Emotional stability symptoms and conditions

I'm trying to determine some sort of pattern based on each woman's experience with different brands (estrogen/progestin levels) of birth control... Recently my gyn prescribed Loestrin 24, I have yet to begin a cycle but am trying to gauge possible side effects.
Generic Ortho-tricyclen: AWFUL!!! Reeked havoc on my emotional stability. Bitchy, moody, impatient, weepy (constantly), and weight gain. I did not notice any sexual side effects though.
Yaz: Better than Ortho... Random periods (heavy one month, non existent the next). Emotionally and sexually I feel fine, but hard to measure after taking Ortho and Cymbalta.

Please share thoughts and experiences

Hello all,
After reading all of these testimonials I suddenly feel more sane. I tried the Nuva Ring for one month and within the first week noticed a dramatic shift in my emotional stability. I had a panic attack and was unable to stop crying for hours. For weeks afterwards I felt not like myself all day, and was having one to two panic attacks a day. Also, I no longer had those little brilliant moments of happiness when I know that I'm entirely me. I really like myself, and usually have self-esteem but some how I forgot who I was, and forgot how to get back to that place. When I removed the ring after three weeks (as instructed) I decided to never put it back in. Within a few days I felt more like myself. I even had some glimmering "me" moments. Regardless, since then I still am much more anxious. I have trouble sleeping, an inability to relax, tension in my jaw, depression, and (worst of all) panic attacks. I can't shake this fear that something terrible is about to happen... but I know that it is just anxiety because my symptoms keep changing. One day I think that I'm hypoglycemic, and the next day I'm afraid that I had a seizure in my sleep. It all boils down to general anxiety, and panic attacks which ALL started when I began the NuvaRing. I have been off the Ring for one month now and I really want my life back. I have had my period post ring, and I'm sure the hormonal levels are just falling back into check- but I really need some reassurance from someone who understands. Could any of you (or all of you! the more the better!) please let me know how long it took your anxiety/depression symptoms to subside????? Please. I really need some hope that this will get better, because the hopelessness is part of the depression.

Thanks,
A.

I was on YAZ for only 7 days before I felt suddenly and completely crazy! On the Yasmin site there are several women complaining about YAZ side effects and asking if anyone is interested in starting a lawsuit. I feel there is enough severity and consistency in the complaints to start one. I don't believe a medication should be on the market that causes so many so much distress. If I could just save one women and her family from what we've gone through I would be willing to put quite a bit effort into it. Please respond to me or one of the women on the Yasmin site if you too think your suffering was enough that no one else should have to go through it. I read the side effects very carefully as I always do but I don't remember any that warned you may lose emotional stability. I had no history of such severe, or unmanageable anxiety, depression... . Please help us take this drug off the market, Imagine how many other women are suffering but either not looking on this site or stopping to share their stories.

I have been using Nuvaring for about 5 years now and I'm surprised to see all these posts about people being very unhappy with the method. I have nothing but positive things to say about the ring, except that it's an annoyance to have to take it out during intercourse (not due to the ring itself, but I think b/c of the size of my bf). Of course, as long as it's back inside in s not fair to blame every crying spell or pounds gained on the method. Take a good look at your mental/emotional health, physical health, stress levels, stressful events, medicines you are taking...these can all effect our bodies just the same as any hormonal method!!!

i'm glad i found this site.

i went on nuvaring on sunday of this past weekend. i started feeling a bit not like myself on tuesday. by wednesday i had extreme sensitivity to smells, very decreased interest in sex, and severe irritability. i also was becoming constipated, and my abdomen felt strange, somewhat crampy.

has anyone experienced significant side effects this quickly? i know i'm not imagining these things, and i tend to be very sensitive to medications of all kinds, so it makes sense.

my doctor said that it can take about three months for your body to adjust to the ring, so i had been planning to give it a chance for as long as i could. by thursday night --after being annoyed by feeling it inside me all day too-- i felt so emotionally unstable, tired and out of control that i yanked that stupid thing out.

i'm still very emotional, sad and tired - in fact, i think it could be classified as depression. i've dealt with depression in the past and worked too hard for emotional stability to deal with that as a side effect. i'm hoping the depression subsides soon - it's now saturday and my boyfriend and i are on the verge of breaking up because i suddenly started feeling so awful and confused this week.

i was on an ortho tri pill in the late 80s (when the doses were pretty high). i was young so i don't think i realized how it was affecting me - i gained a lot of weight and was pretty numb emotionally. i went off by mistake one summer and started feeling much better. i didn't think i'd ever try hormonal b. control again because of that bad experience, but i heard that the lower doses have milder side effects. well, not for me apparently - this has been just horrible! i hope i feel more stable and rational soon.