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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Contraception, Oral, Injections, & Implants
Sections: Key Features, General Considerations, Treatment, Medications, Oral contraceptives, Contraceptive injections and implants, Other hormonal methods, Outcome, Follow-Up, Complications, References,
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Topics Discussed: contraceptive drug delivery units, implantable; injectable contraception; oral contraceptives.
Excerpt: | |  Combination pills
| | – Have a theoretical failure rate of 0.3% if taken absolutely on schedule and a typical failure rate of 8% – Primary mode of action is suppression of ovulation – Pills can be started on the first day of the menstrual cycle, on the first Sunday after the onset of the cycle, or on any day of the cycle | |  If started on any day other than the first day of the cycle, a backup method should be used
A pill is taken daily for 21 days, followed by 7 days of placebos or no medication, and this schedule is continued for each cycle |
– There are also pills packaged to be taken continuously..."
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