Birth Control Pills
Jun 28th 2009, 12:00 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
Implanon is indeed great. But you are wrong about nurse prescribing - a specialist nurse in an appropriate clinic setting is likely to see many times more patients with a particular disease than a GP or junior doctor will, and so their knowledge of the disease and appropriate interventions is likely to make them make better prescribing decisions.
She's now had a very traumatic experience (termination) and is suing the doctor. However, obviously all contraceptives come with risk, nothing is failsafe.
Jun 28th 2009, 12:49 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
Hmmmm. You don't need an X-ray to check an Implanon is in place - you can feel it.
Jun 28th 2009, 12:53 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
An 18 year old I know chose Implanon. Only she recently found out she was 12 weeks pregnant and when they x-rayed to check the Implanon was in place they found there was no Implanon in there at all She's now had a very traumatic experience (termination) and is suing the doctor.
However, obviously all contraceptives come with risk, nothing is failsafe.
She's now had a very traumatic experience (termination) and is suing the doctor. However, obviously all contraceptives come with risk, nothing is failsafe.
Jun 28th 2009, 1:27 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
Well i wasn't that lucky as i found breast feeding difficult & only managed to do it for few weeks but that's hardly the point, the point is i was given the mini- pill to use as a contraceptive while i was breastfeeding!
Jun 28th 2009, 5:47 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
Implanon is indeed great. But you are wrong about nurse prescribing - a specialist nurse in an appropriate clinic setting is likely to see many times more patients with a particular disease than a GP or junior doctor will, and so their knowledge of the disease and appropriate interventions is likely to make them make better prescribing decisions.
Jun 28th 2009, 5:50 pm
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Jun 28th 2009, 5:58 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
An 18 year old I know chose Implanon. Only she recently found out she was 12 weeks pregnant and when they x-rayed to check the Implanon was in place they found there was no Implanon in there at all She's now had a very traumatic experience (termination) and is suing the doctor.
However, obviously all contraceptives come with risk, nothing is failsafe.
She's now had a very traumatic experience (termination) and is suing the doctor. However, obviously all contraceptives come with risk, nothing is failsafe.
There are two reasons for "implanon failure". The device never being fitted, and the patient already being pregnant or not using additional contraception for the first few days if it wasn't fitted on days 1 - 5 of the cycle.
So, this wasn't a true contraception failure. The person inserting the device failed to fit it correctly. There is a standard process, at the end of which the dr/nurse feels that the device is in the skin, and then offer (almost forces!) that the patient to feel the device, so that they both know that it's there.
I suspect that all patients who received the implanon by the same person will need to be reviewed.
Jun 28th 2009, 6:28 pm
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Jun 28th 2009, 6:33 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
O my! Poor girl! That is definitely a medico-legal issue. (If she were truely anti-abortion, she could have sought full costs to raise the child til it became 18!!)
There are two reasons for "implanon failure". The device never being fitted, and the patient already being pregnant or not using additional contraception for the first few days if it wasn't fitted on days 1 - 5 of the cycle.
So, this wasn't a true contraception failure. The person inserting the device failed to fit it correctly. There is a standard process, at the end of which the dr/nurse feels that the device is in the skin, and then offer (almost forces!) that the patient to feel the device, so that they both know that it's there.
I suspect that all patients who received the implanon by the same person will need to be reviewed.
There are two reasons for "implanon failure". The device never being fitted, and the patient already being pregnant or not using additional contraception for the first few days if it wasn't fitted on days 1 - 5 of the cycle.
So, this wasn't a true contraception failure. The person inserting the device failed to fit it correctly. There is a standard process, at the end of which the dr/nurse feels that the device is in the skin, and then offer (almost forces!) that the patient to feel the device, so that they both know that it's there.
I suspect that all patients who received the implanon by the same person will need to be reviewed.
Jun 28th 2009, 6:34 pm
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Jun 28th 2009, 6:35 pm
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Jun 28th 2009, 6:40 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
Congrats on finishing the exams....hope it all went well!!
I'm slowly recovering from my passport traumas, but missing seeing Tracy in the Post Office every single f****** day!!
it arrives soon!
Jun 28th 2009, 6:43 pm
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Re: Birth Control Pills
Sounds like a complete nightmare. Hope you gave Tracy a bit of sweet talk, can work wonders in getting these things sped up
