Sentences with phrase «dose oral contraceptive pills»

Low - dose oral contraceptive pills or intrauterine devices (IUD), such as Mirena (a levonorgestrel - releasing intrauterine system), are also options to reduce heavy bleeding.

Women who use low - dose oral contraceptive pills have a two-fold increased risk of a fatal heart attack compared to non - users.9 Women who take oral contraceptives and smoke have a 12-fold increase in fatal heart attacks and a 3.1-fold increase in fatal brain hemorrhage.10 Women who use the Pill after the age of 45 have a 144 percent greater risk of developing breast cancer than women who have never used it.11

Not exact matches

Although estrogen doses in oral contraceptives have decreased appreciably over the years, with pills in the 1960s typically containing more than double the estrogen dose of pills in the 1980s, the reduction in endometrial cancer risk was at least as great for women who used the pill during the 1980s as for those who used it in earlier decades.

Taking oral contraceptives that «skip» your period (as opposed to the three weeks of hormones pill, followed by one week of placebo) can provide a steady dose of estrogen, which helps keep the migraines at bay.

I have not included brand names of oral contraceptives because like a shell game, manufacturers of oral contraceptives are constantly changing the names, doses and contents of their birth control pills, perhaps to avoid being on a list like the one below.

New methods have since entered the market — a broader range (and lower doses) of oral contraceptive pills, the vaginal ring, emergency contraception, and second - generation IUDs and implantable contraception.