoms. It's hard to treat and can take a long time to recover - but there are lots of things you can do to help your body re-build. Visit ******(doctor Andrew W. website on Adrenal Fatigue) as a start to find out more about the condition and how to find out whether you are suffering from it. It would be good to hear from more people re-building their lives after the impact of taking Yasmin on this site. Also, is anyone out there trying to put together a class action? Sarah
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Reply about 1 month ago on Jul 02, 2008 by cjean16, #9727

Hi - I feel your pain. I was only on Yasmin for two months, but that was enough to turn my world up-side-down! The panic attacks, anxiety, and weird obsessive scary thoughts - that never plagued me before this pill - started in January at the end of my second pill pack. Though I was going through a lot of really big life changes at the time, i.e. - planning a wedding, just graduated from college, applying for jobs and being broke, problems with my divorced parents, I have NEVER experienced anxiety at this level, and I'm almost positive Yasmin played a big role in all of this. I quit taking it right away and it's been a long recovery process, but I have to say, I'm sooooooooooooooooooo much better -- after going through an Attacking Anxiety and Depression audio and workbook program, taking a mild med - which I am weening off now, and lots and lots of research on anxiety, ocd, and depression!!! I still have my anxious periods though and I get so mad, I wish I could just go back to before when I always felt like myself and wasn't second guessing every single little thing!! How are you feeling now? Someone on here suggested getting the b12 levels checked - that yasmin can cause a vitamin b12 depletion. Have you heard of that. Sorry you had to go through this hell! I hope you are doing better!!!! Let me know how this adrenal stuff works out!!!
Crystal

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