my experience with Yasmin has been a good one, this is the second pill i have been prescribed as the first one i went on which i think was Dianette was absolutely awful, my skin was so spotty and greasy, i put on about a stone in weight, my moods were awful and i just cried at anything, and was feeling rather depressed. So i went back to the brook and they said that Yasmin would help with my skin and my moods, after the first 3 months i was feeling much much happier and more my usual self, and my skin was back to normal and clear! also my usually very heavy periods were much lighter and the awful period cramps eased up to the point of hardly feeling them! I also lost half a stone extra when i went on Yasmin, after loosing the initial stone i put on when taking dianette, overall i was very pleased with the results and would recomend! the only bad side effects i would say were a dramatic decrease in my sex drive and extreme tiredness! as i am in a long term relationship this has affected our relationship at some points as i had an extremely high sex drive before going on this pill, your talking 4-5 times a day type of couple which has gone down to 4-5 times a week if that, some days i am so tired i cant even be bothered to kiss my boyfriend never mind anything else! so the dramatic change was a shock for both of us. my sex drive does return to normal on my 7 day break but seen as thats when i am on my period its not much help to us! also the tiredness really affected me with things such as exercise and work, i was a member of a gym and would go about 5 times a week but then when i started on Yasmin i was just so tired all i wanted to do was sleep, i would be slurring my words sometimes and have fallen asleep on my desk at work which wasnt a good thing to do!!! so have just recently cancelled my gym membership as i wasnt using it enough or benefitting from it! also one month i missed 2 pills and ended up having 2 periods which was awful!! so you really have to be very punctual with this pill! so now me and my boyfriend have decided that I am going to have a break from my pill to give my body a breather and let it have 'natural' periods as such, i would just be interested in anyones advice who had been on Yasmin and come of it if there were any side effects etc? if i was to go back on the pill though i would ask for Yasmin again!
Advantages: ...huge boobs!!! Disadvantages: Where do I start?!...mood swings, pains/cramps and spasms in my leg etc!!!
Tinkerbell_the_fairy26 08.07.2007 (08.07.2007)
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