A birth control trap when your doctor doesn't consider your hormones in the prescription; a lot more doctor's visits.
I didn't think of this. I thought my doctor from 15 years ago knew what she was doing when she gave me free samples of birth control when I asked to start using some. Boy, was I wrong. I just read this on Tuesday, "Spotlight: Birth Control, Behind the Prescription Pad at http://www.womenshealthmag.com/.... It's about how doctors are "careless" about giving birth control to patients.
"Gynecologists will prescribe the pill they have the most experience with or the one they currently have free samples of in the closet," says James Simon, M.D., of the Women's Health Research Center in Laurel, Maryland. Why are docs so blasé about birth control?
"Because all brands of the pill are equally effective at preventing pregnancy, and all are FDA-approved as safe," Dr. Simon says. Since it's difficult to predict how a patient will react to any specific pill, the standard of care is to start with one--any one--and switch to another if there are problems.
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