Glimpses symptoms and conditions

I began Nuvaring three weeks ago and I feel like I'm out of my mind. I thought it certainly couldn't be my new birth control... but that is the ONLY think that has changed. I consider myself to be a very stable person emotionally; however, now I feel like I'm going crazy. I've been so mad and have yelled at my boyfriend in a rage numerous times... which over the past year and a half we have been very loving and supportive of each other. All of my fears are magnified, and I feel paranoid all the time. I sometimes feel so sad I can't stop crying. It doesn't matter if I'm at home, work, alone, or with friends. My brain is coming up with terrible thoughts and they seem to be very real. So if I think there is any truth to them, I just feel terrible and less than. I get glimpses of "normalness", but they don't seem to last very long. I've never had an experience with hormones like this. I understand drinking alcohol, or taking a drug and experiencing a side effect right after, but with this birth control I feel like I'm the one going crazy because I haven't just specifically done something to alter my mood. It just happens. I want to take responsibility for my actions and my mood and not cast the blame onto something or someone else, but I have NEVER behaved this irrationally in my 30 years and all signs point to Nuvaring. I don't know how much longer I'll be able to handle my emotional outbursts and sadness. Has anyone had a similar experience that got better over time?

My daughter had been on singulair from the time she was 8 yrs old until she was 14. This will sound as if I am a horrible mother but I just thought that she was a raging bitch. Without my knowledge, she stopped taking her Singulair for a few months and she became a different person. She was so sweet and loving. One night she came in my room having an asthma attack and I asked her if she was taking her meds, she admitted that she had stopped taking her singulair and I got on to her and immediately got her prescription refilled. Within a few days of taking the singulair she turned into a raging, screaming emotional wreck, a TOTALLY different person. I feel so bad that for 6 years of her life I put her on medicine that caused her to have screaming, uncontrollable tantrums, and severe mood swings that caused her to be miserable. It does seem to be the only thing that effectively controls her asthma symptoms but the emotional havoc that is causes her and the people around her is not worth the benefits. We have an appt. with her doctor to see what other options we have.

The doctor told me yesterday it could take up to 6 weeks to get this drug completely out of his system. he is now 5 days off and everyday there is some glimmer of my son shining through. the best way to express it is peace or calm. he is calmer when things go wrong that before would have caused a meltdown.

I counted over 20 things that he has suffered with that I see other children have had to deal as well. I have to be hopeful given the little glimpses of change I am already seeing.