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Had Abortion Causing Acne On Face, Taking Femilon With No Results. Will Birth Control Increase Acne?
Hi.. I got aborted(6 weeks pregnancy) in oct. Since pregnancy i am getting small pimples on my forhead and still now its not cleared. I had taken medicine as per dermatologist as well but no improvement. I have started taking femilon from last month as per the doc but its increasing now. Please let me know if birthcontrol pill will increase acne on forehead
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
Hi thanks for the query.
Oral contraceptives can cause acne but depends on the type of progesterone in it. You can try other low dose oral contraceptive pills containing levonorgesterol or drosperinone
Hope this information is helpful and informative to you.
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http://doctor.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-deepti-goyal/65111
Oral contraceptives can cause acne but depends on the type of progesterone in it. You can try other low dose oral contraceptive pills containing levonorgesterol or drosperinone
Hope this information is helpful and informative to you.
If you have further queries you can directly reach out to me on the following URL:
http://doctor.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-deepti-goyal/65111
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