One woman symptoms and conditions

I had used NR for six weeks when I woke up at 3 am with SEVERE chest pains. Went to the ER and was diagnosed with *substantial* pulmonary emboli (blood clots in the lungs). I was hospitalized for five days and am now under the direction of a pulmonologist and hematologist for the next six months while I'm on blood thinner therapy. I had to do injections into my abdomen twice a day to prevent further clotting until my blood reached a theraputic level with the Coumadin (blood thinning drug).

Usually, pulmonary embolism afflicts sedentary people or those who have recently had surgery or those who have cancer . .. etc etc etc. I am a 33 year old personal trainer. I have ZERO risk factors for this to have happened to me . .. other than the nuvaring. It was determined that it was the cause and I was told to remove it immediately and to never never never use it again.

Please be careful in your decisions to use this product. I used it for the convenience of not popping a pill daily as I would usually forget. Wish I would have just looked a bit further into the possible side effects before choosing to go ahead with it.

To this date, I've had the worst side effects from prednisone I've ever heard of. It started out in a rather subtle manner. I became hypomanic--a term I wasn't familiar with at the time. Later, the hypomania somehow blossomed into a full-blown psychotic state. I was sent to an in-patient acute care psychiatric hospital, where I stomped one woman's head into the ground and hit another one in the back of the head. Never before have I been violent--and as strange as it sounds, this time was no exception. Although many people refuse to believe me, a violent or malevolent attitude didn't cause me to commit these acts of violence. It was a persistent, delusional state of mind that caused them. If prednisone were the only drug on the face of this planet that could stop me from a sudden, painful death, I wouldn't take it.

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Based on all the troubles you are experiencing, I would strongly urge you to read through as much of this website as you can as well as the site Flowerbabies set up. Her link is below. There isn't one woman who has taken this pill who hasn't experienced very serious debiliating side effects.

Long short of it, many of us are struggling to heal multiple symptoms that have occurred while being on it to include extreme fatigue, exhaustion, low levels of magnesium and inabalances of electrolytes and potassium due to the diuretic in this pill.

More and more women are being pushed this pill. Doctors make money off it prescribing it.

You sound like you are already going through so much. I can tell you, after two and half years of being on it, it completely messed up my body and I have heart palpitations and pain I never had.

I saw one woman say that she noticed hair loss. I also have noticed hair loss. I am 21 years old and I had such a full head of hair right before i started taking this xl and now my hair is much thinner all within a year. It may be just be genetics, but I found it interesting that somebody else had the same problem.

I know of one woman who got another disease (not sure of the name) but it caused severe swelling in her legs.