"i understand there are risks associated with any form of contraception. i had associated the headache and mood swings i experience with the nuva ring as run of the mill symptoms related to my cycle. although i did not experience these headaches at all or these levels of mood swings before starting the nuvaring, i explained them to myself as the normal adult symptoms i&rsquo;d developed with getting older as i didn&rsquo;t want to cry wolf or say the sky was falling when it wasn&rsquo;t. basically i didn&rsquo;t want to be a hypochondriac, trying instead to approach pain and the levels thereof rationally with the understanding that pain is a signal, or rather an alert the body sends to the brain from the area of the body that is experiencing some kind of distress w"