Al, Sure...because you need a prescription to get it. ... As far as I know the drug is considered to be perfectly safe.
Tons of side effects. Anything is better than the morning-after pill, short of abortion. When you're using massive doses of hormones to force an out-of-cycle menstruation period, you're obviously asking for trouble.
Really? Here are the noted side effects for the morning after pill and those for aspirin. Frankly, I think the aspirin may be more dangerous:
"Common side effects [for the morning after pill] include nausea, vomiting, lower abdominal pain, fatigue, headache, breast tenderness, and menstrual changes."
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"Gastrointestinal reactions: Doses of 1,000 mg per day of aspirin caused gastrointestinal symptoms and bleeding that, in some cases, were clinically significant. In the largest postinfarction study (the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study (AMIS) with 4,500 people), the percentage of incidences of gastrointestinal symptoms for the aspirin (1,000 mg of a standard, solid-tablet formulation) and placebo-treated subjects, respectively, were stomach pain (14.5%, 4.4%), heartburn (11.9%, 4.8%), nausea and/or vomiting (7.6%, 2.1%), hospitalization for GI disorder (4.9%, 3.5%). In the A.I. and other trials, aspirin-treated patients had increased rates of gross gastrointestinal bleeding. Symptoms and signs of gastrointestinal irritation were not significantly increased in subjects treated for unstable angina with buffered aspirin in solution."
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