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If you miss the first three days of your NuvaRing cycle, you should use a backup method until you've worn the ring for seven days. If you had sex during that time, consider using emergency contraception.
If you insert NuvaRing a few days late, you may not be protected against pregnancy. Consider emergency contraception if you've had sex in the last five days. Use a backup method, like condoms or abstinence from vaginal sex, until you've used the ring correctly for seven days.
Since you reinserted NuvaRing two days late, there's a chance you could be pregnant. Take a pregnancy test, and use a backup method of birth control until you've been on the ring for seven days. if you don't get a period after removing NuvaRing, repeat the pregnancy test. If it's negative, insert the new ring.
If you insert NuvaRing eight days late, you are at risk for pregnancy. Use a backup method for at least seven days. Timing of your next episode of withdrawal bleeding will be unpredictable. Take a pregnancy test if you had sex that wasn't protected due to the error in NuvaRing use. Consider changing to a method that doesn't require you to do something every month.
If you leave the last NuvaRing in for four weeks, insert the new one immediately. If you did not insert it immediately, you must use a backup method until you've used the ring correctly for seven days.
Yes, inserting NuvaRing before your period can delay bleeding.
Nothing. It doesn't have to be inserted at the same time each week. My gyno told me I can leave it in an extra week if I'm going on vacation or want to hold off my period a week for some reason...there are enough hormones in it to leave it in an extra week, so the matter of a few hours is not important.
You just need to insert and remove it on the same day of the week. The time of day is not important.Being an hour late once a year won't reduce the efficacy. You just need to insert and remove it on the same day of the week.
If NuvaRing® has been left in your vagina for up to one extra week (four weeks in total or less), remove it and insert a new contraceptive ring after a one-week ring-free break. If NuvaRing® has been left in place for more than four weeks, you may not be adequately protected against pregnancy and you must check to be sure you are not pregnant. If you know or suspect that you're pregnant, do not use NuvaRing®. If you are not pregnant, insert a new contraceptive ring. You must use an extra method of birth control, such as male condoms or spermicide, until the new NuvaRing® has been in place for seven days in a row.This is from the Nuva Ring's website.
You have a higher chance of getting pregnant when you put a nuva ring in late. If you put the ring in late, you should not have sex (without a backup method of birth control) for at least 7 days with the ring in. If you did have sex in the first 7 days of putting in the ring, I would recommend a pregnancy test.
While getting pregnant at any time without a permanent form of birth control is a possibility, being a few days behind on birth control or the administration of another method does not make much of a difference, except when the missed medication is at the earliest part of your cycle.However, with Nuvaring, if the ring is outside the vagina for more than three hours, the contraceptive's ability to work has been compromised. Insert the ring into your vagina as soon as you remember. According to the Full Prescribing Indications provided by Nuvaring and Organon USA, a backup form of birth control should be used for the next seven days. This will give the Nuvaring a chance to re-deliver the appropriate levels of hormones into your system.The key to this is to leave the ring in your vagina for 7 consecutive days before you can be sure that the hormone has risen to levels appropriate for effective birth control. Use an alternative form of birth control (such as male condoms and spermacide) for the seven days.This response has been given by a medical professional, but not a physician. Although this response has been checked for accuracy and has been researched, any advice given here does not take the place of your primary care provider. In an emergency, please dial 911 or your local emergency number. This response is provided under the terms and disclaimers of WikiAnswers and the author of this answer cannot be held liable for any misguided attempts to follow this advice without the observation or guidance of a licensed physician.