Centchroman / Ormeloxifene is non-hormonal contraceptive pills. Having gone through majority of posts and other sources, it seems like a very promising contraceptive for those who cannot adjust to usual hormonal birth-control pills.

India is where I belong and am extremely surprised to see low adoption and awareness in country which discovered and marketed it (only country rather)!! In fact this drug is not stocked by most chemists given lack of adoption by doctors.

I can image low adoption in India due to below reasons.

- This drug is priced at ~10% of typical hormonal birth-control pills which means almost no profit for suppliers to sell it or for doctors to prescribe it.

- Less side effects mean less visits to doctor.- Medical research in India is still not commercialized and this drug was discovered and manufactured by government run organizations (Central drug Research Institute (CDRI) discovered and is marketed by HLL Lifecare). So private company has no interest to market it.

Have below specific questions which stop me from trying out this method of contraception

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormeloxifene states that Centchroman may cause urinary incontinence and uterine prolapsed (ref: - Obstetrical & gynecological survey|date=2008 Mar|volume=63|issue=3|pages=163–81|pmid=… While I know that none on this forum has experienced this, this doesn’t appear minor enough side effect to ignore (if there was to be true)

- As per http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21777048 (published government case report) suggests that long term usages can likely cause permanent damage to uterus? Doesn’t appear like this adverse effect is yet reported by Centchroman users or studied in details under clinical trials.

I am very interested to know if these side effects were studied during clinical trials. Urinary incontinence, uterine prolapsed, uterus damage, etc. are not side effects that should be ignored!

Appreciate perspective from long term user of this contraception.

nahsrad, I asked very specific questions as below. Can you point me to online resources which colloborate your statement?

I am very interested to know if these side effects were studied during clinical trials. Urinary incontinence, uterine prolapsed, uterus damage, etc. are not side effects that should be ignored!

Appreciate perspective from long term user of this contraception.

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