I am a 50 yr. old peri-menopausal woman.
Read Suzanne Somers book - THE SEXY YEARS
You will want to get off the man-made, artificial meds and get really living with Bio-Identical Hormones.
They have saved my mental state, my physical state and my marriage!
Good luck!
Christine
Your situation is complicated and will likely take several attempts at trying one thing and ten another to tailor it for you optimally. You did seem to be doing better taking the Yaz with the placebo so a trial of that is worth doing. If progesterone was helpful in the past, adding some natural progesterone to the Yaz after a trying a month or so without it could be helpful. Discuss this with your doctor.
One thing to consider is having an EEG (electroencephanlogram). This studies the brain waves and might yield a clue. Some people with your type of symptoms have something called Temporal Lobe Epilepsy or TLE. It isn't seizures like shaking but rather mood or anxiety or emotional changes that occur. If TLE isn't the case, then at least your know, and if it is, the treatment might be different types of medication.
Machelle M. Seibel, MD