New: Many Different Kinds of Birth Control!
Posted on February 23, 2008
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Below is a general list of kinds of birthcontrol and quick descriptions.
IUD- Non-Hormonal or Hormonal.Prescription/fitting required. The mostcommonly known hormonal IUD is Mirena.Mirena and other hormonal IUDs may lightenthe period during menstruation. The CopperCoil IUD is non-hormonal. It can sometimesincrease menstruation and cramping. Bothtypes are nearly as effective assterilization. The Copper Coil is greatfor women who can’t use hormones but wantvery effective birth control. No upkeep isrequired by the woman once it is in asidefrom occasionally checking for thestrings. No pills to remember!
Implanonand Janelle (Norplant II) -Hormonal, progesterone-only. Prescriptionand fitting required, including largeneedles and local anesthetic in somecases. Both Implanon and Janelle areimplants inserted under the skin of theupper arm. Janelle has two implants andImplanon has one. Both are effective forfive years. Side effects are similar tothe Depo shot. Implants are a great choicebecause they are maintenance free afterthe insertion site(s) heal.
DepoProvera - Hormonal, progesteroneonly. Requires a prescription andinjection. Depo is the birth controlinjected for 3 months of protection at atime. Some women gain weight, and a periodis usually missing or sporadic. Dizzinesscan happen initially. This birth controlis great because there’s nothing toremember for 3 months! Injection usuallyhappens in a large muscle such as thebuttocks or stomach. Depo can burn duringinjection but this goes away very quickly(within moments).
Ring - Hormonal. Prescriptionrequired. Small ring that is inserted intothe vagina once a month. You take it outfor one week to have a period. Low dose ofhormones is great for women who havetrouble with higher doses. It’s alsofairly maintenance free for women who havea habit of forgetting pills.
Patch - Hormonal.Prescription required. Similar to thepills, and with similar side effects. As abonus, you only have to change the patchonce a week instead of taking a pill everday. There have been reports of more bloodclots with the patch than other hormonalmethods.
Pills - Hormonal.Prescription required. There are hundredsof brands of pills. Some have varyingamounts or hormones through out the monthto more accurately represent a woman’snatural cycle. Some only have on hormonein them. Every brand will affect a womandifferently, so women who react badly toone brand shouldn’t throw the idea of thepill out the window right away. You dohave to be responsible and take a pillevery day at the same time.
CervicalCaps - Non-Hormonal.Prescription/fitting required. Insertedinto vagina prior to sex, rests againstcervix to block entry of sperm. Handy forwomen who cannot or do not want to usehormones. Often coated in a spermicide.
Diaphragm - Non-Hormonal. Aflexible disk that is inserted into vaginaprior to sex, preventing sperm fromentering the cervix. Same concept as theCervical Cap. It is often coated in aspermicide prior to insertion.
Condoms - Non-Hormonal. The Only FormOf Birth Control That Also Prevents TheSpread Of STDs!!! Condoms,everyone’s favorite! Cheap and effective,condoms prevent pregnancy by stoppingsperm from entering the vagina.
Sponges - Non-Hormonal. Asponge that is inserted into the vagina toabsorb sperm and prevent it from enteringthe uterus. Often coated in spermicide.
Spermicide - Non-Hormonal. Aliquid or gel that contains chemicals thatkill sperm.
What’s not up there? Natural FamilyPlanning, “rhythem”, and withdraw method.Why? NFP takes a great deal of time andcare on the part of the woman to track herovulation, and most couples who use thismethod end up pregnant eventually. Rhythemmethod is pretty much the same idea asNFP. Withdraw “method” isn’t a method atall!
Georgia59:
You forgot the ring! Hormonal and byprescription only. It is a plastic ringabout the size of a hair binder. You putit in for three weeks at a time and takeit our for the fourth week when you getyour period. You only have to think aboutit once a month. Plus, its really easy touse because as long as it is somewhere inyour vagina, it is working. You can’treally do it wrong. It has lower levels ofhormones than most pills so some peoplemay have less side effects with it. Reallyeffective, too, because it is hard to messup.
Eiri:
I’ll be sure to add it ^^
jane9000:
I am desperately looking for informationabout non hormonal birth control products.I don’t want use any of the hormonalproducts just because of the risksinvolved (I smoke once in a while). Ifound vcf-contraceptive film (they aregiving out free samples) and am wonderingif when used with a condom duringovulation will raise the effectiveness ofit ? Has anyone had experience with it ?
I want to be safe but am bound tonon-hormonal products , what is the bestoption (other than abstinance haha) ?
Thanks.
RJohn56:
Hey, sorry, where can you get the freesamples ?
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| What should Iavoid while taking Implanon? Do not smoke while using Implanon,especially if you are older than 35.Smoking can increase your risk of bloodclots, stroke, or heart attack caused byImplanon. |
http://www.drugs.com/implanon.html
As with most forms of hormonal birthcontrol, you should notsmoke on Implanon OR Norplant II (Janelle)due to a risk of blood clots. Though theyare progesterone only, smoking is just notadvised as doctors don’t know if clottingis solely related to estrogen, or ifprogesterone can cause it too.
tartine:
Dear Eiri,
Thanks for your reply and all theinformation you provided, that’s great Iappreciate.
Thanks to your advices and the link towebsite regarding the fact that I amsmocking, I am not sure that I will optfor that birth control…even I am under35 yrs old.
Cheers.
Tartine.
Eiri:You’re welcome!
daisy45:
What about non-hormonal fertilitymanagement? Studies on hormonal methodsare mixed about long-term effects onhealth and fertility. But I suspectartificial hormones aren’t all that greatas a long-term lifestyle. I’ve been onthe sympto-thermal method for about half ayear now, avoiding pregnancy, and it worksgreat. My energy is up, didn’t have toomuch trouble with weight before, but losta little.
LadyAllie:
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implanon?? the one that i took was a pill.but thanks anyways.
My first line to was you. The second linewas replying to the other people on thisthread who are discussing implanon.
Username5:
I was doing some reading on the clinicaltrials for Implanon..and it seems thatthere was actually 2 reported pregnanciesduring one trial and 6 during another..andover 200 reported pregnancies in Australiawhere the BC started..i have also readother forums with women who have gottenpregnant on Implanon, in which a lot ofthem showed up neg on Home Pregnancy testsfor some reason and had to get a bloodtest done. i have been talking back andforth with 2 women who got pregnant onthis BC and one of them didnt know untilher 5th month because all 7 home pregnancytests showed up neg and unfortunatelybecause she didnt get the BC out in time,she lost the baby and the other women hada healthy baby.. I just thought i wouldlet you guys know who are looking intothis type of BC.
Eiri:
Birth control does not cause miscarriagesfrom everything I’ve learned. It is madeto prevent pregnancy OR do not harm ifthere already is one. If you could show usthe actual sources that would be goodbecause right now, I’m disinclined tobelieve you.
Username5:
I wasnt saying that the BC caused her tohave a miscarriage, i was just repeatingwhat i read..here is the site..
*link edited out- please do not post linksto other health forums. informativewebsites are okay, but forums are not.*
Read the message under “Not impossible”
I also did not think that BC could causemiscarriages..just possible low birthweight, and with the implanon possibly anectopic pregnancy. I do agree with youtho. I was just saying that i was readingup on the trials and other forums andthere has been reported pregnancies withImplanon..i am on this BC and i wascurious as to this.
Eiri:
Thank you for the reference. I would askfor mods to PLEASE not remove it. However,I also need links to the clinical trialsyou were reading up where 200 women becamepregnant!!
Here’s the first problem from the forumyou linked:
“However, I didn’t wait the seven days -in fact did it the first night it wasfitted and now I could be 17 weekspregnant.”
This lady didn’t wait the required 7 days,so no wonder she could be pregnant!!However she sounds like she has no ideawhat she’s talking about. The pregnancyhormone does not go down as a pregnancyprogresses; it goes up, up, up!! A highamount of HCG is needed in order tomaintain a healthy pregnancy.
And that other woman probably didn’t waitthe 7 days either if she got pregnant onit, and if she was five months pregnantafter having it in for just 5 months. I’mdubious about her story: 7 tests and ALLnegative!? Not only is she the rarestatistic to become pregnant on implanon,but she is also the rare statistic whocan’t detect the pregnancy on a test. Why,the fact that it wasn’t detected meansthat her HCG levels were extremely low,which is why she miscarried.
Penguins:
RusEek! Sorry Eiri. I accidentally editthat out from the control panel before Inoticed your post asking not to. I’ll PMthe user and see if we can get thereference’s link again and edit it backin.
Username5:
Here is one of the sites with 200+reported pregnancies in Australia..inwhich some of these women were said toalready have been pregnant when Implanonwas inserted..
http://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(04)00294-X/abstract
Eiri:
Well then their cases don’t count if theywere pregnant when it was put in. Who intheir right mind would do that, anyway?The issue is about people getting pregnantWHILE on implanon.
Username5:
i know..and they were only some of thewomen..but their still was like 200 morewomen on there that actually got pregnantwhile on implanon.
Eiri:
You clearly did not read that article verywell. If you had, you would have realisedthat every single case out of the original218 was caused by ERROR, not the implanonitself. Here’s the break down:
45 cases where there wasn’t enoughinformation to determine why it failed.
46 women were already pregnant!!!
That brings you down to 127 cases.
The most common reason implanon “failed”to prevent pregnancy?
84 women NEVER had it inserted!! Yeah,implanon doesn’t prevent pregnancy when itnever gets inserted. Duh!
19 women became pregnant because it wasinserted at the wrong time.
3 cases where the implanon expelled itself- again, it doesn’t work very well whenit’s not inside your body!
8 cases where it interfered withmedicines.
The remaining 13 cases were product/methodfailures.
In the end, it was discovered thatimplanon fails in 1/1000 women. Basically,the study found that the most likely causeof implanon failure was incorrectinsertion technique by the doctor, and soAustralian doctors were re-trained. It wasNOT implanon’s fault!!
Username5:
most doctors say ur supposed to get itinserted during your menstrual cycle orwhen your next current birth control shotor pill is due, but my doctor insertedmine a couple weeks after my next deposhot was due and i wasnt on my menstrualcycle..does that mean mine was inserted atthe wrong time? and also i am on a couplediff types of medication.
Georgia59:
Well, yes. But you probably just have towait some length of time (I’m sure someonewill know how long that is) before it willbe considered effective.
Check with your doc to see if themedication interferes, always.
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