Talk:Seasonale

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Apparently this can be done with any modern birth control pill - it's really just a matter of packaging the pills in 3 month lots rather than 3 week lots.

This depends on the pill in question. Some of them contain the same dose of each hormone on each day, and others do not -- as I recall from my physio class, it is only the first-generation pills that were identical every day. They are not sold any more because of problems with breakthrough bleeding. For that matter, it is also not clear that maintaining identical daily hormone levels for three months would be all right, even if it were OK over 28 days.

If anyone knows more about it than that, please add. My knowledge is sufficient to detect and remove error, but not quite adequate to replace it.

Apart from that, if this sort of assertion does end up in the article, we probably ought to flag it with the template that says, "Wikipedia is not authoritative. If you need medical advice, go see a doctor." Anybody know which one that is? I found the actual Wikipedia:Medical_disclaimer, but that's a link, not an include. eritain 18:02, 20 September 2005 (UTC)