I've also experienced many of the same side effects. I was on Nu...

I was put on the nuvaring after having adverse side affects with a few oral forms of birth control and also the patch, which included weight gain, nausea, depression and migraines. I was originally put on bc because I had extremely painful periods as a young girl at the age of 15. Iwas diagnosed with endometriosis in my early twenties and told that I had to continue taking birth control to control the endometriosis. I stopped taking bc completely after being on the patch for about 3 months, which was the worst side effects I had ever experienced. At that point I had been on birth control for seven years and decided that my body needed a break. At the time I was engaged and my fiancee wanted to have a baby, so we tried for months to get pregnant and failed! I was only 23! I should have been able to conceive. It inevitably led to the end of my relationship. Since then I have had problem after problem, abnormal bleeding etc. After refusing to go back on bc for years my doctor finally convinced me to try to nuva ring as a "solution" to the problems I have been going through. She told me to keep the ring in for the entire month, not taking a break for my period. In the first month I felt great, the massive pms symptoms I was constantly dealing with seemed to disappear, and I was even losing weight. By the end of my second month, all of that started to change. I was experiencing anxiety, depression and severe mood swings. I also started spotting heavily which went on for weeks! Then with the ring still in I got a full on period with more severe cramps and heavy bleeding than I've ever experienced. I figured there must have been something wrong with that particular ring so I went to the pharmacy to pick up a new one and replaced it. The blood slowed down but only back to the heavy spotting. I decided to call my doctor to discuss discontinuing the ring. She told me that my uturus was just trying to thin itself out and that I should take it out for 4 days and let the bleeding stop then put it back in. Taking her advise, on the third day I got another full on period, where I bled through 16 maxi pads in 24 hours! I called her back, and she still refused to see me. Feel like what was happening to me was completely abnormal I followed my instinct and went to the er where I got the worst care i could ever imagine, and the only thing they told me was that i should follow up with my doctor the next day. I am totally confused and conflicted about what to do now. What is the point of being on birth control if it does nothing for me and I have no sex drive anyway?

Wow, almost my story to a "T!" My husband and I would like to begin trying in the next year or so, and I just took mine out tonight (after beginning it two days ago.) I really believe it has been behind my cramps, moodiness, lack of sex drive, HUGE weight gain, etc. Good luck to you!

- I've been on it for 9 months btw... it looks like I had started the drug just two days ago***