Severe mood swings and disturbing side effects from birth control?

[snowboarder]

I recently stopped using NuvaRing. I used it for 2 months and I week. I stopped using it because of the severe side effects that it caused. I never experienced such strong anger before in my entire life. I would actually be shaking at times because the anger was so strong. And this was brought on by the hormones in the Ring. One minute I would be a yelling, cursing, shaking, monster and the next minute I would be a crying mess. Also, I would see these disturbing images in my head. I would be driving down the road and I would have a daydream of a huge tractor trailer hitting me head-on. I would "see" myself getting stabbed, crushed, killed. Other people getting hurt. I mean really upsetting stuff. This has NEVER happened to me before and ONLY happened to me while I was on birth control. Eventually the final straw was when I was sitting on the couch at my boyfriend's house and I was just staring straight ahead trying not to cry. I was so depressed I didn't even want to move. That was when we both decided the hell with this Ring. It's evil. I took it out and haven't looked back. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[BunnyK]

I wasn't on Nuva Ring but I used to take Yaz and it made me a train wreck! I would get so mad over nothing and then get frustrated and cry. Everything upset me and I would get so depressed I would just sit and cry and I wouldn't even know why. It did horrible things to my moods and emotions, I didn't even feel like myself anymore. Since I quit I've been fine! so I know how you felt!