WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for October, 2001: Re: starting the pill

Re: starting the pill

From: ams (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 27 Oct 2001 08:17:15 -0500 (CDT)

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Dee, The Pill comes with an instruction sheet that tells you what to do, but any time you have a question about WHY you are prescribed a medication, you really should ask your doctor (even if you have to call back the next day or days later). You should know for sure why you are taking something! The pharmacy will be able to help you with where to start in the pack also (I don't know what that one looks like). Usually pills have either a strip you can stick on yourself with the days of the week or they have the days printed on it. You start with the first one in the pack, but I can't speak to that one cause I have not seen it before.

At Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Dee wrote: >
>My GYN just put me on Estrostep for PC bleeding and mid cycle spotting
>some months. I'm 43 and had normal Pap, exam, and US so he thought he
>wanted to try this to see if it stops it.
>
>My questions are I assume this pill has estrogen but how does he know
>that estrogen is the problem and not progesterone? I have fibroids and
>fib. breasts and other perimenpausal symptoms that from what I have
>read are all estrogen related especially the bleeeding problems. So
>shouldn't I be taking a pill with estrogen?
>
>Also he said tho take the pill the first day of my period. Where do I
>start, I've never taken the pill before. The pack starts at Sun so do I
>start from whatever day I start and what about the brown pills?
>
>--
>Dee
>

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