Birth-Control Patch Warning Will Robinson!

Citing federal death and injury reports, the AP also found that about a dozen women, most in their late teens and early 20s, died in 2004 from blood clots believed to be related to the birth-control patch, and dozens more survived strokes and other clot-related problems.

Ortho McNeil spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs said Thursday that the warning speaks for itself and that the company has been cooperating with the Food and Drug Administration, which distributed the new warning to health care providers.

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What a surprise, messing with your body's chemistry...well, messes it up!

And what a surprise, birth-control (read baby-killer) drug manufacturers lie!

The warning from Johnson and Johnson subsidiary Ortho McNeil, makers of Ortho Evra, says women using the patch will be exposed to about 60 percent more estrogen than those using typical birth-control pills because hormones from patches get into the bloodstream and are removed from the body differently than those from pills.

Now, we know that the pill causes some really nasty side-effects, like the one that gives you a really bad day...what was it again? ...Oh yeah, DEATH!

But for some reason the idea of having children is worse than death & worse than the myriad of other health complications a woman can experience because of the pill.

A friend of ours was prescribed the pill for her acne. Acne? Her mother is willing to risk the death of her daughter for acne?

Here is information from the FDA site:

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Not Safe for All

As safe as today's pill is for most healthy, non-smoking women, it is still not safe for all women. The risk of serious illness and death increases significantly for certain groups:

* Women who smoke--particularly those over 35 who are heavy smokers (more than 14 cigarettes a day)--have a significantly increased risk of heart attack and stroke. This risk increases with age. Women who use oral contraceptives are strongly advised not to smoke.
* Women who are obese or have underlying health problems, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol, also have a significantly increased risk of serious side effects from using the pill.
* Women who have a history of blood clots, heart attack, stroke, liver disease, or cancer of the breast or sex organs should not use oral contraceptives.

Women who become pregnant while on the pill should immediately discontinue taking it because of a risk of birth defects in the child.

Uncertainties remain about whether the pill causes breast or cervical cancer in some groups of women. Despite many studies over the years, there is still insufficient evidence to definitely rule out these possibilities.

While there are conflicting results among studies on breast cancer and the pill, most investigations have found that women who have taken the pill have no increased risk of developing breast cancer. However, the product labeling on oral contraceptives recommends that women who use the pill and have a strong family history of breast cancer or who have breast lumps or abnormal mammograms be closely monitored by their doctors.

Some studies have found an increase in the incidence of cervical cancer in women who use the pill, but this may not necessarily be related to the pill, scientists say.

One of the major problems of the studies to date, says Corfman, is that all the data reflect the effects of the higher-dose pills (those containing more than 50 mcg of estrogen). No studies have been done on the low-dose pills, and none are under way. The cancer-pill issue is very complicated and therefore difficult to study, and the research is expensive, he says.

"We really need another breast cancer study on the low-dose pills," Corfman says. "We have the capability of finding out about breast cancer, but no one is doing the research."

Researchers may never find out whether the pill causes cancer of the cervix, Corfman says, because the development of cervical cancer can be affected by numerous other factors, such as the age a woman begins having sex and the number of sexual partners. Corfman says he suspects, however, that such research would show that the risk of getting cervical cancer from the pill is so small as to be outweighed by the benefits of contraception.

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Is the threat of death and blood clots real?

Erika Klein's sister Kathleen Thoren died a year ago from blood clots in her brain that the coroner said were brought on by Ortho Evra. She said women deserve to be informed when making birth-control decisions.

Amazingly enough the AP actually reported on some of the dangerous stats, not that you saw it on the evening news.

Thursday's warning comes four months after The Associated Press reported that patch users die and suffer blood clots at a rate three times higher than women taking the pill.

Again - "patch users die and suffer blood clots at a rate three times higher than women taking the pill."

So if pill users die and suffer blood clots at a rate of only 2x the normal rate of women in general, that would mean that you women who use the patch will die and suffer blood clots at least 6x more than other women who don't use it.

Sounds like bouncing on a pogo stick near a chipper would be safer to me.

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