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    Default Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    About 1 million packets of birth control pills are being recalled in the U.S. by Pfizer because a packaging mishap could increase the likelihood of pregnancy.The affected pills include 14 lots of Lo/Ovral-28 tablets and 14 lots of generic Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets. All the pills were marketed by Akrimax Rx Products and have expiration dates ranging from July 31, 2013, to March 31, 2014. They were distributed to warehouses, clinics and pharmacies throughout the U.S.

    Birth control pills typically contain 21 days of hormone-laden, or active, tablets and 7 days of placebo pills. But some of the recalled packets have too many active tablets while others don’t have enough, and some of the pills may be out of sequence.

    The problem, which has since been corrected, seems to have been caused by inspection failures. “As a result of this packaging error, the daily regimen for these oral contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at risk for unintended pregnancy,” Pfizer said in a released Tuesday. “…Consumers exposed to affected packaging should begin using a non-hormonal form of contraception immediately.”

    This is the second major contraceptive recall in less than six months. In September, Qualitest Pharmaceuticals 1.4 million packages of birth control pills because of a different packaging error.Women who have the recalled Pfizer tablets should contact their doctors and return the medication.Lot numbers of affected packs of Lo/Ovral-28 (norgestrel and ethinyl estradiol) Tablets and Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets (generic) are reprinted here:

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    I have never trusted bith control pills because I know people who had problems with them. Not to mention that if you mix something wrong with them they become invalid. I am really opposed to putting chemicals in my body anyway and have always used non chemical forms of birth control (besides I can't use pills and never could). Not just birth control, but I think many medications are in fact bad and cause more problems.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    I quit taking that shit when I started developing breast lumps around November of 2011: in less than two weeks of quitting them, the lumps magically went away.

    In other words; I really wish all form of HORMONAL birth control would become banned. They really do more harm than good. In the mean time, let's just stick to condoms (both male and female condoms) and NFP...while somebody comes up with other forms of non hormonal birth control that will not require medical intervention (like the copper IUD, essure, diaphragms, etc).





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    I can't take the pill anyway but I have read so many stories about them and it's scary. I have friends who had infertility problems because of taking the pill (or they suspect it), others who gained weight and a variety of issues. It has been suspected to cause bone loss too. Hormonal changes aren't good for the body. Interesting to note that I have never used the pill and my cycles are exactly 28 days whereas my friends who used the pill have weird cycles. I also read something (can't remember where)that claimed women who used the pill tend to go through menopause sooner than women who do not.

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    Well of course they'd go through menopause sooner; their eggs are being destroyed.

    Also, a lot of women aren't very familiar with how the pill really works and that is also a big problem too.





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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    True, in some instances the body is in fact aborting an embryo. I didn't know this myself until I read it and that opens up a lot of debate.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    Back in year 06 or 07 around there, was the last time I took BCP. They got me mega depressed to the point where i felt suicidal & miserable. That was enough reason for me never to go back, to any brand. Fuck that.

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    ^the first time I wanted to quit them that was the exact reason!





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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    Birth control scares me I stay away from it I was on it for so long and had so many problems no I just do it the old fashioned way...condoms

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    I'm really surprsed we don't hear about this stuff more. It's a wonder what kind of long term effects we'll see 10 years from now. New drugs always have new problesm we don't find out until it's too lat.e

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    I haven't been on it in like almost 5 years because it ummm didn't work for me. On more than one occasion.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    I have known several who got pregnant while taking the pill. I would rather trust condoms for pregnancy though I know people who got pregnant after sterilization as well.

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    I love the pill, I use the pill and the condom. Condoms break :p
    To the OP: thanks for posting this!
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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    What the hell?? To the girls who have gotten pregnant while on the pill, do you take it at the same time everyday?? Do you take other meds that conflict with the pill?? This thread is freaking me out. I never want kids. Never.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    Once was on the pill, once was on nuvaring. I didn't mess up the pill. And you have to try really hard to fuck up nuvaring. My sister has gotten pregnant several times on birth control. I know lots of other people too. Its actually semi-common. The 99% or whatever statistic only takes into account manual human error (i.e. not taking it on time), and not things like how each type of pill/patch/ring interacts with your body chemistry.

    I'm really not surprised it fails a lot considering:
    1.) everyone takes the same birth controls... the same doses... regardless of race, body frame size, weight, medical history (for the most part), etc.
    2.) the crazy amounts of hidden chemicals in food (not even just packaged food, but pesticides, etc.), household items (cleansers, tampons, personal care items, etc.), clothing (both the material & detergents), and toxic pollutants we are exposed to on a daily basis (the air, chemicals on surfaces, etc.) Most of what your skin physically touches (or what you ingest) is absorbed by your body.

    All of that has to fuck with your body, which in turn fucks with the accuracy. And you can't really avoid most of those things.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    Question for those who got pregnant on pills: did you get them from PP? I'm not saying I believe this or not but someone I know claims PP screws up the pills intentionally so one has to have an abortion. Personally I think it's probably far fetched but she insists on this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay12 View Post
    Well of course they'd go through menopause sooner; their eggs are being destroyed.

    Also, a lot of women aren't very familiar with how the pill really works and that is also a big problem too.
    Oh holy hell. It doesn't "destroy" eggs. Where on earth did you get this impression?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellydancer View Post
    True, in some instances the body is in fact aborting an embryo. I didn't know this myself until I read it and that opens up a lot of debate.
    It doesn't cause abortion, it prevents implantation which is an entirely different process. Like Plan B- all it consists of is a massive dose of BC. If you're already pregnant, it won't work... because it prevents implantation of a fertilized egg.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sammii View Post
    What the hell?? To the girls who have gotten pregnant while on the pill, do you take it at the same time everyday?? Do you take other meds that conflict with the pill?? This thread is freaking me out. I never want kids. Never.
    I had am alarm set and took them religiously. I was also on good old fashioned full strength ortho tricyclen. I have never found a hormonal birth control method which prevents me from getting pregnant. Thus I got a copper IUD. Yay Paragard! I got it in 2003 and have had zero problems thus far.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    Like yourself? Your info is wrong

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    Quote Originally Posted by mediocrity View Post
    Oh holy hell. It doesn't "destroy" eggs. Where on earth did you get this impression?
    they actually get destroyed; the pill does not "freeze" them.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay12 View Post
    they actually get destroyed; the pill does not "freeze" them.
    Neither does having a period. You lose one egg per month on BC just like you would if you had a regular period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellydancer View Post
    Question for those who got pregnant on pills: did you get them from PP?
    Pills no, Nuvaring yes. But they weren't past their expiration date or anything, and I stored them how they told me to.

    I can't get an IUD because my uterus is too small and is tilted. Trust me, they tried. I don't even think I would want that anyway til after I have a baby anyway so its ok.

    I stick to lambskin condoms with monogamous partners because I don't have much of a choice. I too have issues with latex. But I use latex with partners when they're new because I have no other option really. I just can't use them too often or my vagina gets angry.

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    Default Re: Birth Control Pills Being Recalled

    I haven't been on a BC pill for a few months now due to it contributing to high blood pressure (in me), and extreme highs and lows in mood...I've been on several different brands. Honestly, I don't know if I plan on getting back on them...

    Does anyone here use sponges as a contraceptive (sorry to thread jack)?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mediocrity View Post
    It doesn't cause abortion, it prevents implantation which is an entirely different process. Like Plan B- all it consists of is a massive dose of BC. If you're already pregnant, it won't work... because it prevents implantation of a fertilized egg.
    So it doesn't implant a fertilized egg? That's different. I was always under the impression it prevented fertilized eggs but someone told me I was wrong.

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