I recently stated birth control (NuvaRing) and yesterday I started having really bad stabbing pains in my chest and I found it super hard to breathe. I thought it might just be part of starting birth control. So I tried ignoring it for a couple hours until it got worse and then my parents took me to the ER bc they were concerned. When I got there it faded after an hour while they were running tests and when all the tests were done, they didn’t find anything and sent me home. I’m glad it was nothing. I hate being the center of attention and I’m super introverted so the whole ER experience was really embarrassing especially since I could’ve waited another hour and the pain might’ve gone away.

Today I was talked to my boyfriend bc the ER was kinda scary since it was my first visit and I asked my parents to stay in the waiting room so I was alone. And he said ‘any time you go to the hospital from now on I’ll take it with a grain of salt bc let’s be real that was a little too dramatic.’

Was I being dramatic? I feel awful bc I hate asking for medical help and I know ER visits will cost a lot of money and my parents were out late with me at the hospital. I wasn’t trying to be dramatic I was just concerned bc of the pain and how pulmonary embolisms are a side effect (rare, I know) of NuvaRing. My bf is usually supportive of me but this time he just kinda let me down.

(P.s this one instance of being unsupportive will not lead me to break up with my boyfriend. We’re still in college and neither of us are saints which means he’s allowed to make mistakes and so am I.)