Re: LADIES please help I need your opinions on BCP

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Posted by 2Be1

Thanks for all of your responses ladies. I am definetly not going to use Depo although I did consider it for a quick moment I have heard too many negative side effect stories. I will definetly discuss with my Gyno what options are available. Ladies who swear by 'the other ring' I know Nina already asked if you can feel it but I wanted to know if FH can feel it too when , , , well you know also if you leave it in for the fourth week do you not get your period? or is it not safe to leave it in for a fourth week? what side effects if any did you have with 'the ring'? Thanks for the link I am definetly going to do some research on it. Do you still get your period on the patch? Does it really not come off in the bath or shower? Nina believe me FH and I have discussed the 'withdrawl' method too

Okay one (or two) more nuva questions I guess you have to stick it all the way 'up there' so you don't feel it or have it slip out like another poster said, but is it heard to get out? I mean is it a far reach (no pun intended) or difficult to find it and pull it out?

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My FH could feel the ring, but you can remove it for up to three hours in a 24-hour span without any problems, so we'd just take it out. Also, he's a bit more... well endowed... many men can't feel it.
The patch, like the nuvaring, stays on for 3 weeks and then comes off for a week, so you get your period in the off week.
I'm not sure if you can leave it in for a 4th week, but you can put the next one in early and skip your off week - it's called stacking. However, I've heard of people having break through bleeding when they do this, although it does work for some others.
The ring is easy to pull out and really not all that hard to push in. That's really why it's a ring shape, I think. You shove it up to where the cervix is, but it really hands down a bit, so you can just stick you finger in there and hook it and pull it out.

My side effects on the ring - I broke out a bit around my period, but I have acne prone skin, so that's probably just me. I felt a little nauseous the first day I put it in (apparently many people do, I don't know why). The two scarier ones - It made my heart beat faster, which when I realized it after I went off the ring kind of frightened me. I also started having some really intense panic attacks, which I've never really had before, but I still haven't been able to figure out if that was truly caused by the nuvaring, or something else, or what, as even if the panic attacks were caused by the hormones they definitely left some residual effects that I'm still dealing with.
Also, pretty much all birth control I've been on has made me incredibly moody and irritable, especially the week before I'd get my period, and has basically massacred my sex drive.

that's one of the best parts of being off of it - I actually want to have sex again! It's a miracle!

Re: LADIES please help I need your opinions on BCP

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Posted by weddingbunny

Just out of curiousity... if you're not on bcp, and you don't use condoms... what are you using now? Or are you just not having sex? Otherwise, what's wrong with what you're using?

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Bunny, we are not having 'intercourse' I hope that answers your question

Re: LADIES please help I need your opinions on BCP

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Posted by 2Be1

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Posted by weddingbunny

Just out of curiousity... if you're not on bcp, and you don't use condoms... what are you using now? Or are you just not having sex? Otherwise, what's wrong with what you're using?

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Bunny, we are not having 'intercourse' I hope that answers your question

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well, then, that makes perfect sense!

I was just curious since you'd mentioned that you'd been on the pill before, and it's rare for somebody who has had sex in other relationships to abstain in a current (and presumably long term) one. Not unheard of though, and people certainly use bcp for other things like controling their periods, so I just wanted to make sure.