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Yaz Approved for Severe PMS

I love the scientific name they give.

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder...

Sciencese for "**** sucks before I start to bleed from a perfectly good orifice."

Everytime I try to defend science...they come up with some idiot name for some common sense problem. I swear, there's a DSM-IV disorder for being a teenage asshole. I forget what its called, but I remember reading the name and then the description and then just shaking my head, because all they had to do is put "Teenage Smartmouthed Asshole."

I don't care what you call it, frankly.

As soon as I get some money, I am investing in this company.

You might want to see what the side-effects are first.

One of the big things now in pharmaceuticals is combo drugs.

A statin combined with a Xetia.
Or a statin combined with a CCB.

It would be cool if they combined this drug with the female Cialis.

Uh... since you take Yaz most of the month, probably not such a great idea. :p

I considered it like a normal Ortho type birth control pill, that is a pill taken every day, even the 7(whatever) day sugar pills.

Uh... since you take Yaz most of the month, probably not such a great idea.
I first read that, as you take it once a month. What would be the problem with a daily dose to combat female sexual dysfunction. Half of all women can't have orgasms because they can't get horny. I, personally, say that is a problem. And a huge potential money maker.


The most common side effects seen in women taking Yaz are headache and breast pain.
Study subjects are required to report any problems with drugs. They do not have to actually be caused by the drug. I can see breast pain as being caused. But any normal headaches would have to be reported(and are not usually controlled out).

There it is, it is taken for 24 days like normal OBC.

BC isn't good for women over 35 because of the risk of annoyances blood clots going to critical organs. An interesting episode of Dr. G. was when she did an autopsy of a young woman who died in her sleep from... blood clots that somehow went to the intestinal area. Took a bit to figure out that mystery. Plus, its the progestin part of HRT that seems to contribute to the cancer problem of post menopausal women, so who knows what it would do over the long term?

Frankly, a lot of women are using progesterone creams to good effect. It's not patentable since it isn't a synthetic molecule (comes from wild yam) and is indentical to progesterone, and not synthetic like progestin. There's a lot of people asserting its the syntethic progesterones that are causing the cancer... I'm a bit skeptical of that.

Normal Ortho-type BC are taken for 21 days and then off for 7 - during which the lining is shed. This Yaz has a 24 day cycle on then 4 days off. Because of the Progestin in this pill, it is causing a lot of women not to have a period at all... which is actually O.K. - since the Progestin causes the lining not to build up like it normally would.

Problem is, most women feel like if they don't bleed, then there is something wrong. There is a study going on now regarding how many women have stopped taking Yaz because of this very reason.

Ask your doctor if Yaz is right for you.

I wonder if this drug has similar long term side effects as the Depo shot. I know of many women (myself included) that were prescribed the Depo shot long term were taken off it due to decrease in bone density after long term use. Depo shot also had the wonderful side effect of no monthly... 'twas a beautiful thing