so paranoid! (nuvaring)

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Registered: 08-21-2003
so paranoid! (nuvaring)
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Tue, 05-25-2004 - 1:04pm
ok, i'm sorry i might keep asking the same questions, but i'm just sooo paranoid.

I switched from OTC to Nuva ring about 3 months ago. My first period came right when I wanted it to come, then my second period was weird. I had sex without a condom (but i use condoms 95% of the time) a week before i was suppose to take my ring out. I take it out on thursday, so I was expecting my period to come on monday like usual. Well I was spotting tuesday and wednesday, and my full period came late wednesday/thursday. I got so freaked because I read that spotting is a sign of pregnancy, especially when you're suppose to have your period. So i took a pregnancy test about 2 weeks after that intercourse, and it came out negative, then another one a couple days later and it was negative. And being my paranoid self again, i took one three weeks later and it was negative. You'd think that would be good enough, but I'm still paranoid. My third month on it, my period hasn't started yet (took it out last thursday). Is my body still tryng to get used to the hormones??

i'm soo sorry to post these things again, I just wanted some information to calm my nerves. Thanks soo much!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 1:48pm
It can take several months to adjust to the hormones, I know my periods weren't really on a schedule until about the third or fourth month (started bleeding early the first one, and it went later and later until it settled on Wednesdays). Keep in mind too that with the ring being a very low estrogen dose, some women may skip periods with it too, so don't panic if you don't get your period at all and you know you've been careful.

Try to hang in there, I was a little worried when I started using the ring because the technology was so new. I charted my basal body temperatures for a couple of months and didn't see any variance that I couldn't attribute to a later waking time throughout the ring cycle, which to me meant that I wasn't ovulating (I'm assuming that hormones are additive, since more progesterone makes your temperature rise, if I had rising hormones in addition to the ring I should see that in the temperatures too).

Good luck!

Judie
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