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I also have never been on b/c before (I am 39 years old and scared of the peri-menopausal pregnancy!) I am in my 3rd week of my first nuva-ring. The first week was fine-the second and beginning of this week has been awful. I haven't started the weight gain yet, but am definately acting abnormally crazy! I had a perfect stranger tell me that I was the meanest woman he had ever met! I can't say that he didn't deserve it, but under normal circumstances, I can usually keep my meaness in check! Anyway, I have a call out to my doctors office right now and will let you know his suggestion. Hang in there honey. You may need to take it out right now, not wait for 2 more weeks!

thank you so much for responding....since I left the initial post a few days ago I have been coming closer and closer to the decision of just taking the ring out before the 2 weeks are up. Although my mood swings have subsided a little, I still just do not feel like myself. I'm just concerned with taking it out early because I don't want to throw my hormones off any more than I have already, and a lot of women I've spoken to said it messed them up even more. That is definitely the LAST thing I need. What did your Dr. say to you when you called? Mine is such a huge fan of the ring he doesn't really understand why I want it out, so he isn't much of a help. Thanks for keeping me posted =) Good luck with everything!!

This website is like a relieve for many woman seeking like crazy online what is going on with themselves. That happen to me too. Let me give you a time frame of how side effects start subsiding. I have been off the ring for 4 months and im just returning back to normal. I gotta say that at the moment i took it out i felt more myself. I could eat a little bit more. Nausea diminished and two months after going off the nuvaring i was still a little nauseous. Depression stopped on the first month I took off. But having panic attacks, mood swings and weird feelings until 3 month. On the third month of stopping nuvaring I start having a really bad anxiety. I didnt have problems or pressures, anxiety started because i stopped the nuvaring and it usually happens before my period. This anxiety cause me fast heart beat, that my doctor noticed. Contrary of you I lost weight due to the nausea because I didnt eat much. Lost 20 pounds, until today I havent been able to gain. I just vary one pound. I weighted 120 pounds, weighted 96 today im between 97 and 98. I cant get back my weight. Im skinny so I need my weight. My health have been badly influenced by the nuvaring, especially my mental health and balance. When you feel threatened by something like this, you feel that you loose control of your feelings and thats scary. I recently got married and move to the US far from my family and in a totally different environment and could you imagine how i felt? Depressed, sad, nauseous and really far from my loved ones? I was paranoid that my husband didnt love me anymore or that he didnt want to get involved in my sickness. (And that was just paranoia, he is a sweetheart) But he did tell me that I wasnt the person he marry, he told me something was wrong and that we together were going to find out what was wrong with my health. When I took the ring out it was my second week and I didnt give a Sh...and didnt consult my doctor or anything I just took it out because I hated it sooo much when I realize what was the cause of my sickness for 3 months. I consult wiht my gyno previously that something wasnt ok with myself in general. He told me I should go to a Gastro (who prescribed 2 week antibiotic treatment for nothing i didnt have anything) and if panick attack keep going he was going to refer a Pshychiatrist....(I have read some experience of girls that start nuvaring and gynos refer pshychiatist who also start antidepressants...theres nothing healthy and natural about being in a thousand of medications that you dont neeed) Im very thankful that Im feeling much better. If I woudlve know this, I would definetely not try the nuvaring, but Drs would recommend it because of the advertising and sales man that visit them. I would never ever try hormonal contraceptive again. I am using now cycle beads and condoms and I heard about the creighton model that I want to find out a little bit more. I also talk to my gyno and he prescribed a diaphragm. So there are other options out there......Dr. Recomended prenatal vitamins (that are very complete) and that helped me a lot to get back to normal. Omega 3 helps, also i took rescue remedy for the panic attack and anxiety, also I am eating very very healthy and balanced. Heard that peanut and all bran helps too. Hope this info helps and hope you can start feeling better soon....good luck....bless

OMG I am a LCSW, Mental Health professional and I feel absoultely helpless with my daughter lately. She's 20 years old and also away at college. She is an over achiever and has always been moody but these last couple of days she's been near suicidal...guess what she got the NR and put it in a couple of days ago. Sounds to sudden to experience the side effects but she is VERY VERY sensitive to medications. She got the NR at the campusl clinic and they didn't tell her about the side effects. In my efforts to help her I started looking at what it might be...is she drinking to much or smoking pot, could someone have slipped her something...AH the only thing different is the F'ing NR. I told her to take it out ASAP and go to the doc ASAP...I'm so F'ing angry that she wasn't informed and that she didn't read the side effects...she was suicidal and I was seriously thinking of having her seen at the local mental health crisis clinic....