I am so glad I had googled "yaz depression".. I have been on YAZ for 4 months now. I have NEVER felt so depressed and anxious in my entire life. I find myself crying about anything. I have made so many stupid decisions in the mind state that Yaz has given me. I've been away at college for over 2 years now and all of a suddenly have been crying to my boyfriend and mom telling them how I want to move home, when the semester before I took YAZ I kept thinking to myself how grateful I am to be in Santa Barbara and was having such a great time. I find myself extremely emotionally attached to my boyfriend when he's away, but when I see him I find myself being angry and fighting with him about the littlest things. I drove home and ignored him all day because he didn't do his laundry. I find myself with bad sleep problems, just recently getting worse because my depression is at an all time low. I have found myself thinking about SUICIDE! I have NEVER been suicidal nor do I have a reason to feel this way. I HATE feeling like this and it has turned me into the complete opposite person I was before and wish I would have never had taken this pill.. Not to mention I got on the pill because I wanted to have good sex and not worry about pregnancy.. now I dont even want to have sex at all...
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The commercials really convinced me that this pill would take away a lot of the moodiness and anxiety with my period. WRONG! This has been the absolute worst 2 months of my life. I am a very happy and energetic person except for recently. I also thought i was adjusting the the different hormone in YAZ but it is getting worse. I am sad and angry ALL of the time. I have NO sex drive at all and I get horrible headaches and stomach aches almost daily. Also, I feel like I haven't slept in weeks when i get 7-9 each night! Don't let the YAZ commericals get you, it is the pill from hell!
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I recently tried yasmin and instantly started to suffer panic attacks, anxiety, lethargy and feeling like i was in a big dark hole and for absolutly no reason. I though i must have galandular fever or something making me feel so tired so i went to my doctors and had a blood test, everything was fine and my dr mentioned it could be the pill. I didn't click at first but as soon as i stopped i started to feel much better. It took a few weeks to get back to normal. When i mentioned what had happed to my specialist she dismissed my symptoms saying it wasn't the pill and suggested yaz which is basically the same with women having the same symptoms. These pills shoud be banned ...... not advertised so well! for those having similar symptoms stop asap. it is not in your mind it's the drugs wreaking havoc with our hormones and mind!
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I have been on Yaz for a month and am starting my second pack. I have never in my life felt as terrible as I have for the past several weeks. I was almost worrying myself and freaking out at how strange I was acting, yelling at my friends and even teachers at school. I had no idea what could be wrong, because my life is great but even still I have found myself thinking about how much I hate everything. All I do is worry. I'm angry with my boyfriend when he is innocent and has done nothing wrong. This pill is the devil, and I am so glad I figured it out from all of your posts. It was actually really comforting to see that I wasn't alone in this disgusting struggle, just so that I can have a shorter lighter period. Totally not worth it. I will never put myself through this torture and I hope none of you will either.
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Man, you all are describing my life to a T ! I also have been pissy and angry at every little thing my boyfriend does. I was even thinking about breaking up wi th him. Everything he does annoys me .. everything EVERYONE DOES annoys me though! THis pill is giving my headaches every morning... my stomach feels sick all the time... i am also NUMB to the world. i dont want to do anything except sleep and watch tv. i dont want to go out. my friends have to Drag me out and i barely every go at all. i am unfocused for school and work... i even was thinking i was pregnant for a while because i feel so sick and depressed and downright crappy all the time! I used to take Triphasil (Trivora) for 9 years and decided to go off the pill. i felt much better for 2 months. then i thought ill take yaz because it helps with PMS and i like planning when my period comes every month at the same time. well after 2 packs of this YAZ stuff, i am leading a miserable life of complaining, annoyance, anxiety and irritation! Sunday was the last pill and i am DONE! Anyone know who might want 3 packs that I order via mail order that i dont want anymore!!?
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I've read a lot of the posts on here and I have a question. First, all the ladies taking yaz.. when do you normally take your pill? Of any pill that I have tried, the only reason I ever felt sick to my stomach and nausiated was when I took it during the day. When I take it at night, I sleep through all the sick feelings and I feel great in the morning and throughout the day. Second, most of the posts on this topic are made from women who have only tried Yaz for just a few weeks. Of course your body isn't going to feel right at first. You can't expect to put something foreign in your system and then feel great. BC messes with the natural order of things. You get emotional because it's goofying up your hormones but if you let it pan out a little bit, your hormones do balance and your body does get used to the drug. Everyone has different reactions. If it's been more than 3 or 4 months, I suggest getting your hormone levels tested. The doctor can better determine what kind of pill would be best for you by knowing your estrogen levels etc... Too much levels of estrogen or testosterone can cause all these problems... It annoys me that people come on to these websites and straight up tell people not to take it because it's going to do this and this and that. Don't blame the commercial. It says right in it that this pill may not be for everyone. It lists of all the same dam side-effects you all are having. Learn the facts. Research before taking any type of birth control. Ladies, you know your body better than anyone else. If you don't ask questions, the doctor is only going to tell you what they told him/her about the drug. Yaz has worked for many many women and they feel great on it. Of course when you read forums, negative stuff is all you're going to see. The women having the problems are the ones doing the research... Why would someone who's doing great on it feel the need to right on a forum? Quit whining about yaz and do something about it.
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i am soooo thankful to have found this topic... i thought i was going absolutely nuts!!
i'm a freshman in college and ive been on Yaz for 3 months now... i was fine for the first month, but the second month i slowly started waking up feeling anxious (i took the pill at night).
for the past few weeks, things have spiraled out of control! my heart has been racing all day and night and im having all sorts of weird, paranoid thoughts that just cant let go! i went home for thanksgiving break and i just couldnt stop crying... i didnt feel like talking to any of my relatives -- i just wanted to crawl in a hole and cry.
the absolute worst thing that happened was i started questioning my feelings for my boyfriend of 8 months... this started like 2 weeks ago. i've been anxiously debating breaking up with him simply because i felt like i didnt love him anymore -- which made NO sense because he's been so wonderful and supportive... hes my best friend! its all i can think about is WHY i dont feel for him anymore because i know i love him!
i stopped taking my Yaz yesterday... what i wanna know is when is it gonna clear out of my system and when will i start feeling like myself again??
i'm a freshman in college and ive been on Yaz for 3 months now... i was fine for the first month, but the second month i slowly started waking up feeling anxious (i took the pill at night).
for the past few weeks, things have spiraled out of control! my heart has been racing all day and night and im having all sorts of weird, paranoid thoughts that just cant let go! i went home for thanksgiving break and i just couldnt stop crying... i didnt feel like talking to any of my relatives -- i just wanted to crawl in a hole and cry.
the absolute worst thing that happened was i started questioning my feelings for my boyfriend of 8 months... this started like 2 weeks ago. i've been anxiously debating breaking up with him simply because i felt like i didnt love him anymore -- which made NO sense because he's been so wonderful and supportive... hes my best friend! its all i can think about is WHY i dont feel for him anymore because i know i love him!
i stopped taking my Yaz yesterday... what i wanna know is when is it gonna clear out of my system and when will i start feeling like myself again??
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wow, explains the same way that i feel!!!!!! weve been together almost 2 years, and now since i started yaz i jsut realized he drives me crazy, annoys me, i cry so much, dont want to have sex, and i thought it was just because i was depressed. but it could be from this as well. =[
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I didn't expect that there would be so many women feeling the same way about Yaz. Since I've been on it, I've been very short tempered with almost everyone I speak to on a regular basis. Everything has been AMAZING between my husband and I but I have noticed in the past month, I have a much shorter temper & VERY distinct negative mood swings & definitely an abnormal increase in depression, even thought everything is fine between family & husband. I KNOW my body.. This isn't normal.. And I believe Yaz is the reason for this. If I stop taking it, I'll have emergency room menstrual cramps like I've had for years.
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I've taken Yaz for three months. The first two days I took it, I felt depressed, but as it wore off, I figured that was the end of any mood changes to do with it. I didn't think any more of it.
The past months, my mood has completely changed. I get so irritable. I couldn't look at something I didn't like without feeling ready to explode. If I heard something that somebody else had done that I thought was a disagreeable behavior, it would eat at me all day long. I'd never been like this before. If it didn't concern me, I could stay out of it. But this irritablity and short temper was not characteristic of me.
Of course, with me being negative, my friends started associating with me less and less, so that only made me feel worse and pulled me down farther. My body was so run down. I was exausted. I'd go to sleep crying for no reason other than wanting to be happy. So I tried to make myself happy, but it wasn't working.
I remembered my friend mentioning to me when I first started that depression was not a normal thing to come with BC and if that happened I should talk to my doctor. She offered another pill, but after feeling like that for three months, the thought of taking another pill makes me want to break down. I didn't go through three months of not being me just to start another pill. The doctor wanted me to finish my last pack with Yaz before continuing onto another perscription. But I couldn't take another three weeks of depression, not knowing if it would clear up with a different pill. So I just quit.
I have a guessed diagnosis of Endometriosis and so I was put on BC. But I'll take whatever painful symptoms I get once a month. At least I can be me.
The past months, my mood has completely changed. I get so irritable. I couldn't look at something I didn't like without feeling ready to explode. If I heard something that somebody else had done that I thought was a disagreeable behavior, it would eat at me all day long. I'd never been like this before. If it didn't concern me, I could stay out of it. But this irritablity and short temper was not characteristic of me.
Of course, with me being negative, my friends started associating with me less and less, so that only made me feel worse and pulled me down farther. My body was so run down. I was exausted. I'd go to sleep crying for no reason other than wanting to be happy. So I tried to make myself happy, but it wasn't working.
I remembered my friend mentioning to me when I first started that depression was not a normal thing to come with BC and if that happened I should talk to my doctor. She offered another pill, but after feeling like that for three months, the thought of taking another pill makes me want to break down. I didn't go through three months of not being me just to start another pill. The doctor wanted me to finish my last pack with Yaz before continuing onto another perscription. But I couldn't take another three weeks of depression, not knowing if it would clear up with a different pill. So I just quit.
I have a guessed diagnosis of Endometriosis and so I was put on BC. But I'll take whatever painful symptoms I get once a month. At least I can be me.
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reading all of these posts made me feel two different things:
1. relieved knowing I am not the only one in the world feeling this, and immediately after-
2. VERY UPSET! Are there ANY doctors reading all of this??? I mean there are posts from TWO years ago!! How is it possible that in a first world country they decide to give women all these hormones without even doing a background check on our hormone levels! Do you realize we are being treated as lab rats?? they are just experimenting on us!!!
yeah, i'm on Yaz right now... which may explain my evident mood swings.
Is there anybody out there who can let the rest of us know how did you feel after dropping the Yaz pill?? Any better??
1. relieved knowing I am not the only one in the world feeling this, and immediately after-
2. VERY UPSET! Are there ANY doctors reading all of this??? I mean there are posts from TWO years ago!! How is it possible that in a first world country they decide to give women all these hormones without even doing a background check on our hormone levels! Do you realize we are being treated as lab rats?? they are just experimenting on us!!!
yeah, i'm on Yaz right now... which may explain my evident mood swings.
Is there anybody out there who can let the rest of us know how did you feel after dropping the Yaz pill?? Any better??
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reading all of these posts made me feel two different things:
1. relieved knowing I am not the only one in the world feeling this, and immediately after-
2. VERY UPSET! Are there ANY doctors reading all of this??? I mean there are posts from TWO years ago!! How is it possible that in a first world country they decide to give women all these hormones without even doing a background check on our hormone levels! Do you realize we are being treated as lab rats?? they are just experimenting on us!!!
yeah, i'm on Yaz right now... which may explain my evident mood swings.
Is there anybody out there who can let the rest of us know how did you feel after dropping the Yaz pill?? Any better??
alpine wrote:
I have also been feeling the exact same way since being on Yaz. I'm now on my 1st week of the 4th month and I just want to crawl in a hole. I am completely incapable of feeling any positive emotions, just sadness and anger. My sex drive is nil and I've been worried that I no longer love my boyfriend who I have been so completely in love with for some time now.
wow, explains the same way that i feel!!!!!! weve been together almost 2 years, and now since i started yaz i jsut realized he drives me crazy, annoys me, i cry so much, dont want to have sex, and i thought it was just because i was depressed. but it could be from this as well. =[
reading all of these posts made me feel two different things:
1. relieved knowing I am not the only one in the world feeling this, and immediately after-
2. VERY UPSET! Are there ANY doctors reading all of this??? I mean there are posts from TWO years ago!! How is it possible that in a first world country they decide to give women all these hormones without even doing a background check on our hormone levels! Do you realize we are being treated as lab rats?? they are just experimenting on us!!!
yeah, i'm on Yaz right now... which may explain my evident mood swings.
Is there anybody out there who can let the rest of us know how did you feel after dropping the Yaz pill?? Any better??
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I started taking YAZ just one day ago and noticed a marked change in my mood and personality. i began to wonder why such a sudden change. i was very irritable and moody just one day after starting YAZ. i did not take the pill last night and feel so much better. i cannot believe how much this affected me in just one day! I hope others who are prescribed YAZ will do some research before starting this awful medication!!
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i've been off of Yaz, after three months of taking it, for a month now. I have felt so much better than i have in three months. A week afterwards, i felt completely like myself again. I wasn't depressed and i didn't gain weight as easily as I did with Yaz. however, my symptoms of endometriosis are returning and that's horribly unpleasant. but it's so much better than being depressed and losing all of my friends!
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I googled yaz and mood changes to see if what I was feeling is normal. I'm NOT depressed. I'm in my first week and it turned me into freaking' Mary Poppins.
I smile for NO reason. Absolutely NOTHING bothers me, even things that used to make me really angry. I had cramps so bad one morning that I couldn't walk and had tears in my eyes, but when my husband asked me to make him lunch, I actually TRIED. He didn't even realize that something was physically wrong because I was talking like everything was normal (until I hobbled down the stairs and doubled up at the bottom). I kept telling him that everything was OK and if he would just wait a minute I'd make him that lunch. The pain didn't even begin to phase a very helpful and positive demeanor.
I don't like the emotional disconnect. It's VERY odd and hard to describe. I float and nothing really touches me. My husband doesn't really see it as a problem; he says he likes me "bubbly like a teenager."
I'm worried.
I smile for NO reason. Absolutely NOTHING bothers me, even things that used to make me really angry. I had cramps so bad one morning that I couldn't walk and had tears in my eyes, but when my husband asked me to make him lunch, I actually TRIED. He didn't even realize that something was physically wrong because I was talking like everything was normal (until I hobbled down the stairs and doubled up at the bottom). I kept telling him that everything was OK and if he would just wait a minute I'd make him that lunch. The pain didn't even begin to phase a very helpful and positive demeanor.
I don't like the emotional disconnect. It's VERY odd and hard to describe. I float and nothing really touches me. My husband doesn't really see it as a problem; he says he likes me "bubbly like a teenager."
I'm worried.
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