Question Posted Saturday November 5 2005, 10:49 am
Im 16 and scared! I have been on my period for 28 days (bleeding for 28 days) you only supose to only stay on 5-8 days. I just started using the new Nuva Ring (birthcontrol). I put it in a day after I first came on, could I have been pregnant and not know and killed the baby if there was one?
kendallski03 answered Sunday November 6 2005, 1:12 pm: Wow. Go to a doctor and tell him what you told me. You might be pregnant but I am not a doctor so I wouldn't know.
TaintedPurity answered Saturday November 5 2005, 2:10 pm: Sometimes birth control can backfire and do horrible things to your body. (Almost never pills however.) I got the DepoVera shot when I was 16 and I had my period for LITERALLY, 6 months straight. It was the most horrible time of my life. I'd suggest telling your doctor and getting off that ring right away...switch to a pill if that's what he says is best. But let him know that you fear having a constant period. Each day you bleed, you lose eggs. I bled for 6 months straight and now have the egg count of a 30 year old. I will go through menopause when I am 24 years old, and I am only 19. Don't let this happen to yourself. [ TaintedPurity's advice column | Ask TaintedPurity A Question ]
SoInToYoUx0x answered Saturday November 5 2005, 12:41 pm: my mom has had a problem like that and it lasted a long time i dont know about yours but hers was bleeding a lot. they found out that the bleeding was from her kidney and had to have surgery on it. my advice to you is call a doctor and go find out what is wrong. the longer you wait the faster you will kill yourself for loosing a lot of blood. hope this helps you out.
*~Stephanie~* [ SoInToYoUx0x's advice column | Ask SoInToYoUx0x A Question ]
LadyGoodman answered Saturday November 5 2005, 12:06 pm: Your body is probably having a hard time adjusting to the birth control. Because birth control is unnatural and screws with your reproductive system (most seem to trick your body into thinking its pregnant) different people respond to it in different ways, and many times in strange ways such as your case. Make sure you let your doctor know, because he or she might have some comforting words (like it could end soon) or ways to stop that. [ LadyGoodman's advice column | Ask LadyGoodman A Question ]
karenR answered Saturday November 5 2005, 11:47 am: Any doctors office would have given you a pregnancy test prior to giving you birth control so I don't think you were pregnant.
You should at least call your doctors office and let them know what is going on. It could be the birth control itself. I am not familiar with the one you are on.
I do know ( worked in Dr's office) that girls who use depo provera can have that problem with bleeding constantly. So it may very well be the Nuva Ring.
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