Contraceptives and Birth Control Pills

What is Lybrel?

Lybrel is a new revolution in the field of oral contraceptive pills. Since it was released in 2007 and other companies began to release other generic lybrel products containing the same ingredients. Also we should mention that in the United States they forbid these generic lybrel products from entering the country because the original lybrel holds patent rights till the year 2018.

What is lybrel and how it works?

Lybrel is a combination non cyclic oral contraceptive, which means that this drug is not taken in cycles with rest period in between but you will take it 365 days a year. The good thing for women here is that during this whole year you will not have a period at all. The whole year long will be like a single extended period.

Lybrel and generic lybrel pills work in identical way, they prevent the ovaries from making new ova or what is known by ovulation by supplying the body with adequate amounts or estrogen and progesterone, enough to seize the ovulation process.

Every pill contains 90 micro grams of levonorgestrel and 20 micro grams of ethinyl estradiol. The former is synthetic progesterone and the latter is synthetic estrogen, both of these hormones are induced normally in case of pregnancy.

When Lybrel supply these hormones synthetically we will convince the body that there is pregnancy right now in the uterus and the ovaries do not need to produce more ova. This is a very simple explanation for what happened when you take lybrel and how do your body react.

Lybrel is approved from the FDA (the US food and drug administration) to be used for controlling birth and preventing pregnancy it may also be used to get rid of period for the whole year.

The only precaution that you have to take care of when you buy a whole year supply from lybrel is that you must preserve it in a dry light proof and cool place. Do not store your lybrel in the bathroom where the moisture could destruct the effectiveness of the pills.

Any pills that contain hormones should be stored away from the light; the pills should not be taken out of the strip or the container unless you are ready to take it directly.

Is it safe to take Lybrel pills for a year long without rest?

Competitor companies which sell other types of oral pills claim that long administration of the pill is not good and should be replaced with the cyclic pills where there is menstruation occurs every month. For those we say, any type of pills is considered a modification in the menstrual cycle of the women, whether these pills are cyclic or non – cyclic the menstruation is modified into none changing 28 day cycles. The clinical studies explained that women accepted the pills with a monthly period just to make sure that they are not pregnant but now with women working in physically demanding jobs and fast paced life, the need for eliminating the period is larger.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of lybrel and generic lybrel pills?

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.