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Vaginal administration of emergency contraception could be a better alternative for women than oral administration.
A new study in Fertility and Sterility shows that giving EC to women vaginally is just as effective in the reduction of hormone levels as taking the drug orally.
Now I don’t know how much I want to take any frigging drug vaginally; just popping a couple of pills seems like a more reasonable alternative. However, the study showed that taking EC this way could lead to lower levels of nausea or vomiting.
I took EC when I was 17 (lucky for me there were no assholes telling me I couldn’t), and the nausea was horrible. So I’m really glad to see that there is another option for women, even if it does include the phrase ‘vaginal administration’.
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I mentioned this over on my blog, but it's worth noting that this study only included 9 subjects in total. I'll be interested to see whether bigger studies on this are done anytime soon. It seems that the women also had to restrict their physical activity for several hours after dosing themselves. Nice to see a possible option to reduce vomiting, though.
Funny, when I read vaginal administration, I thought of government. Though it is not the way I would characterize the current US administration.
Like I said at Trish's blog, I've taken the pill intra-vaginally before when I was barfing my guts up. I had taken some strong steroids to battle poison ivy and couldn't keep anything down. Yeah, I was a mess. But I sure as hell wasn't gonna get better from that and then end up pregnant.