Nuvaring and crazy periods!

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Registered: 05-22-2006
Nuvaring and crazy periods!
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Sun, 01-14-2007 - 9:26am
I have been on the Nuvaring for awhile now, probobaly over a year. Everything has been fine with it for the most part. I always remove it on a Friday evening and my period starts on Monday, and then when I insert a new one the next Friday evening, my period is gone by Saturday morning. (As you can see I worked this out so I wouldn't have it on the weekends!). I've also been able to leave it in a week longer to delay my period if it fell on the week I was going on vacation or something, and it worked perfectly. So I decided a couple months ago to just leave it in for 4 weeks everytime. This way I woul have more time between my periods and spend less money, etc. It worked fine the first month as usual, but the second month when I removed it on that Friday, my period started on Saturday instead of Monday and lasted for a little over two weeks, even after reinserting the ring!! So this month i left it in for only the three weeks, but pretty much as soon as I removed the ring my period started. I reinserted the ring on Friday, and it is now Sunday and it is showing no signs of letting up. Also, it has been extremely heavy this time and it's usually very light. Did I screw everything up by leaving the ring in for 4 weeks 2 times in a row? Or could it be from something else? Is it going to be like this from now on or will it go back to normal eventually? Sorry this is so long, but if someone could help me I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!
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Registered: 12-30-2003
Sun, 01-14-2007 - 3:20pm

Hi palmtreeprincess, welcome!


      Jill