Talk:Yaz

Yaz born 15 April (year unknown) in Bosnia

A.K.A. Jevante


 * See also: YAZ is a C/C++ programmer´s toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.37.190.186 (talk) 23:26, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

YAZ, the birth control
I am finding alerts about the use of YAZ, the birth control pill widely advertised on TV and print ads.

This was prescribed to me in 2007 after a laparoscopy to remove an ovarian cyst. I was experiencing heavy bleeding and was anemic before the surgery. I was 52 and my surgeon/doctor concluded I had endometriosis and needed to be hormonally regulated until I finished going through menopause.

After only a week, I felt awful. WHY? I ended up in the ER after 2 weeks on this drug. I was dehydrated and could barely walk in from the car after hours of vomiting. The desk nurse grabbed a wheelchair and rushed me back to triage.

When I checked back with my GYN, again I was told to start back on YAZ, my trip to the ER was unrelated to YAZ. I was encouraged in the information provided and by my GYN's office to persevere, it could take 3 months for my body to adjust to the medication. I am happy to say, I rejected this and started a vitamin and herbal regime that built up my poor depleted reproductive system. I felt amazingly better. When I went back for my post-op recheck, armed with the supplements I had taken, my doctor looked at their inserts, saw black cohosh as a very small part of the balance of herbal ingredients and told me I was playing a dangerous game, black cohosh was being studied at medical schools and was suspected of hurting women's health. I was sitting there in front of him, feeling better than I had in 6 months and yet, this reaction and scare tactic and advice for another trial of YAZ. Black cohosh, on the other hand, has been taken by women for many, many years and I do not see law suits against its producers.

I share this personal tale to pose this, why do physicians prescribe drugs that have such a checkered testing history that drug companies print elaborate cautionary inserts? Why is our own body's response not the ultimate arbiter of how good any substance is for us? I am happy now that I listened to my own body and took YAZ for only those 2 weeks. I now get daily emails from law firms looking for clients for class action suits against YAZ. I obviously was not alone in my response.Crowmick (talk) 14:52, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Poor Replacement for "yasss"
Used in some office group chats by Rachelle, and backed up by Matthew. Incorrect as can be.