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Marvelon - pill
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The doctor has put me on Marvelon, it's a brand of pill. Just wondering if any of you people use it, or what you've heard about it.
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From a random website - Marvelon® is a low dose Pill. Each of the 21 tablets active contains small amount of hormones. There are 30 microgram of an estrogen - called ethinyl estradiol - and 150 microgram of a progestogen - called desogestrel. These hormones mimic the natural sex hormones from your own ovaries. (They are made from a special type of yam-plant that grows in Mexico).
(http://www.inhousepharmacy.co.uk/bcp-hormones/marvelon.html)
Looks ok to me.
what sort of side effects you talking about exactly?... ie bigger boobs and lower sex drive?
It's not relatively new. It was one of the first pills of its kind available in the USA. Possibly it's newish to Britain though.
Be nice of you if you could. Im still interested. Reading through the leaflet is kinda confusing. Doc suggested i try that one cos i can get acne...