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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding is usually painless and it doesn’t cause any problem unless you become upset with your irregular bleeding. It can be easily treated with medicines or hormonal therapy.
Actually, your age, the cause of the condition and your future plans to conceive can have major impact on your treatment options.
If you are teen, you can expect your normal menstrual cycle, when your body matures. You can choose to wait until the imbalance of hormones in your body becomes normal on its own.
But, if your irregular bleeding is disrupting your normal menstrual cycle severely, your doctor will prescribe progestin or other hormone supplements to stop your irregular bleeding.
If you are not ovulating regularly and if you have no future child bearing plans, your doctor would recommend hysterectomy or endometrial ablation to stop your irregular bleeding.
So, talk to your doctor about your future pregnancy plans and go for right treatment option for your irregular periods.
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
When you have dysfunctional uterine bleeding, you can experience one or more of these particular conditions:
1. If you are getting your periods more often than every 21 days or farther apart than 35days, probably you might be suffering with dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
2. Actually, the duration of normal menstrual cycle is between 4 to 6 days. But, if you are experiencing uterine bleeding more than 7 days every month, then it surely indicates that you have dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
3. Even if you’re experiencing heavy bleeding than normal or if you are passing blood clots and soaking through your usually sanitary pads, then you might probably have imbalance in your body hormones, which are responsible for regular periods.
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Do you get your periods more often than every 21 days? Possibly your period can last longer than 7 days. This kind of irregular bleeding is mainly referred as dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
It is not serious, but it can be annoying and disturb your life. In most cases, dysfunctional uterine bleeding is linked with hormonal changes in your body.
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding can be easily managed with medicine or with hormonal therapy to reduce bleeding.
It can be used either to stop or regulate your irregular menstrual cycle. Surgical treatment is mainly reserved for bleeding that can’t be reduced with hormonal therapy or medicines.
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration today said the label for the Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal Patch will include the results from a new epidemiologic study that found users of the birth control patch were at higher risk of developing serious blood clots than those women who used birth control pills.
The condition of concern is known as venous thromboembolism, which can lead to pulmonary embolism (a sudden blockage in a lung artery). Pulmonary embolism can result in permanent damage to the affected lung, low oxygen levels in your blood and damage to other organs in your body from not getting enough oxygen.
The study confirmed an early study that showed women who used birth control patch were at higher risk for VTE. Early in September, 2006, FDA revised the label for Ortho Evra to warn women of the increased risk of VTE based on two studies.
One study, according to the FDA, showed women using the patch were at a two-fold greater risk of VTE. But another study showed they are not at higher risk than those who used pills with containing 30-35 micrograms of estrogen and the progestin norgestimate, which are also used in the birth control patch.
The problem with the patch is that it contains 60 percent more estrogen than birth control pills. Estrogen can increase risk of health conditions such as cancer, and heart disease, according to early studies.
Consumer advocates encourage consumers not to use hormone-based contraceptives because of the risk. But the FDA said in its statement released today that the agency believes that Ortha Evra is a safe and effective method of contraception when used according to the labeling, meaning that the FDA blamed those who developed VTE for misusing the birth control patch.
The labeling recommends women with concerns or risk factors for serious blood clots should talk with their health service providers about using Ortho Evra.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
There is a birth control method that is 100 percent effective. When used, it not only prevents pregnancies but also eliminates the risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections such as acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It costs no money and is easier to use than an eraser-less pencil.
What is this method? Abstinence.
Abstinence is the only method that should be taught in schools. It is perfectly effective, protective and simple.
By teaching students anything but the most effective means of preventing pregnancy, we are doing them a disservice.
Sure, there are other methods to be taught. Condoms, for example, are a popular means of birth control.
Yet even if used consistently and perfectly, condoms still have at least a 2 percent failure rate. Such a low failure rate may seem negligible, but remember that not all condoms are used consistently or correctly.
Incorrect or inconsistent use can raise the failure rate from 2 percent to up to 18 percent. That’s almost one in five women who get pregnant per year due to condom failure.
Condoms aren’t the only kind of birth control, of course. What about the combined oral contraceptive pill, commonly referred to as “the pill?”
It’s very effective, with about a 0.3 percent per year pregnancy rate. That is, if it is taken consistently and correctly. If not, that rate rises as high as 8 percent, almost one in 10.
Furthermore, some antibiotics, such as doxycycline and tetracycline, can render the pill less effective or even invalid.
Though the two may seem unrelated, the doxycycline someone takes for acne can invalidate birth control.
In a science class, would a teacher assign a lab whose success was dependent on the color of pants each student was wearing? Of course not!
Those two factors seem completely unrelated, but broad-spectrum antibiotics and the pill also seem unrelated. Should a teacher assign such a nonsensical lab? No.
In like manner, should a method of birth control as complex and as susceptible to arcane medication interactions as the pill is be taught? No.
In math classes, are students taught formulas that, if used correctly and consistently, will still fail at some point? Of course not. Students are taught formulas that work without fail.
Sex education should be the same way. If a formula failed, it would mean a wrong answer. If a condom or the pill failed, it could mean pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection.
Too often, religious dogma is dragged into the sex education debate. Proponents of abstinence-only sex education are characterized as zealots and fanatics.
Opponents of the same are characterized as immoral and unethical.
In reality, it’s simply a matter of fact: Even if used perfectly, condoms can fail. If used perfectly, abstinence will never fail.
It is for that reason, not religious philosophy or ideals, that teaching abstinence-only in sex education classes has validity.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) has unveiled what it calls an “edgy” TV and radio campaign that “focuses on the importance of practicing pregnancy prevention and safer sex.”
Except that the words “pregnancy” and “safe sex” are never spoken. And the pitch man in the “Mile High campaign” is flamingly gay. The TV ad is being run on MTV, VH-1, Comedy Central and TLC, and the radio ad is running on KMEL-FM, a San Francisco station. See if you can find the purported “sexual health” education messages in the ad.
STEVEN, The obviously gay flight attendant, who coos: Hello and welcome aboard. I’m Steven. (He prances down the aisle of the plane.) Oooohhhh. All right! We’ve reached our cruising altitude of One Mile High!
Cut to: Steven comes up to a man-woman couple sitting together. The young woman is licking a large, heart-shaped lollipop. STEVEN: Hey guys. Just want to make sure you’ve got the pill, patch, condoms. It’s all about choices. Have some more! BAM! (An overhead compartment opens spilling condoms over the couple.)
GRAPHIC on screen: The Friendly Skies Just Got SAFER.
Cut to wide shot of exterior of plane flying.
Cut to cockpit. Steven sits in pilot’s lap and puts his arm around him.
STEVEN: On behalf of Planned Parenthood airlines, you are now free to make sweet, sweet love. Steven smiles leeringly at pilot, who smiles back at him.
Ummm. This viewer didn’t see any education going on.
The ad, according to a PPGG press release, is targeted at “young adults, ages 18-24” and seeks to draw “viewers and listeners with lively characters that provide pregnancy prevention and safer sex education in a fun and entertaining way.” The release continues, “PPGG created this campaign to stress the importance of sexual health in a creative way that breaks free from the old ineffective paradigm of relying on fear-mongering tactics to inspire behavior changes.” The release describes Steven as a “flashy flight attendant that also plays the role of sexual health educator.”
In fact, one wonders if the writer of the press release actually saw the edited commercial. The press release says, “Throughout the ads, condoms and other birth control methods are mentioned as effective tools for preventing the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies.” Actually in this ad, condoms, patches and pills are merely presented as “choices” for making “sweet, sweet love.” Further, patches and pills don’t protect against STIs, and condoms are ineffective against several STIs, including Human Papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer.
It is not the first “edgy” ad from the San Francisco PP chapter.
Life Site News reported that in early 2007, “PPGG made a commercial that showed a sloppy-looking male angel eating popcorn at the head of the bed watching a couple having sex. Then his female angel counterpart appeared imploring him to do something. The male angel uses a TV remote and rewinds the scene of the couple in bed. This time the woman asks her male partner if he has any protection, to which he exclaims, ‘Yeah, of course.’ The woman responds, ‘Amen!’
“In 2006, PPGG produced a spot depicting a young woman working with power tools who later hops into bed with a man, selects items from a Planned Parenthood ‘safe sex’ tool case and exclaims, ‘Nice tool!’”
Such “edgy” messaging from Planned Parenthood serves only to make sex itself appealing to teens. While the organization may claim that its target audience is 18-24- year-olds, placing the ad on networks like MTV guarantees it will reach much younger viewers. MTV’s target demographic is 12-34 year olds.
Further, the flat-out promotion of the “mile high” club connotation, “sweet, sweet love” and the wink-and-nod to homosexuality does nothing to educate. It only titillates and feeds in to the continuing efforts of Planned Parenthood and its media accomplices to sexualize children any way they can.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Anyone would agree that abortion is a poor birth control procedure — OK, a horrible one. Why not encourage education about birth control devices so that males will stop making the females pregnant when a pregnancy is not desired? Maybe moviegoers would like to see a movie that is informative, even inspirational, that refers to birth control. McLaughlin sounds like the avenger — the punisher. If a male makes a female pregnant and she has an abortion, is he going to suffer the remorse of the damned forever? Unlikely. As far as anything I know, pregnancies are not spontaneous.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
It was a long time getting here, but as of Tuesday, health insurance plans that cover prescription drugs in Oregon must cover birth control.
Nancy Bennett, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette, said her organization has fought for it since 1993.
“We were pushing for it because we believe women should have access to birth control. It’s just basic health care for women,” Bennett said. “Women are paying way more out of pocket for their health care than they should be.”
Bennett said about half of states have similar requirements.
The law could affect about 1.4 million Oregonians covered by private insurance. Public employees and poor people under the Oregon Health Plan already are covered.
The law, one of several important health-related bills passed by the last Legislature, also requires hospitals to offer emergency contraceptives to women who seek care in a hospital after a sexual assault.
Other laws include expansion of chemotherapy treatment options, a requirement for employers to accommodate mothers who want to breast feed their children at work, and requiring coverage of alcohol and drug-related injuries and illness on the same basis as other injuries and illnesses.
Jenny Hawkins found that her health insurance covered a cosmetic skin whitener to cover up sun damage, but it reminded the 32-year-old of what it didn’t cover: contraception.
“The only prescription I do use is not covered,” Hawkins said.
That changed Tuesday.
Hawkins, who testified in favor of the contraception bill during a legislative hearing in Salem, said she will save about $600 per year.
The bill was a priority for Democrats, who controlled both chambers of the Oregon Legislature in 2007 for the first time in nearly two decades. The health insurance industry did not actively fight the bill.
But Sen. Larry George, R-Sherwood, testified that it could drive up health-care costs for everyone. The state Insurance Division has not estimated the cost of the law to private insurance companies, according to a spokesman.
Hawkins, who is self-employed “headhunter,” or talent-seeker, admitted she was uncomfortable testifying about such a personal matter.
“Maybe it’s because people are apprehensive about speaking about it in public that such a ridiculous state of events has persisted for so long,” she said.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Some of you may remember the wildly out of control and inaccurate MSM stories about a Portland (Maine) middle school adding reproductive health services to the public health clinic based in the school.
For the history of the story and for those of you who still believe the school nurse was handing out birth control in the halls to 11-year-olds (as Fox would have you believe).
The right wing made two attempts to challenge this, and both have failed.
The Portland Republican City Committee initiated a recall election of 3 school committee members who voted to include reproductive health in the school based public health clinic.
The Portland Press Herald is reporting today that they only got 92 signatures on a recall petition that required 3,000 signatures to be collected in the month of December. (They had previously collected 500 signatures to initiate the recall, for a grand total of 592 people in a city of over 60,000 supporting the recall.) Now maybe the school committee should have realized how this vote would be seen and taken more time to educate the public about this issue, but that is not enough to recall them. I am proud of the people in my city for not falling for this recall.
The American Center for Law and Justice, a Pat Robertson funded legal organization (I’d rather not do the link, but they are easy to find if you really want to look), hired a local lawyer to represent parents and sue the school department. However, their web site reported recently that they were dropping the law suit because the school had new permission forms clearly stating reproductive health was included in the clinic services.
Of course, the school department was clear right from the start that the permission form would state that clinic offered reproductive health services. I suspect the ACLJ realized they had no legal grounds for a suit, or perhaps they couldn’t find any parents to represent (once parents understood the permission form). Perhaps they knew this from the beginning, but didn’t care because it made for great fund raising.
So, the entire issue seems to be past us. There is still some debate about the legality of kids younger than 13 receiving reproductive services that is being addressed by the AG, but so far only kids 14 and older have reported a need for services and the public health department has said it won’t serve younger kids if it is illegal. Our school has gone back to educating our kids rather than dealing with the media. The kids who get their health care in the school based clinic will have the same health care services as all kids in Maine who have private health care. And our city has shown we won’t be pushed around by the right wing and Republicans!
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
How It Works
Birth control pills, which are also called oral contraceptives, regulate the body’s estrogen and progesterone levels. You take birth control pills
every day. Birth control pills:
* Prevent the ovaries from releasing an egg every month (ovulation). This prevents pregnancy.
* Minimize growth of the uterine lining, called the endometrium. This reduces or stops dysfunctional uterine bleeding (thick endometrial+growth leads to heavy bleeding).
* May cause you to have fewer menstrual periods if taken continuously for a long period of time.
* May improve perimenopausal symptoms that are caused by fluctuating hormone levels.
Why It Is Used
Birth control pills are commonly used to:
* Stop a teen’s irregular menstrual bleeding (dysfunctional uterine bleeding) and regulate her cycle.
* Regulate a perimenopausal woman’s irregular periods (dysfunctional uterine bleeding).
* Regulate perimenopausal hormone levels, with the intention of reducing hormone-related symptoms while providing effective birth control.
* Regulate a woman’s menstrual cycles that have been chronically irregular.
How Well It Works
The endocrine system, which produces hormones, is complex and not fully understood. Therefore, as with any hormone treatment, birth control pills do not reduce symptoms in all women. They cause troublesome side effects in some women, but not others. If you have problems with ineffectiveness or side effects, ask your health professional whether a different hormone formulation may work better.
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Birth control pills reduce heavy menstrual bleeding by about 60%.
Perimenopausal symptoms. Birth control pills reduce or eliminate hot flashes and improve sleep problems and depression in most perimenopausal women, while effectively preventing pregnancy.
Studies report a range of 65% to 100% of women gaining partial to full relief from hot flashes when using birth control pills.
Disease prevention. The estrogen in birth control pills maintains or improves bone density (osteoporosis prevention) during perimenopause, when bone loss begins to increase.
Long-term use (4 or more years) of birth control pills helps prevent endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer. Experts suspect that progestin is the protective factor.
Recurrence
When you stop taking birth control pills, dysfunctional uterine bleeding or perimenopausal symptoms may return.
Side Effects
Side effects of birth control pills are generally the most severe during the first few months of use and then gradually subside. The most common side effects are:
* Breast tenderness.
* Nausea.
Although some women report weight gain with birth control pill use, studies suggest that generally, long-term weight gain is not a common side effect.
The risk of serious side effects increases in smokers.
Rare, but more serious, side effects include:
* High blood pressure.
* Blood clots in a vein (deep vein thrombosis) or lung (pulmonary embolism).
* Heart problems.
* Possible increased risk of cervical cancer.
If you have serious side effects, call your health professional for immediate follow-up.
If you have bothersome side effects, report them to your health professional at your next regularly scheduled visit.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Do not use birth control pills if you:
* Are older than 35 and smoke, have complications from diabetes, or have an increased risk of heart disease.
* Have a personal history of breast cancer. Estrogen stimulates certain types of breast cancer.
* Have uncontrolled high blood pressure.
* Have liver disease.
* Have a history of blood clots in a vein (deep vein thrombosis) or lung (pulmonary embolism).
* Have a history of stroke.
For women older than 35, low-dose birth control pills are recommended. If you have no risk factors, such as a history of heart problems or stroke, you may use birth control pills until menopause is completed. Birth control pills are not recommended for use after menopause.
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