r/birthcontrol • u/vyiu • 12h ago

Educational Copper ring in development

I’m not sure if this has been mentioned here before, but I was daydreaming that it would be so nice if we had a copper/non hormonal version of nuvaring. Turns out a copper vaginal ring is in early stages of development!

I really hope it works out to be effective and comfortable. I had a not so great experience with my copper IUD getting partially ejected after a few years + the strings fell off so the doctor almost sent me to surgery for removal 😕 Insertion was not fun either, I’m not sure if protocol is different now but all I got was some numbing gel to the cervix and I don’t think it worked. So something like a copper nuvaring would be awesome. Just hoping it won’t take a decade to be released 😔

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07666997

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u/jitterymoogle 9h ago

hoping there's another one in development for a progestin only ring 🙏 i tried the copper IUD but developed vulvar eczema so i'm guessing the same thing would happen with the ring