Hello everyone, I am your old friend Dr. Li Shan. You can call me Sa Jie.
As an obstetrician and gynecologist, I hope every woman can better understand her body, know more reliable health knowledge and better protect herself.
So I began to write, writing hundreds of answers on Zhihu, with nearly 140,000 followers and 620,000 approval, helping tens of thousands of women to answer their doubts.
So today, I would like to talk to you about subcutaneous implantation contraception.
The skin-buried contraceptive method in beauty salons does not conform to relevant laws and regulations.
Subcutaneous implantation contraception may not be well understood by many women.
To tell the truth, subcutaneous implantation contraceptive method is not done much in hospitals at present. The main thing in the hospital is to place intrauterine contraceptive rings or the way doctors prescribe short-acting contraceptives.
By chance, Sa Jie was shopping when she was advertised by the beauty salon clerk to go to their store for skin burial contraception.
Through private unannounced visits, Sa Jie found an astonishing fact: many beauty salons, health care centers and mother and infant shops carry out subcutaneous implantation contraception in private.
The clerk who publicized the skin burial told Sa Jie that the skin burial contraceptive method is very popular and safe without side effects. They do many cases every month.
To do so is not in conformity with relevant laws and regulations.
China’s “Measures for the Implementation of the Maternal and Infant Health Care Law” stipulates that individual medical practitioners are not allowed to perform family planning operations, and family planning operations by individual medical practitioners are prohibited by law.
Although in the regulations, skin burial may be in a gray area for the definition of [surgery], subcutaneous implantation of contraceptive drugs belongs to the Chinese medicine standard. Moreover, the placement of subcutaneous implanted contraceptive devices, as a medical act, should be carried out in qualified professional medical institutions by personnel with the qualification of practicing doctors.
That is to say, no matter beauty salons, mother and infant shops or health care centers are qualified to carry out medical behaviors.
But after asking, Sa Jie dared to say: Most of the little girls who help people do skin burial in beauty salons do not have the qualification of practicing doctors. Even some shop assistants told me that they learned it after seeing so-and-so clinic for two days!
Why is skin-buried contraception favored?
The reason why subcutaneous implantation contraception is favored by these places is that the operation is really simple: a small opening of 1 ~ 2mm is made on the arm, and a slender silicone rod is put into the arm to make the drug release slowly in the body, and one placement can be effective for 4 ~ 5 years.
One-time placement has long-term effect, reliable contraceptive effect and reversible. Generally, reproductive function can be restored within 2 months after removal.
For some businesses, the operation is simple and the profits are high, which makes them willing to take risks and test on the verge of breaking the law.
In order to make high profits, they will publicize to their customers the horrors of other contraceptive methods, such as:
Placing IUD is especially painful.
IUD will grow into the uterus and cannot be removed.
Contraceptive pills are hormones that hurt the body…
I will also tell you that skin burying is safe and has no side effects.
However, skin burial is not unnecessary after it is put on, nor is it definitely without side effects.
Menstrual disorder is a common side effect after subcutaneous implantation contraception, and the proportion of vaginal drip bleeding within 3 months after use can reach 36.5%. Even some people will stop menstruation after placement.
However, 70% of them will gradually return to normal within one year and 95% will gradually return within two years. A small number of people react seriously, even accompanied by long-term headache, nausea and other discomfort, should consider switching to other contraceptive methods.
In addition, these two small sticks must be taken out in time when the time comes. They are placed on the arm, which is the part where we often exercise. Sa Jie once saw a patient who wandered away with contraceptive sticks because of too long a time. Only one was found, and the other had disappeared.
Generally speaking, subcutaneous implantation contraceptive method is indeed a good contraceptive method for people who adapt, with high success rate and little pain. After finishing, there will be short-term local congestion. Common side effects are menstrual disorder and even temporary amenorrhea.
However, if you want to do it, I suggest going to a regular hospital. The price is definitely not so expensive and safer.