Hi everyone,

I decided after 12 yrs it was time to stop birth control (with my husband's full support) - so I took the Ring out last week (in the middle of a cycle). Then this week I started to feel really weepy even though I am not actually sad about anything. I did struggle with depression during my intern year but that totally resolved and I have felt great in the last 9 months (off antidepressants). There is nothing new in my life to contribute to this - in fact, I have been extremely happy this year as I decided to take a year off of residency and have just been loving life (which raises the question of whether to go back). But I am mostly wondering if this reaction to stopping BC sounds familiar, because I do NOT want to be inexplicably and abruptly sinking back into what I dealt with last year. I am hoping this is a common experience??

With Nuvaring - yes, definitely.

I literally cried... over nothing. I think I decided I felt lonely? Who knows. I'm not typically like that, don't even cry for movies. I was weepy for a few days, then had incredibly sore breasts for WEEKS. Yikes. For a little bit I thought I had gotten instantly pregnant... I did the math and it wasn't really possible, so then I was just annoyed.

Sorry. It's a rough let-down from that one. It does pass, though.

Wow, you have NO idea how happy I am to hear that you felt the same way. It's actually better today but for the past two days, I was beginning to wonder. I mean I wasn't even sad about anything at all but felt like I was just physically needing to cry. So bizarre. It brought back some bad memories of intern year. Breast tenderness I'll take, but coming close to crying for no reason is just scary.