Wednesday 6 August 2008

Interest Of Extended-Cycle Oral Contraceptive Increasing Among Women, Survey Finds

�More than two-thirds of women in the U.S. said they are concerned in suppressing monthly bleeding using extended-cycle oral contraceptives, according to a survey recently presented at a conference of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, HealthDay/Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin reports. Despite increased interest, women as well expressed some reluctance around the safety of suppressing monthly hemorrhage, the survey found. However, 97% of physicians surveyed said that it is medically safe and acceptable to repress bleeding.



According to HealthDay/Press & Sun-Bulletin, extensive cycling has been used for days by doctors who receive been tailoring birth control regimens to women's inevitably by tattle them to skip the week of placebo pills contained in most oral contraceptive packs and begin a new pack. Patricia Aikens Murphy -- associate degree professor and the Annette Poulson Cumming Presidential Endowed Chair in Women's and Reproductive Health at the University of Utah College of Nursing -- aforesaid that the "only difference recently is that we have these dedicated products."



The electric current generation of oral contraceptives includes Seasonale and Seasonique, which take into account women to reduce their number of annual menstrual periods to four times per year. In increase, Loestrin 24 Fe and Yaz enable women to have shorter monthly periods than traditional birth control regimens allow. Lybrel is a continuous use product that chicago monthly haemorrhage altogether, HealthDay/Press & Sun-Bulletin reports.



Lee Shulman, professor and chief of reproductive genetics in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, said, "In the final 10 days, there very has been almost a revolutionary change in the opinions and the views of women regarding catamenia." He added, "It's not just the more mature reproductive women desiring fewer withdrawal bleeds. Now that's becoming a more coarse desire among even younger women quest hormonal contraceptive method" (Pallarito, HealthDay/Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, 7/24).




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