There are various methods to prevent unwanted pregnancy. The use of tablet medications allows for long-term contraceptive protection and family planning. One of these drugs is the Minisiston remedy, the instruction for use of which recommends taking tablets also to restore the menstrual cycle.
general characteristics
This medicine refers to monophasic, oral contraceptives with a combined structure, which includes one estrogen and a progestogen. Produced by the German company "Zhenafarma."
Mandatory instructions for use are included in the kit for the drug "Minisiston". The description of the product characterizes it as a tablet in the form of a coated pink coated tablet. The medicine is packaged in 21 pieces in blister plates. A pack can be 21 or 63 tablets.
Structure
Being a two-component agent, it contains 0.02 mg of ethinyl estradiol and 0.1 mg of levonorgestrel hormone in its structure.
Very seriously, you need to take the medicine "Minisiston 20 fem." Instructions for use describe the composition of the tablets, which are formed by inactive ingredients in the form of milk sugar, corn starch in the usual and modified pregelatinized form, povidone type 2500, magnesium stearate.
The shell coating includes sucrose, povidone molecules of 700 thousand, macrohead 6 thousand, calcium carbonate, talc, glycerol, titanium dioxide, yellow and red tint iron oxides, glycol form of mountain wax.
Such a structure have tablets "Minisiston." Instructions for use analogue "Microginon" characterizes as a tool containing the same active ingredients only in large quantities. One dose contains 0.03 mg of ethinyl estradiol and 0.15 mg of levonorgestrel hormone. This drug is manufactured by Bayer Pharma AG.
The same quantitative composition of the active ingredients is the Hungarian medicine "Rigevidon", produced by JSC "Gedeon Richter".
How does the drug "Minisiston"
The instruction for use relates it to combined contraceptive drugs. The activity of the drug is due to the interaction of different conditions associated with inhibition of the release of the egg from the ovarian follicle in the direction of the fallopian tube and a change in the fluidity of the mucous secretions of the cervical.
In addition to the contraceptive role, tablets positively affect the menstrual cycle, which becomes regular, reduce the pain of the menstruation process and the strength of the discharge. The latter feature reduces the development of anemic conditions with iron deficiency.
Why take
The medicine "Minisiston" instructions for use are advised to use for protection against unplanned pregnancy.
Monophasic drugs are taken for hormone-dependent functional malfunctions of menstrual cycles. These include dysmenorrheal pain, prolonged and profuse uterine bleeding on critical days for more than seven days, the presence of premenstrual syndrome.
Dosage
On each pack, the manufacturer indicates the order of reception of this tool. For the drug "Minisiston", instructions for using the dose establish the same for contraceptive measures. Usually this is one tablet per day, which is drunk at the prescribed time, washed down with a small amount of water.
The duration of oral administration is three weeks, during which time the entire pack of medication is consumed. Then take a 7-day break for bleeding when canceled in the form of menstrual-like discharge. This process occurs on the second or third day after consuming the twenty-first tablet and can continue with the introduction of drugs from a new pack.
How to use
If there was no reception of hormone-type drugs in the past, then the appointment of the medication “Minisiston”, the instructions for use allow from the 1st day of menstrual cycles with the appearance of blood discharge. You can start taking from 2 to 5 days, then you should use the barrier method of protection for 7 days of drug administration from the first pack.
If the transition from a mixed oral contraceptive medication to the drug "Minisiston" is carried out, then use starts from the next day of using the last tablet of the last remedy. Do not use it later than the next day, following a week-long break of the medicine with 21 tablets, or the introduction of the 28th inactive pill from the package of the drug with 28 tablets.
If you switch from single drugs with one gestagen in the form of a mini-pill, injection forms and implants, then the medication for use allows you to use the medicine without taking a break.
When they are canceled, the new medicine is administered any day without a pass. If you used injectable forms of contraception, then the drug "Minisiston" is taken instead of the next injection. When they switch from implants, the tablet is administered when the old protective equipment is removed.
All of the above cases require the use of additional barrier methods of protection during the first week of the use of combined tablets.
Untimely introduction
There are days when a woman forgot to drink the right dose of Minisiston. Instructions for use contain information on the need for the speediest adoption of dragees. A subsequent tablet is administered at the prescribed time.
In the case of a short delay in using the product, which is less than half a day, the effectiveness of the protection does not decrease.
If the medicine is skipped for more than 12 hours, the safety of protection is reduced. It must be borne in mind that the use of the drug should not be interrupted for more than one week. Only a 7-day continuous intake of tablets adequately suppresses the function of the hypothalamus, pituitary and ovaries.
If you miss more than half an hour in the initial week of using the medication, the administration of the forgotten dose is immediate, it is allowed to use two tablets at once. The next dosage is drunk at the set hours. For reliability, they are secured by barrier methods of protection for one week. In the presence of sexual intercourse when skipping a pill, fertilization is possible.
If the medication was correct for the 7 days that preceded the first forgotten pill, then additional contraceptive measures may not be used. If the rules are not followed, when two or more tablets were missed, there is a need for barrier methods of protection for a whole week.
With a gap of more than half a day, the reliability of the drug decreases due to future interruption in the third week of drug use. If in the last 7 days from a forgotten dose, the tablets were administered according to the rules, then you can not use additional protection.
There are two options for further administration of the drug. In the first case, the last missed dose is taken immediately, two tablets are allowed at once. The following dosages are taken at the set time intervals of the following days until the end of the pack. New packaging begins without interruption. There is a low probability of menstruation before the completion of the second pack, however, spotting and breakthrough bleeding may occur when taking the medication.
In the second case, the administration of unfinished blister tablets is interrupted. Then a 7-day pass is made, including the day when they forgot to drink the medicine, after which they start a new pack. If there is no blood flow during the break, then you need to check for pregnancy.
The absorption process of the drug may be impaired by vomiting, which began 4 hours after the administration of the tablet. In this case, additional protection and adjustment of the use of the product are needed. You can also take another pill from a new pack.
Appointment after childbirth and abortion
The instructions and method of use for women who have had an abortion in the first months are special for the Minisiston medication. For such patients, the doctor prescribes the immediate administration of the drug, which excludes other methods of protection.
If there was a birth or abortion at 4-6 months, then the use of tablets is possible in the interval from 21 to 28 days. At a later start, additional barrier protection is needed during the week of drug administration.
Delayed menstruation
For these purposes, the drug "Minisiston 20" is suitable, which is taken without a break in two packages. When using the second, then processes in the form of spotting spotting of vaginal or breakthrough uterine bleeding can be observed. After eating two packs, a weekly interruption is made, followed by further regular administration of the drug.
To whom it is contraindicated
Not everyone can be protected with the medicine "Minisiston 20". The instructions for use prohibit taking the drug for diabetes, for risk and for existing arterial and vein thrombosis, cerebrovascular changes, myocardial muscle infarction, blood flow ischemia in the brain, and angina pectoris.
Contraindications are complex liver diseases, vaginal flow of blood, a tumor of the mammary gland and other reproductive organs, excessive sensitivity to the medication.
Adverse reactions
Has a side effect "Minisiston 20 fem." Instructions for use include information about side effects that may occur during treatment.
Tablets can cause nausea, vomiting, changes in vaginal discharge, tension and pain in the mammary gland, their swelling or secretion of fluid.
Under the influence of the drug, the patient’s weight changes, there is no sex drive, mood worsens, headache, migraine attacks appear. The drug is able to retain fluid in the tissues, cause allergies and increased pigmentation of the skin.
Use when carrying a child and breastfeeding
The drug "Minisiston" instructions for use does not recommend pregnant women. If this condition is detected, the administration of the medication should be refused.
Mixed oral remedies reduce the production of milk, change its components, which requires the withdrawal of the drug.
Treatment features
Before you start using the tablets "Minisiston", instructions for use, reviews of doctors should be studied. Doctors say that initially it is necessary to conduct a general medical examination, check the chest, make a cytology of cervical secretions. You need to be sure that there is no pregnancy. Long-term use of the product requires an annual verification check.
The medicine "Minisiston" is not able to protect a woman from becoming infected with AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.
It is necessary to take the medicine "Minisiston" by the hour. Instructions for use reviews are different. Many women say that it provides detailed information about the drug.
There are also side effects after taking the medication, such as the development of thrombosis, as well as the occurrence of thromboembolic complications caused by this drug. If on the one hand there is pain or swelling in the leg, sudden strong pain in the chest area and head, sudden shortness of breath and an attack of cough-like, rapid loss of visual effect, speech disorders, weakness, motor impairment, you should immediately seek medical help.
There is evidence that shows that the occurrence of thrombotic manifestations in a vein or artery increases with each passing year. Smoking patients, women with hereditary prerequisites, overweight, high blood pressure, heart disease are considered more susceptible to these ailments, so only a doctor can assess the risk and benefit of this medication.