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Originally Posted by Acetylene
Now the reason why I'm not willing to just take it out is this. With the pill, if you don't take it for 2 days, it stops working. If you don't take it for one day, the efficacy is reduced to 95%, barely better than barriers, FOR THE WHOLE CYCLE. So the studies have shown. It seems to me that if removing the ring for 3 hours makes it fail, then that is equivalent to not taking the pill for two days. Therefore removing the ring for an hour and a half (average time for my and Kel) will count like missing the pill for one day. That will drop the efficacy to 95% for the whole cycle, not good!
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point taken, and i'd err on the safe side as you would seem to have done. however, a crucial assumption here is that transport through your gi tract is the same as through your vagina. your body eliminates things *very* effectively through your stomach -> excretion...whereas i don't know how well the hormone sticks around in the vagina, considering secretions occuring during sex...i wonder what affect drinking the hormone has on males, and at what concentrations, etc?
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Originally Posted by ace
In Ancient Rome, women used to think sneezing worked as a morning-after pill, and there was plenty of anecdotal evidence for it.
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hey, that shit works if you sneeze hard enough. seriously.
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Originally Posted by ace
Anyway, it's a moot point because the ring is having the same effect as depo-provera (the shot) in that I've been having my period for a good 3 weeks now. I'm starting a new thread about methods for remembering the pill because it's the only option I've tried that doesn't make me bleed  |
yep. good luck with finding what you need.