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Marvelon Pill What’s in Marvelon? The Marvelon combined pill contains a normal dose of oestrogen ( Ethinylestradiol ) (30mcg) and a progestogen ( Desogestrel ).
Mar 28, 2020 · problems related to a relative progesterone excess may be helped by prescribing a more oestrogen dominant COC such as Cilest, Marvelon, Femodene or Minulet, or Yasmin, so moving right across the ladders (see below)
Mercilon (Organon) is a new combined oral contraceptive “developed with the mature pill user in mind”. Each tablet contains ethinyloestradiol 20µg + desogestrel 150µg. It is a lower dose version of Marvelon (ethinyloestradiol 30µg + desogestrel 150µg), 1 which is intended for younger women, and like Marvelon contains the highly ...
The effects of two oral contraceptive combinations either containing 0.020 mg ethynilestradiol (EE) + 0.150 mg desogestrel (Mercilon) or 0.030 mg EE + 0.150 mg desogestrel (Marvelon) were compared in two independent trials.
SUMMARY. The combined oral contraceptive pill is an effective contraceptive method which can also offer other benefits. However, other contraceptive options should be discussed. If the pill is the chosen method, prescribe a pill with the lowest effective dose of oestrogen and progestogen.
Objective: To compare two oral contraceptive pills, both containing 150 micrograms desogestrel, but with either 20 micrograms (Mercilon) or 30 micrograms (Marvelon/Desolett) ethinyl oestradiol (EE), regarding reliability, cycle control and side effect profile.
Nov 1, 1992 · A small-scale randomised double-blind trial (10) compared Mercilon with Loestrin 20 and found a much higher incidence of BTB (15.4%) and spotting (33.3%) with the latter than with Mercilon (5.2% and 13.8%) after 6 cycles.
