dianette pill need help?!
Question: Dianette pill need help?
Answers:
No having missed a week your pill will not provide contraceptive cover until you have taken it for 7 days.
I would generalise that I am unhappy about any long term use of Dianette. There have been risk benefit concerns about its use for many years. These MUST at least be explained to any patient using it, in order that they can give informed consent that they still wish to take the drug.
The problem is that Dianette quadruples the risk of DVT, leg clots, which may fire off into the lungs and produce fatal emboli.
http://www.nelm.nhs.uk/en/NeLM-Area/News…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/articl…
Also you need to be aware it only has a short use licence:
"Complete remission of acne is to be expected in nearly all cases, often within a few months, but in particularly severe cases treatment for longer may be necessary before the full benefit is seen. It is recommended that treatment be withdrawn 3 to 4 cycles after the indicated condition(s) has/have completely resolved and that Dianette is not continued solely to provide oral contraception. Repeat courses of Dianette may be given if the androgen-dependent condition(s) recur."
http://emc.medicines.org.uk/medicine/181…
GP for more years than I care to remember
Read the leaflet. But I am fairly sure that you wont be as protected from pregnancy as if you had taken it properly. resume taking it but dont rely on it being an effective birth control until you have completed a full month.