Angry so many questions, am I being punished? – Helen ’ s story
Hi. OK here it goes. Linda helped by taking time to send me a book, writing back emails etc. So I guess we need each other all of us. From a very early age I started my periods at 11 on my eve of 12th birthday. I was never told what it was, despite having 2 sisters and 3 brothers. I was the youngest coming from a Irish catholic background. My dad was strictest with me.
I suffered with mine. Really bad. I would go through pads in 10 mins up to 2 every 2 hours or so. I would bleed straight through to the skirt, on school seats; that’s how bad. I got pregnant at 15 years old. I fell for someone. Being Roman Catholic, at...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - May 6, 2017 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health heavy bleeding hysterectomy stories PCOS Source Type: news
Angry so many questions, am I being punished? – Helen ’ s story
Hi. OK here it goes. Linda helped by taking time to send me a book, writing back emails etc. So I guess we need each other all of us. From a very early age I started my periods at 11 on my eve of 12th birthday. I was never told what it was, despite having 2 sisters and 3 brothers. I was the youngest coming from a Irish catholic background. My dad was strictest with me.
I suffered with mine. Really bad. I would go through pads in 10 mins up to 2 every 2 hours or so. I would bleed straight through to the skirt, on school seats; that’s how bad. I got pregnant at 15 years old. I fell for someone. Being Roman Catholic, at...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - May 6, 2017 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health heavy bleeding hysterectomy stories PCOS Source Type: news
Newborn clutches his mother's hormonal coil in ironic snap
Since being uploaded to Facebook last week, the ironic photo of Dexter Tyler, from Alabama, clutching the Mirena device has amassed more than 71,000 shares. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Morning after pill 'less reliable' for women over 11 stone
Conclusion
Overall the FSRH guideline gives additional clarity around the different types of emergency contraception that should be selected in different circumstances.
These recommendations are based on the best level of evidence and expert understanding to date. However, they may change in the future as more evidence comes to light.
In particular, related to the issue of weight on the effectiveness of oral emergency contraception, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concluded in 2014 that the available evidence "was limited and not robust enough to support with certainty a conclusion that oral emergency contracepti...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy/child QA articles Medication Source Type: news
My hysterectomy and cancer journey – Anya ’ s story
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I had been suffering from heavy bleeding on and off since the birth of my second child in 2012 , medication and the contraceptive pill did nothing to ease the bleeding and I was referred to a gynaecologist, I initially saw a locum gynaecologist who persuaded me to have a Mirena coil fitted.
However that made matters matters worse and some six months later following several appointments with another gynaecologist, a hysteroscopy and scans it was discovered that coil had managed to lodge itself in my uterus and ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - March 24, 2017 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Tags: Your Stories cancer leiomyosarcoma Source Type: news
My hysterectomy and cancer journey – Anya ’ s story
I had been suffering from heavy bleeding on and off since the birth of my second child in 2012 , medication and the contraceptive pill did nothing to ease the bleeding and I was referred to a gynaecologist, I initially saw a locum gynaecologist who persuaded me to have a Mirena coil fitted.
However that made matters matters worse and some six months later following several appointments with another gynaecologist, a hysteroscopy and scans it was discovered that coil had managed to lodge itself in my uterus and that the small fibroid I had had for years had suddenly enlarged in size. My gynaecologist recommended I had a hyst...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - March 24, 2017 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health cancer hysterectomy stories Source Type: news
My hysterectomy and cancer journey – Anya ’ s story
I had been suffering from heavy bleeding on and off since the birth of my second child in 2012 , medication and the contraceptive pill did nothing to ease the bleeding and I was referred to a gynaecologist, I initially saw a locum gynaecologist who persuaded me to have a Mirena coil fitted.
However that made matters matters worse and some six months later following several appointments with another gynaecologist, a hysteroscopy and scans it was discovered that coil had managed to lodge itself in my uterus and that the small fibroid I had had for years had suddenly enlarged in size. My gynaecologist recommended I had a hyst...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - March 24, 2017 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health cancer hysterectomy stories Source Type: news
Meet 10 Women Who Rushed To Get An IUD Before Inauguration Day
Since the morning of November 9, when it was clear that Donald Trump would become the 45th president, droves of women have gone to their gynecologists seeking low-cost, long-acting reversible contraception before Trump’s inauguration ― and before the GOP dismantles the Affordable Care Act.
Planned Parenthood reports that the demand for IUDs has gone up 900 percent since the election.
And women’s health care providers say they have heard from women who are frightened about what the next four years will bring for their reproductive rights.
Some got their IUDs and implants months ago, and others...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA accepts Allergan ’ s new drug application for Liletta contraception device
Allergan (NYSE:AGN) and the global nonprofit women’s health company Medicines360 said today that the FDA accepted its supplemental New Drug Application for the Liletta contraception device. The companies are asking the federal watchdog to extend the system’s duration of use from 3 years to 4 years.
Liletta is a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system that is placed in a woman’s uterus to prevent pregnancy for up to 3 years and is 99% effective, according to Dublin-based Allergan. The device is not permanent – a health care provider can take it out at any time, enabling the patient to choose be...
Source: Mass Device - January 4, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Sarah Faulkner Tags: Drug-Device Combinations Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Gynecological Pharmaceuticals Regulatory/Clearance Women's Health Allergan Inc. Medicines360 Source Type: news
What is the most effective treatment for endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia?
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study comparing the effectiveness of oral progestogens versus a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system to treat women with endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia presents data on patient outcomes compiled over eight years, as reported in Journal of Women's Health. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - December 12, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
19 Women On Why Birth Control Is So Damn Important
Birth control is an essential aspect of many women’s health care ― and with the threat of losing affordable access to it under the Trump and Pence administration, women are extra eager to celebrate it.
Whether it’s an IUD, the pill, the implant or the NuvaRing, women all over the country know that their birth control routines are much more than “nitty gritty” details of their lives. (Sorry, Paul Ryan!)
In honor of the full lives that access to contraception allows women to live, non-profit online birth control support network Bedsider started the hashtag #ThxBirthControl on W...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lots Of Women Plan To Get IUDs Before Trump Makes It So They Can't
As Americans face the reality that Donald Trump will be our next president — and with a GOP-controlled Congress to boot — women rightly fear for their reproductive rights.
Women, call your docs. Today. Take charge of your health before Jan. 20. Get an IUD, get mammograms, get ultrasounds, get Paps. Do it now.— Maura Brannigan (@maura_brannigan) November 9, 2016
Trump ran an aggressively anti-choice campaign and said he’d defund Planned Parenthood. He chose a running mate, Mike Pence, so devoted to crushing reproductive rights that he once signed a law that would require women to bury or c...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
