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 |
| 5 | birth control | no weight gain and easy to lose weight; extremely short and sometimes light periods (last about 3 days); relatively few cramps; total acne control (especially of deep cysts) unlike when I was on other birth control pills; and helps relieve some of the cravings, irritability, sadness, etc that I had previously come to accept as part of my menstrual cycle | I love it--I feel sane and stable on it | F | 20 | 3 years 1X day | 10/28/2010 | 5 | BC | Weight loss, clear skin, NO moodiness! | I LOVE YAZ!! It has worked in my favor every which way possible, clear skin, weight loss, little to no moodiness, control of appetite. This is the wonder BC for me, not a single bad thing to say about it. I took the dosage with the lowest amount of hormones too:) | F | 23 | 2 years 1X day | 10/27/2010 | 2 | Birth control, heavy periods | Migraines, possible TIA, less acne, lighter periods, regular periods | Use caution with Yaz. I was a perfectly healthy 24-year-old who started getting severe migraines and was told to stop taking Yaz. | F | 24 | 1 years 1X day | 10/26/2010 | 4 | Birth control | Positive: clear skin (never had major problem but noticed significant decrease in breakouts); lost a few pounds; short, light, and very predictable periods (3 days); no cramps Negative: more frequent headaches, fatigue(?), decreased sex drive(?) | Yaz was my first and only BCP I have taken. Overall I would rate this pill very good and recommend it. My only complaint is increased headaches and tiredness. Changes in my lifestyle can definitely contribute to the fatigue, but I figured it's worth trying something else. Switching to Loestrin next month per gyno recommendation. | F | 30 | 2.5 years 1X day | 10/25/2010 | 1 | PCOS | I felt very energy drained and faint. I also experienced killer migraines, mood swings, crying fits, sleeplessness, disorientation, mental cloudiness, etc. It was just horrible! | I decided to stop taking it when I realized that there is a medicine similar to Spirolactone in it. When I was on Spiro before I fainted 3 times. | F | 23 | 2 weeks 1X day | 9/25/2010 | 1 | birth control, relief monthly pain | severe bouts of abdominal pain, nausea, back pain, high pressure behind eyes, extreme irratibility, moody, depression, weight gain | Mothers do not let your daughters take this drug! Daughters listen to your mother's! My dau 4 mthly period relief startd Yaz at 18. Complection more beautiful, period relief minimal. Then slow changes, 1st hostility/irratibility, no energy-slept alot,stomach pain.2008 things got worse. Really scary-HIGH pressure behind BOTH EYES! - fluid removed. Severe stomach/back pain,weight gain,tests,ER trips, medical bills! Dr's no resolution,just pain meds,her concern rx addiction. Fall 09 w/pain meds got thru wedding, evident in photos. Towards end able 2enjoy a litte of her own wedding. Prior YAZ - Healthy, good weight, never smoked,no alcohol/drug abuse. Dec 09 saw TV alert, confer w/her doctors,YAZ only RX, stopped JAN/10 - Now on nothing. Need Dr who can pinpoint what's still medically wrong. Worrys-future health issues & pregnancys.FDA needs2 step up. I just want my daughter back, happy and healthy. Warn every woman u know- STAY AWAY FROM YAZ! DON'T TRUST THIS DRUG! | F | 22 | 4 years 1X day | 9/18/2010 | 1 | Birth Control | Anxiety, Depression | I've been on Yaz for approximately two and a half years. For two years, I was fine (Fit, non-smoker). However, about six months ago, I noticed myself starting to get anxious, especially right before I was supposed to have my period. As time progressed up until this point, I've had panic attacks. I've also been hypersensitive, depressed, had a loss of appetite and have recently been constipated. Since July, I've been seeing a psychologist regularly and my physician gave me Xanex (0.25 MG) just to "take the edge off" (considering it's a very small dosage) if I needed it. In any case, I've been researching the link between Yaz and anxiety and I'm convinced that this is the Yaz in my system. I took my last pink pill yesterday (before I knew about the Yaz/Anxiety link) and I will not be taking the placebos to finish out the cycle. I am going to my gynocologist this weekend to get bloodwork done to check my hormone levels and to request changing my birth control prescription. I will update my review towards the end of the year. | F | 25 | 2.5 years 30 MG 1X day | 9/15/2010 | 3 | PMDD | Weight gain, poor circulation, bloood clotting, blurry vision, loss of feeling in limbs at times, low sex drive to almost none, vaginal dryness, no sense of feeling (neither happy nor sad), constipation | I was taking Yaz for PMDD. PMDD was RUINING my life. My fiance thinks Yaz is the wonder pill for fixing PMDD. However, the first 6 months I had very clumpy spotting when I wasn't on my period. That lasted for most of the 7th month. I went to the ER because the clots were so weird. Luckily the doctors found nothing severe. I kept taking YAZ because it made me feel so good and it made my acne-prone skin so beautiful. After taking it for over a year, I decided to go off of YAZ this week because I decided I put on enough weight that I couldn't take it anymore. I am not moody, however I don't feel much at all. I'm neither happy nor sad and I should be a very happy person! Great job, newly engaged and building m dream home but yet, nothing. I'm not sad, either, when sad things happen to me. I am also terrified of the possibility of blood clots, stroke, etc. I'll take PMDD and bad acne over being a bloated girl with no feelings. I can cover up the acne with make up and hopefully find another birth control to regulate my prior heavy cycle. Ever since taking yaz my legs go numb whenever I sit. I fell down the other day after getting up from sitting in my desk chair for a long time. My vision is blurry. I have gained 20 pounds this year and I watch what I eat and am very active. Sex is disgusting to me now. I have no drive what-so-ever. I am done with yaz!!!! | 25 | 1.5 years 1X day | 9/13/2010 | 1 | birth control | Never smoked or did any of the suggested things they say you not do I had migrains all the time come to find out they were TIA(mimi strokes)later found out I had a full blowen storke in 09 so lucky to still be here for my kids, | I would never ever take this and if you or any one you know is please stop taking it | F | 26 | 4 years 30 1X day | 9/10/2010 | 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 | 3 | PMDD | Very sore breasts and my sexual libido dropped significantly. I remember the libido problem back with another BC pill so this may just be the effect BC pills have on me. I have never had my breasts swell and ache this much though. That's good and not so good. Period was much lighter and moodwise I was FAR more stable. | Apparently I truly did have PMDD as this drug has improved my mood tremendously whereas before I was suffering for about a week to two weeks with severe mood swings. The worst of my mood swimgs would happen the day before my period. It got so bad that twice I was hospitalized for what was deemed a "mixed" episode of depression combined with extreme irritability. The day my period started those symptoms would go away. It's only been two months but I'm relieved that the rage and depression have eased to a managable level. It's still early but that's my experience thus far. I should add though that this pill has made my sexual drive drop dramatically and it's hard to reach. That's not so fun. P.S. I'm a former light smoker (age 27-31) and I quit not only for my health in the long-term but also because I desperately wanted to see if this pill would help with my PMDD as it said it would. So far so good but I'm meeting my Dr soon to go over what I've experienced. | F | 31 | 2 months 1X day | 9/4/2010 | 3 | severe pms | breast tenderness, tired alot, bloating, weight gain, enlarged breasts, nausea | i went on yaz as i was very unstable most of the month with pms.Once i started i felt alot better, i felt in control for the first time in years that was the only positive. Unfortunatly for me the negatives outweighed the positives and i decided to get off, i relation to a few other posts i am very active, weight train 3 x week, and cardio 5x week, i thinks it does not mix well with a active lifestyle. On the positive side it was the only pill i tried that made me feel in control of my life again | F | 30 | 3 months 1X day | 9/3/2010 | 1 | BC | Migraine headaches everyday, increased apetite, moody all the time, weight gain, decreased energy, lonely, depressed, angry at everything | I would not take YAZ. It did not help with anything and I still had breakouts. Ever since I went off of Mircette every bc I tried had horrible side effects. I hope I can return to Mircette and feel the great way i used to. | F | 25 | 2 years 1X day | 9/2/2010 | 1 | Bad Periods | Throwing up green bial daily | Everyday I would take Yaz at the same time, about 20-30 minutes later nausea hit me like a brick. I'd throw up green foamy stuff (bial) and then i'd feel great. So i thought it was just a bug, but then it never ended. So school began and I still took it at the same time everyday and the throwing up didn't end. So I went to urgent care before the first day of school. Then i threw up and felt great so every doctor always thought i was faking and even told my mom i was, so i went to a doctor that didn't prescribe it to me and said that she said it was very common at took me off of it | F | 16 | 5 months 1X day | 9/1/2010 | 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 | 1 | Contraceptive and period regulation | I was timid about using birth control at all because of the horror stories and when my doctor prescribed Yaz i asked if I could have a different prescription, but he assured me that Yaz was not any more dangerous than other birth controls. After 2 months of being on the pill I had consistent horrible headaches almost daily. I had been extremely emotional and had lost a lot of motivation and also felt tired and weak. I didn't put these symptoms together until my leg went entirely numb one day and I started shaking. I stopped taking Yaz immediately and haven't started another birth control since. I only stopped almost 3 months ago, after about a month I felt entirely normal, but another month after that I started feeling extremely stressed and extremely emotional without reason. Once again I didn't realize this was withdrawal effect from Yaz. I am waiting for my hormones to be entirely regulated again to return back to normal. | F | 17 | 3 months 1X day | 7/29/2010 | 1 | saw this on a news show | I personally did not take this; however, it was on the news recently in Dallas, TX a woman who does not drink, smoke nor use any other drugs whatsover used Yaz for 6 months. She was a completely normal person. Later, Yaz caused a severe blood clot, and now she cannot speak, cannot eat without assistance, and she cannot walk. | Be forwarned and forearmed about this horrific drug. Also, Depo-Provera and bio identical progesterone carry the same dangerous risks... NOT worth it. | F | 41 | 6 months 1X day | 7/16/2010 | 5 | birth control | This was the first birth control I have taken and I did so to regulate my periods/flow which had interferred with my school attendance. I loved this pill, no bad side effects, but my mom has made me switch pills due to all the bad press Yaz is receiving. I switched to Low-Ogestrel and within 5 months had acquired an insatiable appetite and gained 20 pounds. I intend to meet with my physician today and I will be discontinuing Low-Ogestral. I wish I could take Yaz again, but I will respect my mom's concerns and seek yet another option. | F | 18 | 1 years 1X day | 7/7/2010 | 1 | birth control | depression, anxiety, mood swings, "muddy" period, dry eyes and irritation, terrible migraines with aura, high sex drive | my doc put me on this after i complained about mood swings from Orthotricyclen. yaz was TERRIBLE!!! i experienced crying spells all the time. terrible migraines that made me sleep all the time. my period was gross - thick, muddy looking - did not look like real blood. my eyes were also so dry all the time that it hurt to wear contacts. it took me a long time to connect Yaz with all of my side effects. i was at the doctor's office constantly trying to understand what was wrong with me - it was this pill! | F | 28 | 6 months 1X day | 7/6/2010 | 1 | to limit moodiness and cramps | I originally was put on Yaz during the time I was taking Accutane. During that six month period, Yaz worked wonders, but time came to come off Accutane and I wanted to continue on Yaz. The second time around wasn't so wonderful. I ceased getting my period at all and I gained upwards of 20 pounds. No matter how much exercise and cardio (at one point I was doing upwards of 3 hours of cardio and weights with NO results) nothing could help me shed my weight. | After reading the comments on here, I plan on stopping Yaz altogether. Especially since I haven't gotten my period in almost seven months. (and no, I am not sexually active) | F | 19 | 2 years 1X day | 6/19/2010 |