What is the drug?
The main active substance of this drug is dydrogesterone. It is well tolerated by the female body, there is no side effect on metabolic processes. The precursors of this drug often caused side effects, because they were made on the basis of testosterone.
How to take Dufaston while planning a pregnancy?
This drug is prescribed, especially for those women who have been diagnosed with progesterone insufficiency, which is the reason for the abortion of pregnancy on a short term. In such cases, implantation of the embryo into the endometrium is difficult.
The drug is often prescribed to women with a habitual miscarriage. A similar conclusion is made when two or more previous pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions.
When planning pregnancy, Dufaston takes a long time, at least 6 months, more precisely 6 menstrual cycles. The medication is started from the second phase. Most often, women are recommended to adhere to the following scheme: from 11 to 25 day of the monthly cycle, take 10 mg of the drug.
In those cases when, on the background of taking the medication, a conception occurred, which is confirmed by a pregnancy test and ultrasound diagnosis, Dufaston most often continue to drink. At the same time, everything depends on the degree of progesterone insufficiency, which is determined by testing hormones. In most cases, the already pregnant woman continues to take the medicine according to the scheme approved by the doctor. This allows you to exclude abortion at the very beginning of the gestation period.
What side effects can occur when using Dufaston?
As already mentioned above, due to the correctly selected formula, the preparation practically does not cause any side effects. However, with the wrong choice of the scheme of admission or the violation of it by the woman herself, complications are possible. The most dangerous is the uterine bleeding. In such cases, the appearance of a large amount of blood of bright red color is noted from the genital tract. In this case, it is urgent to call an ambulance.
After adjusting the dosage and regimen of the drug, doctors can avoid the re-development of such symptoms. In turn, in order to prevent such a situation, for its part, a woman must strictly follow the instructions of a specialist and, with the slightest change in her condition, inform him about it.
In some cases, against the background of taking the drug may be headache, weakness, abdominal pain, less often - allergic reactions, peripheral edema.
Reviews of women who take Dufaston in planning pregnancy according to the instructions and according to the recommendations of the doctor, in most cases, positive. This fact explains the wide popularity of the drug.
However, it is worth noting that, like many drugs, Dyufaston can be powerless in some cases, despite the fact that all the actions of a woman were agreed with the doctor. This fact can be explained by the fact that each organism is individual and what approached one patient may not be suitable for another. Therefore, often you can meet and negative feedback about the drug from those women who did not help.