Combined Contraceptive Pill

Logynon

Tablets

  • Relieves painful period
  • Prevents unwanted pregnancy 
  • Can help with pre-menstrual symptoms
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£15.99

Logynon Medical Information

Logynon is a combined oral contraceptive pill (‘the Pill’). You take it to stop you getting pregnant.

Logynon contains two types of female sex hormones, oestrogen (ethinylestradiol) and progestogen (levonorgestrel). These hormones stop you getting pregnant by working in three ways: by preventing an egg being released from your ovaries; by making the fluid (mucus) in your cervix thicker, which makes it more difficult for sperm to enter the womb; and by preventing the lining of your womb thickening enough for an egg to grow in it.

Logynon is a 21-day pill – you take one each day for 21 days, followed by 7 days when you take no pills. The benefits of taking the Pill include:

 it is one of the most reliable reversible methods of contraception if used correctly

 it doesn’t interrupt sex

 it usually makes your periods regular, lighter and less painful

 it may help with pre-menstrual symptoms.

Each light brown tablet contains 50 micrograms levonorgestrel and 30 micrograms ethinylestradiol.

Each white tablet contains 75 micrograms levonorgestrel and 40 micrograms ethinylestradiol.

Each ochre tablet contains 125 micrograms levonorgestrel and 30 micrograms ethinylestradiol.

Take Logynon every day for 21 days

Logynon comes in a strip of 21 pills, each marked with a day of the week.

Take your pill at the same time every day.

Start by taking a pill marked with the correct day of the week.

Follow the direction of the arrows on the strip. Take one pill each day.

Swallow each pill whole, with water if necessary. Do not chew the pill.

Then have seven pill - free days After you have taken all 21 pills in the strip, you have seven days when you take no pills. So if you take the last pill of one pack on a Friday, you will take the first pill of your next pack on the Saturday of the following week. Within a few days of taking the last pill from the strip, you should have a withdrawal bleed like a period. This bleed may not have finished when it is time to start your next strip of pills.

You don’t need to use extra contraception during these seven pill-free days -as long as you have taken your pills correctly and start the next strip of pills on time. Then start your next strip Start taking your next strip of Cilique after the seven pill-free days -even if you are still bleeding.

Always start the new strip on time.

As long as you take Logynon correctly, you will always start each new strip on the same day of the week.

▪ If you have (or have ever had) a blood clot in a blood vessel of your legs (deep vein thrombosis, DVT), your lungs (pulmonary embolus, PE) or other organs

▪ If you know you have a disorder affecting your blood clotting – for instance, protein C deficiency, protein S deficiency, antithrombin-III deficiency, Factor V Leiden or antiphospholipid antibodies

▪ If you need an operation or if you are off your feet for a long time  

▪ If you have ever had a heart attack or stroke

▪ If you have (or have ever had) angina pectoris (a condition that causes severe chest pain and may be a first sign of a heart attack) or transient ischaemic attack (TIA – temporary stroke symptoms)

▪ If you have any of the following diseases that may increase your risk of a clot in the arteries:

- severe diabetes with blood vessel damage 

- very high blood pressure

- a very high level of fat in the blood (cholesterol or triglycerides)

- a condition known as hyperhomocysteinaemia

▪ If you have (or have ever had) a type of migraine called ‘migraine with aura’

▪ If you have or have ever had breast cancer

▪ If you have ever had a severe liver disease, and you have been told by your doctor that your liver function test results are not yet back to normal

▪ If you have ever had liver tumours

▪ If you are allergic (hypersensitive) to any of the ingredients in Logynon

• If you have hepatitis C and are taking the medicinal products containing ombitasvir / paritaprevir / ritonavir, dasabuvir,glecaprevir / pibrentasvir or sofosbuvir / velpatasvir / voxilaprevir 

Common side effects (between 100 and 1000 in every 10,000 users may be affected)

 feeling sick

 stomach ache

 putting on weight

 headaches

 depressive moods or mood swings

 sore or painful breasts

Uncommon side effects (between 10 and 100 in every 10,000 users may be affected)

 being sick and stomach upsets

 fluid retention

 migraine

 loss of interest in sex

 breast enlargement

 skin rash, which may be itchy

Rare side effects (between 1 and 10 in every 10,000 users may be affected)

 poor tolerance of contact lenses

 losing weight

 increase of interest in sex

 vaginal or breast discharge Other side effects reported

 Bleeding and spotting between your periods can sometimes occur for the first few months but this usually stops once your body has adjusted to Logynon. If it continues, becomes heavy or starts again, contact your doctor

 Chloasma (yellow brown patches on the skin). This may happen even if you have been using Logynon for a number of months. Chloasma may be reduced by avoiding too much sunlight and/or UV lamps

 Occurrence or deterioration of the movement disorder chorea

 Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis

 Conditions that may worsen during pregnancy or previous use of the Pill:

- yellowing of the skin (jaundice)

- persistent itching (pruritus)

- kidney or liver problems

- gall stones

- certain rare medical conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus

- blister-like rash (herpes gestationis) whilst pregnant

- an inherited form of deafness (otosclerosis)

- a personal or family history of a form of sickle cell disease

- an inherited disease called porphyria

- cancer of the cervix

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