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Acceptable Replacement(s) for Follimin 28 Oral Contraceptive
Posted: 01-30-06 19:02pm

Dear sir/madam,

I am sorry I posted this in public forum while I intended to seek professional opinion.

I have been using Follimin 28 oral contraceptive pills for about a year. This contraceptive pills was prescribed by my physician in Sweden. I will have to replace the birth control pills with the one sold in usa next month. Do you know if alesse 28 or any other pills suitable for me?


Please help with the information. Thank you very much.


Ahsley

below is a brief information of both drugs:

Follimin 28 from Wyeth sweden
the active ingredients is
levonorgestrel
etinylestradiol
detail specs in swedish
http://www.Fass.Se/lif/p roduktfakta/artikel_produkt.Jsp?Specid=106 616&doctypeid=3

Alesse 28 from Wyeth usa
21 pink active tablets each containing 0.10 mg of levonorgestrel, d(-)-13(beta)-ethyl-17(alpha)-ethinyl-17(b eta)-hydroxygon-4-en-3-one, a totally synthetic progestogen, and 0.02 mg of ethinyl estradiol, 17(alpha)-ethinyl-1,3,5(10)-estratriene-3, 17(beta)-diol.


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Posted: 02-16-06 14:59pm

FDA approved birth control pills on the US-market with the same ingredients as Follimin 28 are: Alesse, Levlen, Levlite, Levora, Nordette, Tri-Levlen, Triphasil, and Trivora. I am uncertain how the dosage translates, so you can investigate this before buying and using a specific product.


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