Types of Contraceptives and Contraceptive methods

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:57:28 +0000

Types of Contraceptives

They range from sub skin implantations to oral contraceptive pills. Since the appearance of the revolutionary method of oral contraception and scientists kept developing it to be much better and safer.

Trend in oral contraceptives

The latest trend in oral contraceptives is the micro contraceptive pills which depend on micro amounts of hormones supplied on regular basis to your body in order to block or hinder the ovules from being fertilized by sperm.

Generic lybrel products are not allowed in the untied states, the problem is not concerning safety or FDA approval but because the original lybrel possesses the patent rights which enables it to be the sole product in the market that contains the same formula and sold for the same indication.

The lybrel in general composed of 2 ingredients, levonogestrel and ethynil estradiol. Levonogestrel is synthetic progesterone which is also called the pregnancy hormone; each pill contains 90 micro gram of such material. The role of this hormone is to let your genital system to act as if it is pregnant. This means that as long as you are administering lybrel every day without serious mistakes in usage, then your ovaries will not produce ova, the uterus will change a little and the cervix will be plugged with thick viscous mucous. Doing this will maintain an effective and practical way of pregnancy prevention.

The only thing that you need to take care of is that even if lybrel can protect you from pregnancy but, it cannot protect you against venereal diseases, HIV or AIDS. The transmission of such diseases is not connected with the hormonal method of pregnancy prevention. If you are not sure of your partner disease history or you suspect that he/ she is infected with such diseases then you may want to use a condom to maintain protection.

Lybrel and all the oral hormonal contraceptive pills have the same side effects. Blood clotting is known to be the most important side effect although the percent of incidence is very small. Other side effects are headache, nausea, vomiting and weight gain. These side effects are easily bearable especially with the high level of protection presented by such medication. The intensity of side effects differs from one person to another.

To get the maximum benefit from administering lybrel you need to follow these easy steps:

Maintain taking the pills on constant basis
Set a distinct time to take the pill every day. It means that you should take a pill every 24 hours, try not to extend or shorten this period.
If you missed a single pill then do not panic, you can take it during the following 24 hours without changing the date of the following pill. In other words, if you usually take the pill at noon, then by midnight you remember that you did not take the pill. In this case you should take the pill instantly and the next pill stays at noon a usual.
In case of forgetting only one pill, you do not need to consult a doctor. All what you need is to maintain caution during the following 7 days when you have sexual intercourse.

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Lybrel advantages and dissadvantages

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:50:26 +0000

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.