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Yaz and side effects and benefits

I was told that Yaz is a new birth control pill.  I am used to 7 days of placebo pills rather than only 4.  Is Yaz's concentration any different from the common birth control pills? Is it like saying just taking longer birth control pills?  What are the side effects?  What are the benefits?  Has FDA approved?  Where i can search more about Yaz?  Will it affect my future plan of having a healthy pregnancy?  Also, i was told if i do want to get pregnant, i should wait 6 months after taking the birth control pills.  is that true?
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I have been on Yaz for about 6 months now and wondered if anyone is experiencing a flat line effect emotionally and lowered sex drive. I had been on two anti-depressants and went off them hoping these emotional feelings would come back but they haven't so I am curious to know if it's the yaz?  Help and info from anyone is appreciated.
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I too took Yaz and became very angry and almost lost my family. At the same time I became depressed and tried to kill myself. I have a very wonderful husband of 20 years and 4 beautiful children who would have had to spend the rest of their lives without me. I am greatful for them and my irregular periods.  Research....research....research.....Please think twice before you take any medication.
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I just read your post and others after collecting my first prescription for YAS this morning. I have already taken the first pill, but will discard of the rest. Thank you for posting. My husband and two sons need me - much more than I need my period and period pain regulated. Thank you and I am sorry for your wife.
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I just want it to state, for the record, that I took this (%*#^ing) pill for 3 weeks and by the end of it, I was unrecognizable to the people closest to me AND myself!  I'm 31 and I'll admit that I have struggled with depression and anxiety in the past but that was a long time ago.  I've learned how to steer myself away from those dark times and so far, so good!  Enter Yaz.  At first it was this awful taste in my mouth (not metallic which seems to be another side effect I've read about?).  Eventually....I trace the taste to the pill.  I switch up the time I take it (currently not relying it it as my only form of birth control) and the taste follows.  All the while - I am losing my freaking mind.  My dearest friends are telling me they are scared for me!  "Really worried".  Wtf?!  I've never heard these things from them before and at the time, I couldn't hear it.  Thankfully I started to wonder if this pill might have some other negative side effects other than the awful taste and low and behold - it's turning women into crazy people!!!  The first day off of Yaz was shaky (like the 3 weeks I was on the pill) but honestly, by the 2nd day I feel like a a massive weight had been lifted from my shoulders!!!  I'm hesitant to even write this but....I actually had suicidal thoughts.  With ALL the stuff I've dealt with in my life, suddenly, for no reason at all (no major life changes going on) I'm thinking about who will look after my dogs and how my mom will cope when I'm gone?  Terrifying. :(  I just want to let it be known.  I've read that some women have had hugely positive experiences and I would hate for them to not be able to have what they need but holy crap - be aware - if you start taking this and have mood changes that last more than a few days - see a doctor or stop taking it!!!  Best of luck to all of you ladies!  
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Hello. Yaz is a good pill to cure hormonal imbalance... But  don't take it longer... the longer to take it the more side effects u will have... i've been using it for 6 months now and i stopped.... i experienced painful breast... and when i had my blood test... my triglycerides rise up to a high level...just for a span of 6 months its goes too high... last year my trigly is 131.7and after 6 months it became 339.6  so alarming... yaz is one factor that can cause bad health...  natural contraceptive is much better than taking any pill... it can also damage ur liver... just an advice...

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I have been on Yaz for about 9 months straight now.  I was on it for 4 months previously as well but kept breaking out in terrible skin rashes and was switched to another which caused depression issue and severe moodiness.  I recently talked to a Doctor and found out I may be suffering from PMDD in which Yaz was the only Birth Control Pill that allowed me to feel like a normal person throughout the month with the exception of one week of craziness before my period.  Since I started Yaz, while it worked for me mentally, it has made me feel very sick each month, almost everyday.  I come down with colds, have flu-like symptoms, serious muscle pains, terrible migraines, and now I am starting to get heart palpitations with numb arms.  I do not smoke and live a fairly healthy life-style.  I have also developed more severe asthma since I have started Yaz in which it hasn't bothered me much since I was 16 (I am now 24).  Each time I get my period, I suffer from allergy-like symptoms, with a week of severe moodiness before.  Also, I have started to get sores on my tongue and now I have serious jaw pains which have made it hard for me to go to work and live life normally.  I have developed skin rashes and dry patches all over my skin and am afraid I am having serious allergic reactions to the pill.  I have had Cysts on my ovaries in the past even though I am a healthy person.  After reading about the lifelong side-effects of Yaz, I am thinking of switching...

See this information page on the side-effects of Yaz and life-threatening issues:
http://www.yaz-yasmin-lawsuit.com/problems/

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