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Despite what drug company ads might tell us, birth control isn't all hot tubs and flirtinis. Actually, a lot of women have really terrible reactions to the myriad forms of no-baby elixir currently on the market, and on Nerve.com, Nicole Ankowski shares her particularly violent reaction to the Ortho-Evra patch. Four years ago Ankowski affixed the patch to her booty, and the 24-hours following turned into a hellish, moody painfest culminating in a puddle of barf on her corduroys while in high speed traffic. This is especially noteworthy because the patch had originally been marketed by Johnson & Johnson as a lower-estrogen birth control option, but as Ankowski notes, they were lying! More »
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Lobbyist groups are banging down the FDA's doors, asking the agency to yank the birth-control patch Ortho-Evra off pharmacists' shelves and insisting that it poses high risk of potentially-fatal blood clots and at much higher rates of instance than the drug companies are disclosing. The higher estrogen levels that patch users are exposed to seem to be the source of the problem, though of course Big Pharm begs to differ. One thing is for sure ladies, if you're on hormone-based birth control — of any sort — Do. Not. Smoke. [NYT] More »
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