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Health Encyclopedia: Birth Control Options For Women Oral Contraception
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Oral Contraception
Oral contraceptives (OCs) are available only by prescription and come in either a combination of estrogen and progestin or progestin alone. Many brands of each form are available. Although both are equally effective with typical use, the combined pill is more effective with perfect use, and most women choose this form.
Some women, however, experience severe headaches or high blood pressure from the estrogen in the combined pill and must take the progestin-only pill. Not all comb...
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...diaphragm dislodges)Basics of Emergency ContraceptionEmergency contraception, also called the morning after pill, uses the hormones found in birth control pills to prevent either fertilization or... Read more »Premenstrual Syndrome: Medications
...and nausea.[For more information, see In-Depth Report #28: Anxiety.]Hormone TherapiesBirth Control Pills. Most oral contraceptives (OCs) combine progestins (either natural or synthetic forms of... Read more »Premenstrual Syndrome: Highlights
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...best, however. Stimulants are not a cure-all, and children should not grow up believing that taking a pill will solve life's problems without their having to make self-efforts.Help for Families... Read more »Images
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