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Q: Acceptable Replacement(s) for Follimin 28 Oral Contraceptive

asked by: DoctorQuestion on January 30th, 2006

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/produktfakta/artike l_produkt.Jsp?Specid=106616&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.

Replies(1)

Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD

replied on February 16th, 2006

Birth Control Answer A328

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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