Well it changed me in the fact that, the experience was very scary. I thought I was going to have to be committed to a mental hospital or worse! My whole way of thinking was completely altered. It's like I stopped seeing the world through rose colour lenses.
One day I'm just going about my business without a care in the world, never having to question who I was and than BANG, it was like opening Pandora's box and trying to analyse everything that may have lead to this happening, the moment it all went to c**p. You need to understand that I dug a pretty big whole for myself before I realised it was because of stopping the pill. I only realised the link cause I saw an article in cleo magazine about Yasmine and its side affects.
My problem was, I tried to solve the problem myself. Had I just asked the question, what have I changed in my lifestyle and maybe talked to someone in those first couple of days, I gureentee you it would have passed within a day or two.
I guess the experience made me compassionate and empathetic and see that the world is unfair. I use to be very judgmental towards people who said they were depressed or had anxiety. I use to just think they were kind of lazy and that maybe they should just get over it but I realise now that this is not the case. No one would ever wish to feel that way and you can't just get over it.
You have to understand that before I went through that whole experience, my life was kinda perfect in my eyes (trying not to sound up myself). I had never had anything bad happen. So if your going through what I think your going through, it probably will change you too. You may need to rebuild yourself like I did but it's not the end of the world. sh*t happens, far worse than our experience sad to say. Theirs always someone worse off, try to remember that.
What is it you're worried about if you don't mind me asking? Just remember that everyone at one stage of their life will probably experience something that will change them.
One day I'm just going about my business without a care in the world, never having to question who I was and than BANG, it was like opening Pandora's box and trying to analyse everything that may have lead to this happening, the moment it all went to c**p. You need to understand that I dug a pretty big whole for myself before I realised it was because of stopping the pill. I only realised the link cause I saw an article in cleo magazine about Yasmine and its side affects.
My problem was, I tried to solve the problem myself. Had I just asked the question, what have I changed in my lifestyle and maybe talked to someone in those first couple of days, I gureentee you it would have passed within a day or two.
I guess the experience made me compassionate and empathetic and see that the world is unfair. I use to be very judgmental towards people who said they were depressed or had anxiety. I use to just think they were kind of lazy and that maybe they should just get over it but I realise now that this is not the case. No one would ever wish to feel that way and you can't just get over it.
You have to understand that before I went through that whole experience, my life was kinda perfect in my eyes (trying not to sound up myself). I had never had anything bad happen. So if your going through what I think your going through, it probably will change you too. You may need to rebuild yourself like I did but it's not the end of the world. sh*t happens, far worse than our experience sad to say. Theirs always someone worse off, try to remember that.
What is it you're worried about if you don't mind me asking? Just remember that everyone at one stage of their life will probably experience something that will change them.
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i only took my birth control 5 days. I stopped taking it and had a panic attack along with almost blacking out and throwing up. I immediately started my period as well.
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I wanted to let you know I thought I was going crazy because of how horrible my anxiety has been since going off the pill. It has now been 5 months and if anything getting worse. I am thinking of just going back on birthcontrol. I have not felt like myself and my fiancé can tell I have been acting very sad/anxious a lot and it is affecting our relationship. I get shaky, shortness of breath, think really negatively and just feel cloudy if that makes sense. It has been horrible.
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I love you all for being brave and sharing your stories. Here is mine:
I took Yazmin for about 7 years. I initially went on it to help my skin. I went off it mid-September, 2015. I didn't notice any immediate changes. I had light, but otherwise normal periods until the end of December. Around the beginning of December my skin began to get very dry, and I had patches of eczema on my face, neck, and legs. I had my usual cycle around December 12-16 and then 11 days later things got weird.
On December 27th I stayed up all night researching eczema. I couldn't sleep I was so worried about it. The following day I felt very agitated - I couldn't sit still or eat. My mother asked me, "are you anxious about your skin or about how you feel?" It was an innocent question, but my mind suddenly locked on how scared I was of my anxiety, and of course, that did not help. I had trouble eating and sleeping - my mind was racing and I couldn't seem to shut it down.
Then, I found the most helpful advice, and the thing that allowed me to start feeling better. "It is our resistance to the anxiety that gives it power. Sit with it. Welcome it. Know that it cannot hurt you."
Those words helped. Getting active (walking, doing chores, talking to people, engaging in life as much as possible), eating well (lots of healthy fat like avocado, coconut oil, and olive oil), and meditation also helped. I went through a few cycles of feeling good, then feeling bad, but with time the bad days have been fewer and less dramatic.
It's been about 5 months since this began for me, and I'd say that I feel good-great 80% of the time. My cycle has not yet completely normalized (at first I was getting a period every 7-10 days, now closer to 17 or so).
I know this will be something that I will leave behind. It has changed me, but I think for the better. I'm more empathetic, I have a stronger desire to help people, and I believe that I have better insight into the minds of those struggling with mental illness.
I feel better and you can too. My case was as severe as it gets, I believe. I lost 25lbs, my skin broke out horribly and was so sensitive that even water hurt (it is clear and back to normal now).
If anyone is looking for advice, feel free to reach out.
I took Yazmin for about 7 years. I initially went on it to help my skin. I went off it mid-September, 2015. I didn't notice any immediate changes. I had light, but otherwise normal periods until the end of December. Around the beginning of December my skin began to get very dry, and I had patches of eczema on my face, neck, and legs. I had my usual cycle around December 12-16 and then 11 days later things got weird.
On December 27th I stayed up all night researching eczema. I couldn't sleep I was so worried about it. The following day I felt very agitated - I couldn't sit still or eat. My mother asked me, "are you anxious about your skin or about how you feel?" It was an innocent question, but my mind suddenly locked on how scared I was of my anxiety, and of course, that did not help. I had trouble eating and sleeping - my mind was racing and I couldn't seem to shut it down.
Then, I found the most helpful advice, and the thing that allowed me to start feeling better. "It is our resistance to the anxiety that gives it power. Sit with it. Welcome it. Know that it cannot hurt you."
Those words helped. Getting active (walking, doing chores, talking to people, engaging in life as much as possible), eating well (lots of healthy fat like avocado, coconut oil, and olive oil), and meditation also helped. I went through a few cycles of feeling good, then feeling bad, but with time the bad days have been fewer and less dramatic.
It's been about 5 months since this began for me, and I'd say that I feel good-great 80% of the time. My cycle has not yet completely normalized (at first I was getting a period every 7-10 days, now closer to 17 or so).
I know this will be something that I will leave behind. It has changed me, but I think for the better. I'm more empathetic, I have a stronger desire to help people, and I believe that I have better insight into the minds of those struggling with mental illness.
I feel better and you can too. My case was as severe as it gets, I believe. I lost 25lbs, my skin broke out horribly and was so sensitive that even water hurt (it is clear and back to normal now).
If anyone is looking for advice, feel free to reach out.
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i was on the pill for only 5 days. After i stopped taking it i had a massive panic attack and began throwing up. I started my period while this was happening. I am now 2 days from my actual period and i have so much anxiety. Im already on anti depressants but they dont seem to work for this.
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Just updating on this from when i last posted.....i had one spare pack of Yasmin still in our medicine cabinet so have gone back on it and ordered another 3 months worth online (will go to the docs when i get time for blood pressure checks etc and get them from there from then on). I've just started my second pack - have gone back to back with them, want to get it in my system!
I'll be honest, i've still had some up and down days, couple of days i still feel a bit anxious over nothing, but on the whole i think it has improved. I think part of the problem is that the anxiety has been going on for quite a while and has kind of become a 'learned' behaviour. I may always now be a bit prone to it? But i definitely feel better than i did. Will carry on with the Yasmin and see how i go.
If i had known beforehand that coming off it could cause anxiety like that i don't think i'd have ever came off!
First 2 weeks back on it my skin erupted though...but has settled down again now. Can deal with a few outbreaks if it means a better mindset.
I'll be honest, i've still had some up and down days, couple of days i still feel a bit anxious over nothing, but on the whole i think it has improved. I think part of the problem is that the anxiety has been going on for quite a while and has kind of become a 'learned' behaviour. I may always now be a bit prone to it? But i definitely feel better than i did. Will carry on with the Yasmin and see how i go.
If i had known beforehand that coming off it could cause anxiety like that i don't think i'd have ever came off!
First 2 weeks back on it my skin erupted though...but has settled down again now. Can deal with a few outbreaks if it means a better mindset.
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I have never felt so bad. I'm 13 months off yasminelle and I was coping just about until last week. I was due my period and I got hit with numbness in my arms and legs that they said was anxiety...... I got my first proper period that day like colour wise. I had only been getting 2 day periods off colour until then. I had to leave work. Next day I was ok-ish. I went to work. Following day I couldn't get out to work. I was a mess. I ended up in A&E. Had blood tests etc- told I was ok. Get anxiety meds from my own GP I was told. My GP agreed it was hormone related and offered me the pill and Xanax. Sadly I've taken 3 days worth of the pill but I feel as sick as anything. I haven't taken the Xanax yet. I don't want to go back on birth control but my GP wants to see if it makes a difference. I'm so heartbroken. Everybody keeps asking if I'm depressed- I keep saying I'm not but I just want to be over this period in my life. This is an awful experience. I'm thinking of not taking the pill tomorrow and maybe trying the Xanax alone. I'm taking every vitamin going but none help. I don't know what to do. I'm scared I'll lose my job.
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Look I'm not against prescription meds. Each to their own and at the end of the day you got to do what you got to do to get through this. But I feel like you have to let the body heal. Your hormones need to balance out. Adding more poison, in my opinion, doesn't help in the long run. I, myself really considered going on anxiety meds like my GP suggested but after coming off the pill and doing research on the after effects and anxiety meds, I opted not to.
It took me almost a year of what I assume was mild depression (I was very functional but just felt emotionless if that makes sense?) and 2 years to completely get over the anxiety (had constant knots in the stomach, a little flutter feeling in the heart, brain fog and intrusive thoughts. This did ease over the duration of the 2 years). I get it, you feel completely alone and vulnerable and continuously wonder will you always feel that way? Will it go away?
for me, it has never completely left me. Emotionally the experience was for very traumatic but I am a stonger person for it, as all are who go through this or anything of a serous emotional and mental experience. Physically, I don't get any of the anxiety symptoms. Sometimes and I mean once every few months, I can feel them creepy up but will realise it's a certain time of the month (usually when I'm ovulating) and maybe I haven't had a good sleep or my diet has been real sugary. so I'll look after myself a little better, usually with a lot of water and a good nights sleep and it disappears. Although mentally, this feeling can try and trigger old self doubts from the dark days, but again I am strong, will rest and not let it get the better of me and within a day I am back to my normal happy self. I believe now that this is what is known as PMS haha. anyway, it's not as gloomy as it reads and I am greatful from the whole in which I clawed my way out. And this started in April, 2013. So it's been 3 years since the first episode occurred. So believe me, there is light at the end of the tunnel!
As for your work situation. Are you able to confidentially discuss this with your boss or trusted coworker? Do you work in a industry that offers therapists? I'm from Australia so their are avenues you can take to protect your job. It's also always good to talk to someone or let someone know that you are going through some things as a result of coming off the pill. If you don't trust them, just give them the facts - You came of the pill, it's only been discovered in the last 5 years that there are side effects to doing that and your hormones are out of whack and as a result you feel like sh*t! That's really the short of it. Otherwise, if your comfortable and trust your boss, supervisor, friend, family then tell them how your feeling - physically and emotionally. I didn't tell anyone for a whole month and then I hit breaking point. My boss was very supportive as were my family and friends. Doctors on the other hand and even one idiotic therapist, were not.
Keep your chin up Hun. You'll get there, and if taking other alternatives becomes an option, then don't be too hard on your self. You have to do what's right for you at the end of the day xo
It took me almost a year of what I assume was mild depression (I was very functional but just felt emotionless if that makes sense?) and 2 years to completely get over the anxiety (had constant knots in the stomach, a little flutter feeling in the heart, brain fog and intrusive thoughts. This did ease over the duration of the 2 years). I get it, you feel completely alone and vulnerable and continuously wonder will you always feel that way? Will it go away?
for me, it has never completely left me. Emotionally the experience was for very traumatic but I am a stonger person for it, as all are who go through this or anything of a serous emotional and mental experience. Physically, I don't get any of the anxiety symptoms. Sometimes and I mean once every few months, I can feel them creepy up but will realise it's a certain time of the month (usually when I'm ovulating) and maybe I haven't had a good sleep or my diet has been real sugary. so I'll look after myself a little better, usually with a lot of water and a good nights sleep and it disappears. Although mentally, this feeling can try and trigger old self doubts from the dark days, but again I am strong, will rest and not let it get the better of me and within a day I am back to my normal happy self. I believe now that this is what is known as PMS haha. anyway, it's not as gloomy as it reads and I am greatful from the whole in which I clawed my way out. And this started in April, 2013. So it's been 3 years since the first episode occurred. So believe me, there is light at the end of the tunnel!
As for your work situation. Are you able to confidentially discuss this with your boss or trusted coworker? Do you work in a industry that offers therapists? I'm from Australia so their are avenues you can take to protect your job. It's also always good to talk to someone or let someone know that you are going through some things as a result of coming off the pill. If you don't trust them, just give them the facts - You came of the pill, it's only been discovered in the last 5 years that there are side effects to doing that and your hormones are out of whack and as a result you feel like sh*t! That's really the short of it. Otherwise, if your comfortable and trust your boss, supervisor, friend, family then tell them how your feeling - physically and emotionally. I didn't tell anyone for a whole month and then I hit breaking point. My boss was very supportive as were my family and friends. Doctors on the other hand and even one idiotic therapist, were not.
Keep your chin up Hun. You'll get there, and if taking other alternatives becomes an option, then don't be too hard on your self. You have to do what's right for you at the end of the day xo
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That's so terrifying for me to hear. It's been a year for me and that explains how I feel to a T. I wish I had never even gone on BC
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Hi, I have gone through the same thing and decided to take celexa until my body is back on track. Can you share your experience now and how you are doing? I am not quite 3 months in and have only been on celexa for 5 days. Thanks!!
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I know these were all written over a year ago but I just came to the realization today that my monthly panick/anxiety may just be because I stopped taking the pill 3 months ago. I have been on Zoloft and lorazapam for a year, but recently right before my monthly visits since going off the pill I have been experiencing feelings of dread, fear, nervousness, and it feels like my face is hot but it's not. I also feel like I'm shaking from the inside, but I'm not. Been talking to a friend that has anxiety as well, and we surmised that it could be a hormone imbalance causing my anxiety. Anyone else feel any of these symptoms right before their period, or the first few days of your period? How long until I don't feel these issues?
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Just want to say that after almost 2 months of struggling with these symptoms and thinking I have a mental health issue, I finally found this website and I am so pleased to hear that this is the reason for how I felt.
I find myself so much in your story, I think I've been living in a never ending nightmare.
People should be warned about these side effects of coming off the pill. No one ever tells you this can happen and it changes you completely, no one should have to go through this.
Thank you for sharing your story and I am so happy I came across this site.
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Thank you so much for replying to my message. I'm sorry you went through so much as well but it gives me hope that you are doing well now!! Thank you so much.
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I am currently experiencing this. Does it go away? I am so afraid I'm never going to be the same. It's been a month and a half that I've been off of it. I haven't been able to keep any food down or work the past 4 days. I'm considering going back on it because I don't know if I can handle this anymore.
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