Racquelle
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Apparently it's a new form of birth control, which consists of a chemically-impregnated (no pun intended) plastic ring that is inserted into the vagina for three weeks, removed for a week, and then you repeat with a new one.
Personally, I think that anything that is inserted into any orifice should either be removed within a fairly short period of time (Q-tips, toothbrushes, parts of other people's bodies), or left to come out (or not) on its own accord (food, water, titanium plates).
Sticking something in your body, then fishing it out again three weeks later, seems, well,
Is it just me? Is it just a "guy thing"? Or is it just *wrong*?
I guess it just comes down to not being squicky about my vagina to begin with. When they announced clinical trials for the NuvaRing close to a decade ago, I tried to get in on it, but my doctor couldn't find out any information. When it was released to the market about 5 or 6 years ago, I was happy to be one of this first to get them - pharmacies still had to special order them for me.
Here's some of the reasons they are not squicky: they are made of a medical-grade material that is not conducive to microbial growth. They are packaged in a sterile condition and kept refrigerated prior to use. The vagina, in normal health, is self cleaning, and keeps the ring itself clean naturally. Prior to the advent of this method, many women used the cervical cap which was left in place for long periods. There are also countless medical appliances of various sorts that remain in place, inside the body, for years. Other foreign objects one might "stick up there" are often porous and non-sterile upon insertion, and even in those cases, it takes a somewhat unusual situation for most of those objects to cause an actual infection.
Yes, of course, different women will react to it differently. It is a hormonal method like the patch, the pill, the shot, norplant, and some IUDs - and it has essentially the same cadre of potential side effects of these other methods. Because of greater in-field compliance, it tends to have somewhat higher real-world effectiveness than the pill. As to the pill, from a woman who happily used it for many years, it is not that it is "so hard to remember"...it's that it is "so easy to forget".
We women go through some significant effort to make it possible for us to sleep with you guys without the fear of pregnancy. We could just sleep with eachother ya know? Just say thank you. ;)
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RE: Nuvaring- does it squick anyone else? - 
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This is all just academic for me. 
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