Combined Oral Contraceptive Pills

Combined Oral Contraceptive Pills


What are the benefits of oral contraceptive pills?

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What are the benefits of oral contraceptive pills?

The combined oral contraceptive pill suppresses the natural hormone cycle providing:

The additional benefits include:

  • improvement of acne (Q5.10).
  • oestrogen for those with amenorrhoea (absent periods) and low oestrogen levels (Q6.21).
  • reduction of excess body hair (hirsutism -hirsutism treatment).
  • reduced incidence of functional ovarian cysts (Q 23.3).
  • improvement in endometriosis (endometriosis).
  • reduction in the incidence of cancer of the ovary and endometrium (Q15.19 and Q15.20).

The four-weekly bleeds that occur whilst taking the combined oral contraceptive pill are not periods (menstruation) but withdrawal bleeds. Menstruation is a bleed that occurs each month spontaneously and not in women who are taking hormonal treatment such as the combined oral contraceptive pill.


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