February 9th
2008
1:06 AM
I'm really scared now!!!
I've been on BC for about five months now but I've been incredibly "hormonal" as you girls can relate...except an extreme. So crazy. crying, no reason.
so i said...maybe the NuvaRing. my friends on it...I'll try it. i put it in and immediately inside my vagina started to feel irritated.
I don't want anything related to depression/weight gain/etc because i already have that shit going on.
I'm also worried to completely change personalities. Witch could be a good thing.
DOES ANYONE! have anything good to say about this thing?
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January 23th
2008
9:05 PM
I'm five months postpartum and quit the mini-pill a few days ago and started NuvaRing as soon as the bleeding started (yesterday morning). I have never felt so aggressive in my life! Perhaps it the combination of getting off one BC method and onto another, but this is awful! I feel angry toward my baby and my husband. Do I need a break or a new BC? Before I got pregnant, the pill made me feel even worse, crying all the time. Now I just feel volatile and mean.
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September 3th
2007
6:48 PM
I started the ring seven months ago and thought, at first, that it was perfect. Though my period lasted 12 days when I first inserted it and my mood swings were monstrous (upon insertion) the first couple months After about 3 months my moodiness - now, one week before I start my period - has become uncontrollable. At first, it was just sore, enlarged breasts and a slight decrease in my sex drive, then it became, depression and crying for no reason, then a burning sensation in my hips and now my depression and crying jags have become all consuming and detrimental to my entire well-being. I would like to know what type of BC that women with similar symptoms have started taking. I need to change before my entire life becomes compromised because of my mood swings.
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June 18th
2007
2:12 PM
I was fine for the first five months that I was using NR. However, I've been having "spotting" for about three weeks now. I don't think I've had any of the other side effects. I don't seem to be having mood swings or anything. I've just pretty much been having a light period for about three weeks. Some of it is dark brownish. Sometimes it stops for a few days. After reading the other posts here, I'm taking it out.
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May 8th
2007
8:58 AM
I've only been on the nuva ring for three days now. I hate it. I thought I was getting sick, because the day I put it in I was just exhausted. Then the next morning when I woke up I was sweating and I didn't want to move all day. I was so tired. I felt like if I stood up too long I would fall down. Then when I ate dinner my stomach bloated out like a cow. This morning I was still exhausted and I just layed there crying. I hardly ever get sick, and my symptoms really weren't making any sense.. and then I just put it all together. I'm pretty sure it's the nuva ring that's making me feel like crap. The day I put it in I also got this weird bloody discharge. Also, I haven't necessarily lost my sex drive.. but sex hasn't really been at all enjoyable. I want on a new birth control, but I don't even know what I would want.. the nuva ring is supposed to have the lowest amount of hormones.. so wouldn't anything else just be worse?
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May 15th
2008
8:47 PM
I was on the Nuvaring for six months. After I stopped using it, it took me exactly a year to get pregnant again, and then I miscarried. I am now pregnant again, (five months) and have had absolutely no problems. I think that the Nuvaring caused my temporary infertility, and then my miscarriage.
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