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Birth Control Methods and The Risk of Blood Clots
You may have heard that birth control pills can give you blood clots. Birth control pills as well as patches, rings, and some IUDs use hormones to ...
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Birth Control
How it works: You insert the gel into your vagina via applicator immediately before or up to one hour before sex. Cons: Must be put inside the vagi...
Read moreWhat is Tubal Ligation?
Tubal ligation is surgery women can get to 'tie” their fallopian tubes. You may have pain in your belly for a few days after the procedure. It depe...
Read moreFemale Condoms
Twist the open end closed so that the semen stays inside and gently pull it out. Compare that to 2 out of 100 women whose partners always use male ...
Read moreBirth Control Pill and Breast Cancer Risk
Similar research found that 10 years or more after women stopped using birth control pills, their breast cancer risk returned to the same level as ...
Read moreBirth Control and The IUD (Intrauterine Device)
If you’re looking into your options for birth control, one method you may want to think about is the IUD. In rare cases, the size or shape of your ...
Read moreGetting Your Tubes Tied: Pros, Cons, what to Know
Tubal ligation -- also known as having your tubes tied -- is a kind of surgery that will keep you from ever getting pregnant. Only about one in 200...
Read moreGuide to Spermicide
Although you can use spermicide alone, it works better when you combine it with a condom or diaphragm. Spermicide condoms prevent pregnancy 87% of ...
Read moreBirth Control Pills
With continuous birth control pill use, you take an active pill every day and never have a period. But effects vary in part because the amount and ...
Read moreWhat is The Minipill?
The minipill is a type of birth control pill. But the minipill doesn’t block eggs as well as combination pills. With estrogen in combination birth ...
Read moreBirth Control: is The Diaphragm Right for You?
Women have been using the diaphragm for birth control in one form or another for hundreds of years. So if you put the diaphragm in hours ahead of t...
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