Contraceptive pills can cure 10 unspeakable gynecological diseases

Birth control pills are one of the most effective contraceptive methods and are well known to people. But do you know? Short-acting oral contraceptives have some other wonderful uses, but you must use them in a clever way and never use them blindly.

1. Stop bleeding when there is excessive bleeding

Functional uterine bleeding (abbreviated as "dysfunctional uterine bleeding", not written as "uterine bleeding") can be stopped by using short-acting contraceptives, and the effectiveness is more than 90%. Dosage varies depending on the condition. Generally, one or two tablets per day are sufficient, and it takes three to five days of continuous use to be effective. If the condition is serious, you can take more tablets. It is best to take it every 8 or 12 hours. How long it takes is very important. Because bleeding will start again once the medication is stopped, and we certainly don't want the bleeding to start again right after it has stopped, so we take the medication for more than 20 days so that the next bleeding will be about 1 month later. If the bleeding is heavy, you don't have to start taking the medicine on the fifth day as specified in the book. You can take the medicine on the first or second day of bleeding. Taking the medicine early means stopping the bleeding early. Why not?

2. Unsatisfactory menstrual regulation

If the medication is taken monthly in this way, the patient will appear to have "menstruation" every month, but the amount of menstruation will not be much. The patient often thinks that the disease is cured, but in fact the disease often relapses after stopping the medication. Because of the disease of functional uterine bleeding, especially during adolescence and menopause, eighty to ninety percent of the periods are false menstruation without ovulation. To completely cure functional uterine bleeding, you must establish normal ovulation function, which is extremely important during adolescence. The pharmacological effect of contraceptives is to inhibit ovulation. Therefore, if contraceptives are used to treat functional uterine bleeding or regulate menstruation, ovulation will be even less likely to occur. Strictly speaking, this is not a cure, but rather adding fuel to the fire! We do not advocate the use of contraceptives to regulate menstruation in women of childbearing age, but it is only applicable to menopause.

3. Menopause functional blood regulation

I generally don’t like to use birth control pills for functional uterine bleeding in late menopause, unless there is uterine bleeding or hemorrhage. Because birth control pills have the pharmacological effects of both estrogen and progesterone, even if the patient's ovaries no longer secrete female hormones, birth control pills will still cause you to have false menstruation, and this can last until you are in your sixties or seventies. How annoying that is. At this time, I often only use progesterone acetate for cyclical treatment. This cleverly utilizes a characteristic of progesterone, that is, if there is no estrogen in the front to pave the way and lay the foundation, progesterone alone will not cause bleeding after stopping the drug. So if you use progesterone but no bleeding occurs, it means that the patient's ovaries have stopped secreting estrogen, and you can stop this troublesome cycle treatment. And because the ovaries are no longer functional, the dysfunctional uterine bleeding will never recur or cause an illness. How wonderful!

4. Delaying menstruation

It is best not to abuse them, because contraceptives may affect the feedback and balance mechanism of hormones in the body, artificially disrupt the natural cycle, and cause menstrual disorders. If you use it once in a while, it's generally not a big problem. Using progesterone acetate is better than using birth control pills.

5. Relieve Dysmenorrhea

Cyclic contraceptive pills can suppress ovulation and relieve menstrual pain, and are mostly effective. However, if a girl suffers from dysmenorrhea, it is best not to use birth control pills, because it may disrupt the natural regulation and balance of hormones in the body.

6. Reduce menstrual blood volume

Cyclic contraceptives can reduce menstrual flow and shorten menstrual periods. If the menstrual flow is very heavy, you can change the general method, such as taking the medicine from the second day of your period, or even from the first day. In this way, you will not have to take it for a total of 22 days. If you start taking it from the second day, you will have to take it for about 26 days. Anyway, stop taking it for about three days to have blood coming, and the cycle is exactly 30 days. If you have heavy menstrual flow, you can take 2 to 3 tablets per night. When the menstrual flow begins to decrease, slowly reduce the dosage to one tablet per night and maintain it. Do not wait until the menstrual flow has significantly decreased before starting to reduce the dosage (because the medicine has a lasting effect), this can reduce the total amount of medicine taken. In any case, it is ideal to solve the problem with a small dose, because birth control pills are not harmless.

7. Treating menstrual leakage

Excessive and rapid menstrual flow is called "metrorrhagia"; small but continuous menstrual flow for a long time is called "leakage". Leakage can be cured with low-dose cyclical treatment. Of course, if the diagnosis is "missed", tumors must be ruled out first, especially endometrial adenocarcinoma (also called uterine body cancer) in elderly women. Do not blindly use medication and treat it, which will delay the best time for treatment.

You can also use birth control pills to perform "medical curettage" for "leakage", but it is best to find an expert doctor for diagnosis and treatment, and don't treat it yourself.

8. Take a pregnancy test

In addition to urine, blood and ultrasound tests, you can also use birth control pills to do a withdrawal bleeding test (generally progesterone is preferred). It can be taken three times a day, 3 tablets each time, for a total of two days. If you are not pregnant, you should have bleeding about 3 days after stopping the medication. If you still don’t have bleeding after 7 days of stopping the medication, you may be pregnant. This method is said to be harmful to the fetus, so it is only used when you decide not to have the baby.

9. Relieve endometriosis

It is no longer used because there are other better medicines.

10. Prevent pelvic infection

It is said that it can prevent pelvic infection. If taken for more than one year, it can reduce adnexitis by 2/3, ectopic pregnancies by 90%, breast tumors by 10%~75%, ovarian cancer by 1/3, and endometriosis by half. Some say that the incidence of breast cancer has increased, while others say it has decreased by 10%. There are also different opinions on the impact on myocardial infarction, hypertension, venous thrombosis, etc., but there is no consensus so far.