How long does it take for the patch to come out your systems?

Question

How does the patch works? is it in the blood or?????

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you are asking out of plain curiosity or for a purpose, but the first answer was very right based on the context of your question. I would like to add to it though... if you happen to be asking because you want to try to get pregnant, then I would wait 3-4 months before even trying. I personally started trying to get pregnant as soon as my period was over a week and a half after I took the patch off. Learning about three weeks later that I had successfully become pregnant. After we found out I was pregnant we then found out that I had a high chance of miscarriage in the first three months, as is exactly what happened to a good friend of ours. So we didn't share the news with our parents until I was 3 mos along, as they would have been crushed if anything were to happen... it also worked out that 3 mos was a few days before christmas, so that was a christmas day announcement...
(without getting too much further sidetracked here)... back to the main track, another good friend who is also a nurse in our local e.r., is waiting exactly 4 months, which will be this coming january, after having taken the patch off. She knows about too many risks involved if getting pregnant any sooner. Had I known before hand, I would have waited too, but thankfully I now have a very heathly 3 1/2 month old little boy, who is at this moment nursing and filling his diaper. (nursing time is simultaneously my computer time.) :o)

Answer 2

It takes different amount of time with different women, depending on the amount of hormones your body naturally produces, and how quickly it bounces back to producing its own.

Anywhere from a few days to a few months.

The patch time-releases estrogene and other hormones into the blood stream which the body mistakes for pregnancy, and therefore stops the production and release of an egg. It also thins the lining of the uterus, and thickens the cervical mucus. All these things prevent pregnancy.

Iam assuming you mean the BC patch and not the nicotine patch :)