YAZ Reviews (DROSPIRENONE; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL)Average Rating: 2.2 (250 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare YAZ with similar:
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Results are sorted by Date added. Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.) |
| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR YAZ | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Birth control | weight gain | I switched from Yasmin to Yaz because I noticed that Yasmin caused me to be very moody and depressed. I mentally feel wonderful on Yaz. I have gained 15 pounds while on Yaz and I cannot lose the weight - even after exercising 5x a week and meeting with a nutritionist to make sure that I am eating correctly. Having to change from Yaz because I can't lose the weight. | F | 25 | 11 months | 10/8/2008 | 5 | control bleeding/cramping/pms | full breast | i have had a wonderful experience, went from having 14 day periods to about 2-3 days. My skin does look better and my pms gone. Weight gain not an issue. My husband is so HAPPY!!! ME Too!! | F | 29 | 8 months | 10/7/2008 | 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 | 2 | B/C | Extreme mood swings | I took Yaz for two months. It regulated my periods just great, but it turned me into an emotional mess (constantly sad, crying if someone so much as looked at me wrong, etc). All the symptoms stopped when I quit taking it. I DO NOT RECOMMEND this drug. | M | 20 | 2 months | 10/3/2008 | 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 | 3 | Perimenopausal mood swings | Breakthrough bleeding for two full weeks before my period, very annoying | It was a great help with my mood swings. | F | 44 | 5 months | 9/13/2008 | 4 | pregnancy prevention | darkened skin under lip | I was on this pill twice for app. a year each time, with a year off in between. Good things were light (and short) periods, no cramps, no depression like other pills have given me. Bad things included frequent yeast infections and this dark spot on my lip that looked like a 5 o'clock shadow. It got to the point where I waxed it every 3-4 days thinking it was hair, but it wasn't. The dark shadow always remained, and makeup only made it look worse. I discussed it with my doctor and he said this pill was possibly too strong for me. He switched me to Mircette without explaining why it would be better for me (other than that it was lighter), so I ended up on this site researching others' opinions on it........needless to say it sounds horrible, and I'm now wondering if I'm better off walking around with an optical illusion of a mustache instead! | F | 28 | 2 years | 9/10/2008 | 4 | Help balance out my hormones | Some cramping the last week before the placebo week. Get pretty bloated during my period. Keeps my skin clear. | Periods are almost non-existant. I don't have to use regular pad or tampons anymore. Pantylines are more than enough. I don't get my period until I finish the placebo pills...I get it the first week of the next pack. | F | 31 | 4 months | 9/7/2008 | 5 | Prevent pregnancy | I had breakthrough bleeding towards the end of my first pack of pills, and nothing since then. | I thought my breasts were getting a little fuller, but that may have gone away, and I'm very small to begin with anyways. It's supposed to help your face clear up and make your periods lighter. However, for me, my face didn't really clear up all the way, but has gotten better. Periods fluctuate, some I don't feel any cramps and it comes as a "surprise" (a good one though :)), and others I get a little crampy, but they're better than the other bc's I've taken - nordette and levora. | F | 25 | 4 months | 8/28/2008 | 1 | Peri-menopausal issues | Bilateral Pulmonary Embolism after 6 months on Yaz. | 42 year old competitive athlete. Thin, non-smoker, had 3 successful pregnancies, very active, no predisposing medical conditions for clotting. Yaz is bad stuff. | F | 42 | 6 months | 8/23/2008 |