Nexplanon

Implants are the second one kind of LARC. Nexplanon is a unmarried, very small rod—it’s handiest 4cm long and 2mm wide!—that’s inserted below your top arm in a noticeably painless technique. First, numbing medicine is inserted into your arm—only a pinch!—in order that it doesn’t harm when the implant is going in. Nexplanon contains etonogestrel (a progestin hormone) that is much like the hormone in Mirena, Skyla, and Liletta. It’s powerful for three years and prevents being pregnant by way of stopping ovulation, forming the thick mucus plug in the cervix and making the inside of the uterus very thin.

Nexplanon is approved for all women irrespective of whether or not they’ve had a child. a few girls who use the implant have irregular, common menstrual bleeding. on occasion this bleeding can last for the entire 3 years and may be a motive you will need to forestall the use of it. however, many women have light, ordinary intervals, and some ladies have no bleeding in any respect.