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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 your NuvaRing one day late, you should still be protected from pregnancy. However, it's important to use backup contraception, such as condoms, for the next seven days to ensure effectiveness. If you are more than three hours late in inserting or removing the ring, follow the specific guidelines provided in the package insert or consult your healthcare provider for advice. Always refer to the instructions for your specific situation to maintain effective 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.