Female Healthcare
Women’s Health Conditions must be managed under the guidance of a registered healthcare provider. Please speak to your doctor if you are unsure which condition is relevant to you.
How to use Lexilev.
1. How to start Lexilev
If it is the first time you take LEXILEV (and you’re not on any other oral contraceptive), take one yellow tablet daily for 21 uninterrupted days, beginning on Day 1 of your menstrual cycle, i.e. the first day of bleeding.
1.1 Starting LEXILEV after a miscarriage or abortion.
If you have had a miscarriage or an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, your doctor may tell you to start taking LEXILEV straight away. Discuss this with your healthcare provider.
2. When to take Lexilev
Take LEXILEV every day for 28 days. LEXILEV comes in strips of 28 pills. There are 21 active yellow tablets, and 7 inactive white tablets.
- Take your pill at the same time every day, no longer than 24 hours apart, preferably after the evening meal or at bedtime.
- Swallow each pill whole, with water if necessary. Do not chew the pill.
- If it is the first time you take LEXILEV, take one yellow tablet daily for 21 uninterrupted days, beginning on Day 1 of your menstrual cycle, i.e. the first day of bleeding.
- One white inactive tablet is taken daily for the next 7 continuous days.
- Withdrawal bleeding should usually occur 2 to 4 days after the last yellow tablet is taken.
- During this first cycle, an alternative method of contraception, such as a condom, should be used together with LEXILEV until 14 tablets have been taken. If the tablets are begun after Day 5 of your menstrual cycle, or after giving birth, it must be considered that ovulation and conception may have occurred before the tablets were started.
Then start your next strip.
The next and all the following courses will begin on the day after the last package was completed, even if withdrawal bleeding has not occurred or is still in progress. Each course of LEXILEV is therefore begun on the same day of the week and follows the same schedule (21 days of yellow tablets, 7 days of white inactive tablets) as the first course.
3. How to switch from another contraceptive
- If you are currently taking a 21-day Pill or a 28-day Pill:
– Start LEXILEV the next day after the end of the previous strip
- or, if you are taking a progestogen-only Pill (POP or ‘mini-Pill’):
– Start LEXILEV on the first day of bleeding, even if you have already taken the progestogen-only Pill for that day. The remaining progestogen-only tablets should be discarded.
4. What to do when you forget
Take a missed yellow tablet as soon as you remember. If two consecutive yellow tablets are missed, they should both be taken as soon as you remember. In either case, the next tablet should be taken at its usual time. Each time you miss one or two consecutive yellow tablets, a mechanical method of contraception, such as a condom, should be supplemented until 14 consecutive daily tablets have been taken or until the package is finished if less than 14 yellow tablets remain.
If you miss one or more white placebo tablets, you are still protected against pregnancy, provided you begin the yellow tablets on the proper day. If three consecutive yellow tablets are missed, LEXILEV should be discontinued, and the remainder of the package discarded. A new package should be started on the eighth day after the last tablet was taken.
A mechanical method of contraception, such as a condom, should be used until 14 consecutive daily tablets have been taken.
If withdrawal bleeding does not occur and LEXILEV has been taken according to directions, it is unlikely that you could be pregnant. Begin a second course of LEXILEV on the usual day. If bleeding does not occur at the end of this second cycle, you should not take LEXILEV until you are certain that you are not pregnant, by consulting your doctor and having a pregnancy test done.
If you have missed one or more yellow tablets or started taking them on a day later than
recommended, the probability of pregnancy should be considered at the time of the first missed period before LEXILEV is restarted.
5. Barrier contraceptives
Tablet-taking should usually start on the first day of your natural menstrual cycle (on the first day of menstrual bleeding). An additional barrier method – such as the use of a condom – is recommended for the first seven days of tablet taking during the first cycle.
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ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE
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PRIMARY DYSMENORRHOEA
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DYSFUNCTIONAL UTERINE BLEEDING
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