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The coming-of-age of the birth control pill
June 25th, 2011 | 
Author: Women of a “certain” age will remember when it was not easy to get the pill doctors hesitated to prescribe it, especially young. women. The company was reluctant to even talk about it, for fear that the access to contraception would encourage promiscuity.
If you actually won the first birth control pill, there were only one or two types to choose from. And be the hormone dosage was much higher than it should have.
God change you birth control pills and products. We now have a greater choice, convenience and safety.
Birth control pills remain the most effective ways to prevent pregnancy, with less than 1% failure rate when used correctly (as compared to condoms at 3%, membranes at 6%, 6% and spermicide sponges 9%). Only hormone implants a lower failure rate than the pill.
So let us see some of the new birth control pills that women can now choose from.
Birth Control Innovation: Ortho Evra Patch
The Ortho Evra birth control patch for millions of women by last more comfort than pills and many other forms of contraception.
With Ortho Evra, you just need to apply a patch once a week for pregnancy prevention. The Ortho Evra patch has a high efficiency, similar to the pill, but easier for many women with less chance of missing a dose to administer.
Birth Control Innovation: Seasonale
One of the latest innovations, the advent of Seasonale, an extended cycle pill with similar ingredients have been taken other pills, but for 12 weeks straight dramatic extension of the menstrual cycle.
This is the number of periods a woman reduced from 13 per year to just four -. Panacea for many women, the painful, difficult times, suffering
Birth Control Innovation: Plan B
Then there is the so-called “morning after” pill or Plan B. If taken within 72 hours after unprotected intercourse, Plan B can prevent pregnancy with a high degree of reliability. By only two tablets as directed and within the prescribed period, can prevent a woman becoming pregnant after the fact.
Plan B has prevented many unwanted pregnancies through unprotected sexual intercourse or failure of contraceptive methods, such as condom breakage.
Standby Birth Control: Ortho tricyclic
And then there’s Ortho tricyclic, the number 1 prescribed birth control pills for years and the only oral contraceptive to achieve FDA approval as treatment for acne. With its combination of two low-dose hormones, Ortho tricycles not only prevents conception but also helps clarify problem skin.
Ortho tricyclic works on a 28-day cycle, with 21 hormone pills and 7 inert pills.
Birth control pill side effects
Although much progress has been made in the production of safe, effective birth control pills, there are side effects and warnings. Birth control pills should not women who smoke, are taken mainly women over 35 years as it increases the risk of stroke and heart attack.
Also, each pill in women with blood clots, certain cancers, stroke or heart attack, and women who are pregnant will be taken.
There are also some drug interactions, as well the pill that is taken into account will affect your prescribing doctor.
Serious side effects from taking birth control pills are rare. The more usual, from the progestin component, and symptoms such as fluid retention, breast swelling and tenderness, breakthrough bleeding and spotting, and acne. These symptoms often go away as your body adjusts to the pills.
(Research shows that norgestimate, a newer progestin in Ortho found tricycles is to cause unpleasant side effects less likely than other formulations.)
The contraceptive pill offers benefits for women over safe and reliable contraception. In many women, the pill also:
* Reduces spasms and menstrual
* Regulates menstrual cycle,
* Provides some protection against breast and ovarian cysts,
* If found with decreased rates of ovarian and uterine cancer,
* Reduces the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, benign breast disease and iron deficiency anemia
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