Side Effects Of Yaz Stopping Yaz

I took Yaz for a few months, and it made me suicidal. No joke. I craved to cut myself. I didn't, thankfully. Ironically, I was taking it to help control my mood swings. It took me a long time to realize that the desire to hurt myself was a result of Yaz. I also experienced a significant decrease in my libido.

Here's the problem: After having been off of Yaz for over a year, I still have no sex drive and desire to hurt myself when stressed. These things were initially caused by Yaz, but they still haven't gone away. Is anybody else experiencing lasting side effects?

My 17 year old spent 5 days in a Pediatric ICU because she was taking YAZ and experienced a Pulmonary Embolism. The benefits of taking YAZ do not justify the ordeal my daughter went through. She was on YAZ for acne and to regulate her cycle. She was not sexually active - but now everyone knows about her hospital stay and when they hear YAZ assume she was having sex. That's what people focus on - not the fact that she was healthy and did not smoke and innocent. She will be on expensive injections ($100/day) for the next 6 months and will be seeing a cardiologist and hematologist for the next year and perhaps the rest of her life. So please STOP TAKING YAZ!! So not worth the risk

i am 17 years old soon to be 18, and i have been on yaz for 3 months now. i have NEVER cried this much in my life! i feel horrible 75 % of the time and im afraid that its getting worse. i am always anxious and panic attacks have become daily. help!! i feel like it is ripping my boyfriend and i appart because i am always so worried and anxious and it causes a rift. please help me! im changing pills on thursday but i need to know when i will feel normal again!!!!

Hello everyone,

I recently turned 20 a few weeks ago and started taking Yaz a few days afterward. I was excited to start it and a few days after I did, I began to feel different and was second guessing things right and left, including my current relationship. I was on an emotional rollercoaster. I couldn't help my emotions and couldn't tell what I was feeling. It really hurt that I was second guessing my relationship. I stopped taking them after a week and a half because I couldn't handle feeling like I did, and my parents said I looked misserable. It has been about a day since I stopped taking them and I still feel like I did. I know it won't go away automatically, but I am worried about feeling like this. I want it to stop. I want to go back to being my normal self. I was just curious if there was someone who could help me. I love my boyfriend and don't want anything to happen to what we have. :'(

I am so extremely happy to have read all these posts. I have been on yaz for 2 years now and after talking to some friends about its affect on my mood I decided to stop taking it. I had always thought that it made me a little depressed and easily emotional, but I just figured that the good affects outweighed the bad. This is not the case at all. Before I was on yaz my relationship was amazing and I was a very naturally happy person. My boyfriend has been so supportive and when I mentioned my doubts about yaz he completely agreed that it totally changed my personality. On Yaz I was easily irritable, I cried over almost every day over nothing, and I would have ridiculous mood swings. I am nervous that I may not go back to my old self but I will be sure to post back. Either way I feel like yaz has stolen so much happiness from the last 2 years of my life. I guess stopping now is better late then never!

I am so glad I ran across this. After having my last son, who had some complications that would be possible in another child should we choose to have any more, I decided to go back on birth control. Hadn't been on it in 13 years. My doctor put me on Yaz. Said it had been really effective for women who are overweight (which I am). I immediately noticed a change. I was a lot more emotional...especially nervous/anxious. I am not a nervous person by nature. I tried it for 2 months and then called. Told him what I was feeling. And that it hadn't started until I began taking this pill. He said that no one else had complained about this symptom and he had never heard of it before. I told him I don't care, I wanted something else. He finally prescribed something else. Which went fine for a while, but I am now noticing the same nervousness/anxiety. I am hoping this is not permanent.

i quit taking yaz about 1 week ago..since the 3rd day off yaz my body has gone crazy, my breasts are so sore and tender and my stomach is bloated and i keep getting sharp pains.... my mood swings have been terrible. i feel like it totally has messed my system up. i have taken 3 pregnacy tests, because i would swear i am pregnant. i hope these symptoms don't last much longer. i can only imagine what it has done to my body.

I was yaz in 08 right after I had my last baby and it was the wrose ones that I was on I was oh ok one min. then I was upset with the hole world the next I feel bad because my husband didn't understand and he would say stuff because I felt all alone it didn't matter if there was a bunch of poeple around it still seem like I was a lone

Im 19 and was on YAZ for about 6 months. I began passing out and being unable to breathe while my heart hammered away at over 200 bpm for absolutely no reason. I was emotional and needy. Something I never ever am. I lost weight by doing absolutely nothing and had a recorded bmi of 16.4 with these huge hormonally induced breasts. Sounds great, but in reality, I had no energy, I was deathly pale and couldnt walk 100m without being puffed and my heart screaming at me to stop. To top it all off, my hair began falling out at an extremely fast rate. Being a hormonal medication, I knew it was best to wait until my hormones and body adjusted and levelled out. It doesnt happen like that with YAZ. You wait and you wait, but it just gets slowly worse. After 5 months, I saw a doctor who didnt believe a word of what i said, and said me off for thyroid tests among numerous others. They all came back clear, and thats when i knew a day longer on this pill would only be detrimental to my health. Its now 4 months after quitting ( midpack) and right from the first day, it all began to go back to normal. My hair slowed its fall, my parents are grateful to have their bubbly daughter back. No longer do i just want to curl up in a ball in my bed and let the world go by all day everday, and my weight has gone back to a much healthier level. I just can't believe i went through all this, and permanently changed my body, just so I wouldnt have to worry about concealer washing off a pimple or two when i went swimming. I have a pimple or two now, and I honestly feel reassured knowing that they are there. Clear skin is not worth destroying both mind and body. YAZ will catch up with you. It may seem great for a few months. But dont mess with hormones, especially at such a young age. Hormones control everything. Its just not worth the risk. Believe me.

My sister quit taking Yaz a couple of years ago.  But, she has completely changed.  She used to be the "peacemaker" of the family.  Always willing to do anything for anybody.  Now, she gets angry over the least little thing, "picks" fights with various family members, burst into tears over nothing and REALLY gets angry if anyone in the family mentions that it could be the result of Yaz.  She is in her mid 40's and she may be experiencing menopause, but I just know that she hasn't been the same since Yaz.  I wish I could give you encouraging news, but I think that there is much to learn about the side effects of Yaz.  If your girlfriend will listen, at least try to get her to get a hormone screen to find out what is going on.

hi iv been on yaz for about 6 months now, i didnt even realize it was the yaz that made me emotional very irritable until my whole family started calling me bi polar , n i really startede to believe it but now after reading all this i think my mom was right saying it was the yaz that is doing this to me, i have crying spells at ne moment for hrs n just constant negative thoughts n it seems so natural. i dont even want to see ne of my friends nemore because i found them so immature n just annoying but i thought that was apart of growing up just not connecting with old friends nemore...but maybe its the yaz that changed my views n mood swings?? but now i am afraid to get off yaz i feel as tho it has made me lose weight ... iv lost 20 pnds since iv been on it n im a bigger girl so it also took away unwanted hair , either way i thought it totaly balanced out my hormone levels but now im rethinking its screwing up with my mental health not sure what to do plz someoen help!??

I was on Yaz for 9 months, I had a lot of mood swings with it, i didn't think any thing of it, because i am an emotional person.  and when i stopped using it because i was no longer insured, I got more and more depressed, i was emotional... i was crying over everything. i was yelling at every one, i was just plain mean. I also got panic attacks, and sharp pains in my chest.. i thought this had to do with stress.. but after my stress went away... it kept happening. Also i isolated my self from every one, i got hot flashes, i sweat more then usual, my ears were burning, and my vision was blurry, and i wasn't able to sleep. and it's been 3 months and i haven't got my period.. i have took pregnancy test and it's all negative, i have also went to the doc's and the blood test for for preggo is negative. My doc did some other blood test, and i shall find out bout it tom morning, and also getting an ultra sound.. i never knew Yaz was the trouble, until i saw a commercial on tv just now saying it was Recalled... I am a bit worried now.. but i hope every thing is fixable when i see the Doc tom... i shall update on my situation...

I am 18 and havent had my period for almost 2 years , so the doctor told me i have PCOS and put me on Yaz. I started feeling so moody and depressed, and since i started, its been almost two months now, i had my period every single DAY!! It is driving me crazy. So 3 days ago i stooped using Yaz as it really makes me so depressed, and i am even in my exams now! I want to be normal again, and feel happy like before using Yaz and not having my period!! How long is this going to go on??

I know this is an old thread, but I found it through google. I just want to echo the symptoms you are relaying and talk about where I am now after being off it for 2 years. 

I am so glad I stumbled across this message board.  I have been on Yaz for three years.  The first year was amazing.  My moodiness was gone, my acne cleared up and my periods regulated.  By the end of the first year though, it felt like everything went right back to where it was before Yaz.  I spoke to my GYN about it and she recommended "preloading" nsaids a few days before my period.  I did that for a year and it really made no difference.  Back in October I went for my yearly exam and again we discussed it.  This time she recommended taking Yaz continually for 3 months at a time.  My life has been a WRECK since!  Weight gain, increased blood pressure, palpitations and MOODINESS.  I had a health screening done for my job back in April and my blood pressure was really high.  I did some research and found everything I had been experiencing is a side effect of this wonder drug I'm taking.  I only had a few pills left in the pack, so I finished it but I will never take it again!!

In the month since I stopped taking it, I think I have actually gotten worse.  I'm bloated and uncomfortable.  My breasts are enlarged (not a bad thing, I guess).  I feel pregnant, but I'm not.  And I'm feeling so alone in this ... until now!

I actually have an appointment with my GYN today and was doing a little more research before I go.  I'm so glad I found this and I'm so glad I'm not alone!!