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The popular Ortho-Evra birth control patch now has a stronger warning on its label. Apparently users of the patch are exposed to 60% more hormones than pill-users. Even though the patch and the pill have about the same amount of hormones, the patch delivers it to your body via the bloodstream whereas the pill is swallowed and digested first, thereby diluting the hormones. Women using the patch have much higher levels of estrogen in their bodies.
Four months ago The Associated Press reported that users of the birth-control patch suffer blood clots and death at a rate 3 times higher than pill users. Referring to federal death and injury reports, the AP also reported that about a dozen young women, (late teens and early 20’s) died in 2004 from blood clots believed to be related to the birth control patch and many more survived strokes and other clot-related problems.
When making birth control decisions, women need to be informed that the patch is more dangerous than the pill, which is an older, better understood and equally effective form of birth control.
Any woman who used a hormone based birth control method should not smoke as smoking increases the risks of the possible dangers, especially over the age of 35.
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