Can you get pregnant if the NUVA ring is out for 1 day after using the ring for over six months?

Answer 1

After Nuva Ring has been out for a week, you're no longer protected against pregnancy. If you've had unprotected sex, consider using emergency contraception. Insert a new ring as soon as you remember, and use a backup Birth Control method for the first seven days of that cycle. Remove that ring three weeks after inserting, on the same day of the week you inserted. Insert the next ring one week later.

Answer 2

Yes, it's possible.

If you've had unprotected sex during that week, consider using emergency contraception.

Use a back up birth control method, like condoms or abstinence from vaginal sex.

To prevent this occurrence in the future, use one finger after sex to check that the Nuva Ring is still in the vagina.

Answer 3

If 1,000 couples use Nuva Ring perfectly for a year, three will get pregnant. Since there are no perfect couples, pregnancy rates with typical use are higher than that, but there are no good data to date on typical failure rates with Nuva Ring. It's probably lower than typical failure rates with the pill, for which 8 pregnancies can occur among 100 couples using the pill for a year (higher for teens).

Protection with Nuva Ring starts immediately if you insert it on the first day of your period. If you insert it at other times, you should use a back up method of birth control, like condoms or abstinence from vaginal sex, for 7 days.

Answer 4

You need to use a back up method of birth control during the first week of use. After that, you have the normal level of protection from Nuva Ring; namely, if 1000 couples use Nuva Ring perfectly for a year, three will get pregnant. Since there aren't a lot of perfect people in the world, actual failure rates are higher, but probably not as high as the 8 in 100 failure rate with normal birth control pill use (since Nuva Ring gives you fewer chances to goof up.)

Answer 5

During the three weeks it is supposed to be in, it shouldn't be out for more than 3 hours at a time. If it's been out for more than three hours, rinse it in cool or lukewarm (not hot) water and reinsert. Use a backup birth control method for seven days.

Answer 6

As with combined BC pills you are safe, as long as it was in for at least 7 days continously and not out for more than seven days.

Answer 7

Putting it in early does not increase your risk of pregnancy. Only putting it in late increases the risk of pregnancy.

Answer 8

You can leave NuvaRing in for four weeks. At that point, if you don't insert a new ring, you will not be protected.