NUVARING Reviews (ETHINYL ASTADIOL; ETONOGESTREL)Average Rating: 2.3 (852 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NUVARING with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NUVARING | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Birth Control | Severe bloating, excessive vaginal discharge and consequential itching | Severe to moderate bloating in the first few months of putting in a new ring. Excessive discharge is EXTREMELY ANNOYING AND ITCHY!!!! And no I do not have an infection!! That all being said, Nuvaring does its job and it's not expensive, and its easy. | F | 1X M | 8/25/2017 | 2 | BC pills make me very sick | Ever since i started the nuvaring i haven't been feeling myself. I want to cry constantly for no reason at all. I'm irritable, nauseous, i have a fever, loss of apatite. I've had such bad panic attacks to the point i felt like i was dying. I've had chest pains, a brown discharge the whole three weeks i've been on it. Randomly i get cramps and abdominal pain. I'm extremely dizzy, and very tired! I wake up in the mornings without being able to move. Once i get up and get ready i then feel tired again and go back to sleep. It's hard for me to fall asleep but once i do i seriously don't ever want to wake up. The doctor said wait three months, but i'm tired of feeling this way. I've also heard of a lot of people getting pregnant on the nuvaring. I'm sixteen years old, i can not get pregnant. | F | 3 weeks 1X day | 4/17/2012 | 1 | Pregnancy PREVENTION | PREGNANCY. You may experience a shorter period and somehow ovulate during that 7 day out time frame. | Since becoming pregnant, found about 3 other women/now mothers who were on NuvaRing in my same predicament. | 15 months 1 ring 1X M | 10/12/2012 | 1 | Vomiting, nausea, migraines and severe depression. | I started this in 2014 and quickly stopped taking it about 4-5 months later. After I took myself off of it, it somehow kept going with the vomiting and I now have CVS. I never had this before and I'm pretty sure it's because of NR. While on NR, I was sick, had migraines and I was depressed. I couldn't take the agony anymore so I then, immediately, took myself off of this horrendous drug. I started taking this birth control when I was 29. | F | 4 months 1X day | 2/13/2021 | 1 | Birth Control | Nearly lost my life due to multiple pulmonary embolisms from using Nuvaring. I am 25 with no prior health issues. PLEASE, do not use this medication. I saw the reviews of other women who had gotten PEs and DVTs while using Nuvaring and I thought there was no way it would happen to me, that it was just some random occurrence for some stranger. But it DID happen to me, and it CAN happen to you. | F | 4 months 1X day | 1/7/2015 | 1 | Cyclic Migraines | Asthma exacerbation, daily headaches, lethargy | Not certain this medicine is the actual cause of increase in asthma symptoms, but not willing to take a chance. Have not had day without asthma symptoms 2 weeks after starting this medicine. Each day gets worse, now my athletic daughter can not even swim 15minutes without needing inhaler. Has missed the last 2 weeks of swim and a meet as she can not get off couch. Would not recommend taking this if you have asthma. Really frustrated that it took me 2 whole months to make the connection between her increased asthma symptoms (that were perfectly controlled prior to insertion) and the possibility that the ring was causing it. | F | 13 | 2 months 1X day | 12/11/2012 | 1 | Birth Control | Reading these reviews, it's very disappointing. I recently had a bad pregnancy scare, which has left me with no confidence in condoms alone. I wanted to get on some form of birth control, along with still using condoms. But I have a type of kidney disease, so that rules out almost all forms of birth control. I felt relieved when I was first reading about the Nuvaring, seeing how great it was, and seeing how I could use it even with my kidney problem. After reading these reviews, I'm so disappointed.I could see if one or two people had problems, but the majority of everybody here... Definitely won't be going on the Nuvaring. | F | 15 | | 6/13/2008 | 3 | Birth Control, Mood Regulation | Fatigue, Depression, Incessant mood swings and crying, Loss/gain of appetite, Loss/gain of weight, excessively frequent urination, Loss of lubrication (previously I'd been an ocean, it was ridiculous, but this was a bit extreme in the other direction), Loss of motivation, Blurred vision, Back pain and headaches, which I'd never had previously, etc. etc. | Initially, it served its purpose, but at length... Actually, within a month, I noticed I was a bit too dry for sex at times, and if the condom wasnt lubricated enough we were f-d (pardon the pun). It was nice to be liberated from the pregnancy risk, but given the side effects, i was... am... a bit wary, from time to time, and fret over it, irrationally. It hasn't yet helped with mood regulation, but I'm waiting for my body to adapt... Not sure this will work out. | F | 16 | 3 months | 2/3/2008 | 3 | To regulate my period & protection | I have been on nuvaring for a year. I experience some moodiness and sometimes my period is off. But overall I'm protected greatly. And I have not gained any extreme weight. It has varied from ten pounds. I was 163 when I got on it and the highest weight I have ever gotten to was 173 but I'm about 167 now. So no drastic weight change. | F | 16 | 1 years | 9/13/2014 | 1 | Birth control and severe period | I had to pee a lot and i got severe back pain :T | Do not 100% recommend | F | 16 | 24 days 10mg | 7/26/2017 | 1 | Irregular periods. | When I first went to the doctor, she told me that I could take the pill or the NuvaRing. She said that her and all her kids used it and it was just fanrastic! Well. It hasn't been so fantastic for me. It has caused me EXTREME fatigue. And I mean extreme. Irregular heartbeat, changes in breathing, even loss in appetite. I've lost about 10 pounds because I haven't been eating. And on top of that, I can't even get it out of me! It hurts so bad, and when I try to take it out, I get lightheaded. My advice to everyone who's doctor told them its great, dont listen! | F | 16 | 1 months | 1/9/2012 | 1 | Birth control | This ring was horrible I had a strong urge to pee like a uti from the minute I put the ring in I can't do this I took it out after just a few hours | F | 16 | 1 days | 3/6/2012 | 1 | Birth Control | Nausea, Cramps, Bloating, Headaches, Vaginal Discharge, Uncomfortable Sensitivity Of Vagina + Vulva, Occasionally Burning Feeling Around Vagina, Increased Urge To Urinate. | I was on the NuvaRing for only 2 1/2 weeks because I couldnt stand it anymore! I always felt nauseous + kept getting these horrible cramps in my lower stomache. I was bloated so much I looked slightly pregnant + the NuvaRing irritated my vagina + made the opening red + very uncomfortably sensitive. | F | 16 | 2.5 weeks | 7/28/2007 | 1 | periods were really bad. | mood swings, vision problems, depression, anxiety attacks, thought of suicide. | okay, so i never do these types of things. but i think this is probably any advice i can give another lady. DO NOT USE THE DEVIL RING. it almost killed me. literally. i was so depressed and suicidal that i got in my car and started to leave my house with nowhere to go. keep in mind that i am only 16. i started acting out, thinking i was growing up when really i was just losing my mind. it was all because of this BC. do not ever ever ever use it. it will change your life drastically and for the worst. | F | 16 | 9 months 1X day | 9/22/2010 | 5 | Birth control | Breast enlargement, discharge, improved skin. | By far the best for of birth control, my skin looks so much healthier and I haven't got a spot since, my breast got larger (not complaining in the slightest), the only thing is sometimes I got discharge but so little it wasn't a problem. Much better than everything else i've taken which i've got severe depression from and all other really bad side effects. | F | 17 | 2 months 1X AN | 4/24/2011 | 4 | birthcontrol | vaginal dryness, mood swings | While it is a HUGE pain in the ass to still be experiencing the dryness that it seems so long as I am on birth control I will never get rid of, nuvaring had a HUGE plus for me. I was on ortho tricyclen for over a year and not even a week after I started it I began having stomach problems. I had diarrhea and stomach pains and I went back to the nurse who said there was no way it was related. I was SURE it was but they said no. Then another doctor told me I was lactose intolerant, so I would take lactaid pills before eating dairy food but it didnt help at all. Caffinated things made me sick as well. As SOON as I started nuvaring, all the symptoms dissapeared. I still don't know why I had that reaction but I'm glad its gone and certainly have no interest in asking my doctor to find out as she was so sure all the times I came back that I was wrong. | F | 17 | 1 months | 9/10/2007 | 2 | Period/prevent pregnancy | No sex drive whats so ever, I could stay dry for maybe the first 5 min of any kind of sexual activity, weight gain, moody,and I bleed all the time, I'll get off my period then have break through bleeding that won't stop. | F | 17 | 3 years | 3/15/2012 | 2 | Birth control | Depressed , crying for no reason , chest pain, lots of stomach pain , white discharge ,confused , no interest what so ever towards everything for example : sex, work , family. I felt all the food imcumalating to my body . I'm a very mellow person I never get angry really . This made me hate everything .I would just blow every situation out of proportion . Oh yeah being nauseas was a 24 hour thing everything I would eat I would gag or not finish . I would get extemely hungry at night . | F | 17 | 2 weeks 14.4 | 7/3/2012 | 1 | Birthcontrol | I've only been on this for a short amount of time , but I can tell that something isn't right. I'm always so moody and feel like crying for no reason, my sex drive is nonexistent. I also endure " growing pains" in my legs , which I looked up and leads to blood clots. | F | 17 | 2 weeks | 6/11/2012 | 1 | prevent pregnancy | Vaginal irritation, burning, itching sensation, that is still going even though i took the ring out a whole day ago would not recommend | F | 17 | 1 months n/a | 9/14/2012 |
NUVARING (ETHINYL ASTADIOL; ETONOGESTREL): This product is a vaginal ring containing combination hormone medication and is used to prevent pregnancy. It contains 2 hormones: a progestin (etonogestrel) and an estrogen (ethinyl estradiol). It works mainly by preventing the release of an egg (ovulation) during your menstrual cycle. It also makes vaginal fluid thicker to help prevent sperm from reaching an egg (fertilization) and changes the lining of the uterus (womb) to prevent attachment of a fertilized egg. If a fertilized egg does not attach to the uterus, it passes out of the body. Using this product does not protect you or your partner against sexually transmitted diseases (such as HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia). FDA Approval Date: 2001-10-03 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)