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Microgynon thirty tablets

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Active ingredient

  • ethinylestradiol
  • levonorgestrel

Legal Category

POM: Prescription simply medicine


What is a Patient Information Leaflet and why is it useful?

The Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) is the leaflet included in the pack with a medicine. It is written for patients and gives data about taking or using a medicine. It is possible that the leaflet in your medicine pack may differ from this version because information technology may take been updated since your medicine was packaged.

Below is a text only representation of the Patient Data Leaflet. The original leaflet can be viewed using the link higher up.

The text but version may be bachelor in large print, Braille or audio CD. For farther information call emc accessibility on 0800 198 5000. The product lawmaking(s) for this leaflet is: PL00010/0545.


Due to regulatory changes, the content of the following Patient Information Leaflet may vary from the one constitute in your medicine pack. Please compare the 'Leaflet prepared/revised date' towards the end of the leaflet to institute if there have been any changes.

If yous have whatever doubts or queries about your medication, please contact your doctor or chemist.

Microgynon® thirty

Levonorgestrel

Ethinylestradiol

  • They are one of the most reliable reversible methods of contraception if used correctly.
  • They slightly increase the risk of having a blood clot in the veins and arteries, peculiarly in the start year or when restarting a combined hormonal contraceptive following a pause of 4 or more than weeks.
  • Please be warning and see your doctor if you recollect you may accept symptoms of a blood jell (run across section 2.three 'Claret clots').
  • The Pill may reduce your risk of cancer of the ovary and womb if used in the long term.
  • The Pill volition not protect you against sexually transmitted diseases.
  • This medicine can increase your risk of problems such as claret clots and breast cancer.
  • Some women should non take the Pill because of current medical problems or illnesses. Delight read this leaflet to brand sure Microgynon 30 is right for you.
  • To prevent pregnancy it is important to take Microgynon 30 as instructed and start each pack on time. Please make sure that y'all sympathize what to practice if you miss a pill or if y'all think you are pregnant.
  • Proceed this leaflet. You may need to read it over again.
  • If you have whatsoever questions or need more advice, ask your doctor, family planning nurse or pharmacist.
  • This medicine has been prescribed for you. Do non pass it on to others. It may harm them.
  • If any of the side effects gets astringent, or if you lot observe whatever not listed in this leaflet, please tell your physician, family planning nurse or pharmacist.

1 What Microgynon thirty does
two What you need to know before you employ Microgynon 30
3 Taking Microgynon xxx
3.3 A missed pill
iv Possible side effects
v How to store Microgynon 30
6 What is in Microgynon 30 and who makes information technology

Microgynon 30 is a combined oral contraceptive pill ('the Pill'). You take it to stop y'all getting pregnant.

This contraceptive contains two types of female person sex hormones, oestrogen and progestogen. These hormones cease you getting meaning by working in iii ways: past preventing an egg being released from your ovaries; by making the fluid (mucus) in your cervix thicker, which makes it more difficult for sperm to enter the womb; and past preventing the lining of your womb thickening enough for an egg to grow in it.

Microgynon xxx is a 21-day Pill – you take 1 each 24-hour interval for 21 days, followed by 7 days when yous take no pills.

The benefits of taking the Pill include:

  • information technology is ane of the well-nigh reliable reversible methods of contraception if used correctly
  • it doesn't interrupt sex
  • it normally makes your periods regular, lighter and less painful
  • information technology may assistance with pre-menstrual symptoms.

Microgynon 30 volition not protect you against sexually transmitted infections, such as Chlamydia or HIV. Simply condoms can assist to do this.

Microgynon xxx needs to be taken as directed to prevent pregnancy.

Earlier you lot offset using Microgynon 30 you lot should read the information on claret clots in section 2. Information technology is particularly important to read the symptoms of a blood clot – meet Section two.3 'Blood clots'.

Information technology's important that you understand the benefits and risks of taking the Pill before you start taking it, or when deciding whether to carry on taking it. Although the Pill is suitable for most salubrious women it isn't suitable for everyone.

  • Tell your dr. if you have whatever of the illnesses or risk factors mentioned in this leaflet.
  • Your medico will ask about y'all and your family's medical problems, cheque your blood pressure and exclude the likelihood of you lot beingness meaning. You may too need other checks, such every bit a chest test, only only if these examinations are necessary for yous, or if you have any special concerns.
  • You will need regular check-ups with your doctor or family planning nurse, unremarkably when you need another prescription of the Pill.
  • You should go for regular cervical smear tests.
  • Check your breasts and nipples every month for changes – tell your medico if you tin see or experience anything odd, such as lumps or dimpling of the skin.
  • If you need a blood test tell your dr. that you are taking the Pill, considering the Pill tin can affect the results of some tests.
  • If you're going to take an performance, make sure your medico knows about it. You may demand to stop taking the Pill at least 4 weeks before the operation. This is to reduce the hazard of a blood clot (run into section ii.iii). Your doctor volition tell you when yous can start taking the Pill again.

You should not use Microgynon thirty if you have any of the conditions listed below. If you do have any of the weather condition listed below, y'all must tell your doctor. Your doctor will discuss with you what other grade of birth control would be more appropriate.

Do non use Microgynon xxx:

  • If you have (or have ever had) a blood clot in a blood vessel of your legs (deep vein thrombosis, DVT), your lungs (pulmonary embolus, PE) or other organs
  • If yous know you lot have a disorder affecting your blood clotting – for case, protein C deficiency, protein S deficiency, antithrombin-Iii deficiency, Factor 5 Leiden or antiphospholipid antibodies
  • If you need an operation or if you are off your feet for a long fourth dimension (see section 'Blood clots')
  • If you accept ever had a heart assault or stroke
  • If you lot have (or have e'er had) angina pectoris (a condition that causes astringent breast hurting and may be a first sign of a heart attack) or transient ischaemic attack (TIA – temporary stroke symptoms)
  • If you have any of the post-obit diseases that may increment your take chances of a jell in the arteries:
    • astringent diabetes with blood vessel damage
    • very high blood force per unit area
    • a very high level of fatty in the claret (cholesterol or triglycerides)
    • a condition known as hyperhomocysteinaemia
  • If you have (or accept ever had) a type of migraine chosen 'migraine with aura'
  • If you accept or have ever had breast cancer
  • If you have ever had a severe liver affliction, and you have been told by your doctor that your liver function test results are not yet back to normal
  • If you have ever had liver tumours
  • If y'all are allergic (hypersensitive) to any of the ingredients in Microgynon 30.

Do non use Microgynon 30 if you lot accept hepatitis C and are taking medicinal products containing ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir, dasabuvir, glecaprevir/pibrentasvir and sofosbuvir/velpatasvir/voxilaprevir (run across also in section "Taking other medicines").

  • Tell your md or family unit planning nurse if you have any medical problems or illnesses.

When should you contact your doctor?

Seek urgent medical attending

  • if you notice possible signs of a claret clot that may mean y'all are suffering from a claret clot in the leg (i.east. deep vein thrombosis), a blood jell in the lung (i.e. pulmonary embolism), a eye set on or a stroke (see 'Blood clots' department below).

For a clarification of the symptoms of these serious side furnishings please get to "How to recognise a blood clot".

Some of the weather listed below can be made worse by taking the Pill. Or they may mean it is less suitable for you. You may still exist able to have Microgynon xxx but you lot need to have special care and have check-ups more than often.

Tell your doctor if any of the following conditions apply to y'all.

If the status develops, or gets worse while you are using Microgynon 30, you lot should also tell your doctor.

  • If you experience symptoms of angioedema such as swollen face up, tongue and/or pharynx and/or difficulty swallowing or hives potentially with difficulty breathing contact a doctor immediately. Products containing oestrogens may cause or worsen the symptoms of hereditary and acquired angioedema.
  • If yous have Crohn'south disease or ulcerative colitis (chronic inflammatory bowel illness)
  • If you take systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE – a affliction affecting your natural defence system)
  • If you have haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS – a disorder of claret clotting causing failure of the kidneys)
  • If you have sickle cell anaemia (an inherited disease of the ruby-red claret cells)
  • If you accept inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis)
  • If you lot have elevated levels of fat in the claret (hypertriglyceridaemia) or a positive family history for this condition. Hypertriglyceridaemia has been associated with an increased risk of developing pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
  • If you need an operation, or you are off your feet for a long time (see in section 2 'Blood clots')
  • If yous have merely given nativity you are at an increased risk of blood clots. Yous should ask your doctor how before long after commitment you can offset taking Microgynon xxx
  • If y'all have an inflammation in the veins under the skin (superficial thrombophlebitis)
  • If yous have varicose veins
  • If you accept diabetes
  • If you or your close family unit have ever had problems with your centre, or circulation such as high blood pressure
  • If you or your close family have ever had problems with claret clotting
  • If you have the inherited illness called porphyria
  • If you are overweight (obese)
  • If you have migraines
  • If you accept whatever affliction that worsened during pregnancy or previous use of the Pill (see department 4.2)

Using a combined hormonal contraceptive such equally Microgynon 30 increases your risk of developing a blood clot compared with not using one. In rare cases a blood clot can block vessels and cause serious bug.

Blood clots tin develop:

  • in veins (referred to as a 'venous thrombosis', 'venous thromboembolism' or VTE);
  • in the arteries (referred to as an 'arterial thrombosis', 'arterial thromboembolism' or ATE).

Recovery from claret clots is not always consummate. Rarely, there may be serious lasting effects or, very rarely, they may be fatal.

It is important to remember that the overall risk of having a harmful blood clot due to Microgynon 30 is small.

HOW TO RECOGNISE A Blood CLOT

Seek urgent medical attention if y'all notice any of the post-obit signs or symptoms.

Are y'all experiencing any of these signs?

  • swelling of one leg or forth a vein in the leg or foot especially when accompanied by:
    • pain or tenderness in the leg which may be felt only when standing or walking
    • increased warmth in the afflicted leg
    • change in colour of the peel on the leg eastward.g. turning pale, blood-red or blue

What are you mayhap suffering from?

Deep vein thrombosis

Are you experiencing any of these signs?

  • sudden unexplained breathlessness or rapid animate
  • sudden cough without an obvious cause, which may bring upwards blood
  • abrupt chest pain which may increase with deep animate
  • severe light headedness or dizziness
  • rapid or irregular heartbeat
  • severe pain in your stomach

If you are unsure, talk to a dr. as some of these symptoms such as coughing or being brusque of breath may be mistaken for a milder condition such as a respiratory tract infection (e.g. a 'cold').

What are you lot perhaps suffering from?

Pulmonary embolism

Are you experiencing any of these signs?

Symptoms nearly commonly occur in 1 eye:

  • immediate loss of vision or
  • painless blurring of vision which tin can progress to loss of vision

What are you lot perchance suffering from?

Retinal vein thrombosis (blood jell in the eye)

Are y'all experiencing any of these signs?

  • chest pain, discomfort, pressure, heaviness
  • awareness of squeezing or fullness in the chest, arm or below the breastbone
  • fullness, indigestion or choking feeling
  • upper body discomfort radiating to the back, jaw, throat, arm and stomach
  • sweating, nausea, vomiting or dizziness
  • extreme weakness, feet, or shortness of breath
  • rapid or irregular heartbeats

What are y'all perchance suffering from?

Center attack

Are you lot experiencing any of these signs?

  • sudden weakness or numbness of the face, arm or leg, particularly on one side of the trunk
  • sudden confusion, problem speaking or agreement
  • sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
  • sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
  • sudden, astringent or prolonged headache with no known crusade
  • loss of consciousness or fainting with or without seizure

Sometimes the symptoms of stroke can be brief with an virtually firsthand and full recovery, but you should all the same seek urgent medical attention equally you may be at adventure of another stroke.

What are yous perhaps suffering from?

Stroke

Are you experiencing any of these signs?

  • swelling and slight blue discolouration of an extremity
  • severe pain in your stomach (acute abdomen)

What are you possibly suffering from?

Blood clots blocking other claret vessels

  • See a doctor every bit shortly equally possible. Practice non take any more than Microgynon 30 until your doctor says you tin can. Employ some other method of contraception, such every bit condoms, in the concurrently.

Claret CLOTS IN A VEIN

What can happen if a blood clot forms in a vein?

  • The utilise of combined hormonal contraceptives has been continued with an increase in the risk of claret clots in the vein (venous thrombosis). Yet, these side effects are rare. Most frequently, they occur in the kickoff twelvemonth of use of a combined hormonal contraceptive.
  • If a claret clot forms in a vein in the leg or pes information technology can cause a deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
  • If a blood clot travels from the leg and lodges in the lung information technology tin cause a pulmonary embolism.
  • Very rarely a jell may form in a vein in another organ such as the eye (retinal vein thrombosis).

When is the take chances of developing a blood clot in a vein highest?

The risk of developing a blood clot in a vein is highest during the outset year of taking a combined hormonal contraceptive for the offset time. The risk may also be higher if you restart taking a combined hormonal contraceptive (the aforementioned product or a dissimilar product) after a suspension of 4 weeks or more.

Afterwards the first year, the risk gets smaller but is always slightly higher than if you were non using a combined hormonal contraceptive.

When you end Microgynon 30 your run a risk of a claret clot returns to normal inside a few weeks.

What is the risk of developing a claret clot?

The risk depends on your natural risk of VTE and the type of combined hormonal contraceptive y'all are taking.

The overall gamble of a blood clot in the leg or lung (DVT or PE) with Microgynon xxx is small.

  • Out of ten,000 women who are not using any combined hormonal contraceptive and are not pregnant, about 2 will develop a blood clot in a year.
  • Out of 10,000 women who are using a combined hormonal contraceptive that contains levonorgestrel, such equally Microgynon 30, about 5-7 will develop a blood clot in a year.
  • The risk of having a blood jell will vary according to your personal medical history (see "Factors that increase your risk of a blood clot in a vein" below).

Women who are not using a combined hormonal pill and are not meaning

Risk of developing a blood jell in a year - Most two out of x,000 women

Women using a combined hormonal contraceptive pill containing levonorgestrel

Hazard of developing a claret clot in a year - Almost 5-seven out of 10,000 women

Women using Microgynon 30

Risk of developing a blood clot in a year - About 5-7 out of 10,000 women

Factors that increase your risk of a claret jell in a vein

The risk of a blood clot with Microgynon xxx is small but some weather will increase the take a chance. Your risk is higher:

  • if you are very overweight (body mass index or BMI over 30kg/grand2)
  • if one of your immediate family has had a blood clot in the leg, lung or other organ at a young age (e.g. beneath the age of about fifty). In this case you could have a hereditary blood clotting disorder
  • if you need to take an performance, or if you are off your feet for a long time because of an injury or illness, or you have your leg in a bandage. The employ of Microgynon 30 may need to exist stopped at least four weeks before surgery or while you are less mobile. If yous demand to terminate Microgynon 30 ask your physician when you can start using it again.
  • as you get older (particularly above well-nigh 35 years)
  • if you gave birth less than a few weeks ago.

The risk of developing a blood clot increases the more conditions you have.

Air travel (>4 hours) may temporarily increase your risk of a blood jell, particularly if you accept some of the other factors listed.

It is important to tell your doctor if any of these conditions utilize to yous, even if yous are unsure. Your dr. may make up one's mind that Microgynon 30 needs to be stopped.

If any of the above conditions change while you are using Microgynon xxx, for case a close family unit member experiences a thrombosis for no known reason, or y'all gain a lot of weight, tell your doctor.

BLOOD CLOTS IN AN Avenue

What tin happen if a claret clot forms in an artery?

Like a blood clot in a vein, a clot in an artery can cause serious problems. For example, information technology can cause a center assail or a stroke.

Factors that increase your chance of a blood clot in an artery

It is important to note that the risk of a heart attack or stroke from using Microgynon xxx is very small but tin increase:

  • with increasing age (beyond most 35 years)
  • if you smoke. When using a combined hormonal contraceptive like Microgynon 30, you are advised to terminate smoking. If yous are unable to terminate smoking and are older than 35 your doctor may advise you to employ a different type of contraceptive
  • if yous are overweight
  • if yous have loftier blood pressure
  • if a member of your immediate family unit has had a heart attack or stroke at a young age (less than almost 50). In this example you could also accept a higher risk of having a centre attack or stroke
  • if you lot, or someone in your immediate family, have a high level of fat in the blood (cholesterol or triglycerides)
  • if you get migraines, specially migraines with aura
  • if you have a trouble with your heart (valve disorder, disturbance of the rhythm called atrial fibrillation)
  • if yous take diabetes.

If you have more than ane of these conditions or if whatever of them are specially severe the risk of developing a claret clot may be increased fifty-fifty more than.

If whatsoever of the in a higher place conditions change while y'all are using Microgynon thirty, for instance you start smoking, a close family fellow member experiences a thrombosis for no known reason, or yous gain a lot of weight, tell your doctor.

While high dose Pills reduce your risk of cancer of the ovary and womb if used in the long term, information technology is not clear whether lower dose Pills like Microgynon thirty also provide the aforementioned protective furnishings. Even so, it also seems that taking the Pill slightly increases your chance of cancer of the neck – although this may be due to having sex without a prophylactic, rather than the Pill. All women should take regular smear tests.

If you have breast cancer, or have had information technology in the by, you should not accept the Pill. The Pill slightly increases your hazard of breast cancer. This risk goes up the longer you're on the Pill, only returns to normal inside about 10 years of stopping it. Because chest cancer is rare in women under the age of twoscore, the extra cases of breast cancer in current and recent Pill users is modest. For case:

  • Of 10,000 women who have never taken the Pill, about 16 volition take chest cancer by the time they are 35 years old.
  • Of ten,000 women who take the Pill for 5 years in their early twenties, about 17–18 will take breast cancer by the time they are 35 years old.
  • Of ten,000 women who take never taken the Pill, nigh 100 volition take breast cancer by the time they are 45 years erstwhile.
  • Of 10,000 women who take the Pill for v years in their early thirties, about 110 volition accept breast cancer by the time they are 45 years old.

Your risk of breast cancer is college:

  • if you have a close relative (female parent, sis or grandmother) who has had breast cancer
  • if you are seriously overweight
  • See a doc equally soon as possible if you observe any changes in your breasts, such as dimpling of the skin, changes in the nipple or whatsoever lumps you can see or experience.

Taking the Pill has also been linked to liver diseases, such equally jaundice and non-cancer liver tumours, but this is rare. Very rarely, the Pill has also been linked with some forms of liver cancer in women who have taken it for a long time.

  • See a doctor as before long as possible if you lot get severe hurting in your stomach, or xanthous skin or eyes (jaundice). You may need to stop taking Microgynon thirty.

Some women using hormonal contraceptives including Microgynon xxx have reported depression or depressed mood. Low can be serious and may sometimes lead to suicidal thoughts. If you feel mood changes and depressive symptoms contact your doctor for further medical advice as soon as possible.

If you lot ever need to have some other medicine at the same fourth dimension as being on the Pill, ever tell your dr., chemist or dentist that you're taking Microgynon thirty. Too check the leaflets that come with all your medicines to see if they can be taken with hormonal contraceptives.

Some medicines can have an influence on the blood levels of Microgynon xxx and can cease it from working properly – for example:

  • some medicines used to treat epilepsy
  • some medicines used to care for HIV and Hepatitis C Virus infections (and then-called protease inhibitors and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors)
  • griseofulvin (an anti-fungal medicine)
  • certain antibiotics
  • sure sedatives (called barbiturates)
  • St. John'southward Wort (a herbal remedy).

If you do need to take one of these medicines, Microgynon xxx may non be suitable for you or you may demand to utilise actress contraception for a while. Your doctor, pharmacist or dentist can tell yous if this is necessary and for how long.

Microgynon 30 can also impact how well other medicines work. Your doctor may demand to accommodate the dose of your other medicine.

In add-on, Microgynon 30 tin can as well interfere with the results of some blood tests, and then always tell your dr. that you are taking Microgynon xxx if you have a blood examination.

Do non use Microgynon xxx if y'all have hepatitis C and are taking medicinal products containing ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir, dasabuvir, glecaprevir/pibrentasvir and sofosbuvir/velpatasvir/voxilaprevir, as these products may cause increases in liver office blood examination results (increase in ALT liver enzyme). Your md will prescribe another type of contraceptive prior to start of the treatment with these medicinal products. Microgynon xxx tin be restarted approximately 2 weeks after completion of this treatment. See department "Exercise not use Microgynon 30".

In that location are no special instructions about food and potable while on Microgynon 30.

Practise not use Microgynon 30 if you lot are pregnant. If y'all think you lot might exist meaning, do a pregnancy examination to confirm that yous are earlier yous stop taking Microgynon 30.

If y'all are breast-feeding, your doc or family planning nurse may propose you not to take Microgynon 30. They will be able to suggest culling contraception. Chest-feeding may non terminate y'all getting pregnant.

Microgynon 30 has no known issue on the ability to drive or use machines.

If you have been told by your doctor that you have intolerance to some sugars, contact your dr. before using Microgynon xxx.

To prevent pregnancy, always take Microgynon thirty every bit described beneath. Bank check with your doctor or family planning nurse if you are non sure.

Take Microgynon 30 every day for 21 days

Microgynon 30 comes in strips of 21 pills, each marked with a 24-hour interval of the week.

  • Take your pill at the same time every day.
  • Get-go by taking a pill marked with the correct day of the calendar week.
  • Follow the direction of the arrows on the strip. Take one pill each day, until you take finished all 21 pills.
  • Swallow each pill whole, with water if necessary. Do not chew the pill.

So take seven pill-costless days

Afterwards y'all have taken all 21 pills in the strip, you have seven days when y'all take no pills. So if y'all take the last pill of one pack on a Friday, you will accept the first pill of your next pack on the Saturday of the following calendar week.

Within a few days of taking the last pill from the strip, you should have a withdrawal drain like a period. This bleed may not take finished when it is time to kickoff your side by side strip of pills.

You don't need to use extra contraception during these seven pill-costless days – every bit long every bit you accept taken your pills correctly and start the next strip of pills on time.

Then start your next strip

Kickoff taking your next strip of Microgynon 30 subsequently the vii pill-complimentary days – fifty-fifty if yous are even so bleeding. Ever start the new strip on time.

Equally long as you lot take Microgynon thirty correctly, you lot will always commencement each new strip on the same day of the week.

As a new user or starting the Pill again afterwards a pause

It is all-time to take your first Microgynon 30 pill on the kickoff twenty-four hours of your next period. By starting in this way, you will have contraceptive protection with your get-go pill.

Changing to Microgynon thirty from another contraceptive Pill

  • If you are currently taking a 21-day Pill: commencement Microgynon xxx the next day after the end of the previous strip. Y'all will have contraceptive protection with your first pill. You will non have a bleed until after your showtime strip of Microgynon xxx.
  • If you are taking a 28-day Pill: outset taking Microgynon 30 the solar day after your last active pill. You will have contraceptive protection with your beginning pill. Y'all volition not have a drain until after your start strip of Microgynon xxx.
  • Or, if you are taking a progestogen-only Pill (Pop or 'mini Pill'): start Microgynon thirty on the offset 24-hour interval of haemorrhage, even if you have already taken the progestogen-only Pill for that mean solar day. You will have contraceptive cover directly away.

Starting Microgynon thirty after a miscarriage or abortion

If you have had a miscarriage or an abortion during the kickoff three months of pregnancy, your md may tell y'all to get-go taking Microgynon 30 straight away. This means that you will accept contraceptive protection with your first pill.

If yous take had a miscarriage or an abortion after the third calendar month of pregnancy, ask your doctor for advice. You may demand to use extra contraception, such as condoms, for a short time.

Contraception afterward having a babe

If you lot have only had a baby, your medico may propose you that Microgynon 30 should exist started 21 days after delivery provided that yous are fully mobile. You do non have to await for a period. You lot will demand to use another method of contraception, such as a condom, until you start Microgynon thirty and for the start 7 days of pill taking.

If yous miss a pill, follow these instructions:

When were you due to take the missed pill?

  • Less than 12 hours ago
    • Take the delayed pill straight abroad and further pills equally usual. This may hateful taking two pills in i twenty-four hours.
    • Don't worry, your contraceptive protection should not be reduced.
  • More than than 12 hours ago, or you have missed more than 1 pill.
    • Take the most recently missed pill straight away.
    • Leave whatsoever earlier missed pills in the strip.
    • Take your further pills as usual. This may mean taking 2 pills in one day.
    • Apply extra precautions (condoms, for case) for the side by side 7 days.
    • Check how many pills are left in the strip after the most recently missed pill.
  • seven or more pills left in the pack
    • Don't forget to use extra precautions for the side by side 7 days.
    • When you have finished the strip, leave the usual vii-solar day break before starting the next strip.
    • If you lot take missed ane or more pills from the first calendar week of your strip (days i to seven) and you lot had sex in that calendar week, y'all could get pregnant. Contact your doctor, family planning nurse or pharmacist for advice as soon as possible. They may recommend y'all use emergency contraception.
  • Fewer than 7 pills left in the pack
    • Don't forget to use actress precautions for the next vii days.
    • When you finish the strip of pills, commencement the next strip the adjacent 24-hour interval without a pause.
    • If you exercise not have a withdrawal drain later you take finished the 2nd strip, do a pregnancy examination earlier starting another strip.
    • If yous take missed one or more than pills from the showtime week of your strip (days 1 to 7) and yous had sex in that week, you could become meaning. Contact your doctor, family planning nurse or pharmacist for advice as before long as possible.

If yous accept missed any of the pills in a strip, and you practise not bleed in the starting time pill-free break, you may be pregnant. Contact your physician or family planning clinic, or do a pregnancy test yourself.

If you start a new strip of pills late, or brand your 'week off' longer than seven days, yous may not be protected from pregnancy. If you had sex in the last 7 days, ask your physician, family planning nurse or pharmacist for communication. You may need to consider emergency contraception. You should also use extra contraception, such as a safe, for vii days.

If yous lose a pill,

Either take the last pill of the strip in place of the lost pill. Then have all the other pills on their proper days. Your bike will be one twenty-four hour period shorter than normal, but your contraceptive protection won't be affected. After your vii pill-free days you will have a new starting twenty-four hours, one day earlier than before.

Or if yous do not want to change the starting day of your cycle, take a pill from a spare strip if you have ane. And so accept all the other pills from your electric current strip as usual. You lot can then continue the opened spare strip in case you lose any more pills.

If you are ill (vomit) or take very bad diarrhoea within four hours of taking the Pill, your body may not go its usual dose of hormones from that pill. If you are meliorate within 12 hours of taking Microgynon 30, follow the instructions in department 3.4 A lost pill, which describes how to have another pill.

If you are all the same sick or have diarrhoea more than 12 hours subsequently taking Microgynon 30, see section 3.iii, A missed pill.

  • Talk to your doctor if your tum upset carries on or gets worse. He or she may recommend some other form of contraception.

Occasionally, you may miss a withdrawal bleed. This could mean that you lot are pregnant, but that is very unlikely if you lot have taken your pills correctly. Beginning your next strip at the normal fourth dimension. If yous think that you might have put yourself at run a risk of pregnancy (for instance, past missing pills or taking other medicines), or if you miss a 2nd bleed, you should exercise a pregnancy test. You tin can buy these from the chemist or get a complimentary test at your family unit planning dispensary or doctors surgery. If yous are meaning, stop taking Microgynon 30 and meet your dr..

Information technology is unlikely that taking more than one pill volition do yous whatever harm, but you may feel sick, vomit or have some vaginal haemorrhage. Fifty-fifty girls who have not yet started to menstruate simply take accidentally taken this medicine may feel such bleeding. Talk to your doctor if yous accept any of these symptoms.

If you are planning a baby, information technology'southward best to employ another method of contraception after stopping Microgynon 30 until y'all have had a proper period. Your dr. or midwife relies on the appointment of your last natural catamenia to tell yous when your babe is due. However, it will non crusade you or the baby any impairment if you get pregnant straight away.

Like all medicines, Microgynon 30 can crusade side effects, although not everybody gets them. . If yous get whatever side effect, particularly if severe and persistent, or have whatever alter to your health that you think may exist due to Microgynon thirty, delight talk to your doc.

An increased risk of blood clots in the veins (venous thromboembolism (VTE)) or blood clots in the arteries (arterial thromboembolism (ATE)) is present for all women using combined hormonal contraceptives. For more detailed data on the different risks from taking combined hormonal contraceptives please run across section 2 "What you lot need to know before yous employ Microgynon xxx".

  • Tell your doctor, pharmacist or family planning nurse if you lot are worried about any side effects which you remember may be due to Microgynon thirty.

Rare side effects (between ane and 10 in every 10,000 users may be afflicted)

  • harmful claret clots in a vein or artery for example:
    • in a leg or foot (i.e. DVT)
    • in a lung (i.e. PE)
    • heart attack
    • stroke
    • mini-stroke or temporary stroke-like symptoms, known equally a transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
    • claret clots in the liver, stomach/intestine, kidneys or eye.

The chance of having a blood jell may be college if yous accept any other conditions that increment this run a risk (see section 2 for more than information on the conditions that increase risk for blood clots and the symptoms of a blood clot).

Signs of a blood clot (see section 2.3 'Claret clots')

Contact a medico immediately if yous experience any of the following symptoms of angioedema: swollen confront, tongue and/or throat and/or difficulty swallowing or hives potentially with difficulty breathing (run into likewise section "When to take special intendance with Microgynon 30").

Signs of a severe allergic reaction:

  • swelling of the hands, face, lips, rima oris, tongue or throat. A swollen natural language/pharynx may lead to difficulty swallowing and breathing
  • a cerise bumpy rash (hives) and itching.

Signs of chest cancer include:

  • dimpling of the skin
  • changes in the nipple
  • whatsoever lumps yous can run across or feel.

Signs of cancer of the cervix include:

  • vaginal discharge that smells and/or contains blood
  • unusual vaginal bleeding
  • pelvic pain
  • painful sex.

Signs of astringent liver problems include:

  • severe hurting in your upper abdomen
  • yellow peel or eyes (jaundice)
  • inflammation of the liver (hepatitis)
  • your whole body starts itching.
  • If you call up yous may have whatever of these, see a doc straight abroad. You may need to stop taking Microgynon 30.

Common side furnishings (between 100 and 1000 in every 10,000 users may be affected)

  • feeling ill
  • stomach ache
  • putting on weight
  • headaches
  • depressive moods or mood swings
  • sore or painful breasts

Uncommon side effects (between x and 100 in every 10,000 users may exist afflicted)

  • being ill and stomach upsets
  • fluid retention
  • migraine
  • loss of involvement in sexual activity
  • breast enlargement
  • pare rash, which may exist itchy

Rare side effects (between ane and 10 in every 10,000 users may be affected)

  • poor tolerance of contact lenses
  • losing weight
  • increase of involvement in sex activity
  • vaginal or breast discharge

Other side effects reported

  • Haemorrhage and spotting between your periods tin sometimes occur for the start few months but this usually stops once your body has adapted to Microgynon 30. If it continues, becomes heavy or starts again, contact your doctor (see section four.3).
  • Chloasma (yellow brown patches on the skin). This may happen fifty-fifty if y'all have been using Microgynon thirty for a number of months. Chloasma may be reduced by avoiding too much sunlight and/or UV lamps
  • Occurrence or deterioration of the movement disorder chorea
  • Crohn'due south disease or ulcerative colitis
  • Weather that may worsen during pregnancy or previous use of the Pill:
    • yellowing of the skin (jaundice)
    • persistent itching (pruritus)
    • kidney or liver issues
    • gall stones
    • certain rare medical weather such as systemic lupus erythematosus
    • blister-similar rash (herpes gestationis) whilst pregnant
    • an inherited course of deafness (otosclerosis)
    • a personal or family history of a form of sickle cell affliction
    • swelling of body parts (hereditary angioedema)
    • an inherited disease called porphyria
    • cancer of the cervix
  • Tell your medico, pharmacist or family planning nurse if you lot are worried most any side effects which you recall may be due to Microgynon 30. As well tell them if any existing weather condition get worse while you are taking Microgynon 30.

A few women take a little unexpected bleeding or spotting while they are taking Microgynon 30, specially during the first few months. Ordinarily, this bleeding is cypher to worry about and will stop subsequently a day or 2. Keep taking Microgynon 30 every bit usual. The problem should disappear subsequently the beginning few strips.

You may also accept unexpected haemorrhage if you are not taking your pills regularly, so endeavor to take your pill at the same time every day. Likewise, unexpected bleeding can sometimes exist caused by other medicines.

  • Make an appointment to encounter your doctor if you become breakthrough bleeding or spotting that:
    • carries on for more the first few months
    • starts after you've been taking Microgynon xxx for a while
    • carries on even after y'all've stopped taking Microgynon 30.

Reporting of side furnishings

If y'all go any side effects, talk to your physician, pharmacist or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. You can also study side effects direct via the Yellow Card Scheme at: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard or search for MHRA Yellow Card in the Google Play or Apple App Store.

By reporting side effects y'all can help provide more than data on the safety of this medicine.

Keep all medicines out of the sight and reach of children.

Exercise not apply Microgynon 30 after the expiry appointment shown on the strip.

Do not throw abroad whatsoever medicines down a bleed or into a bin. Ask your pharmacist what to practise with whatsoever medicines you exercise not want. This volition help to protect the environs.

Each box of Microgynon 30 contains three strips of 21 beige tablets.

Each beige sugar-coated tablet contains: 150 micrograms of the progestogen levonorgestrel, and 30 micrograms of the oestrogen ethinylestradiol.

Microgynon 30 also contains the inactive ingredients:

Lactose, maize starch, povidone, magnesium stearate (E572), sucrose, macrogol 6000, calcium carbonate (E170), talc, glycol montanate, titanium dioxide (E171), glycerin (E422), ferric oxide pigment yellow (E172).

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This leaflet was last updated in April 2020.

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