Anyone with PMDD Taking YAZ?

Hi T.,
Wow...I just read all the replies. I too suffer from
PMDD and it's not going much better with the YAZ. I too am having the headaches and lack of sex drive, but that was the way it was before I took the YAZ. I have only taken it for two months, and just started my third pack last night, so I don't know how long you are suppose to give it to kick in. Today I'm feeling really depressed, so much so that I can't imagine getting any lower...I hope it works for you. I wouldn't wish this pain on anyone.
Take care,
J.

I'm on YAZ and the only side effect I've had is occasional headaches. When I get them, they are horrible. I've noticed that they usually only come if I don't stay hydrated enough though. Strange, I know. I've loved YAZ. My period is only 1-3 days and is very light. Good luck!

hi T.
i don`t know all the symptom of a pmdd condition, i know in my case i have been for a all year(from june 2007) going crazy with hormonal unbalance and 2 set of period a month lasting each about 6 to 7 days, so you can do the math, my intimate life was inexistant. When i ask my nurse practitionner ob-gyn to check me for hormones unbalance she told me that my result were fine, my intuition was telling me the opposite....she gave me a stronger pill instead ( more oestrogen) which didn`t help, after few months i finally follow the voice inside, went to whole food bought a progesterone gel ( 2 dose a day from the 14th of your cycle , for 2 weeks) and since my cycle got back to normal, my mood swing & desire too
I hope it will help you,
i am mother of two, and work as an intuitive counselor
Wish you all the best

HI T.,

I have PMDD too....YAZ worked great for me....I def. think it is worth a try.....

hi-
yes, i went on yaz for pmdd after trying natural alternatives. yaz did make a major difference in calming me down but i feel it numbed me more than i wished. in addition, it took my sex drive away. i gave it 3 months and stopped, as i did not like feeling numb either. currently, i am taking these awesome vitamins for women, started jogging and praying a lot more for sanity during my pmdd time. b/c i am being consistent w/the more natural treatment i see a difference and each month is a little more easier. i still get rages but not as frequently and not as severe. good luck!

Hi T.,

I have been on YAZ for about 2 years and I have had no problems. Mood swings and irritability have decreased (I am not biting off everyone's heads anymore). Cramping is basically none. Fluid retention is now minimal. Blood pressure is better due to diuretic effects of progesterone.

And best of all...I have ONE day of spotting! No more heavy flow, no more 7 days or more of juggling tampons, panty liners and pads. (It took about a year to get to just one day, but the first month after starting YAZ I went from 7 days heavy flow down to 3-4 days light flow.)

Good Luck and I hope it works for you like it did for me!

I've been on Yaz for about four years. I have severe PMDD with terrifying rages, and the kind of cramps that send you to bed with a heating pad (while moaning in the fetal position) for days.

I was terrified not to do something. At the time I recognized my tremendous moods swings, I had just adopted two-year-old twins. At first, the doctor thought my anger was only the frustration of a new parent, but I had clocked the rages over the months, and could accurately predict when it would come each month.

Before I went on Yaz, I was on Serafem, an antidepressant drug taken only during certain times during the month. On that, I felt fuzzy and without emotion, really. I didn't like the idea of taking an antidepressant. Also, Serafem didn't address the cramps.

The doctor put me on Yaz and I felt like myself for the first time in years. It is only lately that I have experienced the headaches that some of you others have, and the fuzzy thinking. I wonder if the drug has changed in some way recently, for me to only be having these symptoms now. I am nervous about being on the drug now, because of the recent news of dangerous side-effects, but I don't know what I could do otherwise to solve my symptoms, other than go around emotionless on the antidepressant.

I took Yaz for a month, and it was awful. I don't have PMDD but I have irregular periods. I was a bit shocked about the price, considering I had insurance and all, and that was part of my turn-off but the first few days of starting, I had to leave work early because I felt so nauseous I couldn't even look at my monitor and I felt dizzy as well; I was close to vomitting, and that is when I called my doctor to complain. Although he told me these are side effects to be expected, I tried to stay on it a bit more as he requested, but noticed it made me increasingly moody, which I have never been (maybe the nauseous feeling made me moody); I decided I couldn't take this anymore, I could lose my job and as I support 3 people plus myself, that would have been a problem, so I decided to switch to a different pill. I am much happier now with the pill I currently take as I have no side effects(Lutera), not to mention it's much cheaper than Yaz, but I guess each woman's body reacts differently to medicine.

I have never taken it but somebody in the same daily digest of mamasource as your question also commented on YAZ and she said she did not like the side effects, sore breasts, no sex drive, etc. she was asking about other pills as an alternative.

i have a friend who was on it for 3 months and she suffered from severe depression. The people I know who have been on it didn't have much good to say about it.