Birth Control Patch!

[deliciously_naughty]

Is anyone out there using this? I just saw a commercial for it, and it seems cool. One patch a week for 3 weeks and then you menstruate for the 4th. Definitely sounds better than the pill...that whole taking a pill everyday at the same time thing is a little hard for me. I'm going off the shot because I may want to have a child within the next 4 years. If you are on the shot, you should know it may take up to a year for you to menstruate regularly again (for those of you who aren't familiar...the shot keeps you from mestruating...your body just doesn't produce the hormones necessary for it...great if you have dysphorea like I do...huge amounts of pain when menstruating that drugs dont' touch). This means that if it takes a year for me to reliably menstruate and another 9 to have a baby plus procreation time, I will be 26 or 27 before I can have that child.

So, point being, I need to change my bc to something different. How's the patch working? Do you like it?

 

[Spinaroonie]

My problem with it is that they place it in place I'd theoretically use if I were to ever have sex.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

My problem with it is that they place it in place I'd theoretically use if I were to ever have sex.

How does putting a patch on your arm your hip or your back interfere with that? I mean it's like 3/4 square inches you can't kiss, but I dont' see that it's a huge thing

I wonder if whether swimming everyday would affect it;s effectiveness. I still have a lot of q;'s that I need to ask my friendly neighborhood gyn/ob

 

[Sandia]

My problem with it is that they place it in place I'd theoretically use if I were to ever have sex.

Heh. That was pretty good.

 

[Spinaroonie]

How does putting a patch on your arm your hip or your back interfere with that? I mean it's like 3/4 square inches you can't kiss, but I dont' see that it's a huge thing

I wonder if whether swimming everyday would affect it;s effectiveness. I still have a lot of q;'s that I need to ask my friendly neighborhood gyn/ob

They show three places in the commercial. Near the goods, near the ass and then shoulder and act like those are theo nly options.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

They show three places in the commercial. Near the goods, near the ass and then shoulder and act like those are theo nly options.

Theoretically it can be put anywhere. I'd prolly do the lower back or on the outside of my thigh

 

[Spinaroonie]

Theoretically it can be put anywhere. I'd prolly do the lower back or on the outside of my thigh

I'd put it under my tounge soI could get a buzz off of it.

 

[superlittlegirl]

Have you heard of NuvaRing?

http://www.nuvaring.com/index_flash.asp

It's a flexible plastic ring, kind of like a jelly bracelet, that releases a progestin/estrogen combo into your bloodstream on a daily basis. (You don't wear it on your wrist though-- it fits around your cervix. That sounded kinda misleading the way I wrote it!) You take it out for a week of every month to menstruate.

I wanted to try NuvaRing, but oddly enough, Planned Parenthood does not carry it yet. I don't know why they don't, or if they ever plan to.

 

[plesmone]

How does putting a patch on your arm your hip or your back interfere with that? I mean it's like 3/4 square inches you can't kiss, but I dont' see that it's a huge thing

I wonder if whether swimming everyday would affect it;s effectiveness. I still have a lot of q;'s that I need to ask my friendly neighborhood gyn/ob

The patch is suppose to stay on through swimming, exercising, showering, etc. The area used to attach is as you stated (ab, but, back or front and upper arm (although not on breast

You still need to remember to replace the pad after 7 days. I have trouble knowing what day it is half the time, but do not have trouble with the daily things.

 

[freakygirl]

buy this months Cosmopolitan magazine..

They have an ad in there with an actual (non medicated) patch. So you can see what it's like.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

Thanks guys.

I don't know about that nuva ring thingy though. But thanks for giving another option I'd never heard of.


I'm one of those people who often forgets to eat if she gets busy doing other things and I can't recall when I last ate or did something. So the pill has never been a good option for me.

I think if I write a memo to myself in my day planner or plan to change the patch on payday or something like that I have a better chance of remembering.

 

[horny_giraffe]

I've heard that some women are opting out of menstruation altogether. Evidently there's been some medical support for this idea.

The idea is that excessive menstruation may actually be bad for a woman's health. In an evolutionary perspective, one notes that a fertile woman of even a few thousand years ago would not spend a lot of time menstruating because she would be pregnant much of the time.

Something to think about.