Birth Control Flashcards
(22 cards)
What are two hormones that can be used up to 5 days after unprotected sex?
1a) ella (equally effective for all 5 days)
1b) Plan B one-step
- less effective each day
- avaliable over the counter
Copper IUD insertion
- can be inserted up to 5 days after unprotected sex
- cause low grade inflammation of the uterus that interferes with sperm transport
- few side effects
- just check if strings still there
Foam, Cream, Jellies
- all contain spermicide that kill the sperm
- must be placed in 2 hours ahead and 6 hours after
- failure rate high when used solo
- no STD protection
Male condoms
- standardized made
- disposible sheath over penis before sex and prevents semen from entering the vagina
- STD protector
- male must have erection for duration of condom use
female condoms
- plastic pouch placed into the vagina
- cover all of vagina and some parts of the vuvla
- only female contraceptive to protect from STD
- inconvient and can cause UTI
withdrawal (coitus interrupts)
- Males pull out soon and far enough
- high failure rate
outercourse
“dry humping”
diaphragm + spermicide jelly
- made of rubber and a spring
- preventing sperm from entering the cervix
- can be inserted before hand
- inconvient because it has to be fitted
the FemCap
- fits over the cervix
- made of silicone
- needs spermicide jelly
- higher failure rate
- must be individually fitted and can fall out during sex
IUD
- work for multiple years
- t shaped device inserted up uterus
- effective as female sterlization
- minera and shyla both have progestin to help with period cramps
Contraceptive Pill
- contains estrogen and progestrin
- prevents ovulation and creates a thick mucus in cervix preventing sperm to come in
- lighter menstrual flows
- extermely low rates of failure if used perfectly
- no STD/HIV Protection
- 4 periods a year
Nava Ring
- time ring hormones that inhibit ovulation
- concentrated in fenitials rather than whole body
- 3 weeks on and 2 weeks off
- ring may slip out
the patch
- one per week
- 3 weeks on and 2 week off
- put on any where on the body but the breast
- patch may come off
seasonale (a BC pill) and sesonique
- 84 days on and 7 days off
- 4 periods a year
- 84 days on then 7 “off-days”
- -> take lower dose 7 days
- 4 periods a year
lytienel
- progestin and estrogen taken without any break
- 0 periods/ year
Nexplanon
- progestion only impant
- goes into the arm
- 3 years of protection
- 99.7% effective
repo-pronera
-“the shot”
-16x lower pregnancy rates than BC pills
-99.7% effecieve
can cause reversible decalcificaiton
Progestin only pills
-require very accurate timing
common side effect of progestin only pills
very irregular menstrual bleeding or amenorrhea(no bleeding)
natural methods
getting your sex life in synch with your body’s reproductive rhythms
non-methods
1) douching
2) wishful thinking
3) assuming you’re infertile
Permeant methods
sterilization becoming increasingly popular (30+)
