So I have only been on the NuvaRing for about 3 weeks and just to...

I have had the same issues i get really depressed and i cry a little to much and i get to angry and it is affecting my life way to much i am doing to stop so you shouldnt be worried that its not you its the ring. well at least wait a while untill your body is normal. When i take ANY BC with hormones i get really irrtible and moody.

Oh my gosh I am going through the same exact thing. I am an emotional person anyway but I started the nuvaring about 3 weeks ago and I am SO depressed and my boyfriend and I are about to break up (who I thought I was going to marry). I've heard the nuvaring is so great and my doctor told me that the emotional side effects are less with the nuvaring so I thought it was just me. But hearing your story I'm definitely going to take it out and see if that helps! Please let me know when/if you start feeling better after taking it out.

I'm 29 years old. I have tried Nuva Ring in the past (stopped taking it about a year ago). I had considered that the BC was causing emotional distress but never trusted that gut feeling. Needless to say I've been a pretty happy camper since I stopped BC. I started dating someone a few months ago and decided to try the Nuva Ring again. I began using it two weeks ago and was so unhappy (moody, nervous, crying at the drop of a hat, feeling unhappy and unloved in my relationship, not desiring or enjoying sex). It was almost like an out-of-body experience to the point that I recognized that there was no reason to be acting that way, but at the same time I couldn't help it. I also felt a physically intolerable discomfort inside my vagina that started about a week and a half after I started Nuva Ring. I thought maybe I had a UTI. I removed the ring two days ago. I didn't really want to believe that it was the Nuva Ring, but I have to say that I felt better almost immediately (a day later). I'm happier (MUCH) and do not have that discomfort anymore. I told my boyfriend why I had taken out the ring. My boyfriend says that he had noticed my mood had changed almost immediately and he thought I was going to break up with him (what is it that makes this a common result for Nuva Ring users!!). The discomfort I was feeling and thought might be a UTI stopped almost immediately. When I reported these experiences to my doctor, he said that I had to give my body three months to adjust - only I'm not so sure its worth it! I feel like if I take that thing long enough I may start to believe that that is actually me and not the Nuva Ring.

I have now been off the nuva ring for almost a month and WOW I feel SO much better!

Peanut555 before you and your boyfriend break up take the ring out! I felt the same way and life is SOOOOO much better now. I really hope things work out for you two!

I've gone back to my original birth control pill now and it's kinda making me a bit emotional but I have faith it'll get better (I switch because the pharmacist lady said my insurance no longer covered my brand but guess what, they do! 5 months of hell for nothing uugghhh!!),

I hope things look up soon for everyone!

I've been on the nuvaring for three weeks. It's really important that I don't get pregnant because I've had two ectopics in the past four months. But I have to say, i thought I was an emotional wreck before from all the stress of losing the babies. Now I'm convinced that my husband nor anyone could or ever will love me, that I don't have the ability to keep my jobs or even perform them properly, and just yesterday I broke down into tears during a conversation with my boss about attendance issues. And this morning, I started crying because I miss my mom. I mean, come on, I miss my mom but, I'm 34 , and I just saw her a couple of months ago. lol I guess I'm glad to hear it's just side effects of the ring. I would be more comforted if someone has a testimony of it subsiding after their body adjusts.