LonghornSara

hehe, some people get so miffed over the internet. Geez so what even if I did call you incompetent and bad uninformed nurses? Which I did not. My original post was highly misread. Nurses love to gripe.

Sorry to have offended any of you nurses who do not know of the Nuvaring. I could not imagine a current OB/GYN nurse never hearing about it, and that is how I should have phrased my comment. Amusing that I got many more replies from that one remark than my original post. People like to defend themselves I suppose. I am going in to have a blood test tomorrow to check pregnancy and hormone balance.

I am referring to the new contraceptive ring called Nuvaring. You must not be a nurse because it is widely known especially among ob/gyns. And I have taken multiple pregnancy tests especially since I was a few days late and they all showed negative. It has been at least 3 weeks since the last time I had sex (we used a condom) so I am sure the pg test would have shown positive if I was pg.

Hi all, I hope you don't mind my graphic description but I'm afraid I have to be very specific about this. This month when I got my period it had been about 40 days since my last menstration, which is a little abnormal for me. Anyhow, I attribute the lateness to stress about finals and moving. I have had spotting of a thickish dark brown discharge for 2 days but no bright red heavy flow like usual. I have had the brown discharge before but that was always at the very end of a long period and I was told it was just brown because it was old blood. Does that sound right? If so, I am wondering why the dark brown would be at the beginning of my period. I was just suprised this time because usually when my period first starts it is bright red and then eventually darkens in color a few days later. Coincodenlty, I am started using the Nuvaring for the first time ever a few days after the spotting started even though I did not have a full period I thought it wise to start. After starting the Nuvaring the spotting stopped all together. Is this becasue of the hormones in the Ring? I am just wondering if this is normal? Is it the darker color just because of the length of time since my last period or should I go in for a checkup? Any help appreciated.

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This is a rather silly question and I would probably not take the chances of doing this, but I couldn't help question something as I was reading the packaging of my new Nuvaring. It says: "Each ring delivers 0.120 mg/day of etohogestrel and 0.015 mg/day of ethinyl estradiol over a 3 week period of use. Each Ring contains 11.7 mg etohogestrel and 2.7 mg ethinyl estradiol" Now you do the math. If you divide the mg/day released by the total mg in the package, it would take 97 days for all of the drug to be released, assuming constant release time per day. Hmm... I wonder if using one ring for 60 days would work? I thought about contacting the Nuvaring manufacturers but of course they are going to say use one per month because they want people to spend money. But at $42/month it would be awesome to double up. What do you think?

This is a rather silly question and I would probably not take the chances of doing this, but I couldn't help question something as I was reading the packaging of my new Nuvaring. It says: "Each ring delivers 0.120 mg/day of etohogestrel and 0.015 mg/day of ethinyl estradiol over a 3 week period of use. Each Ring contains 11.7 mg etohogestrel and 2.7 mg ethinyl estradiol" Now you do the math. If you divide the mg/day released by the total mg in the package, it would take 97 days for all of the drug to be released, assuming constant release time per day. Hmm... I wonder if using one ring for 60 days would work? I thought about contacting the Nuvaring manufacturers but of course they are going to say use one per month because they want people to spend money. But at $42/month it would be awesome to double up. What do you think?