PS: what I wanted to say is that suggesting to switch brand of pill to a woman who suffers of depression due to it is like a doctor who suggests to the patient with lungs damaged from smoke to switch brand of cigarettes!
You are completely ignoring the fact that I was referring only to this woman's situation and suggesting switching directly to another pill ONLY IF THE PERSON WAS PLANNING ON STAYING on the pill. And yes, this is what they should do if they plan to remain on hormonal contraception indefinitely--which by the way, many women do whether you like it or not. It isn't good to go on and off birth control pills for reasons I already explained.
You need to remember that everyone is biologically different and not everyone is as sensitive to hormones as you are--and I say this as someone who is like you (someone who HATES the pill and what it does to my body). I refuse to take it myself but I cannot deny that some people do far better with it than others and like it or not for every study that concludes something negative on the effects of hormonal contraception there are like 5 more studies that conclude positively on it--and it's not some huge conspiracy either. Like most things in life it's not all black and white, okay?
well, as far sa the hormonal birth controls are concerned, I think the things are actually either black or white, with no gray in between (and they are black, in the pill's case). Hormonal birth contron is like a drug: for the first months, or even years, if you're lucky, everything is "fine", even better, but the truth is that all the damage comes at once, and when it arrives, well, you'd better know what awaits you. I've gone to the ER many times because this horrible poison. But the fact is that now I don't speak in anger or frustration, but because I've been studying the effects of the pill on women for one year and I've come to the conclusion that EVERy woman has some negative effects, but more often than not, women (and doctors) do not link them to the pill. Im sorry, but honestly I don't believe the pill is safe. Actually I think it's one of the most powerful and dangerous drug on the market.
OMFG i feel so identified before i started taking this sh*t i was aa normal person, now i'm crying over everything and behaving like some id**t!!! but this thing will supposedly fix my cysts and fix my body in ways i need, so i can't quit them, it's like: be ugly and normal, or be more feminine but psycho haahH tough choice
I am been taking the pill for 3 months, I never had panic attacks before but now they are frequently. I have one panic attack every week at least, I thought I was me been under too much pressure from uni. I will stop now
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I have been having trouble with my hormones over the past year, I'm 29 and I've been dealing with spotting, irregular periods, headaches and cystic acne. I've also moved from one country to another so my birth control prescription has changed twice due to the different doctors I had to go to when I first moved. I was on Yaz from my US doc, then before I got registered at a GP in the UK I went to a walk in sexual health clinic where they put me on the mini pill. With that I experienced headaches more often so I told my GP and he changed my script to Yasmin.
I'm living in hell now. I'm moody, I get emotions that I can't explain, have cried for hours for no reason, and I've been a right b***h to my husband. This isn't like me at all. I'm usually very happy and relaxed and easy going, but now I'm depressed and sometimes moody. At least my weird moods don't last all day everyday, they seem to come and go, but I can be feeling perfectly content and happy one moment and then get into a really dark, awful headspace the next. It's like a dark fog comes over me, I start to feel bogged down with worry and emotion.
And on top of that, I've been nauseous almost constantly from morning to night. I've probably lost weight on this pill because foods I used to like just make me feel sick now.
I called my GP back, the office put me in touch with another doctor and she recommends using an IUD like mirena. I've got 4 days left on this god awful pill, so as soon as I can I think I'll take the IUD and say goodbye to these pills before they ruin me!
You might want to think about a non-hormonal birth control option. Look at the new research:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/03/pill-linked-depression-doctors-hormonal-contraceptives
Of course, this study comes from Europe. Big Pharma would never allow this kind of thing to get funding in the US....
I've been on the Yasmin pill since was 16, I'm now 23 and have only just started suffering the side effects. About 3 weeks ago I started feeling really low, crying for no reason and not being able to snap out of it. At first I thought it was the knock on effects of a life event which happened earlier in the year. However the feeling did pass when I was on my 7 day break from the pill. When I started taken it again the feelings came back including feeling very panicked for no reason. I then realised it was the pill as I am normally a very happy and positive person. I decided to come completely off the pill three days ago and can't believe how much better I feel. I'm now going to look into other contraceptive pills I can take but I definitely won't be going back into Yasmin. Thank you so much for all of the comments on this post as it has really helped me find the cause of my rubbish mood!!
Hey guys! Ive posted here a few times. After realising that it was causing my depressive feels i decided to go off. Not even two or three weeks later I started shedding.
About a month after stopped use and ive lost quite a significant amount of hair. Shed shed shed i have hair everywhere. This is apparently common when going off Yasmin but no one tells you so please ladies im warning you! Its nice not feeling the way i did before but be warned that you may lose your hair too!! Not fair is it.