Has anyone been diagnosed with IBS and learn that it was thier birth control that caused the pain?

Has anyone been diagnosed with IBS and learn that it was thier birth control pill that was causing all the pain and it wasn't IBS?

I need some help! I have been taking Yaz for about four months and ever since I started the pill I have had severe stomach pain. I was diagnosed with IBS but I'm wondering if it's the Yaz pill. Has anyone else suffered from severe stomach pain that they had to go to the ER? I have lost 25 pounds because I had so many bowel movements and they have put me on Librax which is an IBS medicationVIEW IMAGE.  But I'm wondering if it's the pill? My docotor wants me to switch to Ortho Novum 1/35-28 but I'm afraid of gaining weight. Is anyone on the Ortho? And if so have you had any side effects such as weight gain and stomach cramping? Please I need some guidance.

Birth control pills (of any kind) can wreak havoc...they promote bacterial over-growth which is why many women have re-occurring yeast infections...if you HAVE to be on the pill, make sure you're at least taking a good probiotic because the pill will mess up the balance of the gut flora (due to the bacterial over-growth it causes)....maybe find another form of birth control?

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Hi Alexa,
I was on Ortho-Novum 1/35-28 for 7 years... It made my IBS worse and I gained 15 lbs (not a big deal since I was only 100 lbs).  Within 10 days of stopping the pill I felt 85% better (and gradually lost the weight).  I have since gotten on a lower hormone dose pill and am doing MUCH better.  I still have random IBS attacks, however, not nearly as often.  I also take probiotics and eat yogurt daily.  Good luck!  I hope you can get it figured out.

Hi there, im a 29 year old female, about 9 months ago i suddenly started to have chronic yellow D up to 30 times per day! After being tested for everything under the sun & having doctors tell me im "normal" i stopped taking the pill & had slight improvement. The D was better but still persisting, so ive started to take VSL#3, i cant praise this product enough.... its fantastic, D has reduced to about 2 or 3 times per day. Id like to know if anyone else has tried VSL#3 

 

I was on Yaz and it caused a blood clot in my brain, which led to a stroke. I was hospitalized for many weeks and my doc is 100% sure that the Yaz caused my stroke. I never drank and I am not a smoker so the myth that negative symptoms occur in only those that smoke is false. Birth control almost killed me and I will never take it again. Go see your GYN asap. Any side effect can be the sign of something bigger.
Missm

I can definitely say that birth control pills CAN cause IBS. I was put on the them at age 18 for poly-cystic ovaries. I gained 60pds in three months, developed anxiety attacks and horrible IBS to the point that I was in the bathroom with runs, cramping and nausea every night and got no sleep. My doctor insisted it was not the pill and changed me three times over a year. I finally gave up and quit the pill. I knew myself enough to know that I had been a socially active, healthy girl all my life and that the pill had to be the problem. Immediately all the systems went away upon stopping the pill, I moved to Charleston and got my life back.

Several years later the poly-cystic ovaries forced me to try the pill again. This time, the same side effects happened. Again, they tried me on several new pills. This time b/c i was much older, the systems got worse. Upon stopping the pill, the symptoms improved, but the IBS moved in permanently.

I have started taking digestive advantage and exercising regularly which has all but stopped the IBS. I will get it within a few days of my period. Good luck. NO pill for me again.

Thank you for your posts.  Can anyone tell me what treatments they used and how they recovered? 

I was on Yaz and am in terrible shape!!!!  I had and still have the yellow stool.  My system doesn't absorbed well.  I really need the help.  I called Bayer and they said that Yaz causes Irritable Bowel Disease, which is much worse than IBS.  Basically your small intestine which absorbs nutrients is damaged!!!  How can they admit this and still sell the drug?????????  Yas already has an "black box warning" which is the highest level but we need it RECALLED.  THIS DRUG IS RUINING LIVES.  Stay off all prescription meds unless it's a life threatening event!  The doctors don't know what they are doing and they are playing God with our lives. 

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