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I had used NR for six weeks when I woke up at 3 am with SEVERE ch...

Posted at 11:39 AM on Jun 09, 2008 by jhurley, #31246
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.
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Reply 5 months ago on Jun 19, 2008 by claireycbear, #9316

Im so sorry to hear about this. I am 27 y.o. and totally healthy and active. After ignoring leg pain in my calf because I thought it was muscular... I eventually went to the hospital after I had difficulty breathing. Determined that I have a PE and serious DVT. I was on NR for only 6 weeks. My first blood clots occured only 2 weeks after starting the NR. The only reason I started the NR in the first place was to shrink an ovarian cyst. I have been taking the Lovenox injections 2/day for 3 weeks now because they can't get my Coumadin therapeutic. I tell every girlfriend of mine about the NR. One woman had even been seeing a brain specialist because she thought she had a brain tumor. The result was that she was on NR and was getting migrains and vision problems from that. (NO ONE EVER TOLD HER so they kept getting worse!!) I brought it up to her because migrains and blurred vision were another couple of my symptoms. Shame on NR, tell everyone. Tell your friends... I'm so sorry this happened to you. 6 more months and we'll be back in action. I don't know about you, but this lovenox/coumadin makes me so, so tired. Can hardly make it through the day....

All the best to you

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Reply 5 months ago on Jun 24, 2008 by amberbrown, #9478

I don't mean to be grafic but did you have any kind of dark discharge before this PE happened? I believe that I am having some of these problems and it is really beginning to scare me.

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Reply 5 months ago on Jun 24, 2008 by jhurley, #9482

I don't recall a discharge but that could be an individual thing also.

I too am just completely wiped out. Just thought maybe I was over doing it to begin with but it has been over a month and still no improvement. So I started paging through the literature I was given on the medication to see if fatigue was listed as a possible side effect . . . never found mention of it . . . but nice to know I'm not the only one experiencing it.

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