Naivety symptoms and conditions

Glad I took the time to read the noncommercial posts! During my thyroid check last year bloodwork showed high cholesterol. I was put on Crestor in addition to having my Synthroid dose adjusted. A few weeks later I was absolutely miserable. Couldn't get out of bed. Everything hurt. My doctor thought I was "depressed" and asked if I wanted anti-depressants. Not needing to add another pill to my daily repertoire - I declined. Six weeks later I am feeling worse and just want to lay down and cry. The doctor had no idea why I would be feeling that way and was convinced it was either depression or thyroid issue. I was getting ready to leave for a trip to Mexico that had been planned a year in advance and was non-refundable - and I didn't have the strength to even pack the stupid suitcase. The trip was a bust - I laid in a pool chair just feeling crappy. What a waste!

Funny thing - nobody stopped to consider I've had a thyroid problem for 20 years and this horrid nightmare just started after I started taking Crestor! A few weeks later I stopped the Crestor entirely and after a couple of months I felt back to normal. Now, three years later - I've been talked into taking Lipitor. In my naivety (because I explained to the doctor that Crestor made me ill) I trusted that it would be different. It's taken three weeks for me to put two and two together - but here I am again - muscle aches - can't get out of bed. Everything just hurts. My knees, arms, mostly shoulders and in between. With all that is an overall lethargic feeling. Lipitor stops today -and if the pattern continues and I feel better in a few weeks - it's no statins for me ever again. I'll just have to eat like I'm supposed to and hope for the best!

Hello All,

As posted by voicei, I get extremely frustrated to read the postings by women whom it seems fail to read close to 2000 postings on this site that describe in detail the life changing effects of Yasmin.

Yasmin is not a pill whose symptoms you can simply get used to. To suggest so demonstrates complete ignorance and naivety.

I have been off this pill for 6 months, and only NOW feel like I am becoming the 'old me'. I only started experiencing negative side effects a year after I started taking Yasmin. These effects included severe depression, severe anxiety/panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, rapid heart rate, and vertigo. Prior to Yasmin I have NEVER experienced any of this.

Yasmin has taken a year from my life, where I found nothing to smile about or laugh. I only now see the bright side to life again....and my whole life I have been an extremely active and positive person.

It is negligence on behalf of fellow women to read these experiences and then suggest somehow that we could 'ride through' these symptoms. I doubt I'd be here right now if I tried such a ridiculous suggestion.

Getting off Yasmin saved my life and my sanity. How many of these stories to woment need to read in order to be convinced?

Love to all those getting off Yasmin. DO NOT BE CONVINCED OTHERWISE.