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This is so interesting. I have been taking NuvaRing for over a year now, and for about a year I absolutely loved it. Recently, however, things have changed. In Feb. I accidentally left the ring in for one week too long and then put it in one day late... I didn't think much of it, but then in March my period was really light. In April, my breast began to swell and got very tender and I started having headaches and a lot of nausea and I started gaining weight. At the end of the month, my period was just spotting. I, of course, took a pregnancy test, which came out negative. In May and June things have continued to be bad...spotting periods, extreme fatigue, a lot of weight gain, constipation, bloating and pain in my abdomen during sex. I took two more home pregnancy tests and even went to my doctor for a blood test...all negative. Today, my family doctor suggested that it could be my nuvaring. I had no idea! That's why I googled NuvaRing side effects today and found this sight. I've scheduled an appointment with my OBGYN so I can change my BC method. Looking back, I have noticed that I am much more aggressive than I was 1.5 years ago. I used to have great relationships with my students and used to be such a patient person, but over last 1.5 years I have started to get aggravated really easily...I even honk my horn at people. That is really not who I am! So hopefully after I take the NuvaRing out, I'll go back to being myself and feeling healthy.

I was using the NuvaRing for about 6-7 months. I started feeling quite a bit out of my head. I figured being a college student and nearing my graduation; that I was just a little stressed out and nervous about the future.
School long gone now, and still feeling weird, I decided to take a look into the side effects of the NuvaRing, since I had noticed the slight changes in my mood sometime after I began taking it.
I started out with a severely decreased sex drive. I joked how "wow this birth control works by making you not want anything to do with sex!" After a while, it wasn't funny anymore. I became uninterested in doing anything. I didn't want to be around friends anymore. I started getting snappy and easily aggravated at people, mostly my boyfriend and the people I work with. I started getting headaches a lot, which didn't help my mood, and I started getting really bad eye sensitivity to lights, which didn't help the headaches at all...
I started feeling horrible. Nothing was worth looking forward to. I was always anxious or nervous. I felt useless. The relationship with my boyfriend of two years was hanging by a thin thread.

I came across all of your comments about your experiences with the NuvaRing and I'm so glad I'm not the only one; I thought I was going crazy.

I love how nice and convenient the NuvaRing seems to be, but there is really nothing convenient about the things it has done to my mind, body, and my relationships.

No birth control is worth that much aggravation. I stopped taking it 2 weeks early, about four days ago. No real signs of improvement yet, but I'm hopeful that I'll soon be the same kind of person my boyfriend started dating.

I'm hoping to find a new form of birth control, but I'm mortified to get on another type that does the same things...
Has anyone switched from the NuvaRing after these kinds of symptoms and found something that works and doesn't do horrible things?

I went on Paxil for 7 months. It worked great and took away my anxiety but I was engaging in dangerous behaviors--casual sex with multiple partners, drug and alcohol use and neglecting my job and relationships. I had a pretty good withdrawal. Had some head zaps, got a really nasty sinus infection and fever and experienced mania and rage for the first two weeks. I'd say it takes a good year for your body to come back to stabilization. ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION are survival mechanisms that your body uses to tell you that something is wrong in your life. It's a warning sign that something needs to change--you are on the wrong path. Once I started addressing my life issues, the anxiety slowly disappeared. The thing is that people are lazy. They don't want to change how the eat, their exercise, their jobs, their life, and the way that they view the world. This is the hard way. The pill is the easy way, but ironically the hardest way in the long run. Our modern world makes us sick. My advice--get off the couch, eat some vegetables and get moving. Meditation is a GREAT way to get the same effect as the SSRIs. Until you try all that and still haven't gotten anywhere, stay off the drugs.

I used the Nuvaring for over two years. I absolutely loved the convenience of it, and for a while, everything else. I had always had a little PMDD/PMS on hormonal BC, but over for the last 8 months or so I was on the NR it had gone from one or two days a month feeling a little wacky, to a week, to two weeks, then to feeling like that ALL the time. My self esteem was shot, I could rarely feel really happy or excited about anything, my sex drive had finally started to go, and it go so bad that one day I couldn't even get out of bed. I am pretty in-tune with my body and I knew this wasn't normal at all. It had started to affect my relationships with friends, and most importantly my wonderful boyfriend. I wasn't the confident, fun girl he fell in love with...I was a crybaby with self esteem issues and severe mood swings. So, I decided to stop using the Nuvaring for good about a month and a half ago. I have PCOS so it was "regulating" my cycles as well as preventing pregnancy, but I did a lot of research and decided to try and treat my PCOS with diet, exercise and supplements. I have already had one whole cycle off the ring, and I feel amazing. My body is doing what it is supposed to do, naturally, without synthetic hormones dictating what my female parts do. I am not depressed, my self esteem and motivation have returned and I feel HAPPY again. It's like a cloud was lifted from me or something. I can hardly describe the difference.

I know to some women, this may sound a little exaggerated, but the ring really was making me severely depressed. So, if you're one of the women who are affected this way, stopping it may help. I had my doc fit me for a diaphragm, and though it's a little weird at first, I love it and so far it works great for us. Hormonal BC only masks the symptoms of my PCOS, so I believe treating it the natural way will be a lot better for me.

This list of side effects helped me tremendously when I was researching my depression and going off the ring. Good luck to any of you other ladies who are going through that! It will get better :)

I was put on Loestrin24 Fe to control bleeding until such a time as I could have surgery. I took the first pill and started experiencing a sever mood swing right away. I became angry and depressed. My breast were tender. after a month the Anger and Depression were out of control. I was as hateful as I have ever been. My relationships were effected by my extremely negative attitude (which is completely out of character for me) and my sex drive well there was none. I suppose that is one method for birth control.... I started to notice fatigue, couldn't get out of bed had no energy, tightness in the chest and shortness of breath. Blood Clots...NOT FUN... NOT SAFE...

I noticed my old self returning almost immediately after stopping the pill. I don't think I cracked one smile the whole time I was on them. I am glad to be off and I will never take birth control again.

Please please if you are having sever symptoms. Shortness of breath and chest pains. DON'T WAIT to be TOLD to get off of them.... GET OFF OF THEM and GO to the ER immediately. YOU are talking about your LIFE...

I have two sons on Singulair, my three old was suspended today from pre-school for bad behavior. Screaming, biting, scratching, and hitting have been going on for the last few months. But worse the past two weeks. He has always been active and played like a boy, but he has been getting violent. We have tried positive reinforcement, praising good behavior both verbally and with rewards, I have tried time-out, being grounded, not being able to participate in activities, no t.v. and old fashioned butt spanking. All of this with no positive results. I am not looking for an excuse for my child's behavior, but could Singulair really be the cause of his aggression?

For all of you interested in life after post-removal: It's now been 4 weeks since removal. On day 22, I began a normal 5 day period. Not too heavy, not too many side effects like with the Mirena. I could definitely tell a difference in my body and it's symptoms. I've lost about 10 lbs now and am working my way up to 10 more. My relationships are much better, I'm much more at ease, life at home with my girls and husband are much more peaceful as I'm not swinging by the rafter with my moods. I've lost about 10 lbs now and am working my way up to 10 more.Will check in again in a few weeks.

I'm 23 years old and I took Yasmin for about 4 or 5 years. I honestly loved it at the time, or so I thought. Basically, I got switched to Yaz because it was being pushed by my doctor's office and within 2 weeks I was the most miserable person on the face of the earth. Since I was going through a lot in my life I never even thought that my negative attitude was based on my birth control. I began to suffer from severe migraines, nausea, this strange rash on my face, and I gained a little over 20 pounds. I was on Yaz for 6 months when I finally realized that it was what was causing all my symptoms. The Sunday before my appointment, things got so bad that I was about 30 seconds away from killing myself or checking myself into an institution. I have since switched to Loestrin24Fe, and I can't say I'm in love with it, but I DO feel SO much better! Seems to have a few side effects of it's own, but as long as "killing myself" isn't one of them, sounds good to me! Despite thinking that Yasmin was great back then, I started to think back to when I felt my life had started to spiral out of control, and it's when I started the Yasmin. My migraines and over all aches, pains, and anxiety problems started then too! The 2 best years I had were 2 years I wasn't really actively using birth control. My last two relationships have ended in a fiery ball of flames due to the control Yasmin and Yaz have had over me. THIS PILL NEEDS TO BE OFF THE MARKET. It has ruined my life for the past 3 years especially and I can't believe that despite all of us screaming at the top of our lungs, no one is doing anything. All the drug reps keep saying "there's no "bad" pill everyone reacts differently" but HOW can you say that when so many women are this miserable on it? Do countless numbers of us need to die in order for this to be over?

My name is Bobby and I've been dating a girl who has been through some tough times. She took my advice and started taking an antidepressant, Celexa, 5 weeks ago. 3 Weeks after starting the Celexa, we began to have the relationship I always knew we could. I love her so much and for one week I was the Happiest man in the world.
Unfortunately, against my advice she started taking Yaz a week after beginning the Celexa. I told her that beginning two new drugs at once will eliminate the ability to identify which drug is causing which affects whether they be positive or negative.
After 3 weeks of Celexa and 2 weeks of Yaz, my girlfriend started acting alive and excited about life again!! She even started losing weight because of her beautiful new-found energy and zest for everything. She was playful, she was laughing, she was sexual, she was the girl of my dreams and we fell more in love than ever.
One week later (After 4 weeks of Celexa, and after 3 weeks of Yaz) a monster emerged who no longer can stand the sight of me. She doesn't want me to touch her, hug her, or even kiss her. She doesn't sleep at night. She screams and yells at me for being annoying when I'm doing things that once made her smile with love in her eyes.
I found an apartment today and decided to move out... I have never been treated so poorly by anyone in my life before. She's aggressive and verbally abusive. She's been complaining that people are talking about her and she seems paranoid. I made the mistakes of taking steroids a while back and I can tell you she is the monster now that I was then and both Yaz and steroids affect hormone levels and I'm telling you I just can't believe how many relationships this drug must be ruining.
Tonight I took the Yaz and threw all of it out. She got mad at me because she's afraid that she'll stop losing weight... I mean she's just completely lost perspective. I showed her pictures of us happy together and she still chose losing 3 more pounds over our relationship. I'm losing my mind... Just a few weeks ago she reminded me again that she wants to marry me and give me babies. Where has my future wife and future mother of my children gone??

I'M LIVING IN FEAR THAT SHE WILL FIND A WAY TO GET MORE YAZ B4 SHE'S BEEN OFF LONG ENOUGH TO SEE WHAT IT'S TURNED HER INTO.

SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!!!
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I experienced hot flashes, muscle and joint pain (especially leg), severe vaginal dryness, hot flashes, constipation, headache and severe body coldness. I am always cold. However, the worse side effect is depression and mood swings. These are life altering and effect all of my relationships.

I have to honestly say I LOVE the Mirena. Yes it was a little painful when it was inserted but that is the only bad thing I have to say about the Mirena. I have had the Mirena for about 2 1/2 years now. I don't have to worry about taking a pill everyday, gaining weight or the best part not having a period. I spot very little for like a day and to be honest it is only when I go to the bathroom and wipe is when I notice that Im spotting. I guess Im just one of the lucky ones that can use this method of birth control.

I had the Mirena IUD inserted on October 10th. I had it switched from the copper IUD because I was spotting dark brown blood prior to my period, so my gyno recommended the switch. I spotted for the rest of the day, then stopped for two days, then began what I would call my period, since I was due for it later that week anyway. I am still bleeding, but I'd like to believe I'm nearing the end, since it seems to be lightening up. I expected my period to be fairly long after insertion.

The day after insertion, I experienced severe itching and swelling down there, and decided that I must have a yeast infection, but both symptoms are listed as side effects on the sheet I got from my pharmacy. I treated the infection, but still itch from time to time... I'm wondering if it's the hormones in the IUD.

On the weekend of October 19th, I lost my appetite, my sex drive, all sense of sexual pleasure and my ability to acheive orgasm. I ate three meals all weekend long, and only because I felt that I should eat, not because I was hungry. Sexually, I felt friction and not much else. Upon trying to climax 4 seperate times over the course of the weekend, I failed at all 4 attempts and all I got from my efforts was sore muscles, frustration and tears from being so upset by it. I have never experienced problems with sex or climaxing in the 14 years I've been with my husband. However, a couple of days before insertion, we had had sex and it was fabulous, as always. I climax every time we have sex, so it's been very upsetting.

I weighed myself today, just out of curiosity, and since the insertion, I've lost 7 lbs. I'm not dieting, not exercising, not even trying to lose any weight.

Upon calling my gyno and discussing my symptoms with her assistant, I was told that it couldn't be the Mirena, because the amount of hormones in it are so minute that they wouldn't affect anything outside of the uterus. I was told that something else in my life must be causing my sexual problems. !!! I don't think so! The IUD is the only thing that has changed in the past 2 weeks! And how do you explain a sudden loss of 7 lbs??? She didn't want to say it straight out, but she was trying to tell me it was all in my head.

I've had sex again since my failed attempts, and it's getting better, as is my appetite, so I'm hoping that my body is simply adjusting to the new IUD and getting used to the hormones. I have not been on any medication or hormones in the past two years, as I've been pregnant and then breastfeeding, so it might be quite a shock to my system.

If my inability to acheive climax continues, I am going ot have the IUD removed and have another copper IUD put in. My sex life isn't worth this.

I've been taking Yasmin for about 1 1/2 years. Before taking Yasmin, I never had any experience with depression or anxiety; however, a couple weeks after I started taking it I had SEVERE anxiety and mild depression. It was really bad and damaging to myself and my relationships. I cried daily and had panic attacks regularly. At the time, I didn't realize it was the pill and it eventually went away. Over the next year I had occasional mild depression which would last for weeks or a month at a time - during these times I was VERY moody and cried a lot. I was constantly upset at friends and family for silly reasons. Occasionally I also experienced occasional nausea.

I recently went off the pill for a month and instantly when I started taking it again I became slightly depressed, couldn't get enough sleep, and began getting angry at people for silly reasons. I didn't realize all these symptoms were related to the pill until now. I'm going to stop taking it today and thank others for posting their stories.

Hello,

I read about how YAZ birth control pill affects the body and psych and I am now scared. This is my 2nd day of YAZ (I've never been on birth control pills ever and I am 27 years old), it's all new to me but after reading all these negative posts about Yaz I don't know what to do. Before the birth control pills, I was depressed, annoying, serious weight problems - 210 lbs :~~((, low energy, low libido, always tired, terrible migraines every 2nd day, ridiculously increased appetite and excessive hunger, hair where it shouldn't be, menstrual blood clots, excessive cramping etc
I have all these problems for 3 years now and now that the family doc. put me on YAZ birth control pill I am even more scared - mainly of more weight gain, it would be a tragedy for me, I am fat enough already and what's worse I can't lose the weight, exercise doesn't help, diet doesn't help, NOTHING. Will YAZ birth control pill worsen my already tragic condition? I just don't know what to do and what to believe ... I appreciate any advice or help you can give me ... Thank You to all!

10mg made me feel high. It helped with my depression and my ocd. I thought maybe an higher dose would help me feel even more better, it just made me feel like not interested in anything anymore, don't care about anything anymore, complain alot, and feel like wanna hurt people. I think it is not really a good drug for people who have bipolar disorder. I think the lower the dose the better you will be but this doesn't apply to everyone.

I started taking nuva ring for the second time about three months ago. It took away the cramps but instead added a whole new list of worries. I started getting extremely irritable and would anger at tiny little things. I was also extremely emotional and would cry about everything which I have never done in the past. I became very very depressed and my sex drive completely disappeared. It caused tons of problems with my relationships with people (especially my boyfriend) because of the irritability. I did not know that a birth control could have these side effects. Since taking the nuva ring out the irritability, crying and depression have completely gone away. The only thing I found positive about the nuva ring was that I lost weight (maybe from the depression?) and I didn't have to remember to take a pill everyday. Heck, I'll just take the pill.

My doctor failed to mention these side effects when he prescribed me with Yasmin nearly 3 months ago as my first ever BCP. Since taking Yasmin I have become extremely irratic and depressed. Nothing has ever made me feel like this before. I just feel like crying all the time and nothing has changed within the past 3 months. I still have an adoring boyfriend who worships the ground I walk on, I am surrounded by fantastic friends and my family have been so supportive. I have also found that the migraines I used to suffer from have returned more painful than ever. I had 2 last weekend.

I don't want to come off this kind of birth control as it suits me well, but the mood swings and depression are starting to take over my relationships and work life.

Ive been taking it a while now and so has my neighbor and Ive notiiced both of us are having trouble with relationships we didnt have before.
I thought this was supposed to help loose the excess weight from what Dr said . Im gaining!!!! Im ready to just throw in the towel on this and just buy over the counter diet pills
I lost 65 lbs with 2slim fast, 6fat burnners, and 6water pills.
a day and i meal at night and I didnt exercise!
Synthoid seems to do more harm then good to in my opininion.
Sherry

MORE ADVICE AND SUPPORTED NEEDED FROM THOSE WHO HAVE STOPPED YASMIN!

I have been off of Yasmin for almost 2 months (after 3 years), still no period, mood swings and SEVERE HAIR LOSS! I can totally get over not having a period, but the HAIR LOSS IS FREAKING me out and is causing major anxiety and depression. I haven't been able to make it through an entire day of work and couldn't even make it an hour while out shopping today. I feel like my anxiety may be turning into some type of panic disorder. My boyfriend doesn't want to be around me and no one believes me! I am so scared that I am losing my life- it's ruining everything- my job, my social life and my relationships. The doctors don't seem to think Yasmin has any link to causing anxiety or how stopping it can cause hair loss. How do I know if it is just the Yasmin getting out of my system or something more serious?

I am extremely surprised by the high number of complaints I've been reading about Yasmin. I decided to go on this specific pill after growing sick of my PMDD. PMDD was effecting my overall mood (98% jovial and happy) and my relationships. I heard Yasmin was supposed to balance all of that out, not to mention assist in regulating my lengthy and painful period. I've been on it for a month and so far I've only experienced two hot flashes, a few headaches and your usual nausea in the morning. But my doctor also warned me of these side effects. They're supposed to last three months at the most because your body is getting used to Yasmin's effects. My first period on the pill was lighter than normal, so I was pleased.

I'm also on Zoloft, so I'm wondering if my body is used to that and Ritalin (for the ADD), so there's a different kind of balance? Not entirely sure. I know everyone is different when it comes to reacting to certain pills, etc., however I was not prepared to hear of the complaints I've read thus far. There seems to be more bad comments than good. Should I be worried? I don't know. I just know that I'd like my cramps and headaches to be miminal and the arguments with my boyfriend to be less frequent. My period shouldn't have to affect my life in such a large degree. I thought Yasmin would help. So far so good.

Good luck!

also 12 hours after 2nd pill i felt side effects,very vivid nightmares quite real and extreme,upper ab pain,diarea,metallic taste in mouth,quick to anger mood swings,night sweats.i have been a bouncer for 13 years im lean 225 pds 6 feet tall dont drink smoke or do drugs and the nightmares actually scare me, involving violence,they are also very emotional i cry in them sometimes,involving past and present relationships they are very emotional!!!, but the violence and emotional parts are seperate parts of the dreams, they take turns in the nightmares which make them quite a roller coaster of emotions