"Miniziston": instructions for use, analogues and feedback

There are various methods of preventing unwanted pregnancies. The use of tableted medicines allows for long-term contraceptive protection and family planning. One of these drugs is the "Miniziston", the instruction for the use of which recommends taking pills also for restoring the menstrual cycle.

general characteristics

This drug refers to monophasic, oral contraceptives with a combined structure, which includes one estrogen and a gestagen. It is produced by the German company "Zhenafarma".

The instructions for use are necessarily included in the kit for the preparation "Miniziston". The description of the agent characterizes it as tablets in the form of pills with a shell pink coating. The medicine is packaged in 21 pieces in blister plates. In the pack can be 21 or 63 tablets.

Composition

Being a two-component agent, it contains in its structure 0.02 mg of ethinyl estradiol and 0.1 mg of levonorgestrel hormone.

Very seriously, you need to treat the medicine "Miniziston 20 fem". The instructions for use describe the composition of tablets that are formed by inactive ingredients in the form of milk sugar, corn starch in a conventional and modified pregelatinized form, povidone type 2500, magnesium stearate.

Shell cover includes molecules of sucrose, povidone type 700 thousand, macrogol marks 6 thousand, calcium carbonate, talc, glycerol, titanium dioxide, yellow and red shade iron-containing oxides, glycolic form of wax mining.

Such a structure has tablets "Miniziston". Instruction for the use of the analogue "Microgonon" characterizes as a means containing the same active ingredients in only a larger quantity. One dose contains 0.03 mg of ethinyl estradiol and 0.15 mg of levonorgestrel hormone. This drug is manufactured by Bayer Pharma AG.

The same quantitative composition of the active ingredients has the Hungarian medicine "Rigevidon", produced by JSC "Gedeon Richter".

How does the drug "Miniziston"

Instructions for use refer to it as a combined contraceptive agent. The activity of the agent is due to the interaction of various conditions associated with inhibiting the release of the egg from the ovarian follicle towards the fallopian tube and changing the fluidity of the mucous discharge of the cervical.

In addition to the contraceptive role, tablets have a positive effect on menstrual cycle, which becomes regular, reduce the soreness of the menstruation process and the intensity of discharge. The latter feature reduces the development of anemia with iron deficiency.

Why take

Medication "Miniziston" instructions for use advise to use to protect against unplanned pregnancy. Monophasic drugs are used in hormone-dependent functional malfunctions of menstrual cycles. These include dysmenorrheal painful sensations, prolonged and profuse uterine bleeding in critical days for more than seven days, the presence of premenstrual syndrome.

Dosing

On each bundle, the manufacturer indicates the order of reception of the product. For the drug "Miniziston" instructions for the use of the dose sets the same for contraceptive measures. Usually it is one tablet a day, which is drunk at a set time, washed down with a small amount of water.

The duration of oral administration is three weeks, during this time the whole pack of medicine is consumed. Then make a 7-day break for bleeding when canceled in the form of menstrual-like secretions. This process occurs on the second or third day after the use of the twenty-first tablet and can continue with the introduction of the drug from the new pack.

How to use it correctly

If there was no reception of hormonal-type drugs in the past, then the administration of the medicine "Miniziston" instructions for use allows from the 1st day of menstrual cycling with the appearance of blood secretions. You can start taking from 2 to 5 days, then you need to use the barrier method of protection for 7 days of medication from the first pack.

If there is a transition from a mixed oral contraceptive medication to the preparation "Miniziston", then the use starts from the next day using the last tablet of the past remedy. Do not use it after the next day, following a one-week break from the medication with 21 dragees or the introduction of the 28th inactive pill from the wrapping facility with 28 dragees.

If you switch from monotherapy with a single gestagen in the form of mini-pili, injection forms and implants, then the medication instruction for use allows you to use without interruption.

When they are canceled, a new medicine is administered on any given day without a pass. If injecting forms of contraception were used, the preparation "Miniziston" was taken instead of the next injection. When switching from implants, the tablet is administered when the old remedy is removed.

All of the above cases require the use of additional barrier methods of protection during the first week of use of combined tablets.

Untimely introduction

There are days when a woman forgot to drink the right dose of medicine "Miniziston." Instruction for use contains information on the need for the early adoption of pills. The subsequent tablet is administered at the set time.

In the case of a short delay in the use of a product that is less than half a day, the effectiveness of protection is not reduced.

When the medicine is passed for more than 12 hours, the safety of the protection decreases. It must be borne in mind that the use of the medicine should not be interrupted for more than one week. Only 7-day continuous taking of tablets adequately suppresses the function of the hypothalamus, pituitary gland and ovaries.

If you miss more than half a day during the initial week of using the medication, the introduction of the forgotten dose is carried out immediately, two tablets are allowed at once. The next dosage is drunk at the set time. For reliability, they are protected by barrier methods of protection for one week. If there are sexual intercourse when a pill is missed, fertilization is possible.

If the medication was correct for 7 days, which preceded the first forgotten pill, then you can not use additional contraceptive measures. If the rules are not respected, when two or more pills were missed, there is a need for barrier methods of protection for a whole week.

At a gap of more than half a day in the third week of drug use, the reliability of the medication decreases due to a future interruption in reception. If in the last 7 days from a forgotten dose, the tablets were administered by the rules, then you can not use additional protection.

There are two options for further administration of the drug. In the first case, the last missed dose is taken immediately, two tablets are allowed at once. The following dosages are drunk at set time intervals of the following days until the end of the pack. The new packaging starts without interruptions. Low probability of menstruation until the completion of the second pack, but it is possible the emergence of smearing excretions and breakthrough bleeding when using the medication.

In the second case, the injection of pills of incomplete blister is interrupted. Then a 7-day pass is made, including the day, when they forgot to drink the medicine, after which they start a new pack. If there is no blood flow during a break, then you need to check for pregnancy.

The absorption process of the drug may be disturbed by vomiting, which started 4 hours after the administration of the tablet. In this case, additional protection and correction of the application of the remedy are needed. You can also take another pill from the new pack.

Appointment after childbirth and abortion

The "Miniziston" medication is special for the instruction and the method of use for women who have had an abortion in the first months. In such patients, the doctor prescribes immediate administration of the drug, which excludes other methods of protection.

If there were childbirth or abortion for 4-6 months, the use of tablets is possible in the interval from 21 to 28 days. At a later stage, additional barrier protection is needed during the week of drug administration.

Postponement of menstruation

For these purposes, the drug "Miniziston 20", which takes two packages without a break, is suitable. When a second is used, processes can be observed in the form of spotting bloody discharge of vaginal or breakthrough uterine bleeding. After consuming two packs, a weekly interruption is made, followed by a further regular administration of the drug.

Who is contraindicated?

Not everyone can be protected by the medicine "Miniziston 20". Instruction prohibits the use of the drug in diabetes, at risk and already existing thrombosis of the artery and vein, cerebrovascular changes, myocardial infarction, cerebral blood flow ischemia, angina symptoms.

Contraindications are complex diseases of the liver, vaginal flow of blood, swelling of the breast and other reproductive organs, excessive sensitivity to the medication.

Undesirable reactions

Has a side effect "Miniziston 20 fem". The instructions for use include information on adverse events that may occur during treatment.

Tablets can cause nausea, vomiting, changes in vaginal discharge, stress and pain in the mammary gland, swelling or secretion of secret fluid.

Under the influence of the drug, the weight of the patient changes, there is no sexual desire, the mood worsens, there is pain in the head, migraine attacks. The drug is able to retain fluid in the tissues, cause allergies and increased pigmentation of the skin.

Use when bearing a child and breast-feeding

The drug "Miniziston" does not recommend the use of the instruction for pregnant women. If such a condition is detected from the administration of the drug, it is necessary to abandon it.

Mixed oral remedies reduce the production of milk, change its components, which requires the withdrawal of the drug.

Features of treatment

Before you start using "Miniziston" tablets, instructions for use, doctors' reviews should be studied. Doctors say that it is necessary to conduct a general medical examination, check the chest, make a cytology of cervical secretions. One must be sure that there is no pregnancy. Long-term use of the drug requires an annual control check.

Medication "Miniziston" is not able to protect a woman from contracting AIDS and venereal diseases.

It is necessary to take the medicine "Miniziston" by the hour. Instructions for use reviews have different. Many women say that it gives detailed information about the drug.

There are also side effects after taking a medication, such as the development of thrombosis, as well as the occurrence of thromboembolic complications caused by this drug. If you have pain or swelling in your leg, sudden strong pain in the thoracic region and head, sudden dyspnoea and a fit of coughing, rapid loss of visual effect, speech disorder, weakness, motor impairment, you should immediately seek medical help.

There are data that show that the occurrence in the vein or arteries of thrombotic manifestations increases every year. Smoking patients, women with hereditary prerequisites, overweight, high blood pressure, with heart disease are considered more susceptible to these ailments, therefore only a doctor can assess the risk and benefit of this medication.