Expect Questions About Slynd for Contraception
July 2022
Slynd (drospirenone) will be a new progestin-only oral contraceptive (OC) pill.
Slynd is drospirenone 4 mg...instead of the 3 mg dose in combo OCs (Yaz, etc). It’s taken for 24 days followed by 4 days of placebo.
Until now, norethindrone (Jencycla, etc) was the only “minipill.”
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