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Monthly Birth Control Pill
Dear Doctors: Will there be a birth control pill in the future that you can take once a month, not once a day?
Dr. Wesley Grootwassink: No.
Dr. Shannon Klingman: Not a pill. We have other time-released mechanisms that are absorbed through the skin. Once a week for the patch and once a month for the NuvaRing® which is placed vaginally.
WG: The problem with the once-a-month pill is that something that long acting placed in your body that you can't get out isn't going to work. Just the amount of hormone you'd need for something like that would have too many potential side effects.
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