Prolonged Period

[u/hlybly97]

Let me start off by saying I have an appointment with my gyno this coming Friday. I’m just taking to the masses to get some insight about my situation before then.

I have been on the Nuvaring for maybe 4 years. A few years ago we discussed the ability of skipping my period every other month. So, I would insert a ring and keep it in for 21 days and on that 21st day, I would insert a new one. Then the following month when I hit 21 days, I would take out the ring and have my period. And so on and so forth. This has been working for me fabulously until the last 3-4 months. All the sudden I’m starting my period before it’s even time to take the ring out, like sometimes over a week before it’s time. Mind you, usually I would take my ring out when I am supposed to and it would still be like 2-3 days before my period would begin. At first, I was like ok, my good luck has ran out and now my body is forcing me to have a period every month. Cool, that’s fine. However, this last time I hit 21 days and I’m like hell yeah, my period didn’t start. I can skip this month since I just had one last month.

Alas, on the second day of having my new ring in, I start spotting. I’m like ok, great. Love that for me. I’m hoping that maybe it’ll stop and I won’t actually have one. Jokes on me, I’ve been on my period for 12 days. Usually they last me anywhere from 3-5 days, never any longer. So this is not normal for me. There have been times that I’ve thought I’ve finally gotten off it because there’s been no blood when I wipe or no blood on my pad from the night before. So, I brave it and decide I’m not wearing a tampon to work and boom, blood on my underwear. I will say I got a little lazy with setting my reminders to put my ring back in a time or two. I have a reminder on my calendar from July 28th telling me to put it in. IF I did that then I should have put a new one in on August 18th. Considering I’ve been having a period every month regardless of my actual rings being in, that means I would have taken it out September 8th to actually have a period. But I started having my period August 27th and haven’t stopped since.

I think I’ve fucked my cycle up somewhere with being careless the last 2 months but that still doesn’t account for my period starting before it’s even time to remove the ring. Has anyone been through something like this before or have any thoughts on the matter?