Combined Contraceptive Pill

Marvelon

Tablets

  • Reduces pre-mentrual symptoms
  • Prevents unwanted pregnancy 
  • Reduces heavy period
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Marvelon Medical Information

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

Ovranette in also indicated for some other conditions such as:

• painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea) or pre-menstrual tension

• endometriosis

• heavy or irregular bleeding from the womb (uterus).

This contraceptive contains two types of female sex hormones, estrogen and progestogen. These hormones prevent an egg being released from your ovaries so you can’t get pregnant. Also, Ovranette makes the fluid (mucus) in your cervix thicker which makes it more difficult for sperm to enter the womb.

Ovranette 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.

Take Ovranette every day for 21 days. Ovranette comes in strips 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, until you have finished all 21 pills.

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 Ovranette after the seven pill-free days – even if you are still bleeding.

Always start the new strip on time.

As long as you take Ovranette 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 Ovranette

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

Very common: may affect more than 1 in 10 women

• Headaches including migraines (but if it is severe, or the headache is unusual or long lasting, see a doctor as soon as possible)

• Breakthrough bleeding or spotting.

Common: may affect up to 1 in 10 women

• Infections of the vagina including thrush

• Feeling sick (nausea) or being sick (vomiting)

• Stomach pain or cramps

• Changes in weight

• Change in mood including depression or low mood

• Dizziness

• Nervousness

• Change in sex drive

• Acne

• Sore, painful or tender breasts

• Changes in the secretion from the breast, enlargement of breasts.

Uncommon: may affect up to 1 in 100 women

• Diarrhoea

• Changes in appetite

• Change in menstrual flow

• Rash

• Brown patches on your face or body (chloasma) 

• Hives (urticaria)

• Fluid retention resulting in swollen ankles, hands or feet

• Increase in blood pressure

• Changes in the fat levels in your blood (e.g. high triglyceride levels).

Rare: may affect up to 1 in 1000 women

• Change in glucose tolerance

• Contact lenses may feel uncomfortable

• Painful red lumps on skin (erythema nodosum)

• Pink-red blotches on skin (erythema multiforme)

• Period pain (dysmenorrhea), lack/absence of periods (amenorrhea)

• Vaginal discharge.

Very rare: may affect up to 1 in 10,000 women

• Inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis)

• New gallbladder disease and worsening of existing gallbladder disease

• Worsening of chorea (a nerve disease causing sudden movements of the body)

• Worsening of systemic lupus erythematosus

• Problems at the back of your eye which may cause partial or complete loss of vision (retinal vein thrombosis)

• Worsening of porphyria (a rare disease of the blood pigments) • Liver tumour.

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