This is going to get a little personal so bare with me ladies. As you all know I’m not a saint and I do have premarital sex, however I’m engaged and I deem it okay. This being said I have recently began birth control for the first time in my life. I studied it as much as I thought I could and I knew which one fit my needs. Number one need… I need it to work. No unplanned pregos around here. Number two… I’m busy and I forget shit, so let’s find something easy. Number three… weight gain isn’t an option in my book, so the least amount of weight gain PLEASE.

All this being said I found that the Nuvaring would be my best choice. I spoke with my physician and got a prescription and began using it right away. First order of business, this thing was a pain in the vagina to put in. I mean instructions are one thing, but actually following them is downright laughable. After a few days I noticed that it burned down there. Not like an itchy burning feeling, but like a chemical burn. Being that I enjoy sex and I figured I could wait it out I did. A couple days later that feeling went away, however the hunger came on. Holy cow I couldn’t stop eating. Within 3 weeks I had put on almost 10 pounds, which I am STILL trying to work off. (And thanks to Visalus shakes I’m doing quite well, thank you) Okay back on topic… serious weight gain ladies.

Next came the attitude change which I thought was because of the weight gain. You know how we ladies get... we gain some weight and we become agitated with ourselves and take it out on the closest man around. Not to mention a complete lack of sex drive. I’m beginning to think that the way the Nuvaring works is to keep you from being interested in sex. Just thinking about it made me sick to my stomach (sorry babe, if you’re reading this I love you and it wasn’t my fault). It’s no wonder they have such a high rating for success with this product.

I kept thinking well I’ve only made it a month with this birth control and I should really try and let the Nuvaring work just a little longer. I should have known when my mood had changed and the lack of a sex drive came along to jump ship. Towards the end of month two I started having abnormal thoughts. Please keep in mind that I just got engaged to this amazing man during the Nuvaring tryouts and I’m really excited to be planning a wedding for May 2013. So I shouldn’t be stressed or upset because it’s far off and everything is going great, right? Yeah that’s what I thought. I would cry at the drop of a hat, blame everything on myself and my fiancé, fight with him constantly over the stupidest shit. I started becoming a more aggressive driver and completely impatient over everything. I seriously began to think that Sven and I would break up because I would start so much trouble with him.

My breaking point was when I packed up my stuff and left the house expecting never to go back. Keep in mind I own the house. That’s just by default right now, I’m sure WE’LL own a house once we sell this one and get married. Either way my head wasn’t in the right place. So now I have all my stuff and I drive to a movie theater and just sit there for HOURS contemplating suicide. SERIOUSLY! By the way, these thoughts had occurred to me on a whim here and there over the past 4 weeks, but I didn’t actually recognize the problem. Once I was sitting in the car for hours and I started to graphically picture myself doing something physically wrong to my body I started to think about all the moments leading up to this part of my life. It dawned on me that I haven’t felt like this since I was in high school and it must be some sort of medicine I’m taking. The only medication I’m on is Nuvaring so I started looking it up. Of course I only found the GOOD information that they want you to see on the first 2 pages of Google. Then I tried typing Nuvaring thought of suicide and HOLY SHIT!!! There was a boat load of pages of women with every symptom that I had including the way of suicide. Not one woman mentioned taking pills or using a gun, every woman explained that they pictured cutting themselves to do it. I’m sorry for the description, but I feel that if the drug companies aren’t going to warn you of such monstrosity that I’m going to have to do it. There was page after page of women with major medical problems and depression after using Nuvaring and the health problems that occurred while they were on it. Blood clots, weight gain, breathing problems and depression were the main problems listed. Many of the women that took the Nuvaring out said they started to feel better just after a couple of days, so of course I took my out and I’m only on day 1 without it. I have a doctor’s appointment on Monday and I will tell her all about my issues and see if we can’t find something better.

For any woman on the Nuvaring with similar suicidal thoughts or depression PLEASE talk to your doctor immediately. Don’t do something irreversible. I’m embarrassed to think that I didn’t see the symptoms earlier, but that might just be some of the hormones still inside my system because there is no reason for me to have been embarrassed.

UPDATE!!! I posted this post on 12/21/11 to later find out that this company has been thought to be a scam. For all of my readers I plan on leaving my original post up because it offers good information and maybe someday a company will actually offer deals such as these after reading posts like this. Please be warned that this company has been noted on several websites as being a scam. Also note that my reviews are based on my experience alone and I will not take responsibility for anyone's decision to try or use any of my product/service reviews. Here is the original post.

For the past few years we’ve started to learn about these daily deal sites out there. You know the ones that clog up your email with “Today’s Best Deal in your area”. It’s been the big boom since companies like Craigslist, Amazon, and Ebay. It has been the newest most innovative way for small businesses to get out there and show off their mad skills to new customers. The best part is that the companies don’t have to do any of the marketing themselves and it doesn’t cost them a thing until a sale is made. “HOLY SMOKES BATMAN! It doesn’t cost me anything until a sale is made?” Nope. These companies are sought out by the deal making websites and asked to be promoted on their site for a percentage of the deal. Which in turn makes it so the company or service provider doesn’t lose anything, actually they gain a potential customer.

Being in sales my whole life I can’t believe I didn’t come up with this idea. Half the time anyone who owns a business will tell you that if they could just get people into their place or to try their product they could guaranty that they’d have a customer for life. I wonder if that’s REALLY true. See anytime I purchase a deal from one of these sites and I use it later I make sure to post my review up on my own website or on websites such as Yelp or Urbanspoon. Now I wonder how long it will take these deal sites and the review sites to recognize what an ingenious idea it would be to incorporate the two together. Maybe build a platform where you can review your deal on one site and have it noted on all of them. Plus if you give an incentive to the reviewer for making and posting their review you’d have an exceptional amount of traffic and a better scale on whether that deal was an actual success or not.

Recently I found a site called nomorerack.com which is another deal of the day type site. It offers 8 deals a day and sometimes can offer an insanity deal which is quick to disappear if you don’t jump on it. The products on nomorerack.com seem to be up to date and trend worthy. Products that are usually too expensive to buy and try on their own, but with help from bulk buying anyone can manage to grab these deals. Don’t get me wrong I love sites like Groupon.com, livingsocials.com, and eversave.com, but they usually all pertain to dinners, nail salons and spas. I need variety! I need to try the latest and greatest electronics, health care products, and beauty products. So check out this new site and let me know what you think about it. And if anyone wants to snag my idea on bringing the review sites and the deal of the day sites together I’m for hire… let’s roll.