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September 1st 2010

Whoops! Birth Control You Can Use After Sex

- Provider Perspective

There are lots of reasons the best laid plans for using birth control don’t work out:

I completely forgot to take my pill (!)…
I just didn’t have enough money to pay for the ring this month…
The condom broke….
We’d had some drinks and got carried away…

Something like this happens to most of us at some point. If you’ve had unprotected sex for any reason, you can still prevent pregnancy by using emergency contraception (EC). Some types of EC are also called ‘the morning after pill’, and all EC prevents pregnancy after sex.

August 17th 2010

Getting Birth Control Over-the-Counter

- Bedsider

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August 16th 2010

Getting Prescription Birth Control

- Bedsider

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June 11th 2010

Elephants, Birth Control, and Baboons: Things I Learned in South Africa

- Stefanie

I’m back! Let the crazy stories re-commence.

I was sitting in a lecture listening to some professor wax poetic about elephants. No joke. The rest of the class was taking copious notes. I was just short of drawing horses in my note book. I’m not the best graduate student.

So the professor is yammering on about elephants when he says, “Some wish to control the elephant population with birth control. Elephants can destroy the vegetation in an area if the population is not in check.” He now had my full attention.

I turned to Miss Happy Face and said “How do they get the elephants to take the birth control?”

May 28th 2010

Secret Birth Control: Know Your Privacy Settings

- Provider Perspective

Modern birth control methods have done wonders to give women control of their lives. You might be like me--one of contraception’s biggest fans, shouting its praises from the rooftops.

But sometimes, you just want to keep your birth control on the down low. You could be worried about your little brother finding your pills and flushing them one-by-one down the toilet. Or maybe your younger sister thinks your NuvaRing is a jelly bracelet. Sometimes privacy around use of birth control is no laughing matter. Controlling parents or partners who find out about your birth control may get angry. If you need to keep your birth control method private for any reason, check out these options.

April 30th 2010

The Contraception Learning Curve

- Provider Perspective

Not everybody’s doing it: about half of U.S. women younger than 20 are sexually active. But among women who are having sex, younger women are more likely to experience an unintended pregnancy. What’s the deal?

First let’s look at the numbers. A new report shows that, compared to older women, sexually active women aged 15-19 are more than twice as likely to have an unintended pregnancy.

March 15th 2010

The IUD, As Seen on TV!

- Sex and Media Team

Alicia Florrick is so much more than The Good Wife (Tuesdays, 10p, on CBS). She’s a good mom, a good lawyer, a good dresser, smart, calm, and cool. She was hit broadside by allegations (and admissions) that her husband was sleeping with prostitutes and taking bribes in his post as state’s attorney and she’s picking up the pieces of her life, her family and her career.

February 26th 2010

Womb Service — Is It Really Okay to Skip Periods?

- Provider Perspective

A number of birth control methods hold the promise of lighter periods, fewer periods, or none at all, namely the Mirena intrauterine device, the Depo Provera shot, the single-rod implant Implanon, or continuous use of the pill or NuvaRing. To some of us, the idea of effective contraception and no periods sounds like menstrual nirvana. But for others there is a niggling worry: is it really okay to skip periods?

January 29th 2010

ParaGard Dukes It Out With Mirena

- Provider Perspective

At the end of each month, SexReally will feature a post discussing contraception, sex, and related topics from the perspective of a healthcare provider. The posts will be written by several different medical professionals, so scroll down to read the bio of this month’s author!

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Here’s a secret you may not know about doctors: female doctors use IUDs 2-5 times more often than women who aren’t doctors. Maybe it’s because doctors know the intrauterine device (IUD) is safe, low-maintenance, and super-effective.