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Posted at 9: 9 AM on Dec 15, 2008 by elena1980, #37308
I was using every excuse possible for what I have been experiencing. I started NR in May, now it's December, I was scheduled to take it out. Since I started I noticed acne, which I never had even in my teen years. I blamed it on the towels in the gym, stopped using those, then on the sweat from workout... kept trying new acne treatments, but acne magically disappears during the ring out days. I'm not sure if I can call depression, what I felt, it was like I'm never happy with anything and many days in a month my thoughts were very dark, unhappy. I noticed serious decrease in energy, blaming it on 2 children, but my son was a year old when I started NR and I had more energy before with newborn and a toddler daughter. Again I thought, he's so active... I have hard time getting out of bed, sometimes sleep is ok, sometimes no sleep for hours, but this happens to many people. night sweats I was blaming on the blanket, the thinnest one we have(my husband uses 2 at night), I was waking up many days in a month drenched in sweat. No discharge, yeast infection for me, lower sex drive. Even more interesting- I noticed the smell of my partner to be less attractive... Then I read in a magazine that BC messes up with the smell as well. I had horrible headaches, feeling I'm going to pass out< dizzy< especially if I was trying to rush(blamed it on rushing too much). I was growling(like my daughter said) at the kids with the smallest mischief, it's like a little bomb heating up and bursting in my head, I felt rage, not anger, total rage.Life has lost any appeal for me, this is not living, just suffering, I thought all the time. But here I am at home with two little children, hardly ever see friends, always doing work around the house, laundry. Hot flashes during the day are frequent and I feel like I want to tear my clothes off. Recently I started to have a lot of pressure in my chest, like it's hard to breathe. Just last week I almost went to the ER, because I was laying on the couch unable to speak out loud, just whispering, could not move. Then couple of days ago my heart started to ache, it aches now, so last night I looked up the side effects of NR, because I didn't even know where to start with this condition, that has all these symptoms I have been listing. I was planning to go to the doc for all the test. My stomach has been hurting slightly in the last 3-4 weeks(I thought it was food, but no one in our family had any problems). I am 28year old in great shape(I cut back on my food intake to keep th weight the same), I work out 2 times a week and have a very active lifestyle. My relationship with my husband is great, my children are well behaved for their age, So I'm stopping NR before I get divorced like some other women did. If you want to try NR go ahead, it's really convenient, but be aware of all these side effects, so you know, it's not something else, before it's too late.
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Reply 11 months ago on Dec 15, 2008 by brklyngirl, #15262

Hey elena, hope you feel better off the ring. I start feeling better the same day i took it off. I know all bodies doesnt react the same way, but i took the ring off october 17 and its december and i still experience anxiety sometimes and those dark feelings that you mention (that i think is a greeat description) I tell my husband those are nasty feelings. But the good thing is that this feelings are like a wave, they come and go and eventually youll start feeling better and better and more normal. Im also spotting really weird i bleed for 23 days nonstop, stopped for two weeks, now im bleeding again. If this helps, i am taking cod liver oil and vitamin b12 that suppose to help because i have read this nuvaring depletes your body of the vitamins and other hormones in your brain. (of course my obgyn didnt recommend any vitamins or anything) they just say it will go. This situation just freaked me out so much, that start reading online and looking for information and other people experiences. I wanted somebody to tell me when that craziness will stop. But i didnt find anybody. Thats why im writing to you. Finally Im feeling every day better and better. BTW before this experience, I have never experience depression, anxiety or any of these craziness. Good that you notice what was the cause of you sickness and now you feel better, god bless you and your family.

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