WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for April, 2003: Re: swelling ankles and wrists

Re: swelling ankles and wrists

From: K (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:42:11 -0500 (CDT)

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I am not sure what Yasmin is but will research it and ask my doctor tomorrow at my appt. I just hope she will listen to me. I hate it when you know something isn't right and they act like you are making it up or something. Thanks for your advice. K

At Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Hector Nemirovsky M.D. wrote: >
>If you are clinically healthy, ask your Dr if Yasmin will be a better
>pill for you.
>
>At Tue, 29 Apr 2003, K wrote:
>>
>>I am a 35 yo female.I went to my doctor a few months ago because I felt
>>I was going crazy possibly because of PMS/PMDD symptoms. I just felt
>>very emotional and very easily angered and short tempered. I felt like
>>my hormones were out of wack. My doctor did the TSH test and said all
>>was well. Suggested I could try Zoloft or go back on the pill. I chose
>>to go back on the pill. I had taken for years with no problems but I
>>had gone off the pill a few years before just to see what I was like
>>without. She prescribed a different pill than what I had previously
>>taken:Mircette. I took that for about 6 months with no real change
>>emotinally but no side effects except occasional break through bleeding.
>>Another doctor at the clinic decided that Mircette was a poor choice and
>>changed me over to orthotrycyclin. I have only taken about 6 weeks. I
>>noticed that my period lasted a full week and that I had more physical
>>symptoms like cramping but thought little of it. Now I'm experiencing
>>more carpal tunnel symptoms in both hands like when I was pregnant and
>>my legs have been swollen sometimes with significant pitting edema. I
>>have also recently developed very sore tender breasts to the point that
>>it hurts to hold or hug my 4 yr old. Now I really feel nuts. Is it the
>>new pill causing my problems or is something else going on.? My doctor
>>alrady clumped me into the perimenopausal catagory I think because she
>>really had no answers. I don't even want to ask her this question as I
>>have little confidence in her. Does anyone have any suggestions or
>>ideas about any of this?
>
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