Nuvaring slipping out?

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Registered: 02-03-2006
Nuvaring slipping out?
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Sun, 04-30-2006 - 3:08pm

I have been on Nuvaring for three cycles now. I absolutely love it except for one problem: it keeps slipping out! This is a very strange situation. When I first put the ring in, everything is fine for about 6-8 days: can't feel it whatsoever. But after about a week or so, it begins to slip out. At first it's not that bad, it only slips out to the point of where I can feel it slipping out and I can push it back in. But after about the 10th day of having the ring inserted, it begins to slip out to the point where it is halfway out of my vaginal openning. This is happening about 5-10 times every day. It has happened in all three cycles I have been using the Nuvaring. It is really starting to become bothersome. When it start to come out a lot, nothing I do can make it stay back in. Whenever I try to push it back in, it feels almost as if something is blocking it and it simply will not budge. If I do manage to push it back in a little, it will slide back out in an hour or so. I have tried taking it out and kind of reshaping it before I put it back in, but that does not work either. I am getting so frustrated and it's starting to cause problems, especially when it happens in a public place (it happens when I am sitting in class all the time) and I cannot properly rinse it off or get in a good position to place it back in. I just do not understand why this is happening, especially because it works fine for the first week every time and never slips out during that first week. Has this happened to anyone else? Even if it hasn't, does anyone know what could be causing this...and more importantly what I can do to stop it? I absolutely love Nuvaring aside from this, so I would hate to have to switch birth control methods, especially because I have had such a hard time with pills in the past. Is there anything I can do about this, or is this just something I am going to have to deal with? Any help or opinion about this would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much.

Erin

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 05-01-2006 - 7:41am

That really is puzzling!

Judie Cl for Birth Control 
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Registered: 02-03-2006
Mon, 05-01-2006 - 8:56am
Thanks for your input! I think I will check with my doctor next cycle.
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Registered: 12-30-2003
Mon, 05-01-2006 - 3:40pm

>>everything is fine for about 6-8 days: can't feel it whatsoever. But after about a week or so, it begins to slip out. At first it's not that bad, it only slips out to the point of where I can feel it slipping out and I can push it back in. But after about the 10th day of having the ring inserted, it begins to slip out <<


      Jill

    

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Registered: 02-25-2004
Mon, 05-01-2006 - 8:34pm

I'm on my 2nd month with NuvaRing. Last month was perfect- I put it in & didn't even know it was there for the next 3 weeks! Last night I put in my 2nd one. It was fine all night. Then this morning I felt it slipping out, just a little, like you described. It's been doing it all day & it's really starting to get annoying. I keep pushing it back in & I finally took it out & put it back un again. I don't know if I just didn't have it in far enough last night or what. Please keep us updated after you talk to your doctor!

Melissa