Long-Acting Birth Control Options

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Long-Acting Birth Control Options

By using birth control for a long time, you can reduce your chances of having children. It is not necessary for you to take a medication every day. There are birth control methods that last for weeks, months, or even years with little effort and no surgery. For most healthy women, they are safe and effective.

"For any woman, the ideal form of contraception is the one she will use correctly and regularly," says the experts. Find out what's accessible on that time, what each one entails, and how well it works.

The IUD (Intrauterine Device)

Hormonal IUDs…  (Copper IUDs)

Birth Control Implant

The Shot (Depo-Provera)

The Patch

The Ring

The IUD (Intrauterine Device)

After giving you a checkup, your doctor will insert a little T-shaped device into your uterus, or womb. Depending on the type, it can stay there for 3 to 10 years. You won't need to do anything else to avoid pregnancy once the IUD is in place. They outperform tablets, patches, and rings by a factor of 20. During the first year of using an IUD, only about 1 in 100 women become pregnant. If you decide you want to get pregnant or no longer want to use it, your doctor can easily remove it.

Hormonal IUDs…

Plastic IUDs that deliver the hormone progestin are known as hormonal IUDs. This thickens the mucus in your cervix (uterine cavity), preventing sperm from entering. It also thins your uterus's walls. This prevents a fertilized egg from sticking to it during pregnancy.

Kyleena, Liletta, Mirena, and Skyla are the four brands of hormonal IUDs available. The medication levonorgestrel is used in all of them. Liletta and Mirena have been together for six years. Kyleena is the one that releases the least amount of hormones for the longest period of time. It was five years long. After the first six months, Mirena can reduce excessive menstrual bleeding by up to 90%.

Copper IUDs

Copper IUDs do not contain any hormones. Copper acts as a spermicide, preventing sperm from fertilising a fertilised egg. If an egg is fertilised, it can hinder an embryo from implanting.

These devices are frequently chosen by women who desire a hormone-free type of contraception with fewer potential negative effects. Hormone-free birth control, on the other hand, has a different impact on your menstrual cycle. “It's not true for all women, but with the copper IUD, periods may be a little heavier and crampier,” some experts add. "It's not an approach we'd recommend for a woman who is already experiencing heavy periods."

Birth Control Implant

Your doctor inserts this small, thin, and flexible plastic rod into your arm. It's the size of a match stick. Like a hormonal IUD, the implant releases progestin into your body. It works for up to 3 years, and your doctor can remove it any time before that.

Also like IUDs, implants are also 20 times more effective than pills, patches, or rings. Some women have irregular bleeding during the first 6 to 12 months. For most, periods get lighter and happen less often.

“What comes with the implant is that it’s very unpredictable,” Micks says. “Some will stop having periods, but some will have quite a bit more bleeding.”

With her patients, Micks says, “if they don’t see themselves wanting to get pregnant within a year, then I recommend that they do an IUD or an implant,” she says. “They can have it taken out any time, even a day later, a month later, whenever.”

The Shot (Depo-Provera)

This method protects against pregnancy for 3 months at a time. It uses progestin to do that.

Only 1 in 100 women who get the shot every 12 weeks will get pregnant. For those who don’t get their shot on schedule, 6 out of 100 will get pregnant.

Similar to other progestin methods, the shot can cause irregular bleeding during the first year. About half of women will have fewer and lighter periods after that. Others may have spotting or heavier, longer periods. The shot can cause bone thinning, which stops after the injection wears off. For this reason, women at risk for osteoporosis should use a different form of birth control.

If you want to use the shot for more than 2 years, you should talk to your doctor about the risks and the benefits of continuing it. Women with breast cancer and those who take some medications for Cushing’s syndrome (a disease from being exposed to high levels of the hormone cortisol) also should not get it. Some women might not want the shot because it requires going to a doctor’s office every 3 months. In some parts of the U.S., women can get a prescription for an injection they give themselves. If giving yourself a shot makes you squirm, find out if there are convenient places to get it -- such as a local health center -- before you decide.

If you want to get pregnant within the next year, you might consider other methods of birth control. It can take 10 months or more to become fertile again after you stop the shot.

The Patch

The Patch is a thin, beige, plastic sticker that you wear on your skin at all times for a week. You stick it on the outside of your upper arm, your back, your behind, or your stomach. You replace the patch every week for 3 weeks, then typically take a week off.

Some women complain that the patch falls off or irritates their skin where it's applied.

The Ring 

The Ring is another option. Sold under the name Annovera or NuvaRing, it is small ring that you insert in your vagina, similar to a tampon. You leave it in for 3 weeks. After that, you take a week off to allow you to experience a period. With Annovera, you then reinsert the ring. With Nuva Ring, you insert a new ring.

It is possible for the ring to fall out before it’s time to change it. If that happens, just rinse it and put it back in. If it’s broken, you should insert a new one.

The patch and the ring are not as effective as the pill, IUDs, implants, or shots. But some women still use the patch and the ring, Experts says, because they feel more in control of a method they can stop at any time without a doctor visit.           

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