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 |
| 3 | birth control, ovarian cysts. | Complete loss of sex drive.I hate to be touched. No weight changes. No mood changes. I don't get my period anymore. | I guess its okay, other birth controls either gave me mood swings, or made me gain a lot of weight. I skip my period more often than I get it. | F | 24 | 7 months | 9/15/2009 | 3 | moderate acne | NO sex drive. Zero, maybe negative sex drive actually. Vaginal dryness. But it did clear up my bad acne! That was GREAT! Super light periods. No weight change or breast size change. Basically just don't like to be touched anymore. | It really cleared up my acne, which was probably being caused by a hormone imbalance. I don't have sex, but I don't even want to be touched or kissed or ANYTHING by my boyfriend anymore. It's very sad for both of us. Hopefully when I get married I'll be able to find something that keeps my face clear and gives me back my normal libido. | F | 22 | 1 years | 9/3/2009 | 5 | Had headaches with other BC | None other than early on, I had 2 periods a month if I didn't take my pill the same time every month. | It has been a God send for me. It's regulated everything. However, it's costing me $72 per month...so I am seeking other BC. I hate changing when this works, but I can't afford it. Plus, I just saw the lawsuit commercial for Yaz/Yasmin and they are saying it can cause strokes & heart attacks. With me having high Cholesterol, I can't take the risk...I have to move on. | F | 31 | 2 years | 9/1/2009 | 4 | mood swings | breast tenderness (only during the first few weeks), vaginal dryness | I had a light 3 and a half day period with minimal cramping! Inscreased breast size. My sex drive still exists, although it has decreased. Dryness is a problem. Without lubrication, I can be in pain/discomfort after sex due to irritation for about a day. My acne is the same as it has been, though I've heard it takes a few months for your skin to clear up with Yaz. As far as I can tell, I'm still my old self and my monthly mood swings are not nearly as bad. I'm not too excited about Yaz, but it's been working. As long as my side effects are mild and controllable (which they have been), I'll stick with it. | F | 19 | 6 weeks | 8/27/2009 | 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 | 2 | birth control | depression, yeast infections, increased breast size, decreased acne | While the increase in cup size and decrease in acne were both amazing, with time I started to break into tears with no logical explanation other than the awful yeast infections I would get with my period every month. I stopped taking the pill and the depression and yeast infections stopped. I stayed off BC for about a year and am currently trying loestrin. | F | 20 | 3 years | 8/25/2009 | 2 | Heavy periods, Ovarian Cysts | Lack of sex drive, depression, headaches, sore throat, spotting | Yaz caused severe depression and anxiety for me, especially during my period. It also robbed me of all of my sex drive which made sex very painful due to vaginal dryness. I started getting headaches which became really severe around my period and dull the rest of the month and my throat was constantly sore. Also, my period would last a week longer than it should have every month. I stuck with it for four months to see if I would adapt to the hormones and that was four months way too long!! | F | 26 | 4 months | 8/11/2009 | 5 | Perimenopause, heavy monthly flow | Breast tenderness and enlargement (not a good thing for me) | So far I am very satisfied with this Pill. 25 years ago I was prescribed Ortho 1/35, which I took for 3 years and ended up with a 20 lbs weight gain and breast so big that I had to have a breast reduction surgery. As soon as I stopped the Ortho I lost most of the weight and I swore to myself that I would never be on the pill again. A few years later, after a doctor insisted that the pills were less strong than they used to be, I was prescribed Desogen....I took this pill for 2 months and had to stop because the weight gain was back and I became totally unstable emotionally. In the past few years I have started to experience some severe PMS (PMDD) and my menstrual flow has became very heavy to the point that I became anemic. Lately, I have been having night sweats, feeling fatigued, forgetful and totally unstable and irritable. My new doctor thought it would be time for me to consider taking some hormones because I am in perimenopause so I decided to give YAZ a try. I have no nausea because I take the pill before I go to bed at night.I also try to take it at exactly the same time to avoid break through bleeding. I sleep better (no night sweats except when I am on the sugar pills), my emotions are stable (no more weird behavior that might create problems at work or with the hubby), my skin glows and I did not gain weight. | F | 43 | 5 weeks | 8/8/2009 | 1 | Birth control | mood swings-anger, random crying, personality changed. Extremely painful cystic acne around chin/jaw area. | Yaz was the first birth control pill I tried. I had heard such great things about it from others, that I thought I would try it. It was horrible for me. It gave me extreme mood swings and I would cry in public for no reason, and I was always angry for no reason. It also gave me the worst cystic acne I have ever seen. (I used to have mild/moderate acne) The cysts were deep and painful and took months to disappear, even after I stopped taking it. I now have scars from it. I also take Loestrin 24 Fe and I am MUCH happier. | F | 24 | 2 months | 8/7/2009 | 3 | Mild acne, birth control | No significant side effects that are extremely apparent. I feel tired during the day but restless at night. No moodiness or irritablility like with Loestrin. My acne breakouts are minimal. I have a few tiny pimples forming but unlike before I used to get one or two major pimples. This [so far] hasn't completely cleared my skin but it may be too soon to tell. I'm still in the analysis stage for this product. | F | 37 | 16 days | 8/4/2009 | 3 | birth control | vaginal dryness, loss of sex drive, irritability, depression | This pill had no drastically bad side effects as I was afraid it would, however, it did totally rob me of any desire for sex whatsoever basically defeating its own purpose. When I did have sex it was painful and uncomfortable due to the dryness. I have been depressed since before starting the pill so I don't blame it for that, however, it did intensify the feelings of sadness and apathy greatly and made it harder to get over them. This pill still has positive qualities and I would probably recommend it over others. I used it for 4 months with no other form of protection(in an exclusive relationship) and it did its job perfectly. | F | 19 | 4 months | 8/4/2009 | 4 | Contraceptive, menses supression | No side effects. | I have been on numerous b/c pills over the span of the past 20 years. I've had problems with all of them until this. Clearly, by reading the other comments, everyone has a different experience. Hormone pills are tricky - and work differently with everyone. My skin looks great, my mood is good, my sex drive is great, no issues with lubrication, and best of all...no periods! The only downfall is that it's expensive with my medical insurance. | M | 37 | 18 months | 7/27/2009 | 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 | 1 | contraception | depression, sadness, loneliness, anxiety, pimples | Been on this drug for a month and I have not felt this terrible for a long time. I am constsntly snapping at everyone, angry, low self esteem, cry about 20 times a day, and dont feel like my life is worth living. Have made an appointmeat today to get off this crap. Anything has gotta be beter. | F | 27 | 1 months | 7/20/2009 | 2 | cramps, birth control | complete loss of sex drive | This drug completely killed my sex drive. It was awful. | F | 22 | 1 years | 7/13/2009 | 1 | birth control | nausea, weight gain, headaches, moodiness, sleepiness | i started taking this after my daughter was born b/c other pills weren't working to my satisfaction. this one was the WORST. it made me feel so horrible in the first few weeks i actually thought i was pregnant again and took three tests in three weeks to confirm a negative. i also gained 10 pounds in 3 weeks. i couldn't keep taking it for the remainder of the pack. | F | 28 | 3 weeks | 7/13/2009 | 2 | PMDD, acne, prevent pregnancy | bad: ACNE! even worse than b4, never had pimples so freaquently and deep, sex drive basically gone! not able to stay wet during intercourse. feel like eating all the time in the 2nd and 3rd weeks, yeast infections. good: no pregnancy so far. cramps are gone and very light periods. | F | 20 | 2 months | 7/10/2009 | 3 | PMDD | zero sex drive | Even though it helps with PMDD I'm sure I would have been fine on other pill. This pill definitely shortened my periods from 6 days to 1. I switched to Femcon Fe begining of May but I've been off the pill for about 4 weeks. Two months and still no period. What I hated about Yaz no sex drive. My dr told me it's a big side effect of this pill. It was so bad to the point that wouldnt even think about sex..ugh. | F | 29 | 10 months | 7/3/2009 | 1 | mail order rx sent it by mistake | uncontrollable weight loss, dry cracked skin, facial breakouts, SIGNIFICANT HAIR LOSS, red freckles | This is a scary product, and unfortunately I didn't do my homework before taking it. My mail order sent it to me by mistake, and I didn't have time to get it changed to Orthotricylen which I had been on for 10 years with no problem. First I started losing weight, which was great, but then it didn't stop and people told me I looked drawn and sick. Simultaneiously my skin appeared to be aging FAST. I thought it was from either winter cold or from the weight loss. Then... the worst happened, my hair started falling out. So I called my doctor and she asked about any new medication and that's when it dawned on me. I switched off of YAZ immediately, but the damage is done. I am actually considering a hair transplant and am seeing a dermatologist for skin issues, and I've become depressed. I had always been fortunate with great skin and hair, now I am a mess thanks to this poison. | F | 39 | 1 years | 6/28/2009 | 1 | pregnancy prevention | anxiety/panic attacks, sadness/depression, loss of sex drive, lack of lubrication, frequent urination, the need to drink a LOT of water, breakthrough bleeding | I had a horrible experience with Yaz. I was anxious all the time and started having random panic attacks. I felt sad and depressed for no reason, and started having thoughts of self-harm. There were days where I didn't feel like doing anything. My sex drive basically disappeared. It was my first time on the pill, so I waited it out for three months before I decided it was time to try something else. I switched to Loestrin 24 FE and so far things have been great! I feel a LOT better and my sex drive is back. I would say if you're having significant side effects with ANY pill, you should try something else. Different people react differently to different pills. But Yaz was NOT for me. | F | 28 | 3 months | 6/17/2009 |