Yaz - depression, anxiety, loss of libido

JWP · Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2008 Posts: 2

I'm very grateful to hear that I am not going crazy; I just had my 10th + anxiety attack episode and finally realized it's YAZ and not me. I'm fine; I am a healthy woman with no reason for the anxiety and depression that I am feeling. I have not been able to have many positive thoughts in the 4 months that I have been on YAZ. The anxiety attacks become physical and they run their course; I am completely helpless to them. My heart rate increases, cold sweat, trembling, paranoid thoughts; it's been crushing. I've called my doctor, and I am going off this BC Pill immediately. I gained weight (about 10 pounds); I knew this had to be YAZ because I never gained any weight with both of my pregnancies and I've been the same size since if was 15 years old. The weight gain was the least of my problems; mentally, I was convinced I was spirraling out of control; I decided to google YAZ and found that many women are experiencing the same thing. I started to look back in my journal, and all of the symptoms started when I switched to the YAZ BC Pill. I just hadn't put it together sooner; I never thought my doctor would prescribe me something that has this potential to be so negative. Other sever and new symptoms have been; periods of bloating with constipation, weekly headaches, anger, mood swings, the anxiety attacks I mentioned above, and just an overall feeling of not being myself.

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I too have experienced many of the sympt's already mentioned here. I'm a 22 y/o, soon to be college grad, have a job, socially busy, have my fun ect... And I have just always pegged my anxiety/moodyness/ deepression/loss in sex drive (all as of then), on one or more of my day to day happenings. But I figured I was always able to handle it, I'm a strong woman and thought maybe it's just the overwhelmingness of something that went on in a particular day... and untill I just totaly broke down one night... and couldn't handle what was making me feel this way. My friends all noticed my mood swings, (especially my close male friends.) Plus, I enjoyed having a sex life, and once on yaz, I felt all of a sudden as if I no longer needed nor wanted sex, and this confused not only me (looking back on it lol) but the people I told it to too. It HALTED!!! It was a false front! Because I clearly have feelings but didn't act upon them cuz of this stupid pill! And in the process turned away some of my closest friends...All of this cycled back and forth, and I was a just a wreck of emotion and tempers... I was on yaz for just under 7 months. But have now been off of it for 2 months! (and am currently on no other BC) and I feel great!!! My relationships are back where they should be, my mood is happier, and everything is right! Think twice before taking Yaz, condoms are wayyyy easier!!

angryhusband · Newbie Joined: 19 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

All the women complain and that is understandable. However, it is the men that should really be complaining. This pill is a nightmare. I look forward to working long hours. I am even willing to go to the office on saturday and sunday. Anything to get me out of the house and away from my moody wife. This pill doesn't help, it magnifies a woman's normal problems. My wife was on a pill that worked great for 3 weeks out of the month and then turned her into a raging nightmare for the 4th week. I got greedy and told her to ask her OB/GYN about a better pill. Yaz was recommended and now instead of being miserable 25% of the time, I am miserable about 90% of the time, as is she. I think she has decided to go back on her old pill so that we can have a happy marriage 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time she is going to live in the guest room (her decision). Yaz SUX!

tbuecher · Newbie Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

Thank you lord for finding all of these posts. I too thought I was a nutbag! Nice to know I'm not. So how long after you guys stopped taking this did you get back to tomorrow. I threw my pills away today and will NEVER take them again! Thank you all!

tbuecher · Newbie Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

I meant to say how long until you get back to normal! ha

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I am so grateful for living in the Google age.

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I have been taking Yaz for over a year. I took it to help with my suicidal urges at that time of the month. It really helps with that. I am now taking classes for depression, so I think I'm ready to get off of Yaz. It has ruined my sex drive. My bf and i used to have sex three times a day and he's lucky if it's three times a month now. Sometimes I don't even want him to touch me. And if he does I get so angry with him. For me it's hard to tell what is the pill, what is me, and what is my depression. After reading all this I think that I can take some blame off of myself.
Thanks, ladies.

jwooda1 · Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 1

I am 30 and tried to go on BC for the first time because my periods have been very painful and I have had very heavy bleeding- so heavy it interfered with daily life some months. I was very reluctant to go on any BC because I have a hx of depression and anxiety and I have heard that birth control can really mess with your mood, but my Dr. reccomeded Yaz.
The first few weeks on Yaz I was okay- but then I started to notice that I felt really agitiated and angry a lot more often than normal. Then when I started the white "inactive" pills, I started to get EXTREME anxiety, the kind I have not had in years and years (before therapy). I could not calm down and the anxiety lasted for the next three weeks- to the point that I was having irregular heartbeats, uncontrollable racing thoughts, and I was having trouble sleeping. I also had almost no sex drive the whole time I was on Yaz, which is the total opposite of my usual self.
Finally, halfway through my second pack, I started expereincing heavy mid-cycle bleeding along with the anxiety and irregular heatbeats. This really freaked me out and I contacted my doctor right away who told me to stop taking Yaz immediately. She called in another pill for me to try but I have not started it yet.
Honestly, I don't want to go through this mess again, and am thinking about other methods of controlling my menstrual issues. I feel for everyone having problems with Yaz! It truly feels like you are going crazy and it is not worth it! Crying or Very sad

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Yaz is the first birth control i have ever tried. I'm 22 years old, and wasn't sure if what I was experiencing was all in my head or what! Ive only been on them a couple of months and I have never been more depressed in my life. I can't get out of bed in the mornings, I have no desire to do what I used to love to do, or even have sex. I have been bleeding continuously for two weeks with cramps so horrible that I wake up in the night sobbing from the pain. If its not cramps its migraines or joint pain.At work I can't focus, it feels like I can't put words together or read them right or something. I have been so worried that there was something wrong with me until I read these posts. Tomorrow I'm talking to my doctor, I can't continue with these pills. Ive heard that it goes away in a couple of months but I don't think I can wait that long. This isn't something that happens with all birth control right?

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Thank god there are others out there that have experianced the side effects of Yaz. I was taking it for two months and the first month was ok, but I noticed I had headaches everyday, and a constant mood. I was not happy, but wan't sad either.

After the second month I started to have more headaches which no amount of caffiene or advil would get rid of. My mood started to plumet. I started to get sad, extremely anxious, and cry for no reason. I even started being mean to my boyfriend, and stopped wanting to sleep with him which was the whole point of taking the pill in the first place. I stopped joking around and being happy like I was before I started taking the pill. I have since stopped taking the pill, and my headaches are subsiding, and for two weeks I have started to get my sense of humor and happiness back. I am now considering just get a diaphragm, and using condoms after this. Even though I have awful cramps taking Midol everyday for five days is better than taking a pill everyday.

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