If the Nuvaring has been out for more than 4 hours, insert one immediately and use another form of contraceptive until ring has been in continuously for 7 days.
If NuvaRing is out for less than three hours, there's no worries about effectiveness. Just rinse it in lukewarm water and reinsert.
You can breastfeed with or without NuvaRing in. If you are relying on NuvaRing for pregnancy prevention, taking it out to breastfeed is going to increase your risk for pregnancy. If you're breastfeeding while using NuvaRing, removing it for a few hours does nothing to improve your milk supply, but does make it less effective. Please contact your health care provider, pharmacist, or lactation consultant to discuss NuvaRing and breastfeeding, as it seems there has been some misunderstanding. NuvaRing may decrease milk volume, which could be important with a newborn. It does not affect the quality of the milk.
Yes, stopping NuvaRing will normally cause bleeding. Just as you bleed when you remove NuvaRing after three weeks, you will have withdrawal bleeding after you stop NuvaRing permanently. Your regular menstrual pattern should restart within four to six weeks.
If you are putting nuvaring in for the first time, you have to put it in between the 2nd and the 5th day of your period. Then you 'wear' it for 3 weeks exactly (as in same time in the day), take it out and let 7 days (again, on the hours exactly 7 days) pass before you put in a new one. When you use the first time, you are not protected for the first week the ring is in.
Remove the NuvaRing, replace it with a new one, get a pregnancy test if you've had intercourse during the previous four weeks, consider emergency contraception if you've had intercourse in the prior 72 hours, and consult your health care provider.
Since you left your NuvaRing out for 10 hours, you could get pregnant. Consider changing to a method that doesn't depend on your doing something daily, weekly, or monthly. The implant and the IUD are not dependent on correct use, and will give you better protection.
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.
A period lasting 30 hours can be normal as a period can be as short as one day.
Any amount of bleeding or spotting counts as a withdrawal bleed when you're on hormonal contraception. Cramping and bloating may still occur, but bleeding will be lighter. Cramping and bloating should also decrease over the first three months of NuvaRing use. Cramping and bloating could also be signs of infection, so talk with your health care provider about whether an exam is needed in your case.
Yes. You can't rely on Nuva Ring for contraception when using Topamax. Start using a back up method of birth control until you've found a new method. Consider using emergency contraception if you've had sex in the last 120 hours.
sit in a tub of warm water from three hours and it would stop our period for a while!