ext_231472 ([identity profile] linzbinz.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vaginapagina2002-04-03 10:35 pm
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I'm so bummed!

Birth controll pills are ineffective on me, because of some other medications I'm on, that mess with my liver and metabolize everything really quickly...so when I heard about the NuvaRing, I was TOTALLY psyched! Anyway, I went to the doctor yesterday to try to get a prescription for one, and my doctor said that although it's been FDA approved, it's not out on the market yet, and he has no idea when it's coming out. I was so sad! I know a few of you ladies already have them...how did you get them!? Any idea on when they're coming out?
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[identity profile] rockstarbob.livejournal.com 2002-04-03 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
do you know anything about side effects? is it like the pill in that respect?

(sorry i couldn't help answer your question!)

[identity profile] enigmae.livejournal.com 2002-04-04 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
My general practitioner told me their office is supposed to "test-market" the Nuvaring sometime this spring, but no date has been set. So people around the country are probably in the same boat.

[identity profile] hercellardoor.livejournal.com 2002-04-04 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
howdy, Last week my doctor told me May/June.
I trust her (she's my OBGYN, and my cousin) Good luck!

[identity profile] enigmae.livejournal.com 2002-04-05 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
Even though the prescribing info for the Nuvaring lists the potential risks of it as the same as the pill...it just seems that anything you put in your stomach is going to spread out more into your body and be absorbed more by your whole body...while something that you put in your vagina would probably not, therefore causing less side effects...?
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