Another method of contraception should be used to avoid unintentional pregnancy. Your doctor may prescribe other treatment e. Other ri sk factors for blood clotting include temporary immobilisation including air travel of greater than 4 hours, particularly in women with other risk factors. Consult your doctor if you plan to air travel for greater than 4 hours. Consult your doctor if you develop high blood pressure while taking YAZ — you may be told to stop taking it.
If you vomit within hours or have severe diarrhoea after taking a light pink active tablet, the active ingredients may not have been completely absorbed. This is like missing a tablet. Follow the advice for missed tablets. If you have unexpected bleeding and it continues, becomes heavy, or occurs again, tell your doctor.
When taking these tablets for the first few months, you can have irregular vaginal bleeding spotting or breakthrough bleeding between your periods. You may need to use sanitary products, but continue to take your tablets as normal. Irregular vaginal bleeding usually stops once your body has adjusted to the Pill, usually after about 3 months. If you have missed a period, but you have taken all your tablets, it is very unlikely that you are pregnant, as long as:.
If this is so, continue to take YAZ as usual. If you have any concerns consult your doctor or pharmacist. If you miss your period twice in a row, you may be pregnant even if you have taken the Pill correctly. Stop taking YAZ and seek advice from your doctor. You must use a non-hormonal method of contraception, such as condoms or a diaphragm until your doctor rules out pregnancy.
If you choose to delay your period while taking YAZ, your regular bleeding is not expected to occur during the extension period when the intake of the light pink active tablet is uninterrupted. Therefore, the absence of regular bleeding cannot be used as a sign of an unexpected pregnancy and as such, unexpected pregnancy may be difficult to recognise.
Although pregnancy is unlikely if YAZ is taken as directed, if for any reason you think you might be pregnant, contact your doctor and do a pregnancy test. This may be of particular importance if you are also using other medications, since some medications are known to be harmful to the foetus. To protect yourself from STIs, you will need to use additional barrier contraceptives e. Do not stop taking your medicine or change the dosage without checking with your doctor.
You may become pregnant if you are not using any other contraceptive and you stop taking YAZ, or do not take a tablet every day. Tell your doctor or pharmacist as soon as possible if you do not feel well while you are taking YAZ. All medicines can have side effects. Sometimes they are serious, most of the time they are not. You may need medical attention if you get some of the side effects.
Do not be alarmed by the following lists of side effects. You may not experience any of them. The following list includes the more common side effects of your Pill. These are usually mild and lessen with time.
If you notice any of the following side effects and they worry you, tell your doctor or pharmacist:. The following list includes very serious but rare side effects. You may need urgent medical attention or hospitalisation.
If you experience any of the following, tell your doctor immediately, or go to the Emergency Department at your nearest hospital:. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you feel unwell. Other side effects not listed may also occur in some people. Blood clots may block blood vessels in your body. This type of blood clot is also called thrombosis.
Blood clots sometimes occur in the deep veins of the legs DVT. If a blood clot breaks away from the veins where it has formed, it may reach and block the blood vessels of the lungs, causing pulmonary embolism PE.
Blood clots can also occur in the blood vessels of the heart causing a heart attack or the brain causing a stroke. Blood clots are a rare occurrence and can develop whether or not you are taking the Pill. They can also happen during pregnancy. The risk of having blood clots is higher in Pill users than in non users, but not as high as during pregnancy.
The excess risk of a blood clot is highest during the first year after a woman takes the Pill for the first time or after having a break from the Pill for 4 weeks or more. If you notice possible signs of a blood clot, stop taking YAZ and consult your doctor immediately. To prevent pregnancy, you must also use additional barrier contraceptive precautions e.
If you are concerned about an increased risk of blood clots while on YAZ, speak to your doctor. Breast cancer has been diagnosed slightly more often in women who take the Pill than in women of the same age who do not take the Pill. This slight increase in the numbers of breast cancer diagnoses gradually disappears during the course of the 10 years after women stop taking the Pill. It is not known whether the difference is caused by the Pill. It may be that these women were examined more often, so that the breast cancer was noticed earlier.
It is important that you check your breasts regularly and contact your doctor if you feel any lumps. In rare cases benign liver tumours and, even more rarely, malignant liver tumours have been reported in users of the Pill. These tumours may lead to internal bleeding. Cervical cancer has been reported to occur more often in women who have been taking the Pill for a long time. This finding may not be caused by the Pill, but may be related to sexual behaviour and other factors.
Keep your tablets in the blister pack until it is time to take them. If you take the tablets out of the pack they may not keep well. Do not store it or any other medicine in the bathroom, near a sink, or on a window-sill. Do not leave it in the car. Heat and damp can destroy some medicines. Keep YAZ where children cannot reach it. A locked cupboard at least one-and-a-half metres above the ground is a good place to store medicines.
If your doctor tells you to stop taking this medicine or the expiry date has passed, ask your pharmacist what to do with any medicine that is left over. YAZ active tablets are light pink round tablets marked on one side with the letters "DS" in a regular hexagon. YAZ inactive tablets are white round tablets marked on one side with the letters "DP" in a regular hexagon.
YAZ comes in a box containing either 1 or 3 blister packs. Each blister pack contains 24 light pink active tablets and 4 white inactive tablets. Tablets do not contain gluten. Tablets also do not contain tartrazine or any other azo dyes. Skip to content. Keep this leaflet with the medicine. To avoid this, healthcare providers will need to closely monitor potassium levels for at least the first month of treatment if you take any of the following medications regularly:.
Because of a risk of blood clots, heart attacks and strokes, you should call your healthcare provider immediately if you develop any of these symptoms:. Numerous prescription medications can interfere with Yaz, or vice versa. You should always let your healthcare provider or pharmacist know that you are taking Yaz, so they can advise you about whether you need a different medication or a backup form of birth control, like condoms or spermicide.
In addition, these non-prescription items may cause problems with the effectiveness of Yaz:. Sign up for our Health Tip of the Day newsletter, and receive daily tips that will help you live your healthiest life. Bayer Inc. Casper RF. Updated February 24, Food and Drug Administration. Yaz: product insert. Updated April Journal of Hepatology.
FDA Drug Safety Communication: Updated information about the risk of blood clots in women taking birth control pills containing drospirenone.
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I Accept Show Purposes. Table of Contents View All. Table of Contents. Before Taking. Side Effects. Warnings and Interactions. They come in blister packs with 28 tablets per pack. In each pack, most tablets contain hormones, and the rest do not. For each cycle, you take one tablet per day for 28 days. Many insurance companies are more likely to cover generic products than brand-name drugs. This is because generic drugs cost less. There are generic versions available of both Yaz and Yasmin, so your doctor may prescribe a generic version instead.
Generic versions of Yaz include Gianvi, Loryna, and Vestura. The generic version of Yasmin is Ocella. This cost can be higher for brand-name drugs than for generic drugs.
All drugs can cause side effects. Some of these are more common and may go away after a few days. Others are more serious. These side effects can require medical care. Be sure to consider all side effects when choosing a drug. Yaz and Yasmin cause the same side effects. The pills contain different amounts of hormones, though, so how often you experience the side effects may vary. The serious side effects for Yaz and Yasmin are similar.
These side effects are rare in healthy women. They include:. An interaction can cause you harm or keep the drug from working well. Certain drugs may interact with all birth control pills, including Yaz and Yasmin.
For instance, they may keep the birth control pills from working well to prevent pregnancy. Examples of drugs that may interact with Yaz or Yasmin include:. If you take any of these drugs with Yaz or Yasmin , you may need to use an additional birth control method. They may increase bleeding between periods or increase your potassium levels.
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