Nuvaring Removal Time Frame....

[curious1231980]

I am starting to feel sick being on the NuvaRing. I have been on it for almost a year with perfect use. I want to take it out, but I had unprotected sex on Wednesday night. I don't want to get pregnant, but I heard that sperm can live in a woman's body for up to a week! Should I wait a week from the last time I had sex to take it out? Or am I good to take the ring out tomorrow morning? Any advice would be great because at this point I just want it OUT! Thank you!

[curious1231980]

Thank you for your response! Yeah, I don't want to get pregnant at all. But lately I've been having pains in my chest and in one of my legs. I don't know if it's related to the NuvaRing but some of the side-effects are scary. Like blood clots and heart attacks. I just don't want to be a victim to those. But it seems like all birth controls have some sort of risk involved in them. That's why I was looking at paragard since it's a hormone-free method. Just the heavy periods sound like a complete turn-off. With NuvaRing my periods are almost non-existent and it's great!

[stga]

Yeah, nuvaring didn't work out for me either :(
I'm pretty sure you can take it out by now... I stopped taking my pills one day after unprotected sex and i'm not pregnant at all... the thing is: even if the sperm is still there, there's no egg to be fertilized, because you shouldn't be ovulating... it takes some time after you stop hormonal birth control methods to be fertile again.
Hope I helped. But if you don't want a pregnancy AT ALL, I mean, if you're dead set about that, I think it wouldn't hurt to wait just a few days more... just to be sure :)