I didn’t know anyone else with epilepsy, and I wanted answers. I spent time doing research, interviewing different health care providers, and talking with other people who had epilepsy. Here’s the short version of what I learned.
Back in January 2016 we wrote that Oregon had made some hormonal birth control methods available directly from pharmacists and that a similar law was about to go into effect in California. Well, Californians, the wait is over—pharmacists in your state will now be able to prescribe birth control!
You could think of combined hormonal methods and progestin-only methods as being like two families. The members (or methods) within each family have certain similarities, but they’re all special in their own way.
So maybe you’ve heard of the birth control shot, a.k.a. Depo, Depo-Provera, or DMPA. Most people who use it go to a health care provider every 3 months to get it. But what if you were able to give the shot to yourself at home?
Stephanie is busy. She’s in the process of becoming a personal trainer and would sometimes forget to take the pill. Feeling frustrated by her daily birth control method, she decided to try [the…