Checking hormone levels, specifically estrogen, can be helpful to determine if a vaginal ring is still effective.

“This is where checking levels is actually helpful. I would love to to, you know, I'm sure there are a couple of my patients that would actually volunteer to do this where we just do twice a week levels for 3 months while they're on a product, while they're on a ring and just watch the It's incredible, right? Cuz you will see it, you'll check it, you'll have a 0.1 ring in and you should expect estrogen levels of 60, 70, something like that. And you'll see an estrogen level of like 13 and you'll be like, "Oh my god, this is not working."”