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 |
| 1 | Regulate Periods | Extreme fatigue/sleepiness, breakouts, bad pelvic cramping, discharge increase, loss of libido, bad headaches, shortness of breath, felt like I would pass out, sadness, weepiness, cysts in breasts, breast growth | about three hours after inserting ring I had cramping, within a week everything else hit. two days before I was supposed to take it out I couldn't even stand up with out things getting fuzzy around the edges and almost passing out. I took the ring out at three in the afternoon, and by 11 PM I was feeling 50% better. Three days later I am still having issues with bad dizziness and extreme fatigue. Feels like my body is full of lead and I can't wake up. Going to the doctor tomorrow because my blood pressure is sky high. | F | 27 | 19 days 1 Ring 1X M | 11/17/2012 | 4 | to prevent pregnancy | Overall i am extremely pleased with the nuva ring. It doesn't make me moody and emotional like most other birth controls. I don't have excruciating painfull cramps like I used too. I also enjoy that my actual periods are shorter and lighter. The only thing I do not like or understand is i have been on it now for 4 months and my cycle is regular, but I'm having a problem to where at anytime i may start spotting during the middle of the month and sometimes it continues through until my period. The only thing that stops it then is when i change out the ring. This is usually induced when I remove it for a brief period of time or have sex with my husband. I honestly do not understand why this is or what is going on. I know this is normal the 1st maybe even 2nd month while your body is getting adjusted to it but I don't think it is normal for this to continue. Is anyone else having this problem? Also my skin is naturally oily from Italian blood my skin broke out pretty bad the 1st month but subsided after now my face is 100percent clear of blemishes. I've been small my whole like around 110 to 120 I'm 5'6. I cannot say it makes you gain alot of weight however it does help with maintaining weight though. I was 112lb when i found out i was pregnant with my son last year. I went up to 149lbs. I immediately lost basically all of it after giving birth. I think i was at 129. I'm holding pretty steady now at 126 which I'm not going to argue with. | F | 20 | 4 months | 10/20/2012 | 5 | Birth Control | My period has been shorter, my acne has cleared up, I lost weight and have an increased libido | I love it, the best thing I could have gotten because I can't remember to take a pill and didn't want anything put in for years. | F | 18 | 7 months 1X M | 10/19/2012 | 3 | bc | NO sex drive, very frequent headaches (several each week). | I had been using NuvaRing for about 3 years. I had a Mirena placed 1 month ago now. All the time that I used the NuvaRing I thought it was great. Now that I am without it & after reading these reviews I firmly believe it was the cause of my non-existant sex drive & very frequent & intense headaches. I have struggled with headaches since I was about 12 years old but they had gotten much more out of hand the last several months I used the NuvaRing. I have a busy schedule & a small child so I really thought the loss of sex drive was just related to my life circumstances. Now that I have the Mirena my sex drive has made a comeback & my headaches have been much less frequent & intense. | F | 27 | 3 years 1X M | 10/13/2012 | 2 | Birth Control | Acne increase, weight gain, and week long bouts of nausea. Then one month I broke out in Hives to my arm, chest, and abdomen. They were unexplained, and got worse every day. The hives would last in one location for 5-7 days before starting to fade, and reappear somewhere else. I went to multiple doctors including a dermatologist who finally corrolated the hives with me inserting a new ring at the beginning of the month. No one else thought it could be the ring because I had been on it for 2 years!! Within hours of taking it out the hives have started to go away. | F | 27 | 2 years | 10/12/2012 | 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 | 2 | Prevention of pregnancy | Lack of energy, emotional, cramping in uterus and legs, chest pains, big decrease in sex drive, always feel bloated/gassy... At first I liked nuva ring bc I didn't have to take a pill like i did prior, but all the symptoms I have don't seem to add up to anything but the ring. I have decided to get off BC for a few months to see how I feel and get my body back to normal. | F | 24 | 2 years | 10/4/2012 | 1 | birth control | Itching burning increased discharge, cramps, headache | F | 21 | 1 days | 10/2/2012 | 2 | Convenience of birth control | Vaginal dryness, depression, mood swings, low libido, sense of hoplessness, weight gain. | I took this for 7 years, and never realized what was causing my problems until I finally came off of it. To the people who are judging those who have had a negative experience with this birth control need to realize that not everyone is the same, people react differently to different medications and hormones. Therefore, I think you need to be less judgemental and rude about other's lifestyles. Just because some of us gained weight from this drug does NOT mean we sit around eating fatty foods all day. Some of us had this problem even while maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle. Anyway, when I was on the Nuvaring, I was constantly bitchy, mean and never had a sex drive, not to mention my weight was climbing, even though I watched what I ate and tried to work the weight off many times to no avail. However, as soon as I got off of it, I felt better, more sexual, and my weight dropped dramatically. I really wouldn't recommend this drug to anyone based on my experiences, and I think I'll just stick with the diaphram. My libido and body are thanking me now. | F | 23 | 7 years 1X M | 9/27/2012 | 1 | Heavy flow/cramping | After a few hours of insertion I started experiencing dizziness and feeling like I could fall out. I went to bed early but was awakened by hot flashes/sweats throughout the night that felt like my body was on fire. The next morning I was vomitting, feeling jittery, having heart palpitations, severe migraine and just feeling like I was on my death ned. I called the oncall Dr and he recommended I remove immediately. He said that some women have a sensitivity to estrogen and for me to schedule appt next week with my GYN. | My Gyn wanted to try this as a less invasive alternative to hysterectomy since I amonly 33...but this was a horible experience and I would woudnt want to wish it on my worst enemy. | F | 33 | 2 days 1X day | 9/27/2012 | 1 | Birth control | Bloating, weight gain, headaches, cramping, depression, lack of sex drive. Now being off it after 4 months I am still waiting for my period to come, and I am definitely not pregnant. | Originally i was all for using nuvaring after one month I was fine had no problems except for headaches which Advil worked for that. The months following it just got worse, I don't know why I said on it for 9 months but i regret it now. It was not worth it at all and still trying to work off the 10 extra lbs i gained, not happy. Try something else | F | 21 | 9 months 1X M | 9/20/2012 | 1 | Birth control | Horrible aching throbbing feeling in uterus, near black out and severe dizziness approximately 3 hours after insertion, wierd 'pressurised' feeling in head, felt panicky and anxious for no reason, legs felt like lead, felt fatigued, lethargic and exhausted for no reason, unexplained ache in leg. Exactly half an hour after removal of Nuvaring 12 hours later, nearly all these symptoms reversed. | Definitely felt as though I had a massive dose of 'something', will never EVER take this form of contraception again. Have taken the 2nd generation combined pill in the past successfully, never experienced side effects like these. After hearing about the many lawsuits filed against Nuvaring regarding the danger of blood clots, strokes and death in healthy young women who are not at risk I have taken it out, thrown it away and will NOT be putting it back in. | F | 27 | 1 days 11.7 mg 1X M | 9/17/2012 | 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 | 3 | Birth Control | increase vaginal discharge. loss of sex drive. Extreme Weight Gain. Acne problems. Nausea, Dizzy spells, Aquired Gastritis (Acid Reflux) Pains in joints, shorter much lighter periods. Less period cramps | In the first few months I was excited that I didn't have to remember to take it every day and that I didn't show much symptoms but then a couple of months later I started getting nauseous and dizzy. I loss interest in sex and began gaining alot of weight. I'm less interested in doing things I like and all of a sudden i'm breaking out horribly. I've always been complimented about my skin until now. I want to change but was told Nuvaring has the least amount of side effects and would suit me better since I dont have to take it every day. I'm STUCK! | F | 27 | 1 years 30 MG 1X M | 9/12/2012 | 5 | Birth control & skipping periods | When I first started the Nuva ring I had breast tenderness and increased discharge. Which would be on the ring when I removed it. So I started to take the ring out and rinse it every few days. I have always gotten extremely heavy and painful periods. My doctor suggested that I skip my period ... On week 4 instead of being ring free for a week. Insert another. I never had problems. I love the Nuva ring | F | 31 | 4 days | 9/5/2012 | 1 | birth control | heavy white discharge, foul odor, abdominal cramps, NO sex drive, easily irritated, outrageous mood swings, blurred vision, legs & arm pain | I was on nuvaring for only 13 days. As soon as I inserted in, almost instantly I started having abdominal cramps (they were the worst when I laid down, so I had trouble sleeping). Only about an hour after I put it in, I started having a heavy white discharge & foul odor. After about 3 days, I had no sex drive what so ever! Within a weeks time, I had terrible mood swings (i've never had mood swings before in my life) & I was very easily irritated. Just in the past week, my vision started messing up. & acouple days ago, my legs and arms have had pains in them. I thought all this stuff going on was just because my body had to get used to the new birth control, but that is not the case! I now see im not the only one with these problems. & (literally) right before I started writing this, I took that piece of crap out of me! I refuse to put my body in danger. I wish I would have came across this site before I chose to put that death circle inside me. but im glad I found this site before I really ran into trouble.. I Hope all of you recover completely from this, and I do not recommend this birth control to my worst enemy! | F | 20 | 2 weeks 1 ring 1X M | 9/5/2012 | 3 | Birth Control | I developed gall bladder disease (biliary dyskinesia) and had to have my gall bladder removed. I also grew several benign tumors in my liver, my doctor said they were related to the nuva ring. There were no other side effects, but I seemed to exhibit some of the rarer side effects, unfortunately. No longer taking the ring. | F | 28 | 8 years 1 ring 1X M | 9/4/2012 | 3 | easy to use birth control | Decrease sex drive, irritability, distraction, | F | 24 | 1 months | 9/3/2012 | 1 | Ovarian cysts/birth control | Sever Anxiety, Depression, Yeast infection, soreness, swelling, weight gain | I thought I was fine on this type of birth control until another pointed out that I was getting increasingly anxious. The final breaking point was when I had 4 anxiety attacks in one week over nothing and symptoms of a painful yeast infection. | F | 23 | 4 months 1X day | 8/24/2012 | 1 | prevent pregnancy | a few hours after i put in NR i started getting chest pains, i didnt think anything of it until they didnt go away then just got worse, i felt a heavy feeling on my chest and was having trouble breathing, i told my mother (me being 18) and she told me to go look up all of the side effects and i saw that NR could lead to blood clots and i took it out. I only lasted about 14 hours on it and i plan on calling the DR. in the morning | maybe my body was still getting used to it but i hated the feeling, something just wasnt right about it and after reading these i know its the ring and not me, im hoping the pains go away soon because i just took it out | M | 18 | 1 days 1X day | 8/21/2012 |