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Q: Nuva Ring

asked by: NiGo16 on August 21st, 2006

New User

I started the nuva ring about 2 months ago...Almost immediately I started having these chest pains and they proceeded to get worse. This past week I finally talked to my ob/gyn and she said to immediately stop using it. I took the nuva ring out on wednesday. I had unprotected sex on saturday morning. Because I stopped abruptly using the ring I started a period on sunday afternoon. According to my "normal" cycle I would be ovulating on saturday and I am wondering if there is a good chance I could still become pregnant???

Replies(3)

cln1812

replied on August 21st, 2006

Active User, very eHealthy

No, probably not. When you take out the ring or stop the pill, usually you consider the day of your withdrawal bleed as day 1 of your cycle. Odds are you will still have some hormones from the ring in your system and won't immediately ovulate. Also, your period should then start 28 days from your withdrawal bleed, perhaps it may be a week or 2 late. Don't worry, this is normal after stopping birth control.

NiGo16

replied on August 21st, 2006

New User

Thanks....Do you think I should start my pills up again this week or wait and take a hpt next week when I was suppose to get my period to be sure i'm not pregnant...Although i'm not even sure it would be positive yet

Carifairy

replied on August 22nd, 2006

Extremely eHealthy

It is unlikely you are pregnant... Because your body would have to go off of the hormones, then register to ovulate.

After you stop birth control, you can never know when you are going to ovulate based on your previous cycles, because bc completely messes them up temporarily.

Do start your birth control pills, but you must wait 7 full days for them to be effective.

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