There is a great debate about the benefits and side effects of the new revolutionary oral contraceptive pills called lybrel. Lybrel and generic lybrel producers stating that there are huge benefits from administrating the drug in such way but other competitors are claiming that administrating the drug for a period of one year without monthly rest or without allowing the monthly period to occur may affect the body status.

Let us browse through the advantages and disadvantages of lybrel together:

The advantages of lybrel or generic lybrel

First we should declare that there is no medical benefit of having a menstrual week while you are on pills because it is, in fact, not a menstrual cycle but it is a withdrawal bleeding occurs because on day 21 we stopped administrating hormones so, after another 7 days withdrawal bleeding occurs as a sign of hormone withdrawal.

According to this the FDA approved drug, lybrel, eliminated this annoying week for the whole year long and with out any clinical risks.

Field researches done by California University, declared that a reasonable percent of women would prefer not to have menstrual cycle through out the year, not to mention those who do not want to have menstrual cycle at all.

You do not need to purchase feminine hygiene and adjuvant drugs to pass this annoying week of menstruation. You will be saving a lot of money through out the year.

Administrating hormones with equal amounts every day for the whole year helps in maintaining a constant level of hormones in your body instead of the wave that occur with the ordinary pill.

The lybrel contains a micro hormonal dose so the whole amount of hormones administered in the whole year equals to those administered by other cyclic pills which are containing larger amounts of hormones.

The disadvantages and draw backs

While there is a reasonable percent who prefer not to have menstrual cycle there is another percent who prefer to have their monthly period as a sign of being still capable of being pregnant and in the same time assure that they are not pregnant right now. Also some women consider the monthly period as an undetached part of their personalities.

Some users of non cyclic pills detected spotting or escaped bleeding with the regular administration of the pills.

Although long administration of pregnancy hormones had not been proved to be related to breast cancer but some physicians declared that they are concerned of the very long non stop administration of a certain drug.

Also lybrel has the common side effects of other oral contraceptive pills, nausea and vomiting, heart diseases, allergy and headache. You can over come the nausea by taking the pill with food. If vomiting or diarrhea occurred during the first 4 hours of administration then you must retake the pill again and keep the following dose in its original time.

Generally heart diseases increase in case of women who smoke and are on contraceptive pills. So, if you are on contraceptive pills then you should quit smoking or at least keep it to the minimum level to avoid the risks of heart diseases.

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