I could use some help from the ladies here. My apologies for the gory details, but you all know that's what happens when you have a vagina.
So my regular period ended two weeks ago, and I put a NuvaRing in (as scheduled) two weeks ago Sunday. I have been on birth control for 3.5 years, Nuva Ring for 2.5 of those years. So nothing has really changed for me lately, except that we're no longer using back-up birth control (condoms) in the last month or so... which we had been doing for the previous 3.5 years.
Last night, totally randomly (we were just watching a movie or something), I started bleeding... as if my period was starting, in full force. It was not brownish, it was not "spotty," it was full on bright-red bleeding. I thought this was pretty weird... I put on a pantyliner and figured it was some kind of spotting, not that I had ever spotted before. Went to bed, woke up in the middle of the night... more blood. I put on another pantyliner and hoped it would stop. Nope, woke up a few hours later, blood everywhere. I had to wash the sheets. I put on a pad, and have been bleeding as if I'm on my period all morning.
What the hell is going on?! It's Saturday, so I'm a little hesitant to try and find a doctor (not to mention my whole weekend is packed with research events that I really need to attend)... and in Iceland, I think I'd have to go to the ER on the weekend (and this doesn't seem like an emergency). I'm supposed to have a pap on Wednesday, which I thought would be fine because I would usually have another week and a half before my period... but now I might have to cancel it due to the bleeding. Soonest I could get to a GP would be Monday.
If anyone has some experience with this, I would be grateful to hear it. I suppose I'm most alarmed by the possibility of being pregnant... I mean, we did stop using condoms because we felt we would be okay with accidentally conceiving at this point (though I'd like to trust the 99% safety of NuvaRing!), but now I'm a bit scared.
Thanks for your help.
