I started taking yasmin in march of 2004, when I weighed 120 lbs (and I was 17), which I think is an okay weight for me being that I am 5'4". Since I have started taking the pill, I have become a vegetarian, stopped eating sweets, stopped drinking soda, and become much more active as i'm busy with two part-time jobs as well as college. However, within a month of getting started on the pill, I started to gradually gain weight. Just a couple pounds a month. Almost two years down the road, I now weigh 160 lbs, and I can't seem to lose the extra pounds.
In march of 2004 I also started to take zoloft, which made me have less of an appetite so I lost a couple pounds (then of course after that I regained them back, and then some, probably because of yasmin). I know that sometimes zoloft can cause weight gain, but in my case I think it kept my weight down because when I stopped taking it in june, my weight skyrocketed from 140 to 160. For this reason I think that it's yasmin that's making me gain weight. I've been gaining about a pound a week.
I was tested for hypothyroidism a couple days ago, and the results were negative. My thyroid is fine. If it's not yasmin that is causing this, I don't know what else I could be doing wrong. Everyone around me agrees that I get plenty of exercise and that I have a healthy diet.
The only suspect I have is yasmin (my doctor thinks that might be it, too). The problem is that i've never heard of anyone gaining 40 lbs while on yasmin, or any other birth control. In fact, my doctor prescribed me with yasmin specifically because she believed that it would cause the least amount of weight gain.
Is there anyone out there who has also had a significant change in weight due to yasmin, or has heard of someone who has? I know that i'm very sensitive to most prescription drugs, and I usually experience most, if not all, of the side effects. Gaining 40 lbs from a lesser strength birth control doesn't seem very surprising to me, especially if someone else has had the same problem before.
I stopped taking yasmin yesterday, in case it's the reason for my weight gain. I hope I lose some weight.
