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Below are Ortho Evra reviews, ratings, comments submitted by patients and caregivers. Based on a total of 3 ratings/reviews, Ortho Evra has an overall score of 7. The effectiveness score is 10 and the side effect score is 5.33. The scores are on ten point scale: 10 - best, 1 - worst. This information is not vetted and should not be cosidered as clinical evidence. | Ortho Evra review by 43 year old female patient | | Rating |
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Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | Treatment Info |
Condition / reason: | | Birth control, heavy periods |
Dosage & duration: | | Once weekly (dosage frequency: once weekly) for the period of 3 months |
Other conditions: | | None |
Other drugs taken: | | None | | Reported Results |
Benefits: | | Prevention of pregnancy, lighter periods |
Side effects: | | Very large amounts of hair loss,moodiness, nausea. Patch fell off and had to use a second replacement patch. |
Comments: | | Wanted a low maintenance birth control. Side effects were enough to make me stop using. |
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| Ortho Evra review by 25 year old female patient | | Rating |
Overall rating: | | |
Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
Side effects: | | Severe Side Effects | | Treatment Info |
Condition / reason: | | Birth Control |
Dosage & duration: | | 1 PATCH CHANGED WEEKLY (dosage frequency: 3 1/2 years) for the period of 3 and half years |
Other conditions: | | none |
Other drugs taken: | | none | | Reported Results |
Benefits: | | This was a the easiest birth control that I have ever used, I like the idea of worring about it only once a week |
Side effects: | | Two months after I started the patch I began to have really dark colored urine. I assumed that this was a side affect to the patch. I went to my doctor who saud that is was not related, but now it has been 3 years since I stopped the patch, and now have kidney disease. Maybe just coincidence, But in my heart I feel it was the patch. |
Comments: | | 1 PATCH CHANGED WEEKLY |
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| Ortho Evra review by 25 year old female patient | | Rating |
Overall rating: | | |
Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | Treatment Info |
Condition / reason: | | birth control |
Dosage & duration: | | one patch a week (dosage frequency: all the time) for the period of three years |
Other conditions: | | none |
Other drugs taken: | | none | | Reported Results |
Benefits: | | Birth control, prevents pregnancy |
Side effects: | | cannot prevent STD's or STI's; can irritate skin, area near patch turns red and gets very itchy, I sometimes uncontrollably scratch myself until the area bleeds after I take off a patch |
Comments: | | stick the patch on designated areas for one week, three weeks as one cycle and you skip the fourth week for your monthly menstrual cycle. |
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