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I have used NuvaRing for over a year now and LOVE IT! I always forgot to take birth control pills, but it's so easy to use the NuvaRing. I've have had no side effects.It scares me to read these side effects that other women have had, but I would say unless you have issues with it or there are really bad statistics out there, the ring is much better.

To Guest # 33389,

Thank you for your post. It looks like there are a lot of people who seem to experience the 'ear congestion' problem.
I was given all sorts of decongesting tablets (pseudoephedrine etc...) and nothing worked at all and these medicine gave me nausea and horrible heart palpitations so I decided to do without them. I was never convinced that it was congestion as I did not have a cold or feel like I had.
Once you have been to your RN, please let me know what his/her comments were regarding this. I am scared of flying because of this, as last year I was so sick during a long haul flight that the plane had to do an emergency landing and an ambulance took me to the ER in the nearest hospital. During the flight I experienced terrible nausea/ low heart rate / horrendous headache / strong convulsions / unable to move my limbs and unable to speak, to cut the story short: at the hospital they did all the tests: blood, urine, heart rate, head scan, They could not find anything. I was a healthy person and they could not find any explanations as to why I felt sick.
I did explain to the doctor there that I felt congested in the ears and he said that I could not be as this would have shown on the scan.
Before Yasmin, I never experienced that kind of problems when flying. I am flying again (4 hours flight) over Xmas and I hope I will feel ok. I am sure that this was due to the Yasmin and its side effects. I hope also that this is not related to a heart problem.

I'm a 38 y/o male with a somewhat different outlook on taking my Singulair and my chronic asthma. I've been on it for about 8 months and had the strange dreams, have the horrible aches and put on a good 10 pounds. I have the mild depression too and yes, I attribute the side effects to Singulair. Prior to this, I took allegra nightly w/ albuterol everythime I had an attack. The allegra had it's own side effects: max of 4-6 hours sleep nightly, irritable, couldn't concentrate at work, loss of appetite. Most people before going on singulair are using a pill like Allegra that inhibits appetite so when they go on Singulair, they drop the speedy drug and boom, here comes the appetite. Anyway, for me I prefer the Singulair, aches and all. I take a couple Advil on the achy days and no pain. I don't wake up with the life threatening asthma attacks and I don't have the life threatening asthma attacks when I least expect them like when I'm hiking 30 miles from the nearest hospital. I agree that Singulair is probably not a good answer to seasonal allergies especially in children that are experiencing severe sdie effects, but for everyone screaming lawsuit here do what most people do when a medication doesn't work for them or their child and TRY SOMETHING NEW! TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR! DIRECT YOUR DOCTOR TO THIS DISCUSSION BOARD!

For children with severe asthma, my guess is that Singulair can be a good drug and I think because it is so new, we need to make our doctors aware of all the side effects we feel so they can tell new patients what to look for or so they know what to listen for.

I'd rather breathe!!!