YAZ Reviews (DROSPIRENONE; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL)Average Rating: 2.2 (250 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare YAZ with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR YAZ | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | to regulate my period | i have taken yaz for over 2 yrs it cleared my acne regulated my pd i never gained weight.. i read so many bad things about it so for my future safety i start junel fe 1/20 tomor, great. here we go haha | F | 20 | | 12/12/2009 | 1 | Birth control | I decided to research the side effects on YAZ, and instead i found a bunch of news articles about how there have been over 8,000 lawsuits from people getting blood clots and having strokes and all kinds of other health problems. 8,000 lawsuits!!! And those are the people who were lucky and lived, there have been over 200 women who died after taking it. There has never been this many lawsuits against any other birth control. The progestin they use in YAZ is the newest kind not used in any other birth control, and clearly its really dangerous. I would stay so far away from this pill its not even funny. | F | 21 | 1X day | 10/9/2015 | 1 | Period Regulation | F | 18 | 30 mg 1X day | 5/17/2010 Patient History | 1 | Contraception | Depression, Anxiety, Vaginal Dryness, Headaches, Hives, Exhaustion, Muscle Pain, Loss of interest in life, Made me less social and less happy, Diarrhea | For those rating Yaz highly, I noticed that they were only taking it for a month or so... I was on it for a year and a half and my first few months were okay too.. that's when it all started... I was constantly getting allergies, having diarrhea, stomach pain, headaches, hives, excessive thirst, and anxiety. Then, I thought I was just developing depression, as I became sad all of the time. I had so many problems sexually, which I never had before, including vaginal dryness and an inability to orgasm. Finally, I became more and more exhausted - first, I couldn't go to the gym, then, anything other than going to work and straight back home was hard. My muscles were in constant pain on this pill. | F | 24 | 1X day | 4/19/2012 | 1 | birth control | Fainting, Constantly Getting Sick, Stomach Problems, Losing my Hair, Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Heart Palpitations.... just to name a few. | I truly believe this pill almost killed me. Took me 2 years to figure out it had slowly begun to cause ALL of my health problems. This pill has already been linked to the death of 200 women in the US. I would NEVER recommend this pill to any women. Please don't put yourself through what I went through. It is a very, very dangerous drug. Sadly, I am still recovering almost 3 years later. | F | 28 | 1X day | 12/19/2012 | 3 | birth control | I also got a mustache-looking shadow due to using Yaz. I hate it. I'm taking a prescription bleaching cream to see if that helps. | It helped make my periods a lot lighter and clear my skin. My PMS symptoms of moodiness and being overly emotional did get better with Yaz. BUT I didn' feel like myself during non-PMS days. I can't describe it, but I felt like I couldn't concentrate or focus as well on school work while on the pill...I was on edge. I'm naturally a high strung person, and Yaz seemed to make me more high strung than I cared to be. | F | 31 | 6 times | 10/3/2008 | 4 | for acne /pregnancy | weight loss | I started taking yaz become i was braking out a little bit also i was very moody after having my daughter ...yaz worked great for me my face was so clear and my mood swings went away i only complain about loosing so much weight i lost about 15 pounds | F | 23 | 1 days | 7/22/2009 | 2 | Anxiety and depression | 1 days | 1/8/2013 | 1 | PMDD, acne | weight gain, depression, anxiety, tiredness | would not recommend this drug. Used it for PMDD and acne (not sexually active) and I've heard good reviews about it. Ended up being always tired, had constant depression, gained weight + constant bloat, and made my periods irregular and heavier. | F | 3 days 1X day | 10/18/2016 | 2 | birth control, pms | weight loss, anxiety, insomnia, loss of appetite | Yaz completely took away my appetite & I'm already skinny! I wanted to gain weight, not lose it. I also couldn't sleep. I came off of it & returned to normal. | F | 32 | 5 days 1X day | 9/9/2010 | 1 | PMDD | I am on day 5 of Yaz and this is my last day. It has given me horrible acne and my stomach hurts so bad I am contemplating a trip to the ER. | F | 38 | 5 days | 10/7/2016 | 2 | PMDD | Itching, headache, weeping, anxiety, heart palpitations, nausea, PMS-like food cravings, sore throat. | After living with PMDD for many years and zoloft no longer helped, I thought it was finally time to try OC. I had hoped Yaz would work but after only 5 days I'm quite scared and not sure that it's worth it. I've called my gyno and will probably stop. | F | 47 | 6 days | 8/26/2009 | 1 | birth control | super long bleeding during active pills; severe depression, panic attacks, anxiety | I tried taking Yaz a couple of different times. The first time I tried taking it I started to bleed after the first week and the bleeding didn't stop for TWO WEEKS. After 2 weeks I (and my boyfriend) was just fed up and sick with not being able to do anything. It wasn't that Yaz made me upset the first time I took it, it's that having a two week period made me upset. (Obviously) So I stopped taking it and (naturally) got my period. But halleluia it went away after a few days. I then waited through an entire cycle before trying to start Yaz again. (There was a question about whether I had started it on the right day the first time, I probably hadn't started it on the right day.) This second time I started Yaz was absolutely miserable. About 2-3 days after I started it I started freaking out and crying all the time and I wanted to jump out in front of a bus. (suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, depression) I nearly broke up with my boyfriend because of all of the crazy thoughts that this medication put into my head. I didn't realize that Yaz was causing it for about a week. Abour 2 days after I stopped it I felt 90% emotionally better. I had to start seeing a therapist because of the emotional side effects of Yaz and now that I'm off Yaz I feel SO much better emotionally. I'm still seeing the therapist because I have anticipatory fears that those emotional panic attacks will come back, but thank god I figured out that it was Yaz that caused it. | F | 18 | 7 days | 11/8/2009 | 1 | extended periods | dry skin, severe moodswings, acne | the pill caused massive moodswings for me. | F | 18 | 8 days 1X day | 2/23/2010 | 1 | Periods | Passing out every 2 hours! | I have used contraceptives for years and was taken off of Ortho Evra due to the blood clot warning and put on Yaz. Everything seemed fine the first week then this horrible side effect appeared! I am completely healthy and don't smoke etc and was experiencing episodes of dizziness to completely losing consiousness and even landed in the hospital! I googled Yaz side effects as I had not changed anything in my lifestyle and it came up with causing blood sugar levels to drop. (That's what it says I swear!! But it was more than a simple drop!!!) I had to drink Coke every time I started to feel sluggish or I would pass out-after discontinuing it took 10 days for the symptoms to fully disappear and I am fine now. The thing is when I talk to every female around me they are all taking Yaz! Beware! | F | 28 | 8 days 1X day | 3/23/2012 | 1 | PMDD | Breasts swelled an entire cup size in a WEEK and were extremely tender. Ravenous hunger, spotty period | The hunger began when I started Yaz. I discontinued 10 days later because of the hunger, and I am STILL feeling the effects! It has now been three weeks since I have been off of it, and the side effects are still here. My breast size is still a full cup size larger. I hate this med!!!! Never going on oral contraceptives again. | F | 22 | 10 days one pill 1X day | 10/19/2012 | 1 | Endometriosis | Meniere's disease, vision prescription change | I had been taking Yaz for only 1.5 weeks when I developed a roaring, ringing, echoing, and fullness sensation in my left ear with extreme sensitivity to sound. After stopping the pill and spending two mornings incapacitated in bed with vertigo, a week passed and my symptoms declined right before I started my period. I saw an ENT approx 1 week from when my symptoms started and was diagnosed with Meniere's disease, a build up of pressure/fluids in the inner ear, probably caused by Yaz. During this time, I started getting eye strain so I went in to get my eyes rechecked (yearly exam was in August) and my astigmatism had changed for the first time in 3 years in BOTH eyes! Yaz is an awful, awful drug. | F | 31 | 10 days | 9/20/2008 | 1 | Endometriosis | Vomiting, headache and high blood pressure | I had these side effects from the very first time I took it until the last time. I haven't sleep much this 10 days but the first night without everything was fine again... | F | 27 | 10 days 30mg 1X day | 11/12/2020 | 1 | Amennorhia | Extreme hair loss that lessened but never stopped. | F | 24 | 14 days 20 1X day | 11/1/2020 | 2 | PCOS/Birth control | Nausea, Headaches, Hives, Raging Mood Swings | The nausea and headaches were bearable. I ended up coming off of Yaz because of the hives and mood swings. Hives are not a normal reaction. I had a severe allergic reaction to Alesse birth control pill when I was 16 and it just so happens that the estrogen in Yaz and Alesse are the same, apparently I'm allergic to synthetic estrogen. At any rate what was absolutely unbearable were the mood swings. My gynecologist explained to me that it is trial and error with birth control pills as far as side effects go and every body is different. In my case I'm a stay at home mom with an eight month old and the mood swings got to the point where I didn't feel like I could control my anger. I didn't want to get to the point where I was losing my cool with my baby and I feel it would have gotten to that point if I had continued with Yaz. | F | 20 | 15 days Reg 1X day | 8/31/2010 |
YAZ (DROSPIRENONE; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL): This medication is a combination of 2 hormones: an estrogen (ethinyl estradiol) and a progestin (drospirenone). This product is used to prevent pregnancy. It works mainly by preventing the release of an egg (ovulation) during your menstrual cycle. It also makes vaginal fluid thicker to help prevent sperm from reaching an egg (fertilization) and changes the lining of the uterus (womb) to prevent attachment of a fertilized egg. If a fertilized egg does not attach to the uterus, it passes out of the body. This medication also may be used to treat premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) or moderate acne if you have chosen to use birth control pills as your method of pregnancy prevention. Besides preventing pregnancy, birth control pills may make your periods more regular, decrease blood loss and painful periods, and decrease your risk of ovarian cysts. Using this medication does not protect you or your partner against sexually transmitted diseases (such as HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia). FDA Approval Date: 2006-03-16 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)