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Where to place your contraceptive patches

One of the most common questions we get from women who want to use or consider using the OrthoEva contraceptive patch is Where to put your patch? 1.Do not place the patch on your breasts. 2. Contraceptive patches may be safer with respect to your liver function,, for instance blood clotting factors are less likely to go up with a patch than with oral contraceptive pills. This is not affected by where you place your patch. 3. . When you take a patch off, you need to place one

Birth control pills control UTIs

Hormones control our bladders as well as our hearts and minds, and other aspects of our body. And it's not just your hormones produced from your ovaries, it can be the hormones you ingest from soy or from meats, or medication. Women who have bladder dysfunction can be any age, any weight, any genetic background, although there are multiple factors that contribute. And it's now been found that there's another non-contraceptive benefit to The Pill: Women of child-bearing age wh

Does your contraception make you have a non-stop period?

Contraception is designed to prevent pregnancy, but along the way, disrupting ovulation can disrupt menstrual cycles. Often the amount of bleeding when you have break through contraceptive bleeding is actually very little blood lost. It's thus not necessarily a medical problem. Long acting contraceptive (LARC) methods are staying in the news, and both the best and now, the newest, contraception available for women. The CDC states that Nexplanon contraceptive is the best cont

Tired of condoms, hey guys would you want a pill?

Condoms are available everywhere, without a prescription, prevents STDs as well as pregnancy; so there’s not been huge pressure for a prescription strength contraceptive pill for men. For women, we generally focus on contraception from ages 15 to 45, men do make viable sperm for decades longer. Biologically the hormonal control of sperm production is linked to the male hormone testosterone. Only small drops in the levels of testosterone hormone have not been successful at con

Picking your perfect birth control pill

How we select a pill for you to start on, and how we select the pill you should continue on is a very complicated topic. Choosing the right pill for you, however, has certain key elements. Typically women think of the pill for contraception, but it's an excellent strategy to ward off many problems. 1. Contraceptive protection is quickly established and very effective. Virtually all oral contraceptives have been thought to have identical effectiveness. If you take the pills f

Do you need bioidentical progesterone treatment?

You hear the word progesterone used often for hormonal management. This general class of hormone, and it's synthetic varieties is about ubiquitous as any medication in current use. 1. Natural and synthetic progesterones have different roles in our bodies. If a compound acts like a progesterone its classified as a "progestin" and this class of medicines is very broad and some form or other is in the birth control pill, its made by the ovary, it's made by the placenta, it's us

Here's why your gyno recommends an IUD

An IUD is ‘forgettable.’ You will have effective protection for years to come. ACOG just released it's practice update for IUD use, and the guidelines we follow at Women's Health Practice. Many of the prior recommendations and principals were not significantly changed. ACOG feels that as a method of contraception there are few contraindications and most of the updates have to do with specific recommendations around special situations. Here is a summary and what it may mean: A

Consider this if you want hormonal contraception

1.Hormonal contraception provides ovulation suppression and eventually this correlates with overall hormone control as well. Hormones have the ability to affect weight, affect weight gain, affect weight loss, and cause fluid shifts that ultimately shouldn't alter the scale; and all these weight issues can affect the hormonal levels in turn. As your plans for reproduction and contraception change, we suggest that you come to discuss both nutritional management and contraceptio

Medical contraindications to birth control pill use are actually fairly rare

Many women have been told, or think, erroneously that they cannot take the birth control pill because they have medical conditions that prohibit the pill. And when we discuss whether women should be able to buy contraceptive pills over the counter much of the discussion regarding has to do with whether such access would be harmful to women as women who shouldn't take the pill would have too easy access if they could get without seeing a physician to determine if they could s

Choosing a contraceptive pill, and a few tips on common issues

Choice of birth control pill, and a few tips about taking them! Most women can be successful with many different types of the birth control pill. However, you and your gyno can discuss options, and there are a few principals we use to make sure you are on the right pill. It goes without saying that the idea is to protect against pregnancy (all formulations are very effective), to have the fewest side effects, and to maximize your non-contraceptive benefits. Here are also a fe

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