I debated for a while whether this story was blog appropriate, but I decided that aside from my father-in-law, the only people that read our blog are women. So I'll go for it.I'm using a birth control called the Nuva Ring, which I have been very happy with since day one. Since I started out on "the pill" and then requested to be switched to this, I think my lady parts doctor assumed I was already familiar with it and didn't thoroughly explain things like she should have. I hate to blame her though, since I really didn't ask her any questions. Anyway, I recommended it to my friend Abish, who very recently taught me some extremely valuable information about it:
1. It needs to be stored in the fridge. I haven't ever done this and can think of a few times when it sat on the bathroom counter for a day or two. The best example was around Christmas when I knew I would be busy and the pharmacy would be closed, so I picked it up about two weeks before I needed it. It sat in the bathroom for two full weeks. That can't be good.
2. We are supposed to use another form of birth control for the first week it's in. My guess is so the hormones can fully circulate (?) through your body. In the 4 months I have been using the ring we have never done this. In fact, this might be too much information, but once it was only in for about 30 minutes before we made use of it.
3. You have to take it out and put it back in at the same time. See, you take it out to have your period, then put in a new one exactly one week later. What I didn't know was that it has to be about the same time. So I've been taking it out at 8:00 AM and putting a new one back in the next week at about at 10:00 PM. Oops.
Now, I don't know how serious these things are, but I do know that as of right now I'm not pregnant. I can recognize divine intervention when I see it. And since this conversation always puts the genuine look of fear in Tim's eyes, it can be mildly entertaining.
7 comments:
Oh, man. The repercussions of this could have been far greater than riding a bike while texting.
I'm glad you took the chance and posted your story. It was even more than mildly entertaining.
Great post! Other things to not do with the ring:
1) Don't let kids us it as a jelly bracelet.
2) Don't use as a carnival game, trying to land it on the neck of a bottle
3) Don't use as a napkin ring
Glad to be of some help. jk ;)
Lees! I used that one time ahh it was great no pill to try and remember... But it cost me about 60bucks a month! Too expensive, I read all the research on it when I used it and I think the only thing you should worry about is the fridge one. But hey it still worked right? No worries
Duh, your experience with the ring has a familiar "ring" to it. Tampons? You will never cease to amaze me. And after reading your flamingo story as well, all I have to say is "where did you come from?" And I mean that in a good way. That's why we keep you around, for a good laugh!!!
Lees! You are so funny! I love the flamingo story! But I also had the ring and yes, the fridge one is pretty important, but the others I slacked off with a bit too. I didn't get preggy on it. But it did take quite sometime to get preggy after being done with it. The Dr. says that it had nothing to do with the ring, but I'm pretty sure it did. Just FYI. You guys must have some great family times when Leesa and Scot are around. Talia got a hold of it once and used it as a jelly braclet! j/k! Youre funny Scot!
Hey Leesa...just found your blog...kinda stalkerish, I know. Being the person to introduce you to the ring (or was I?) I feel partly responsible for your lack of knowledge, but in all fairness all those things were news to me as well. And I never follow those rules. I know it says that it should be refrigerated but I'm pretty sure my gynecologist said something about refrigerating them if you aren't going to use them within the month...and you really don't need to put them in around the same time. She could've just been joking with me, but that would be a pretty mean joke.
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