Medical indications for oral contraceptives

Medical indications for oral contraception are treated here under 6 categories based on antiovulatory estrogenic antiestrogenic estrogenic and progestagenic activities combined anabolic and general antiovulatory effects. As anovulants pills can eliminate midcycle pain due to ovulation essential dysmenorrhea and are used to treat sterility by a hoped-for rebound effect. Estrogenic pills usually sequ entials can be prescribed for hypotrophy of breasts uterus or endometrium for menopausal symptoms or for Chiari-Frommel syndrome. In cases of excess androgens after treating the cause pills can relieve skin symptoms and decrease excretion of 17-ketosteroids. High estrogen pills can reduce the effects of excess progesterone in membranous dysmenorrhea. The antiestrogenic activity of pills is evoked in treatment of endometrial hypertrophy adenocarcinoma of the uterine corpus and endometriosis. Combined estrogenic and progestagenic activities are effective to stop functional bleeding to schedule menstruation and to treat endometriosis. Pills are sometimes the preferred drug for weight gain. Finally oral contraceptives are prescribed to regulate the cycle.