Birth control injection that you administer at home can have a lasting effect of up to 3 months without worrying of missing to take a pill every day.
According to Mirror, a few years ago Dr. Miriam Stoppard was doing a research about pills and contraceptive injection is it's poor counterpart. However, it has been accepted by women all over the world and gained its rightful respect. Over the years, it's side effects also improved greatly. In fact, these days it has been proven safe and also been approved as a do-it-yourself jab. Meaning, you can do it at home after the correct procedure has been explained by the nurse or General Practitioner. This also comes with great news because you don't need to remember to take a pill every day for the next three months.
This is the best contraceptive method for busy women in their 20s and 30s. For the 21st Century, where most women are always busy and have many things to do, this is an alternative method for pills which many would tend to forget.
Like any other drug, the jab also has some side effects. One of which includes weight gain. One third of the women who tried it has put on more than two kilograms in the first year. Nausea and headaches are also some of the side effects cited as with the pill.
The jab continuously releases progesterone that prevents the sperm from reaching the womb. If in any case some of them manage to get through, this hormone prevents the fertilized egg from being implanted in the uterus.
Normally, the GPs and nurses are giving this injection, however according to the Commission of Human Medicine said that women can inject through their thigh or abdomen approximately every 13 weeks. This is convenient for most women as this will save them from another trip to the GP every 13 weeks.
It is important for every woman to have choices for contraceptive that can fit the kind of lifestyle and personality they have, explained Professor Jane Anderson, sexual health chief at Public Health England.