I mean if that’s the route you’re going to go… Wouldn’t you rather stick a patch on your ass than stick one of those things up your “Hoo-Hah”?
I’m a guy so maybe I’m missing something here.
For one thing, the patch needs to be replaced weekly, NuvaRing only once a month
The patch is visible if you’re naked. Locating a ring takes some, um, digging around. This visibility thing is important to some women.
The stick-um in the patch can cause skin irritation in some women.
Sticking things up the “hoo-hah” isn’t that bad. In fact, women have been known to stick things in the hoo-hah for fun and pleasure, as well as to sop up menstrual blood, so doing it to prevent pregnancy isn’t that big a deal.
That’s off the top of my head. There might be other reasons.
From what I’ve heard from friends who use NuvaRing, you really don’t notice it once it’s up there. Out of sight, out of mind, as it were.
Convenient, mostly low-side effect form of birth control. Definitely not a big imposition on one’s person. You don’t really notice it once it’s in place. Plus, the patch, due to issues with drug distribution through the subcutaneous fat, may be significantly less effective on the larger woman than on normal weight women. Obviously that’s not the motivation for every woman, but it can be a reason to prefer nuvaring over the patch.
Women don’t do the horizontal hula
with guys who call it a hoo hah
The patch has to be moved periodically, so finding a new place for it once a week until the old spot heals up can be tiresome.
It is a more convenient form of BC because it only has to be reinserted (a new one anyway) once every 28 days, and requires little or no maintenance.
You may be under the impression that it’s like a tampon or something, when in reality patients tell me they never notice it’s there and neither does their partner.
Win-win.
-foxy
Because people who use the word “Hoo-Hah” will just call them “Patch Butt.” The word “vagina” will do.
Right, 'cos no women on this board have ever used the expression “hoo-hah”. :rolleyes:
I hate the word vagina. Outside of the OB-GYN which I also hate. Hoo Hah is actually marginally better. But I prefer “cunt”.
I use condoms but I can’t imagine the Nuvaring would be that big a deal. I never notice tampons. And sounds better than having a sticker on your ass.
SHAKES, honey, if Nuvaring squicks you out, I hope you don’t know what a Divacup is.
Seriously, why would anyone have a problem with it? At least, with Nuvaring you know if it falls out. Which might be a problem if you put the patch on you back a few days ago, and it was gone when you checked in the mirror this morning!
It’s reusable and scent free!
Oh and another thing about the patch. If it falls off and you forget to put it back on, you get a baby…trust me.
Yeah, which is why I decided to get the Mirena IUD. I didn’t feel like risking becoming the mom of 2 in a year :D. I’m lucky I don’t forget where I put the baby half the time, much less to check a patch constantly or change to a new one or take a pill every day at the same time.
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Plus the patches sometimes rub off or roll up, and you might not notice in time.
Also, the Patch tends to leave bright red, bumpy rashes wherever you stick it that last for well over a month. Nothing like having a series of square red spots all over your butt/pelvis, especially when trying to have some fun. Oh, and forget about wearing a bikini, the ‘recommended spots’ all stick out above the average bikini bottom’s coverage.
I will NEVER give up my nuvaring. Stick it in and forget about it for a month, and if you forget to take it out over the three week period then its all good, your still protected for another few days. No daily regiment, no losing the pills, no forgetting to take one and having to start the month over yet again.
Yes, a vagina.
Really, it’s much more comfortable than having a sticker on your ass all day long. I never feel my nuvaring, and I lovelovelove not having to think about taking a pill or changing a patch every day or even every week. It’s like the infomercial, just set it and forget it. It really is the absolute closest thing to not using anything at all, in terms of convenience and comfort.
I remember my school had a winter formal for my freshmen year, a dorm-al as it were. We saw one girl woh hadn’t thought out her patch placement in regard to her dress. I could see her birth control. I still wonder if she knew or if no one wanted to mention it. I love my NuvaRing, its awesome, and discreet and way less hassle than any other hormonal BC.
As others have said, things like NuvaRing are easier to use, as you don’t have to remember anything. My girlfriend, for instance, was going to get an IUD for that very reason. She was constantly forgetting to take her birth control and having to double up the dosage, or whatever they recommend to do (I think it is doubling up the dosage for a day).
Because you just cram it up your cramhole once a month, that’s it! Nice and easy. Who wouldn’t want that? Very convenient and easy to use.
How dare you call you “hoo-hah” a “cramhole!”
The most obvious thing you’re missing is that any woman with an aversion to having something up her “hoo-hah” doesn’t exactly have a need for a patch either.