Birth Control Patch

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Maintain your patch change day irrespective of when your period begins and ends during your 'patch free' week. For example, if your patch change day is a Saturday and during the 'patch free' week happen to continue bleeding on the Saturday of that week, still restart the patch on that day.

That's only for the first time you use it. After that you're covered as long as you keep up the schedule. If you forget to put the patch on for a week then you have to be careful again once you start back on it.

Not being totally familiar with the "patch", I can only comment regarding the UV effects. If the patch is able to transmit the light through to your skin then more than likely there will be interaction between the UV light and the time release drug. Just recall the effect sunlight has on exposed paint, plastics like the blue tarps for coverings, vinyl siding. All of these degrade principally due to chemical changes of these materials. Some of these breakdowns can be likely candidates for inducing cancer on the skin as well as permeating into your body to cause other harmful effects. Better safe than sorry. Your skin changes color because it's trying to protect itself from the harmful effects of UV. Realize that most drugs are sensitive to light or temperature and that's why they are packed in shaded containers,or other protection to keep them from breaking down due to environmental exposure.

Yes, if you start the patch late, your period is likely to be later than you expected. Be sure to take a pregnancy test if you had sex without a condom during that two week delay or the week after.

No. Using the patch for four weeks in a row may cause a missed period, and you may have breakthrough bleeding during the next cycle. You will not increase your risk of pregnancy, though; in fact, your risk of pregnancy may be lower.

I live in CA, so laws might be different, but here, you can go to plan parenthood and do ANYTHING; BC, abortion, morning after pill, condoms, ect. without your parents finding out. I would think it would be the same in Texas. It is most definitly worth a try though, the worst that could happen is they tell you no. But they wont rat you out to your parents.

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Take a pregnancy test and know that if you took it soon enough in the pregnancy it will show a false negative.

Have you taken a pregnancy test? Your period SHOULD come on your free week. It is not right that it is not coming! I used the patch for five years and I always got my menstrual two days after the patch was removed. I would call you doctor.

Your symptoms could be due to pregnancy or due to using hormonal birth control. Take a pregnancy test if you may be at risk.

Using the patch can cause an increase in normal discharge - but discharge with a bad odor is almost always caused by an infection. You should see your doctor or family planning clinic to be tested.

It depends on what birth control you're on. You need to take remove the patch and the nuvaring, but if you're on the pill, have an IUD or implanon, or take the shots, your period will regulate itself.

How long has it been off? If it was off for a few hrs and it is still sticky enough to go back on fine. But don't tape back on or use glue. If it was off for a day or more you might want to ask a doctor!

Yes, illness does not effect the effectiveness of the patch neither does throwing up this effects the contraceptive pill but not the patch.

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You're not supposed to smoke while on the patch (or any birth control) because smoking, plus the hormones, seriously raise your risk of strokes, heart attacks, and elevated blood pressure (etc). Smoking while on the patch doesn't lower the patch's effectiveness, it's just really bad for you in general. But you should also remember that the patch isn't 100% effective, so you could still get pregnant.
You have a higher risk of heart attack and stroke.

You wouldn't tell whether its a yeast infection or not unless you have seen the doctor. A thick discharge am thinking cheesy looking accompanied by an itch sounds so much like a yeast infection only an acute one. If not could be an STI which is even worse. Only a doctor can detect what it is, so better see one.

Yes it does. I was taking Yaz and never missed a pill and took it according to all the directions. I was prescribed Cipro for a urinary tract infection and found out i was pregnant two weeks later. Thank you Insta Care for telling me Cipro lowered the effectiveness of my birth control after I found out I was pregnant.

Wash your hands afterwards and never touch the medicinal side of the patch.

The patch has to be changed each week. You can change the patch weekly for six weeks, without a week off, if you like. If you do that, there's no additional risk of pregnancy. If you leave the same patch on for six weeks, you could get pregnant.

Yes, if you start the birth control patch mid-cycle, your period will be a bit later than you expected.

In the US, the birth control patch is by prescription only, so consultation is required before starting to use the patch.

You missed the train! Whenever a child falls from a height or hits their head on something this is good reason to at least go to a clinic or the ER. Concusion can occur hours or days later, so always have your child checked over by a doctor no matter if you feel the fall wasn't all that bad and your child has stopped crying.

The fall and the fever are unlikely to be related and if the fall was a week ago and you've seen no effects it probably wasn't serious. Prolonged fever in a child of that age does however merit a visit to the doctor.