Dr Jacqueline Coombe

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815 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Steph & Laura · An explainer on different contraception - with Dr Jacqueline Coombe · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

So the pill, the one we usually talk about is the combined oral contraceptive pill as its full name.

So it has two different kinds of hormones in it.

Whereas the IUD, the Mirena IUD has one kind of hormone in it.

Because the Mirena is physically in your body, it releases that hormone at a steady pace that whole time.

Yeah.

And so that's why it's slightly different.

And look, I'm not a medical doctor, so going into the details on the hormones, I can't so much, but that's kind of the general difference.

Whereas with the pill, it's the combined hormones and you have to, you know, you take it kind of every day at the same time.

So it's a different mechanism of action to how it's working to the IUD.

Whereas now I feel like there's... Yeah, there's so many.

There's so many.

And probably, yeah, there's so many.

There's like 30 or something.

Wow.

There's a lot, yeah.

And they're all slightly different.

They have different combinations of hormones in them.

Not all of them are listed on the PBS, so the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, although a few of them have actually just been added recently, which is really, really good.

So I guess when you go on the pill, you'll have a chat to your GP about that and they'll think about why you're going on the pill.

So some pills are better for controlling acne, for example, than others.

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