(Dailynewyorknews) – Worried about birth control in light of news about the side effects of Yaz and the patch? Women have many options that are safe and effective, including some that are more reliable.
You can choose a contraceptive method that is used daily, weekly, monthly, once every three months, once every three years, even once a decade.
However, nearly half of U.S. pregnancies are unplanned – and experts say that the confusion and uncertainty, despite all the options is a big reason.
“We have a generation of young adults today, the vast majority of them are sexually active, are in the fog of modern contraception,” says Sarah Brown of the National Campaign to prevent teen pregnancy and unplanned. “They do not know enough to make a reasonable decision.”
In fact, a recent poll, the campaign found 42 percent of individuals aged 18 to 29, said he knew little about birth control pills and two-thirds knew very little about even more effective in the long term contraception. One third of them believe it is a good contraceptive method for your needs, but do not know why.
To help, the center has just opened a new website – www.bedsider.org – to provide an honest answer to these questions that you might be embarrassed to ask.
You wonder how easy it is to use the NuvaRing, or once every three months to cover the cost of delivery? Impossible to imagine how to insert the female condom? Want to know if the rhythm method has a chance of working? Or if your partner can feel the IUD? What are the side effects, and methods that work best?
These are not just problems for adolescents and young adults. Note that half of all girls are sexually active at age 17, and that menopause affects about 50. To avoid an unplanned pregnancy, the average American woman should use birth control for many decades. The right choice when they are perhaps not yet 20 when he was 35 or 40.
And from 2013, with the different types can be easier than the new law requires health insurance to cover contraception without user fees.
Today, sterilization, vasectomy for men and women point tube, it is surprising that the head of the nation of birth control.
In the case of reversible contraception, the pill is number one, very effective if taken correctly the number of missed doses increases the risk of pregnancy. The pill can bring other benefits. Long-term use reduces the risk of ovarian cancer, some types of menstrual cramps courts to help clear acne.
But last week devoted much attention to birth control. First was the decision of the Obama administration for the Plan B morning-after pill – which can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after unprotected sex – behind pharmacy counters 17 or older can get prescription care.
Then came two days of hearings on drug side effects rare, but serious and other contraceptives that contain hormones, Ortho Evra. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommends stronger warning labels on the pills, Yaz and as new generation, as it is more likely than older, cheaper pills to cause dangerous blood clots. The FDA estimates that 10 to 10,000 women a year receive a clot of new drugs against 6 of 10 000 to take the pills before.
FDA advisers said the weekly patch can bring a risk of blood clots a little higher too, but called the patch important option for women who have difficulty with a daily pill.
Brown said that contraceptives are less risky than pregnancy: About 20 to 10,000 women who are pregnant or have just experienced the birth of a blood clot.
When it comes to reliability, the most effective contraceptives are two so-called long-acting products that many women have not heard of:
The IUD, a little T-shaped device that is in the uterus to prevent sperm.
Implanon implant called party bar hormone transmitters implanted in her arms.
You can forget pregnancy with Implanon for three years and five years or 10 with the IUD, depending on the brand.
Change your mind about the other, and just delete your doctor before.
“I sent a message to my boyfriend calls me baby free until 2016,” said Margaret Nupp, 27, his quick visit to the gynecologist to get the Mirena IUD called for five years.
Tired of trying to remember to take pills, Nupp was taken to an IUD because “the infallibility of the same.”
“I have a bright future ahead of me,” he said. “I do not get pregnant at that time. Five years of progress. For now, no thank you. ”
Some women also experience pain on insertion, but not Nupp. He also loved the Mirena, which sends a hormone in the womb, may adopt periods. However, periods may become heavier ParaGard IUD with another, which takes longer but works with copper instead of hormones.
But only a fraction of American women to use these long-term contraceptives, 5.6 percent, according to recent government data. In parts of Europe, which are much more popular.
Source: http://www.latestcnnnews.com/birth-control-methods-for-women.html
