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One more question on the ring...
| Wed, 10-06-2004 - 4:41pm |
hey i posted a message the other day asking some questions on the ring, now i'm curious to know if anyone knows whether or not i'd need to use back up bc during this week (while i'm sans ring). i'm still a little confused on whether or not i'll be protected during the ring free week and at the beginning of my next three week cycle of having the ring in. more than anything i'm just really paranoid and i don't want to slip up and get pregnant. so i just want to make sure i'm doing this right! from a reply to my message, besjoux said that the ring is effective for four weeks. so if anyone could help clear up my question, thanks! i really appreciate the responses because like i said in my post, i'm still very unclear about a few things when it comes to using the ring. my doctors office is kinda not too helpful when it comes to giving me info. thanks again!

One of the benefits with the ring is that you're not tied to 21 days on and 7 days off, the patient information will allow you to leave the ring in for up to 28 days, and then take 7 days off, extending your cycle to 35 days instead of 28 safely. But that 7 day ring-free period doesn't change, the only way you get extra time is to leave the ring in longer. So if you're going on vacation and don't want to take a ring with you to insert in a few days, you can insert it before you leave and not give it another thought until it's time to take it out.
Make sense?
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