What are the 5 types of birth control?

What birth control options are available?
  • Barrier methods. Examples include male and female condoms, as well as the diaphragm, cervical cap and contraceptive sponge.
  • Short-acting hormonal methods. …
  • Long-acting hormonal methods. …
  • Sterilization. …
  • Spermicide or vaginal gel. …
  • Fertility awareness methods.

What is the most common female birth control?

The oral contraceptive pill and female sterilization are the most widely used birth control methods in the United States, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

What are the 3 types of birth control?

Birth control is any medicine, device or method people use to prevent pregnancy. Types of birth control can include pills, intrauterine devices (IUD), vasectomy and condoms.

What is the safest birth control?

The kinds of birth control that work the best to prevent pregnancy are the implant and IUDs — they’re also the most convenient to use, and the most foolproof. Other birth control methods, like the pill, ring, patch, and shot, are also really good at preventing pregnancy if you use them perfectly.

What’s the best form of birth control?

Contraceptives that are more than 99% effective:
  • contraceptive implant (lasts up to 3 years)
  • intrauterine system, or IUS (up to 5 years)
  • intrauterine device, or IUD, also called the coil (up to 5 to 10 years)
  • female sterilisation (permanent)
  • male sterilisation or vasectomy (permanent)

Does IUD hurt?

People usually feel some cramping or pain when they’re getting their IUD placed. The pain can be worse for some, but luckily it only lasts for a minute or two. Some doctors tell you to take pain medicine before you get the IUD to help prevent cramps.

Which birth control causes weight gain?

There’s been a lot of research on common birth control side effects. And studies show that the pill, the ring, the patch, and the IUD don’t make you gain weight or lose weight. There are 2 methods of birth control that cause weight gain in some people who use them: the birth control shot and the birth control implant.

What is the lowest hormone birth control method?

Barrier methods

These no-hormone forms of birth control include male and female condoms, cervical caps, sponges, and diaphragms. These methods are often used along with spermicidals.

Does IUD cause weight gain?

Weight gain can happen with hormonal IUDs due to the hormone, progestin, used. Any IUD weight gain is likely not an increase in body fat, but instead an increase in water retention. The hormone progestin may increase water retention that causes bloating, typically adding about five pounds.

Why do people use IUD?

Experts recommend IUDs as a good birth control option for younger adults and teens because they last for many years, need no daily care, and are very effective at preventing pregnancy.

Which birth control causes weight gain?

There’s been a lot of research on common birth control side effects. And studies show that the pill, the ring, the patch, and the IUD don’t make you gain weight or lose weight. There are 2 methods of birth control that cause weight gain in some people who use them: the birth control shot and the birth control implant.

Does IUD hurt?

People usually feel some cramping or pain when they’re getting their IUD placed. The pain can be worse for some, but luckily it only lasts for a minute or two. Some doctors tell you to take pain medicine before you get the IUD to help prevent cramps.

What is the best birth control for no weight gain?

For most people the combined hormonal pill, patch, and ring do not appear to cause weight gain and the hormonal IUD likely doesn’t cause weight gain. The implant and the shot may contribute to weight gain in some people.

Does the implant hurt?

The implant can be taken out if you have side effects. You can have it removed at any time, and your natural fertility will return very quickly. When it’s first put in, you may feel some bruising, tenderness or swelling around the implant. Your periods may become irregular, lighter, heavier or longer.

Where do your eggs go when you’re on birth control?

(No egg means no fertilization and no pregnancy.) So technically, birth control makes a woman keep her eggs. There’s no evidence that using hormonal birth control – like the pill, the ring, or the Mirena IUD – will have any negative effect on a woman’s ability to get pregnant in the future.