Dr. Jane Murray explains why the estrogen patch or estrogen cream is better for a woman's body
than an estrogen pill.
Not exact matches
Pregnancy (while normally a normal process) actually poses much greater risk to the average woman's health
than any birth control
pill because
estrogen and progesterone levels are MUCH higher during pregnancy
than when any woman is on BC.
What's more, another analysis of the WHI data reveals that women taking
estrogen were more likely to develop blood clots
than were women getting dummy
pills.
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.
Birth control
pills provide you a steady dose of ethinyl estradiol, a synthetic version of
estrogen four times higher
than your body would naturally produce.
From a no -
estrogen pill to the copper IUD, there are better options
than ever before.
More
estrogen makes it riskier A more significant risk is the increased level of
estrogen that the patch delivers — 60 % more
than the typical low - dose birth control
pill.
Estrogen is linked to side effects and, in early 2008, the FDA issued a new warning label for the patch after a study showed that patch users had a higher risk of dangerous blood clots
than those using the
Pill.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Well, birth control
pills are nothing more
than like synthetic
estrogens.
Even medications can interfere with other hormones: birth control
pills,
estrogen replacement therapies, and beta - blockers can disrupt the thyroid function and contribute to less
than optimal hormone balance.
Measurement of free T4 and T3 provides more accurate information about hormonal status of patient
than total T4 and T3 (bound and unbound) especially for those who are on
estrogen replacement therapy or birth control
pills, have impaired thyroid hormone conversion and show unresolved symptoms of underactive thyroid.
The hormone
pills contain low levels of
estrogen (less
than 0.04 mg / tablet) and some contain iron.
Danish researchers, whose study looked at non-pregnant women ranging in age from 15 to 49 over 15 years, found that women taking birth control
pills with low - dose
estrogen mixed with different progestins experienced strokes and heart attacks about 1.5 — 2 times more
than women not taking hormonal contraceptions.