Combined Contraceptive Pill

Yasmin

Tablets

  • Can be effective over 90%
  • Reduces cramps
  • Can improve cramps 
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£25.99

Yasmin Medical Information

Yasmin is a contraceptive pill and is used to prevent pregnancy.

Each film-coated tablet contains a small amount of two different female hormones, namely drospirenone (3mg) and ethinylestradiol (0.030mg). 

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.

 

Take one tablet of Yasmin every day, if necessary with a small amount of water. You may take the tablets with or without food, but you should take the tablets every day around the same time.

The strip contains 21 film-coated tablets. Next to each tablet is printed the day of the week that it should be taken. If, for example you start on a Wednesday, take a tablet with “WED” next to it. Follow the direction of the arrow on the strip until all 21 tablets have been taken. Then take no tablets for 7 days. In the course of these 7 tablet-free days (otherwise called a stop or gap week) bleeding should begin. This so-called “withdrawal bleeding” usually starts on the 2nd or 3rd day of the gap week. On the 8th day after the last Yasmin tablet (that is, after the 7-day gap week), you should start with the following strip, whether your bleeding has stopped or not. This means that you should start every strip on the same day of the week and that the withdrawal bleed should occur on the same days each month.

If you use Yasmin in this manner, you are also protected against pregnancy during the 7 days when you are not taking a tablet.

Take one tablet of Yasmin every day, if necessary with a small amount of water. You may take the tablets with or without food, but you should take the tablets every day around the same time.

If you have not used a contraceptive with hormones in the previous month Begin with Yasmin on the first day of the cycle (that is, the first day of your period). If you start Yasmin on the first day of your period you are immediately protected against pregnancy. You may also begin on day 2-5 of the cycle, but then you must use extra protective measures (for example, a condom) for the first 7 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 Yasmin

• 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 1 and 10 in every 100 users may be affected):

- menstrual disorders, bleeding between periods, breast pain, breast tenderness

- headache, depressive mood

- migraine

- nausea

- thick whitish vaginal discharge, vaginal yeast infection

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

- breast enlargement, changes in interest in sex - high blood pressure, low blood pressure

- vomiting, diarrhoea

- acne, severe itching, skin rash, hair loss (alopecia)

- infection of the vagina

- fluid retention and body weight changes

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

- allergic reactions (hypersensitivity)

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