Two popular female contraceptive pills, Yaz, and Yasmine, are going to get new FDA imposed warning labels on them. The warning labels are going to contain a warning about the risks of developing a blood clot. In fact, many birth control pills carry the risk of blood clots, but they are increased dramatically if the patient smokes, so anti smoking warnings are in all of the birth control pills packaging that I’ve seen.

It was not clear if they had already had some sort of warning about blood clots, or if they didn’t have any at all, but to my understanding pretty much any female contraceptive containing synthetic hormones has to carry this risk warning in one form or another, because any estrogen based pill carries with it the risk for increased blood clot occurrence.

It is known that HRT, or Hormone Replacement Therapy in women at later ages increased the risks of heart disease and also breast cancer, but those were more serious forms of hormone replacement, whereas many pills now are actually lower doses of hormones.  I can’t wait til the day I can get off the pill. I really hate having to put synthetic hormones in my body every day.

Although, on the upside women who have been on the pill for several consecutive years may actually have a greater chance of living longer, if some recent findings in the medical community are accurate. Only caveat is that these were women who started off on the old school pills and stuck with them for years.

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