I was diagnosed as bipolar when I was 15. I've been taking 150 mg of Lamictal for a couple years I think. I was taking Mircette for several years before I was diagnosed with PCOS to deal with my periods. It worked pretty swell until I started skipping periods and my OBGYN took me off it for a couple months, and when I was put back on birth control he gave me a perscription for Yasmin.
This just started a couple weeks ago but now I feel so unstable! Today I burst into tears because my house was cold! That's ridiculous! Yesterday I started crying because my fiance was using the downstairs bathroom and his sister was in the shower upstairs and I had to pee! What! I wasn't this bad when I wasn't on Lamictal!
I just stopped taking Yaz because I was tearing up at everything! Even stupid commercials. I am not a "crier" at all. I'm sure the hormones in bcp's are the culprit and maybe if you take them long enough your body plateaus or something, but I seriously was becoming a mental case so I stopped them. Also, they made me really clingy and sort of depressed.
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When i was on Yasmin (all of 6 months) It made me evil! I was very moody, very emotional, very unstable. I also noticed my hair coming out more than usual when I washed it, but never really connected the two until this past September. I immediately stopped Yasmin, and my hair stopped shedding so much. My Endo refuses to believe there may be a correlation between the two, but I'm sticking to my gun's on this, and not taking Yasmin again - not worth it.
If you do some searching on medical boards about Yasmin, you will find that while it doesn't happen for everyone (some people do brilliantly on it), extreme moodiness and depression is relatively common on Yasmin. It's also usually very quick to develop. I was one of these people, and I hate the pill with a passion. What gets me, like PP said, is that many doctors and the drug companies refuse to admit this is a side effect directly linked to Yasmin. I mean, they'll put all other kinds of horrible side effects in the pamphlet, but not "depression, suicidal thoughts, and despair".
Sounds like you're one of the unlucky ones. Get another pill, ASAP.
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Yasmin has quite a bit more estrogen than Mircette. That could be responsible for mood swings, hair loss, and bloating that many cysters have on it. I'd go back to Mircette if it was working for you.
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You know, I've been on other BCP before and never had any hair loss issues, and with Yasmin I did. I spoke w/my Endo about this and she refused to believe this because it has such a low androgenic hormone. Anyway's as soon as I stopped it, my hair stopped shedding so I'm just waiting for it to start growing in... I'm trying to keep a positive outlook on it, but at times I get down.
I'm currently on Yasmin, and I am a bit of a depressed person anyway, but since I have been on Yasmin (2 months) it seems like I cry over the stupidest things, and I can't control it.
But it's no where near as bad as when I was on Ortho-Tri-Cyclen Lo. That made me crazy. I had wicked mood swings, I didn't want to be touched, I lost ambition to do things, and my libido was gone. So I took myself off of that, my GYN put me on Yasmin, which I was on before the Ortho-Tri_Cyclen Lo, and did okay on then.
I think Yasmin's making me crazy! 
