Microgynon
Tablets
- Pregnancy prevention at 99%
- Reduces cramps
- Lighter and regular periods
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Microgynon Medical Information
Microgynon 30 is a combined oral contraceptive pill (‘the Pill’). You take it to stop you getting pregnant.
Microgynon 30 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.
The active substances are levonorgestrel and ethinylestradiol. Each beige sugar-coated tablet contains: 150 micrograms of the progestogen levonorgestrel, and 30 micrograms of the oestrogen ethinylestradiol.
While you’re on the Pill
▪ You will need regular check-ups with your doctor or family planning nurse, usually when you need another prescription of the Pill.
▪ You should go for regular cervical smear tests.
▪ Check your breasts and nipples every month for changes – tell your doctor if you can see or feel anything odd, such as lumps or dimpling of the skin
▪ If you need a blood test tell your doctor that you are taking the Pill, because the Pill can affect the results of some tests.
▪ If you’re going to have an operation, make sure your doctor knows about it. You may need to stop taking the Pill at least 4 weeks before the operation. This is to reduce the risk of a blood clot.
Microgynon 30 is a 21-day Pill – you take one each day for 21 days, followed by 7 days when you take no pills.
It’s important that you understand the benefits and risks of taking the Pill before you start taking it, or when deciding whether to carry on taking it.
Although the Pill is suitable for most healthy women it isn’t suitable for everyone.
If you have missed any of the pills in a strip, and you do not bleed in the first pill-free break, you may be pregnant. Contact your doctor or family planning clinic, or do a pregnancy test yourself.
If you start a new strip of pills late, or make your ‘week off’ longer than seven days, you may not be protected from pregnancy.
If you had sex in the last seven days, ask your doctor, family planning nurse or pharmacist for advice. You may need to consider emergency contraception. You should also use extra contraception, such as a condom, for seven days.
▪ 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 Microgynon 30
• 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 Microgynon 30. 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 Microgynon 30 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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