Contraceptives Birth Control

The emergency contraceptive pill, commonly known as the morning after pill or post-coital pill, are medicines that can be used by women to prevent unwanted pregnancy after having unprotected sex. Most emergency contraceptive pills can be used up to three days (72 hours) after having unprotected sex. ellaOne, however, is the new emergency contraceptive pill that can be taken up to five days (120 hours) after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. However, it is advised that you take it sooner as the medicine is more likely to prevent pregnancy if taken early. It may be noted that the emergency contraceptive pill should be used as a method of emergency contraception. You should not use it as regular form of contraception. Emergency contraceptive pills typically contain a female hormone type called levonorgestrel which works to prevent your ovaries from releasing an egg. Besides, it also changes the lining of your womb so that a fertilised egg cannot implant itself there.

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Birth control pills are 99.7% effective in preventing pregnancy. We all know that still we entertain notions that if we are taking the pill it will lead to weight gain. This is indeed a sad story since most women are very conscious about their weight.

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Several weeks ago I wrote a column on “Men’s Dirty Little Secrets” and spilled the beans on the fact that most men don’t know much about condoms, except that they’re a mood-killer, sensation-duller, and overall huge pain-in-the-ass. At that time, I didn’t elaborate, but judging from your emails, I piqued a number of readers’ curiosity. Thus, I am responding with a short treatise on “The Proper Care and Feeding of a Prophylactic.”

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There might have been an instance where you made out and forget to use contraception because of the excitement or any other reason at that particular moment. And now you must be worried about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or an unwanted pregnancy. Though much can’t be done about STDs, help is available for avoiding unwanted pregnancy.

Emergency contraception is helpful under certain situations such as:

Sexual assault or rape
Condom breakage
When birth control pills are not taken by the woman
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