How much does birth control cost?

By Dr. Mary Holland
Updated 2021-02-17 18:14:21 | Published 2018-12-29 18:14:16
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Birth control cost

It is difficult to say how barbaric modern contraceptive methods our descendants will find, because the most progressive and safe contraceptives used two centuries ago today considered as an instrument of torture. It is known, for example, that in the Middle Ages women wore iron caps on the cervix, lubricated it with a solution of mercury and lead, and inserted into it vaginal pessary made of steel wire and caused infection and bedsores of the reproductive organs. At different times and in different countries, contraceptives were banned by the authorities or by the church, therefore devices such as a vaginal syringe or vaginal douche, which were used to cleanse the internal female organs, periodically appeared on sale.

Current contraceptives promote the principle of safety and ensured protection against unwanted pregnancy. Official contraceptive drugs of three types are justified and approved by official medicine: physiological, barrier, and medication.

  • Barrier. This birth control method is aimed at prevention of sperm from entering the uterus. The most famous barrier contraceptive is a condom (both male and female). Other barrier contraception includes intrauterine devices, cervical caps, contraceptive sponges, and spermicidal agents. This is the most affordable and common method of protection not only against unwanted pregnancy but also against sexually transmitted infections.
  • Physiological. It is when the coition occurs on certain days of the female cycle, minimizing the risk of becoming pregnant. Another method of physiological control – the method interrupted coition. This method of protection against unwanted pregnancy, although free, has a number of side effects, one of which is the possibility to get pregnant.
  • Medication. These are pills, as well as vaginal rings and spirals, releasing hormones blocking the onset of ovulation. The cost of these pregnancy protection products varies from cheap to expensive. For example, some vaginal spirals cost $ 100 or more.

Assigning a woman a certain method of contraception, gynecologists often provide her with the opportunity to independently select the appropriate means from a number of similar ones. However, how to do this if the same drug has dozens of analogs similar in composition and action? When choosing a contraceptive it is necessary to take into account not only its cost, but the balance of the expected effect and the real, as well as the presence of additional benefits and side effects.

It has long been proven that the prolonged absence of pregnancy is impairing the health of a woman, triggering a hormonal failure, as well as mental and organ diseases associated with it. At the same time, unwanted pregnancy and abortion can cause a woman no less harm than the prolonged absence of pregnancy.

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