Yasmin & Yaz T-shirt Suggestions

Hello Ladies,

As so many of you have suffered from the birth control Yasmin and Yaz, or know someone who has. It is time we speak up. Here is a collection of t-shirt samples gathered by the suggestions of the women out there who is fighting to get their lives back.

We will ONLY SELECT ONE style t-shirt, except for when we are pill specific then we will have two (one for yasmin and one for yaz). So please submit your vote by making a comment here or send an email to yasmin_yaz@live.com on what t-shirt you like the best! Please respond by August 1, 2011

Once all the votes are in I will publish the result and we can start the pre-order process! 

I SURVIVED YASMIN

I SURVIVED YAZ

ZAPPED

SISTERS UNITED

YOUR BODY

WHAT'S A NAME

WARNING FOR YASMIN

WARNING FOR YAZ

A WOMAN'S KILLER

Birth Control Side Effects

Birth control is a subject that has become a mission bigger than myself... I feel a need to spread the word to everyone I speak with and I wish someone could have shared with me ten years ago what I know today... But on the other hand if someone would have done that - I would not have been here today, trying to work so hard for it.

Birth control in the form of IUD, Pill, Implant, Shot, Ring or Patch are a hormonal form of birth control. They are accepted as the NORM by many; including our parents, friends and doctors and are not questioned enough. What we learn about them are the so called benefits and not side effects - and in many cases the side effect is looked upon as that X% chance of getting pregnant... Off course getting pregnant will change your life forever no matter what you decide to do when you find out that you are pregnant and I am not trying to hide that... but there is so much more than that. So much that not many speak about, or even acknowledge as being related.

More often than NOT are our symptoms ignored, laughed at, or treated with medications that most often fail. Why, I do not know - but I am sad that it has to be that way... there are so many young wonderful women out there that need the support that are left alone to think that it is all in their heads.

I am here to tell you that it is NOT in your head - your symptoms are very much real and are related to hormonal birth control, (or hormonal treatment during menopause if you are at that stage in your life):

• Hair loss
• Heart Palpitations
• Vision blurres
• Astigmatism
• High Blood pressure
• Allergy reactions
• Sinus problems
• Vaginal Dryness
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Panic attacks
• Insomia
• Symptom of Hypothyroidism
• Low tolerance to carbohydrates
• Poor nutrition absorbtion
• Diarrhea 
• Dizzyness
• Alcohol and/or Caffeine sensitiveness
• Feeling faint
• Weight Gain
• Weight Loss
• Low or no sex drive
• Spotting in-between periods
• Irregular Bleeding
• Cold sores
• Low immune system
• UTI
• Memory problems
• Bloating
• Mood swings
• Migraines
• Head aches
• Weepiness
• PCOS
• Sensitive to the sun
• Nervousness 
• Chronically tired
• Changes in skin 
• Muscle cramps or pain
• Heart attack
• Stroke
• Blood clot

As you can see most symptoms have nothing to do with your reproductive tract (vagina, uterus, menstruation)... and they may be overlooked by yourself even, as a symptom of your birth control method. And if you suspect that it is linked you must prepare yourself that your suspicion might be dismissed by the doctor or gynecologist. You must listen to your body! Taking beta blockers, anti depressants, and/or use Rogain shampoo will NOT treat your real underlying issue, only hide it - if you are lucky - and then you should also hope for no side effects of this options. The only way you are truly going to get rid of this is to get off the hormonal birth control, and by that I mean GET OFF, not try another one, and restore your body's natural hormone balance; which could be a trip to hell and back but worth the ride in the end!

Your health comes first! It is really that simple. Without your health in tact you cannot care for your loved ones in the best possible way. Take care of YOU first! If you are taking hormonal birth control you should really sit down and ask yourself if it is worth the risks when there are so many other available options out there that does not include hormones when it comes to birth control (something I will be talking about in a later post). If you are a man reading this - I have only one thing to say - Please support your woman when she does not want to use hormonal methods of birth control, I beg you.

Hormone Based Contraceptives - I hate them

As I am still struggling with my major side effects from Yasmin I am trying hard to keep my head above the surface. Nothing is easy - every step I take drains my energy and I can't seem to focus or get anything done. Even making time to cook is hard and it is easier just not to eat... Luckily I have a husband that gets hungry so I have no choice but to eat.

The only thing that makes me feel that it is not ALL to waste is my ability to educate others with my experiences while getting my own physological sessions by talking about it, or writing about it to be more precise. I am absolutley not ready to talk about it without bursting out in tears.

I realize that it is hard for all readers to understand what I am talking about and from and outside perspective I look fine. I mean; I eat every day, I go to work every day, I run to the bathroom every day, I take a shower every day, I kiss my husband every day, I watch TV every day... I must be OK right?!

I so wish it was that easy - it is not. I don't even find pleasure in shopping anymore and that is crazy!

I can pretty much say that my recovery from Yasmin has been far from symptom free. But I know I will get there, I just don't know when. But this message was really not about me - I have found a great link that talks about all hormone based contraceptives and wanted to share it with all you women out there. One very strong point that they share in their report is that about one THIRD of all women who take a hormone based contraceptive are suffering from depression - ONE THIRD!!!

Visit the link and send it to others PLEASE

http://www.virginiahopkinstestkits.com/everywomanbc.html

Proud to be a Swede?

This article is scary to me... but I have seen the debate first hand. I have watched TV shows and online papers and blogs. I have seen this Mrs Linde with my very own eyes - she is convincing and calm and if you don't know what to think you most likley will believe her. Doctors has even been told not to speak their own oppinion if it goes against the national guidelines regarding the swine flu vaccine in some states... I thought Sweden was a democtaric country?!

Like it is said in the article - Sweden is up for a medical scandal... I am sure this does not only happen in Sweden, but I am embarassed to say that it is happening. I have seen some of the propaganda used here in the US too though, like: "Think about your loved ones - get vaccinated"

Fifth "swine flu" vaccine death in Sweden - vaccinations still go ahead as planned!
By Johan Niklasson at http://www.theflucase.com/


Media in Sweden is having a tough time maintaining the propaganda as more and more people question the reasons for the mass vaccination. Now, authorities say that if not "80% of the population takes the shot, we risk 100 deaths from the swine flu". Most Swedes know that a normal flu season see several thousand dead from complications from the seasonal flu so the proportions of the propaganda coming from media and the government has caused a growing revolt against the massive attempts to scare people to take the poisonous injection.

We have earlier reported on the first death, the second death (also here), the third death and the fourth death in Sweden from the poisonous Pandemrix vaccin shot.

Today, Svenska Dagbladet reports that over 350 cases of side effects from the Pandemrix "swine flu" shot, has been recorded so far. It has also become clear that this shot contains the most deadly mix of substances of all the known vaccines manufactured against the so called "swine flu" H1N1 influenza. The official number of deaths from the "swine flu" vaccine is now five. And that is only those who have strong immediate reactons, the long term effects are usually never even investigated. If you would die from the shot two weeks after you took it, your death would not be considered to have anything to do with the vaccination. Severe health problems years after will of course be very hard to link to the poisonous injection. Even if these five official cases died within days, the official story is of course as expected: "none of these deaths has been confirmed to be linked to the vaccine".

In Aftonbladet, Jan Liliemark from The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) says: "- Nothing points to a connection. There will be more deaths. We are looking for a pattern, if the cases have something in common. We have so far not found any clear connections between them yet." Officially 198 cases of confirmed "swine flu" exist in Sweden today among a population of over 9 million. How these cases have been tested and determined is not clear.

As always with statistics like this, historically we know that very few of all real side effects are actually reported. Optimistically, up to ten per cent would be reported. It is also highly likely that deaths are being kept secret by the authorities so that the massive and hugely expensive vaccination program will not come to a complete stop. Too many have put their job, reputation and title at stake for the truth to be reported and published.

So far, three people have been reported dead from complications from getting the H1N1 virus. Five dead from the flu shot before the real vaccination campaign has even started should be an indication to question the vaccine and the strategy chosen but the authorities have so much prestige invested that it is unlikely it will ever happen - no matter how many will die from the poisonous injections.

The Swedish public are being kept in the dark about the most simple facts about the vaccinations. The questionable protection against the virus will only be for this present strain - any new mutations would immediately require a new vaccine for that strain. The new second wave of the new mutation is exactly what authorities warn about and use as an argument to take the poisonous injection.

Authorities are running out of arguments and completely idiotic arguments have been published the last week in Sweden. "There is less mercury in the shot than you get from eating mercury contaminated fish", "You might get sick from the vaccine but you should take that risk to ´save" someone who could die from getting the H1N1 infection from you", "It would be like killing someone to not take the shot out of solidarity" and "Mercury is not dangerous and also squalene is not dangerous, there is nothing called the Gulf War Syndrome and if there is, it has nothing to do with squalene because there was no squalene in the vaccines the US troops got", "German politicians will not get a different flu shot than the rest of the German population".

The number of flat out lies are so many, it is hard to keep track of them all.

The chief of The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Annika Linde, says in the article: "- The Vaccine is principally natural to the body. The mercury was necessary but the amounts are very small. There are many who have been making statements without qualified knowledge. It is of course good that this type of matter is debated but some of the reporting is rather devastating for the possibility to vaccinate the whole population." You are welcome Mrs Linde.

The official line in Sweden is bordering to madness and the biggest medical scandal in the history of the nation has just started.

Johan Niklasson

Yasmin & Yaz Information Group

It’s been over a week now since I stopped taking Yasmin… I still feel many of the side effects that I listed in my previous post but I didn’t expect this to go away over night either. This has taken me very hard. Not as hard like someone died but hard as in “I have to do something about this”. I have started sending a letter to every person I know and have received great response from many; both to thank me for sharing this and from people feeling the same thing as I have.

And I am not stopping here. I just started a Facebook Group: Yasmin & Yaz Information. My goal with the group is off course to get the word out to as many as possible and then we will see where this leads. I am also working on notifying both the FDA and Bayer about my health but have not gotten to that yet.

All I know is that this is the beginning of something big…
Something has to be done about the medical companies’ ways of getting their products approved. It is so much bigger than just the birth control pills… I am on a roll here and I cannot be stopped!

Help me getting the word out by joining the group and spreading the word.

Thank you for your support.

Yasmin and I

For as many people that I have been trying to “save” from heart disease and false information, I myself have been walking a straight path to stroke and heart attack every single day. I never cared to take a look at myself; I ignored the signs for the benefit.

It is almost funny how someone like me can even be in a situation like this. But it is not funny… it is scary to say the least. I have made a horrible mistake, probably the biggest mistake of my life, and for what?!

Today when I look at it – the benefit isn’t worth it, not even a little bit. Not for anyone! I understand that I didn’t know better when I was 18… but NOW after experience the side effects for so long. But instead of question them; I have taken the side effects into my life and I have accepted them as part of me and my life. How crazy is that?! I have done something that I tell other people to watch out for… How can I be so stupid???

My biggest mistake is my companion Yasmin. She has been here for probably 6 or 7 years. Before her I was friends with some others, but Yasmin was introduced to me as the new and fresh thing, the better thing. The safer thing.

It started with me wanting to be protected against pregnancies off course but after having numerous of issues with the first few brand names I tried you would have thought that someone simply would have said that I should just stay off the pill completely. That is off course not what happened, since no one put two and two together. I was recommended Yasmin as the last option, take it or leave it. I wish someone would have told me to leave it, because I took it. And I have been taking it ever since.

Side effects
The very same year I started my pills I developed pollen allergy, and my allergies have been developed into other allergies as well since then. My vision has been drastically decreased the last few years. Not long ago I received my first prescription glasses ever due to my lack of ability to see in the dark. I was seriously a traffic danger before my glasses. The optician classified my problem as astigmatism, and that is normal I guess… But my vision issues goes beyond that. Sometimes I can’t see what I am actually looking at. It is like something is blocking the exact point I am looking at that I have to look just a bit to the side of what I want to look at… It is milder than the migraine aura but similar. At first I thought all of these vision issues were due to old age (I’m 29) but I am not convinced anymore. I am starting to believe that this is because of the pill…

So far I have told you about my allergies and my vision blurs, and there is more to come. For years I have been suffering from bad sleep and hard time falling asleep and this has resulted in me being tired all the time. Never felt rested. Headaches and neck pain has also been two close companions. Probably because the body can’t take up any water and is dehydrated.

Another issue that I have been battling with is my heart. I can wake up in the middle of the night with it beating like I am running for my life and sometimes the heart beats are so hard that it hurts and it feels like the heart is going to explode out of my body.

I experience panic/anxiety attacks that are a mix of heart palpitation issues, feeling warm, feeling faint, and feeling that I have to either vomit or run to the bathroom. Off course the only thing I can do is lie down in my bed to try to breathe calmly. Standing up is not even an option when this happens. I don’t even think I would be able to take myself to a car if I had to be transported to the hospital without passing out.

So all the above mentioned side effects (allergies, sleep issues, vision problems, head aches, heart palpitations, feeling faint, and panic/anxiety attacks) are things that I only have to deal with sometimes. They don’t haunt me every day. They don’t remind me every day that something is wrong. But I have one thing that does – one thing that I will never get rid of from taking the pill. Never ever. Every time I stop taking the pill (I have done that for a few months here and there) I instantly feel a difference. I feel like ME, like Helena.

This thing that stalks me EVERYDAY is what most people would classify as depression. It increases and decreases, but it is always there. Everything is gray. Nothing is fun, exciting, and nothing impresses me. This is something I feel the second I go back on the pill and I feel it every single day from that day. It is horrible for me to even say this but I have come to be a pretty good actress, most of the time anyway. I would act excited when I know I should and I would sound happy when I know I should. But sometimes people see through it, especially my husband. He sees it right away but probably don’t realize how deep it goes… But here goes – I am depressed and I have been depressed for the last six or seven years. Sometimes the depression isn’t as heavy but sometimes it is unbearable. Off course I have wonderful days too and I can enjoy myself but there is a shadow somewhere in there… always.

Heart issues, vision issues, head aches… anyone hearing that bell? I didn’t for years and years. Now it feels like the bell is sitting in my very own ear… I am lucky to be ALIVE! As so many healthy young women fall victim for heart attack and stroke due to Yasmin or Yaz I should feel so lucky I am alive, that I am not them. I am thankful to what caused me to even look into myself and these side effects, I am thankful for all other women before me that have posted their experiences with Yasmin. They made me feel confident that all this is related. They made my feelings real and not imagination. They made me realize that now is the time to stop.

Yesterday morning was my last day on Yasmin… now I will work on stepping out of the gray shadows that have been an evil parasite inside of me for so many years. It is time that my husband gets his real Helena. It is time I get to enjoy who I really am!

I say this now and I will never take it back: I will never, ever take a hormone based birth control ever again. And I will say this to everyone that wants to listen, and probably a few more.

To all my ladies out there: Be strong! We can do it!

Good websites about Yasmin Side Effects
Yasmin Survivors Forum
Yasmin Side Effects at Medications.com

A sensitive subject

It seems that as soon as I mention ED and some of our markets most popular drugs, prescribed to treat or hide the disorder I get emails after emails from people wondering if it is true or not, and from people trying to sell me some Viagra… Selling Viagra or even trying to sell it to me makes me laugh. I just want to say “didn’t you just read what I wrote”? But I guess as long as the word ED is in there… people attack like hungry sharks. And I understand – Sex is important! And selling something that, according to the advertisements, can improve your sex life has to be fun!

Well this blog isn’t about promoting Viagra, Cialis, or any other drug produced by drug companies. This is about a healthier way of life – nothing else.

So let’s do this again, let’s learn about ED and let’s learn about how we can do something about it in another way than talking to your doctor about possible drugs (with side effects).

Penile erection occurs as a result of increased blood flow to the penis, engorgement with blood, and decreased outflow of blood from the penis. Primarily, this process is mediated by nitric oxide, which is a neurotransmitter and vasodilator. ED may be caused by different factors such as physical illness, medicinal treatments, or psychological effects. In many cases men with ED will be prescribed to try one of the drugs on the market, such as Viagra or Cialis. These drugs works by blocking the enzyme called phosphodiesterase (the enzyme that normally works by “letting the erection go” after the sex act). In other words these drugs will never treat the issue, just make it work for the moment.

When taking drugs we all have to worry about side effects, effects that sometimes seem worse than the illness itself… And what most people don’t know about Viagra is this:

Once FDA approved Viagra, Pfizer reported sales of 30,000 prescriptions the first week, 110,000 the second week and a total of 350,000 prescriptions filled by the end of the very first month. WOW!!! Viagra is a gold mine – better yet diamonds! However people die for diamonds too – in its first year of sales FDA reported that Viagra had 1473 adverse events including:

- 255 serious heart rhythm disturbances
- 53 episodes of congestive heart failure
- 119 strokes
- 517 heart attacks
- 522 deaths!

Yes you read it – 522 deaths in its first year on the market! (Remember the big fuss about ephedra? FDA pulled this natural product off the market because there were 155 assumes deaths reported over a 10-year period. Where none of the deaths were actually proven to be caused from taking ephedra and its synthetic twin ephedrine remains on the market today. Sometimes you might wonder whom the FDA is working for.)

http://www.greathealth-tour.com/Arginine%20The%20Love%20Potion.pdf

So considering these side effects from taking these drugs many men choose to do nothing, and that is sad too! There are natural ways to improve your sex life without any horrible side effects; in fact supplementing with Arginine might improve other functions as well!

NaturalSexPower.com says this about Arginine and ED:

…These risks are one of the reasons why men are looking for alternative treatments. L-arginine is one of the most beneficial of these alternatives. L-arginine is widely supported by the Nobel Prize committee and other notable individuals. This is due to the fact that it has such a large range of benefits. Not only does it open the arteries and produce adequate blood flow which is necessary for proper erectile functioning; it also adds essential benefits to your life. The use of L-arginine has been embraced by physicians, researchers and scientists because of its benefits to such things as heart disease, adiposity-generated diseases, immune function, high blood pressure, human aging, and of course sexual dysfunction. However, the list of benefits goes much further.
You can find the full article here:
http://www.naturalsexualpower.com/articles/how_does_l-arginine_m2_relate_to_sexual_dysfunction.php

Researches say this:

- Arginine alleviates male impotence by stimulating the production of nitric oxide, the endogenous chemical that stimulates erections in males.
- Arginine alleviates male infertility by improving sperm count and sperm motility due to its involvement in the manufacture of endogenous spermidine.
- Arginine enhances male and female sexual desire (libido)
- Arginine enhances female sexual performance due to its role in the production of nitric oxide production in the clitoris, nitric oxide facilitates female orgasm in the clitoris.
- Arginine improves male sexual performance by providing nitrogen to the nitric oxide molecule that is integral to the achievement of erections – Arginine produces erections that are bigger, harder, and more frequent. It also increases male sexual endurance.
- Arginine improves sperm count and sperm motility
- Arginine may improve prostate function
- Arginine deficiency can cause atrophy of the testicles of the testes.
- Arginine cure ED – 80% of men with erectile dysfunction treated with L-arginine and antioxidants recovered from their erectile dysfunction after one month of treatment

E-mail me and I will send you a list of references; Helena@mi4u.org

Arginine works by releasing nitric oxide that triggers the release of c-GMP, which is a molecule that causes engorgement of this tissue. Arginine releases nitric oxide to make sure there is plenty of c-GMP.

So are you or someone you love suffering from ED?
Don’t you think it is time you tried a natural product for once?

Email me and I will tell you all about some wonderful products that you can be 100% confident in that it is actually 100% natural. If you rather look on your own; make sure you find a product that contains 5 grams of Arginine in each dose, 200mg of Citruline and antioxidants! As they will work in harmony with each other!

Good luck and take care of yourself!

helena.mathis@hotmail.com
www.drinkcardiococktail.com/179463
www.drinknobel.com/179463

Arginine - The safe and effective alternative to Viagra

Dr. Jacob Rajfer reported to the New England Journal of Medicine, as much as 80% of sexual dysfunction in men and women is directly attributable to some form of nitric oxide failure brought on by smoking, prescription drugs, diabetes, high blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol and obesity (35 pounds overweight). Ironically, these are the same risk factors for heart disease and stroke.

But can raising nitric oxide levels in the body be the answer men & women are hoping for?

"This year scientists proved definitively that nitric oxide translates sexual excitement into potency by causing erections. The pelvic nerves get a message from the brain and make nitric oxide in response. Nitric oxide dilates the blood vessels throughout the crucial areas of the penis, blood rushes in and the penis rises to the occasion."
Science Magazine 1992

Many sexual enhancing prescription drugs only stimulate the already lowered nitric oxide levels. Arginine derived nitric oxide not only increases the nitric oxide levels by creating more nitric oxide, but also works on the conditions that cause the decrease in the nitric oxide levels to begin with. And because it is all natural, you do not need to fear any negative side effects or complications, common among the expensive prescription drugs.

"The proper amount of arginine stimulates, restores, and magnifies the sexual response in both men and women."

Arginine is a safe and effective way to put the passion back into your love life!
Author: Dr. Harry Elwardt

Read more about Arginine in this blog and here.
Send me an email if you are interested in getting your natural liquid Arginine Now!
helena.mathis@hotmail.com