NuvaRing requires no daily dosing so you can get effective monthly protection from pregnancy. In a given 4-week cycle, NuvaRing must be inserted into your vagina, removed after 3 weeks 21 days , and a new ring inserted 1 week 7 days later. Regularly check that NuvaRing is in your vagina for example, before and after intercourse to ensure that you are protected from pregnancy. You put the ring in and take it out yourself, like a tampon.
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Organon does not review or control the content of any non-Organon site. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. The NuvaRing is a clear, bendable prescription contraceptive ring placed in the vagina for three weeks each month. This hormonal birth control method slowly releases a low dose of estrogen and etonogestrel a type progestin to protect you against pregnancy for the month.
If you're going to use NuvaRing, though, you need to remember when it is time to take it out as well pay attention to whether or not it may have accidentally fallen out. Each NuvaRing is prescribed on a day cycle. To use the product correctly:. If it is day 2 or later of week 4, and you just realized that you forgot to take it out, don't worry; you will still have pregnancy protection for this entire week.
However, you would need to make a slight adjustment to your prevention schedule. If you forget to remove the NuvaRing and it remains in place for longer than 28 days, the levels of estrogen and etonogestrel may have dropped to such a level that pregnancy is possible.
Under these circumstances:. Your NuvaRing is still effective if you forgot to take it out during week 4. If you leave it in for more than 28 days and do nothing , then the NuvaRing may no longer be effective. However, current research is unclear on exactly how much of the protective benefit, if any, may be lost after 28 days. A small study from Albert Einstein University suggested that the NuvaRing may provide ample protection for up to 35 days.
On the downside, doing so appears to increase the risk of spotting or bleeding a primary cause of treatment discontinuation. To this end, until further research can support the extended use of the NuvaRing without complications, it is strongly advised to follow the manufacturer's instructions as approved by the U.
Food and Drug Administration. When used as prescribed, the NuvaRing delivers enough estrogen and etonogestrel into the bloodstream to provide ample protection during the one-week gap between rings.
The NuvaRing is relatively simple to use but requires a little insight and preparation to ensure that is inserted correctly.
The NuvaRing doesn't need to be in an exact location to work. Your NuvaRing may slightly move around within your vagina. You can also choose to have a shorter ring-free break or not to have a break at all. This is as safe and effective as the standard use. For more information on the different options talk to a GP or nurse. You'll be protected against pregnancy straight away if you insert it in the first 5 days of your period the first 5 days of your menstrual cycle.
Talk to a GP or nurse about whether you need additional contraception if you have a very short cycle or an irregular cycle. If you start using the ring at any other time in your menstrual cycle, you'll be protected against pregnancy as long as you use additional contraception such as condoms for the first 7 days of using it. If you are switching from another type of contraception excluding condoms or you have taken emergency contraception recently, the advice on when to start using the ring and how soon you'll be protected may be different.
Talk to a GP or nurse about the best time to start using the ring and whether you need to use additional contraception. They can also give you advice on how to insert and remove it. Unlike a diaphragm or cap, the ring doesn't need to cover the entrance to your womb the cervix to work.
Using your fingers, check regularly that the ring is still there. If you can't feel it but you're sure it's there, see a GP or nurse. The ring can't get "lost" inside you. After the ring has been in your vagina for 21 days 3 weeks , you remove it. This should be on the same day of the week that you put it in. Removing the ring should be painless.
If you have any bleeding or pain or you can't pull it out, see a GP or nurse immediately. When you've taken the ring out, you don't put a new one in for 7 days 1 week. This is the ring-free interval. You might have a period-type bleed during this time. After 7 days without a ring in, insert a new one. Put the new ring in even if you're still bleeding. Leave this ring in for 21 days, then repeat the cycle. You can have sex and use tampons while the ring is in your vagina.
You and your partner may feel the ring during sex, but this isn't harmful. If the ring has been in for up to 7 days after the end of week 3 up to 4 weeks in total :.
If the ring has been in for more than 7 days after the end of week 3 more than 4 weeks in total :. Put in a new ring as soon as you remember, and use additional contraception such as condoms for 7 days. You may need emergency contraception if you had sex before you remembered to put the new ring in, and the ring-free interval was 48 hours longer than it should have been or more 9 days or more in total.
Sometimes the ring may come out on its own expulsion. It may happen after or during sex, or if it wasn't put in properly. What you should do depends on how long the ring is out for, and which week of your cycle you're in.
If the ring is out for less than 48 hours regardless of where you are in your cycle and you've been using that particular ring for 3 weeks or less:. If the ring is out for more than 48 hours in the first week of using a ring:.
If the ring is out for more than 48 hours in the second or third week of using a ring :.
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