OBGYN - Family Planning
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**Systemic disease: lupus, chronic hypertension, liver disease, hypercholesterolemia, migraine headaches ''with auras''. | **Systemic disease: lupus, chronic hypertension, liver disease, hypercholesterolemia, migraine headaches ''with auras''. | ||
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- | + | **Pubarche occured in the upper teens | |
- | + | **Breastfed 3-4 yrs caused amennorhea which is an excellent, natural birth control | |
- | + | **Only 50% reached the teens (reproductive age) | |
- | + | ***Disease | |
- | + | ***Starvation | |
+ | *Now: | ||
+ | **7 Billion and counting | ||
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- | + | *Adolescent Pregnancy: | |
- | + | **Pregnancy rate is decreasing | |
+ | **Birth rate is decreasing | ||
+ | **Abortion rate is decreasing | ||
+ | **Adolescent pregnancy in general is decreasing. | ||
+ | **Trends are across white, Hispanic, and African American races | ||
+ | **US still has very high teen pregnancy rate compared to other countries | ||
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- | + | *''Incidence'' of unintended pregnancy is similar with and without contraception but the ''risk'' is much higher for those without. | |
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+ | *Cost of unintended pregnancy: | ||
+ | **birth, abortions, fetal loss. | ||
+ | **5 billion dollars. | ||
+ | ==Contraception Counseling== | ||
+ | *Should be part of any exam! | ||
+ | *Process / questions: | ||
+ | **How important is it to you to avoid pregnancy now? | ||
+ | **What would you do if you became pregnant now? | ||
+ | **What is your desired family size? | ||
+ | **What is your intended timing for pregnancy? | ||
+ | **Are there health issues that you need to address before you become pregnant? | ||
+ | *Lactation is effective for 6 months. | ||
+ | **Must be exclusively breast feeding. | ||
- | + | *5-year cost of contraceptive methods | |
- | + | **Includes cost of unintended pregnancy. | |
+ | **Cheapest -> expensive | ||
+ | ***Copper IUD ($540) | ||
+ | ***Vasectomy | ||
+ | ***Injectable | ||
+ | ***OCP ($1784) | ||
+ | ***Condom ($2424) | ||
+ | ***Ligation | ||
+ | ***Withdrawal | ||
+ | ***Periodic abstinence ($3450) | ||
+ | ***Female condom | ||
+ | ***Sponge | ||
+ | ***Cervical cap ($5730) | ||
+ | ***None ($14663) | ||
- | + | ==Types== | |
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- | + | ===Barrier methods=== | |
- | + | *Keeps spermatozoa from meeting egg | |
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+ | *Chemical (foams, spermicides) | ||
+ | **Can come in sponges, films, or creams | ||
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+ | *Physical (condoms) | ||
+ | **Oldest were sheep skin | ||
+ | **Female is expensive | ||
+ | **Getting better at having adolescent males use them. | ||
+ | **They protect from STDs! | ||
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- | + | *Diaphragm | |
- | + | **Made by one company | |
- | + | **Requires office visit for fitting | |
- | + | **Catches sperm | |
- | + | **Fits behind pubic symphisis and behind the cervix | |
- | + | **Pressure on ureter increases risk for UTI. | |
- | + | **Can use diaphragm to to catch blood of menses, too. | |
- | + | ***As long as no hx of toxic shock syndrome | |
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- | + | ===Hormonal methods=== | |
+ | *The pill | ||
+ | **OCP = oral contraceptive pills | ||
+ | **Pill, patch, ring | ||
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+ | *Injection | ||
+ | **Every 3 months | ||
+ | **Slightly more effective | ||
+ | **Weight gain common, irregular bleeding | ||
+ | ***Results in cessation | ||
+ | **Cessation results in decreased effectiveness. | ||
+ | **Can be used to treat heavy bleeding too. | ||
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- | + | *Implant | |
- | + | **Norplant had silicon and lawsuits caused it to be taken off the market. | |
- | + | **Implanon = Nexplanon | |
- | + | ***A source of estrogen (etonogestrel) | |
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- | + | ====Mechanism of Hormonal contraceptions==== | |
- | + | *Ovulation is presented by providing feedback with progesterone to decrease LH surge. | |
- | + | *Progesterone: | |
- | + | **Inhibits LH surge such that ovulation is decreased. | |
- | + | **Makes cervical mucus thick to inhibit sperm motility | |
- | + | **Smooth muscle relaxant to decrease transport of sperm in the fallopian tube (which has SM and cilia helping to move the sperm toward the egg) | |
- | + | **Decreases glycogen stores in the endometrium such that ovum is less likely to survive / implant | |
- | + | *Estrogen: | |
- | + | **decreases FSH such that there is little follicle development | |
- | + | **increases progesterone receptors so as to potentiate the effect of the progesterone | |
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+ | *Bonus benefits | ||
+ | **Decreased ectopic preg | ||
+ | **Regulates menses | ||
+ | ***Good tx for irregular menses | ||
+ | **Decrease PID / salpingitis risk | ||
+ | ***Good tx with gonorrhea and chlamydia | ||
+ | **Less acne / hirsuitism | ||
+ | ***Because estrogen increases sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) at the liver | ||
+ | ***Binds testosterone and decreases androgenic effect | ||
+ | **Decreased androgen production, too | ||
+ | ***Because test is made in ovary and FSH is decreased | ||
+ | **Decreased benign breast disease | ||
+ | ***Recall however that benign breast fibrosis has no increased risk for cancer | ||
+ | **Decreased risk of endometiral cancer | ||
+ | ***50% risk | ||
+ | ***Last for 15 years! | ||
+ | **Decreased risk of ovarian cancer | ||
+ | ***30% | ||
+ | ***30 years of protection | ||
+ | ===IUD=== | ||
+ | *Very good compliance | ||
+ | *Good for long term use | ||
+ | *Two types in US | ||
+ | **LNG IUS | ||
+ | **Copper T (380 A) | ||
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+ | **Impairs sperm motility through uterus via copper. | ||
+ | **Impairs sperm motility via prosterone's increased thickness effect. | ||
+ | **Inflammatory environment reaction in the uterus makes hostile to sperm. | ||
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- | + | *Very low failure rate: 0.2-0.8% | |
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- | + | *Contraindications: | |
- | + | **Recent PID | |
- | + | **Suspicion of genital cancer | |
- | + | **Pelvic TB | |
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+ | ===Emergency Contraception Options=== | ||
+ | *EE and progestin | ||
+ | **Up to 72 hrs postcoital (3 days) | ||
+ | *'''Levonorgestrel''' | ||
+ | **Up to 72 hrs postcoital (3 days) | ||
+ | **Includes Plan B; purchased over the counter | ||
+ | *Ulipristal acetate (Ella) | ||
+ | **Up to 120 hrs postcoital (5 days) | ||
+ | **'''Requires Rx''' | ||
+ | *IUD | ||
+ | **Up to 120 hrs postcoital (5 days) | ||
+ | **Requires visit to MD. | ||
+ | *Indications: | ||
+ | **Intercourse within past 72-120 hours without contraceptive protection (independent of time in the menstrual cycle) | ||
+ | **Contraceptive mishap | ||
+ | **Barrier method dislodgment/breakage | ||
+ | **Expulsion of IUD | ||
+ | **Missed oral contraceptive pills | ||
+ | **Sexual assault | ||
+ | **Exposure to teratogens (eg, cytotoxic drug) | ||
+ | ***Retinae | ||
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+ | *Hormonal emergency contraception: | ||
+ | **Not new concept | ||
+ | **1920’s: Veterinarians used high doses of estrogen for dogs and horses | ||
+ | **1960’s: DES and other estrogens prescribed for human postcoital use | ||
+ | **1972 : “Yuzpe method” | ||
+ | ***100 mcg ethinyl estradiol (high dose birth control pill) | ||
+ | ***0.5 mg levonorgestrel | ||
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- | + | **No better and maybe less effective than just using progestin alone. | |
- | + | **High side effects (n/v) | |
+ | **Requries prescription. | ||
+ | ===Permanent Birth Control=== | ||
+ | *Vasectomy | ||
+ | **Office procedure | ||
+ | **Ligation | ||
+ | *Tubal ligation | ||
+ | **In-hospital | ||
+ | **Laproscopic or post-deliver with umbilical incision | ||
+ | *Hysteroscopic Tubal Sterilization | ||
+ | **Radiofrequency or silicon plug | ||
+ | **Can be done in the office | ||
+ | **Decreasing the cost of tubal ligation. | ||
+ | **Requires follow-up via radiology. | ||
- | + | ==Elective Abortions== | |
- | + | *'''Decrease in number and rate.''' | |
+ | *Decrease in abortion-related deaths. | ||
+ | *Maternal mortality is actually increasing though (independent of abortions). | ||
+ | *950% are done in the first trimester | ||
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+ | *Two major methods: | ||
+ | **Surgical: D&C | ||
+ | **Medication | ||
+ | ***15% of abortions | ||
+ | ***RU486 = Mithacristone (600mg) | ||
+ | ***Can use lower doses but give more vaginally (for fewer side effects) | ||
+ | ***Methotrexate can also be used, but worse | ||
+ | ==Questions== | ||
+ | *Slowest return to fertility: | ||
+ | **Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate | ||
- | + | *Contraindications to CHC (combined hormone contraceptive): | |
+ | **DVT! | ||
+ | **Not the smoker (until over 35yo), not the rheumatoid arthritic, not the well-controlled HTN (OK while controlled) | ||
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Current revision as of 00:25, 3 December 2011
Contents |
Contraception
Objectives
- Review basic statistics concerning population growth and pregnancy rates
- Review basic contraceptive options
- Review sterilization options
World population growth
- Population growth is logarithmic since around 1950.
- The world is growing at about 1.8% each year.
- Every minute, a woman dies of pregnancy / childbirth complications.
- 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries.
- 1 million children left motherless.
- Maternal mortality rates vary from 1/7 (Niger) to 1/17.4k (Sweden).
- Birth control is controversial for three reasons:
- Personal issues
- Religious issues
- Political issues
Counseling
- Counseling about contraception is important.
- 10% of women don't use birth control.
- 53% of unintended pregnancies result from these 10% of women (who aren't using birth control).
- Abortions are highest in those less than 15yo.
- Abortions decrease as the woman ages to 30-34.
- Abortions increase again from 35 and up.
- In 2002 there were 6.4 million pregnancies.
- 51% were intended
- 49% were unintended
- 22% were unintended births
- 20% were elective abortions
- 7% were fetal losses
- Of unintended pregnancies that proceed to live births,
- 1/4 are "unwanted"
- 3/4 are "mistimed"
- Of unintended pregnancies that proceed to live births, about 40% of women were using contraceptives at the time of conception.
Abortion rates
- The United States of America aborts 22.9 of each 1000 fetuses.
- Australia: 22.2 / 1000
Birth Controls
- There are two categories of birth control: contraception (prevent conception) and implant preventors.
- Contraceptions include:
- OCPs
- Norplant
- Depo-Provera
- Condoms
- Diaphragm
- Foam
- Rhythm
- IUDs
- Implant preventors include IUDs and morning after pills.
- The most commonly used birth control is tubal ligation making up nearly 50% of contraception use in "non-developed" countries.
Barrier methods
- Barrier methods include: spermacides, condoms, diaphragms / cervical caps, and sponges
- Spermacides
- The active ingredient of spermacides is nonoxynol 9 or actoxynol-3.
- Nonoxynol and actoxynol disrupt the spermatic cell membrane.
- The failure rate of spermacides is 15-35%.
- Patient compliance is generally high.
- The active ingredient of spermacides is nonoxynol 9 or actoxynol-3.
- Condoms
- Male condom failure rate is 5-8% (slippage / breakage) or 5-15%
- Female condom failure rate is 3% (slippage / breakage) or 5-15%
- Mechanism of action is to physically block sperm.
- Diaphragms
- Mechanism of action is to physically block sperm from gaining access to upper reproductive tract (uterus and fallopian tube.
- Diaphragms can also hold spermicide.
- Device must be inserted 1 hour before intercourse.
- Diaphragm must remain in place for 6-8 hours post-coitus.
- Failure rate is 10-25%
- Benefits include:
- Some protection agains STDs
- Effective immediately
- Does not affect breast feeding
- Does not interfere with intercourse (can be inserted up to 6 hours pre-coitus).
- No health risks.
- No systemic side effects.
- Contraindications include:
- Hx of toxic shock syndrome
- Allergy to rubber
- Allergy to spermicides
- Repeat UTIs
- Uterine prolapse
- Vaginal stenosis
- Genital anomalies
- Patient compliance is difficult
- The sponge
- Mechanism: contains spermicide
- Benefits: small, disposible, works for 24 hours (regardless of coitus count)
- Reintroduced to market in 2009.
- Failure rate: 26-40%
Hormonal contraceptives
- Hormonal contraceptives come as oral pills, as injectables, and as an intravaginal ring or a supradermal patch.
- Injectable contraceptives include:
**Combined injectible contraceptives (CICs)
- Depo-provera
- Norplant
- Implanon
Oral contraceptive pills
- Failure rate is <1%
- OCPs can be progesterone only or a combination of estrogen and progesterone (combined oral contraceptives; COCs).
- Oral contraceptive pills are taken 21 days with 7 days of placebo or no pill.
- Combined oral contraceptives come in three types depending on their phase:
- Monophasic: all 21 pills, all of which have some amount of estrogen / progesterone (E/P)
- Biphasic: 21 active pills, 2 different combinations of E/P
- Triphasic: 21 active pills, 3 different combinations of E/P
OCP mechanism of action
- Presence of progesterone decreases FSH and LH levels, including the LH surge.
- Without the LH surge, ovulation does not occur.
- Furthermore the endometrial lining is thinner which makes implantation less likely.
- The cervical lining is thickened which prevents spermatic penetration to the upper reproductive tract.
OCP Benefits
- Contraceptive benefits of OCP:
- Highly effective (failure rate <1%)
- Effective immediately if started by day 7 of menstrual cycle.
- Pelvic examination not required to initiate use.
- OCPs do not interfere with intercourse.
- Few side effects.
- Convenient and easy.
- Client can stop use at any time.
- Can be provided by trained medical staff.
- Non-contraceptive benefits of OCP:
- Decrease menstrual flow.
- Decrease menstrual cramps.
- Improve anemia (?).
- Protect against ovarian and endometrial cancer.
- Decrease bening breast disease and ovarian cysts.
- Prevent ectopic pregnancy.
- Protect against some causes of pelvic inflammatory disease.
OCP Effectiveness
- Perfect use is what is tested but then there is actual or typical use.
- OCP (combined versions) are 97% effective when taken perfectly.
- OCP (combined versions) are 92% effective upon actual use.
- 10 million women are taking OCP; therefore each 1% decrease in effectiveness yields 100k unintended pregnancies
- 8% decrease simply from perfect use to typical use.
OCP Contraindications
- Absolute contraindications include:
- History of vascular disease: pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, coronary vascular atherosclerosis
- Systemic disease: lupus, chronic hypertension, liver disease, hypercholesterolemia, migraine headaches with auras.
- Relative contraindications include:
- Tobacco use
- >35 yo
- Depression
- Seizures without auras
Injectables
- Mechanism of action:
- Suppress ovulation
- Thicken cervical mucosa
- Thin endometrium
- Types of injectable birth controls include:
- CICs (like OCPs)
- Depo-Provera
- Norplant
- Implantation
- Failure rate for injectables:
- CICs: 0.1-1%
- Depo-Provera: 0.1-0.6%
- Norplant / Implanton: 0.2-0.6%
- Injectable limitations
- Side effects include: nausea, dizziness, breast tenderness, headaches, spotting, light bleeding
- Effectiveness lowered in combination with other drugs
- Can delay return to fertility
- Serious side effects are possible
- Do not protect against STDs
- Change the menstrual bleeding pattern
- User-dependent; that is, the client must return every 30 days.
- Injectable benefits:
- Highly effective
- Effective immediately
- Pelvic examination not required before use (as with OCPs)
- Do not interfere with intercourse
- "Few side effects" (though more than OCPs)
- Can be provided by trained medical staff
- No supplies needed by the client
Contraceptive Ring
- NuvaRing
- 2 inches in diameter
- 120mg etonogestrel, 15mg ethinyl estradiol
- As effective as OCP
- One ring / cycle
- 3 weeks in the vagina, 1 week without
- Not a barrier!
Contraceptive patch
- Ortho Evra
- 150 mg norelgestromin, 20mg ethinyl estradiol
- As effective as OCPs
- Better compliance (90%) than OCPs (77%)
- Three patches / cycle, one each week for three weeks; 1 week without patch.
Intra-uterine Devices (IUD)
- Failure rate of 0.2-3%
- Mechanism of action can be contraceptive or abortive.
- Interferes with sperm ability to travel through uterine cavity.
- Thickens the cervical mucus.
- Intereferes with reproductive process before ova can reach the uterine cavity.
- Modifies the endometrial lining to decrease implantation.
- IUD advantages:
- Non-hormonal
- Failure rate of only 0.2-3%
- Effective immediately
- Long-term (up to 10 years)
- Does not interfere with intercourse
- Immediate return to fertility upon removal
- Does not affect breast feeding
- IUD contraindications
- Pregnancy (risk of ectopic pregnancy)
- Unexplained vaginal bleeding
- PID
- Purulent discharge
- Distorted uterine cavity
- Malignment trophoblast disease
- Pelvic TB
- Genital tract cancer
- GU tract infection
Sterilization
- Sterilization is the most common method of birth control among married couples.
- Sterilization is the most common method of birth control globally.
- Only 1% regret sterilization.
- Failure rate is 1-2% over 10 years
- 10% of couples choosing sterilization choose vasectomy
- Failure rate of vasectomy is 0.1%
Miscellaneous
- Laction is a good birth control, too.
- Lactation failure rate is 2% for the first 6th months.
- Mechanism of action is disruption of GnRH release because of frequent, intense suckling at the nipple.
- Disrupted GnRH means disrupted LH / FSH release which means no ovulation.
- Limitations
- Does not protect against STDs
- No longer effective once menses begin again
- Hard to maintain because of social aspects of breast feeding
- NFP / Rhythm birth control
- Requires that couples be highly motivated to maintain compliance.
- Failure rate is 1-45%.
- NFP can be monitored by several methods: calendar, basal body temperature (BBT), cervical mucus method (Billings), or symptothermal (BBT + Billings)
- Withdrawal method birth control
- One of the oldest methods.
- Failure rate is 20-25%
Emergency Contraception
- "Morning after" pill
- Debates over whether it is a contraceptive or an abortifacent
- IUD
- Abortifacent
Morning After Pill
- There are two medicinal methods for emergency birth control:
- The Yuzpe method is 2 tablets of 0.25 mg loveonogestrol at 0 and 12 hours.
- The Plan B method is 1 tablet of 0.75 mg levonorgestrel at 0 and 12 hours.
- Plan B has less n / v
- Plan B is more effective
Male alternatives
- Traditional methods
- Periodic Abstinence
- High contraceptive efficacy if rules followed perfectly
- Typical 1st year failure rate: 20%
- Limited Acceptability: low reliability, inflexibility
- Non-Vaginal Ejaculation
- Historically the major pre-industrial method of family planning
- Limited Reliability: requires skill and self-control
- Typical 1st year failure rate: 20%
- Vasectomy
- Relative Contraindications: bleeding disorders, allergy to anesthestics, scrotal pathology
- Excises a segment of vas deferens
- Failure Rate: 0.1% - wait as long as three months
- Periodic Abstinence
- Condom
- Modern methods
- Vas Occlusion
- "reversible vasectomy"
- Lower efficacy than true vasectomy
- Heating
- Principle: brief elevations of testicular temperature suppresses spermatogenesis
- Concept: tight scrotal support – remains to be clinically proven
- Immunocontraception
- Sperm Vaccination – men and women
- Chemical (non-hormonal)
- Target the rapidly proliferating germinal epithelium with drugs, heat, ionising radiation, thereby disrupting mitosis and/or meiosis
- Vas Occlusion
- Hormonal
- WHO Studies utilized weekly testosterone enanthate injections
- Provides both gonadotropin suppression and androgen replacement
- Contraceptive Failure Rate of about 8%
- Adverse Affects: cardiovascular & prostatic diseases, mood changes
- Other Studies looked at Androgen Combination regimens:
- Non-androgens (estrogen, progestins) to suppress gonadotropins with testosterone
- GnRH Blockades with testosterone add-back
- FSH Blockades
- WHO Studies utilized weekly testosterone enanthate injections
Family Planning
- Historically:
- Pubarche occured in the upper teens
- Breastfed 3-4 yrs caused amennorhea which is an excellent, natural birth control
- Only 50% reached the teens (reproductive age)
- Disease
- Starvation
- Now:
- 7 Billion and counting
- Adolescent Pregnancy:
- Pregnancy rate is decreasing
- Birth rate is decreasing
- Abortion rate is decreasing
- Adolescent pregnancy in general is decreasing.
- Trends are across white, Hispanic, and African American races
- US still has very high teen pregnancy rate compared to other countries
- Incidence of unintended pregnancy is similar with and without contraception but the risk is much higher for those without.
- Cost of unintended pregnancy:
- birth, abortions, fetal loss.
- 5 billion dollars.
Contraception Counseling
- Should be part of any exam!
- Process / questions:
- How important is it to you to avoid pregnancy now?
- What would you do if you became pregnant now?
- What is your desired family size?
- What is your intended timing for pregnancy?
- Are there health issues that you need to address before you become pregnant?
- Lactation is effective for 6 months.
- Must be exclusively breast feeding.
- 5-year cost of contraceptive methods
- Includes cost of unintended pregnancy.
- Cheapest -> expensive
- Copper IUD ($540)
- Vasectomy
- Injectable
- OCP ($1784)
- Condom ($2424)
- Ligation
- Withdrawal
- Periodic abstinence ($3450)
- Female condom
- Sponge
- Cervical cap ($5730)
- None ($14663)
Types
Barrier methods
- Keeps spermatozoa from meeting egg
- Chemical (foams, spermicides)
- Can come in sponges, films, or creams
- Physical (condoms)
- Oldest were sheep skin
- Female is expensive
- Getting better at having adolescent males use them.
- They protect from STDs!
- Diaphragm
- Made by one company
- Requires office visit for fitting
- Catches sperm
- Fits behind pubic symphisis and behind the cervix
- Pressure on ureter increases risk for UTI.
- Can use diaphragm to to catch blood of menses, too.
- As long as no hx of toxic shock syndrome
Hormonal methods
- The pill
- OCP = oral contraceptive pills
- Pill, patch, ring
- Injection
- Every 3 months
- Slightly more effective
- Weight gain common, irregular bleeding
- Results in cessation
- Cessation results in decreased effectiveness.
- Can be used to treat heavy bleeding too.
- Implant
- Norplant had silicon and lawsuits caused it to be taken off the market.
- Implanon = Nexplanon
- A source of estrogen (etonogestrel)
Mechanism of Hormonal contraceptions
- Ovulation is presented by providing feedback with progesterone to decrease LH surge.
- Progesterone:
- Inhibits LH surge such that ovulation is decreased.
- Makes cervical mucus thick to inhibit sperm motility
- Smooth muscle relaxant to decrease transport of sperm in the fallopian tube (which has SM and cilia helping to move the sperm toward the egg)
- Decreases glycogen stores in the endometrium such that ovum is less likely to survive / implant
- Estrogen:
- decreases FSH such that there is little follicle development
- increases progesterone receptors so as to potentiate the effect of the progesterone
- Bonus benefits
- Decreased ectopic preg
- Regulates menses
- Good tx for irregular menses
- Decrease PID / salpingitis risk
- Good tx with gonorrhea and chlamydia
- Less acne / hirsuitism
- Because estrogen increases sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) at the liver
- Binds testosterone and decreases androgenic effect
- Decreased androgen production, too
- Because test is made in ovary and FSH is decreased
- Decreased benign breast disease
- Recall however that benign breast fibrosis has no increased risk for cancer
- Decreased risk of endometiral cancer
- 50% risk
- Last for 15 years!
- Decreased risk of ovarian cancer
- 30%
- 30 years of protection
IUD
- Very good compliance
- Good for long term use
- Two types in US
- LNG IUS
- Copper T (380 A)
- Mechanism of action
- Impairs sperm motility through uterus via copper.
- Impairs sperm motility via prosterone's increased thickness effect.
- Inflammatory environment reaction in the uterus makes hostile to sperm.
- Very low failure rate: 0.2-0.8%
- Contraindications:
- Recent PID
- Suspicion of genital cancer
- Pelvic TB
Emergency Contraception Options
- EE and progestin
- Up to 72 hrs postcoital (3 days)
- Levonorgestrel
- Up to 72 hrs postcoital (3 days)
- Includes Plan B; purchased over the counter
- Ulipristal acetate (Ella)
- Up to 120 hrs postcoital (5 days)
- Requires Rx
- IUD
- Up to 120 hrs postcoital (5 days)
- Requires visit to MD.
- Indications:
- Intercourse within past 72-120 hours without contraceptive protection (independent of time in the menstrual cycle)
- Contraceptive mishap
- Barrier method dislodgment/breakage
- Expulsion of IUD
- Missed oral contraceptive pills
- Sexual assault
- Exposure to teratogens (eg, cytotoxic drug)
- Retinae
- Hormonal emergency contraception:
- Not new concept
- 1920’s: Veterinarians used high doses of estrogen for dogs and horses
- 1960’s: DES and other estrogens prescribed for human postcoital use
- 1972 : “Yuzpe method”
- 100 mcg ethinyl estradiol (high dose birth control pill)
- 0.5 mg levonorgestrel
- Yuzpe method:
- No better and maybe less effective than just using progestin alone.
- High side effects (n/v)
- Requries prescription.
Permanent Birth Control
- Vasectomy
- Office procedure
- Ligation
- Tubal ligation
- In-hospital
- Laproscopic or post-deliver with umbilical incision
- Hysteroscopic Tubal Sterilization
- Radiofrequency or silicon plug
- Can be done in the office
- Decreasing the cost of tubal ligation.
- Requires follow-up via radiology.
Elective Abortions
- Decrease in number and rate.
- Decrease in abortion-related deaths.
- Maternal mortality is actually increasing though (independent of abortions).
- 950% are done in the first trimester
- Two major methods:
- Surgical: D&C
- Medication
- 15% of abortions
- RU486 = Mithacristone (600mg)
- Can use lower doses but give more vaginally (for fewer side effects)
- Methotrexate can also be used, but worse
Questions
- Slowest return to fertility:
- Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate
- Contraindications to CHC (combined hormone contraceptive):
- DVT!
- Not the smoker (until over 35yo), not the rheumatoid arthritic, not the well-controlled HTN (OK while controlled)
- Contraindication to IUD:
- ?