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Posted at 8:57 PM on Jul 22, 2009 by amb316, #43232
My husband stumbled across this website and first I would like to thank everyone who have posted their experiences on the NuvaRing. Because of you guys I now know I'm not losing my mind. I started the NuvaRing March of 2008 and I started getting dizzy spells May 2009. I actually got my first dizzy spell when I was driving. Everything started to spin very fast!! My husband had to grab the wheel and tell me how to slow down and how fast to do it. That was the scariest thing ever!! My head felt a numbing sensation in my head. I had a pain above my left eye and it would shoot up my head and down my neck. The dizzy spells would come whenever, once every 8 days to twice in one day. I have had an MRI and an MRA done and nothing. The docs have had me on so many migraine meds to try to get a handle on this and nothing has helped. My longest migraine lasted for 14 days, that was in May. This month (July) I got a migraine on the 13th, took the ring out on the 21st, and had a dizzy spell this morning but this afternoon and especially this evening I feel amazing. Since getting on the NuvaRing, like so many of you, my sex drive does not exist. It has caused so many fights between my husband and I. Its hard to tell him that he is still attractive but I can't explain why I'm not excited. So thank you for writing your experiences. He got to read that I'm not the only one and I wasn't making it up. These last three months have been hell for my family and I. I have been like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. So much tension has caused everyone to walk on pins and needles when they are around me. So lets sum it up here, after being on the NuvaRing for 14 months I started getting dizzy spells, migraines, nausea, neck pain, twice I've puked because of the room spinning so damn fast, and very very VERY low sex drive. I'M NOT CRAZY!!!! :)
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Reply 4 months ago on Jul 23, 2009 by ivey23, #21754

I'm happy that through reading our experiences, it was able to solidify what you've been going through. It's sad how so many women can go through the troubles of the side effects associated with the NuvaRing, and not be able to make the connection! They're spending all this money to treat the side effects all the while they're still on the ring! Very sad indeed...good for you that you did your research. I wish you the best of luck in recovering from the ring.

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Reply 3 months ago on Aug 14, 2009 by mcottone, #22244

I started the NuvaRing about 2 1/2 months ago. Just a few weeks ago I was driving into work and all of a sudden my head started spinning. I felt like I was going to die. I actually had to stop in the middle of traffic because I was so dizzy and my vision went black. About 2 weeks after that happened I went to have blood work done and made 3 trips to the doctors office to see what was wrong. I did not think it was the NuvaRing because I had been fine on it for the first 2 1/2 months and then all of a sudden I started experiencing nauseau, I was dizzy, I was also jittery all of the time and could not focus. After 3 days of a non-stop dizzy spell I decided to look up side effects of the NuvaRing and sure enough everything I had been experiencing was posted everywhere by other women. Thank you for the posts! I took the ring out 2 days ago and I am finally starting to feel normal again. Thank you!

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