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What is the best progestin only birth control pill for endometriosis?

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Dr. Gerard Honore answered

Specializes in Fertility Medicine

There is: No 'one' best pill for this purpose, they all work to some degree and usually it's trial and error finding a 'best' one for an individual woman. Medroxyprogesterone, megestrol, and Norethindrone are all available in the us. There are synthetic progestins not available in the us some consider to be 'best, ' but again their is no proof.

Answered 6/30/2014

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