Birth Control Pills Reviews

Birth control pills aren’t as effective as they used to be. This mainly due to the lower dosages of estrogen. What do you get from a birth control pill that’s now 98% effective instead of 99% effective…fewer instances of side effects. High estrogen levels is what caused the Ortho Evra birth control patch side effects and lawsuits.

Here is the story and the news video: cbs4denver.com/seenon/local_story_023191711.html

BTW news organizations SUCK. You have to go to their site to watch the vid…That’s just silly…especially when they offer an embed link so you could watch it here on the site!

This story is a year old but it’s important for anyone making a decision.

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Because of the lower effectiveness, the FDA is thinking about setting standards in birth control drugs. Read that story. Then they decide it may be a bad idea…as usual…they can’t figure out what they want to do.

by Amanda Johnson

Birth Control Patch is one of the hormonal methods of contraception. It is a 4-½ Cm square plastic patch. This patch is placed directly on the skin of the woman, which in turn releases hormones through the skin into the bloodstream in order to prevent pregnancy. (Read on …)

So far in my research, no other birth control method has such negative news. The extremely high estrogen levels make it 99% effective but it carries a price of increased instances of side effects. So much so that I don’t think I could ever say it’s OK. It’s been recalled, reissued and is still being sold. Maybe they fixed the problems (the lawsuits may have helped). I suppose there are those who have had some success with the Ortho Evra Patch but I would be advise my daughter not to use it.

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Just when you thought you knew all there was to know about birth control patches, science and technology moves forward to revitalize old methods that could literally help hundreds of thousands of women who for one reason or another could not utilize hormone based contraceptive patches.

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