Smoking Cessation
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Smoking causes cancer, breathing problems, heart attacks, and stroke. Secondhand smoke causes asthma and breathing problems. We can help you quit. Learn more below.
Using medications can double your chance of giving up cigarette smoking for good. Prescription medications can also be used together with nicotine replacement therapy such as nicotine gum or patches. You can begin your journey to a smoke-free life today.
Erectile Dysfunction
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Erectile dysfunction is the inability to achieve or sustain an erection suitable for sexual intercourse. Causes include medications, chronic illnesses, poor blood flow to the penis, drinking too much alcohol, or being too tired.
Erectile dysfunction is quite common and can be caused by various factors, so we encourage you to seek care from a urologist or your primary care provider. While you’re waiting to be seen by your primary care physician or specialist, however, we can help to improve your symptoms associated with erectile dysfunction. Please note, we cannot treat patients who have heart disease for erectile dysfunction. The maximum amount of medication that we prescribe is enough for 12 doses (or 12 occasions).
Eyelash Lengthening
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Eyelash extensions are tiny, synthetic hairs glued to individual lashes. They last for a couple of months.
Do you suffer from thin lashes and want them to be longer, thicker, and more voluminous? We are able to prescribe an FDA-approved treatment which can grow eyelashes for those with inadequate or not enough lashes. In a small portion of patients, this medication can cause darkening of the colored part of the eye which has a likelihood of being permanent. The most common side effects reported are redness or itching or the eye. Results can typically be seen starting 4 weeks after beginning treatment.
Birth Control
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Birth Control: What Type Is Right for You?
Birth control is any method used to prevent pregnancy. There are many different methods of birth control including condoms, IUDs, birth control pills, the rhythm method, vasectomy, and tubal ligation. Learn more below.
Hormonal Birth Control
These include birth control pills, stick-on patches, insertable vaginal rings, shots, and implants. You’ll need a prescription for them. They use hormones, similar to the ones in your body, to stop the release of an egg so that it can’t get fertilized by sperm. How well it works depends on how well you use it. Most people don’t use any method perfectly, all the time. Things happen! With typical use, hormonal birth control is about 90% effective. But if used correctly all the time, it prevents pregnancy over 99% of the time. The implant is also about 99% effective.
If you decide to take a birth control pill, ask your doctor how long you should use another form of birth control until the pill takes effect.
Barrier Birth Control
A female condom is a thin, flexible, plastic tube that you would partially insert into your vagina, creating a barrier. Female condoms may also help against STDs. Female condoms are about 80% effective. Other types of birth control work well in preventing pregnancy, but they don’t protect you from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The sponge is another non-prescription option. It’s a small piece of foam, treated with spermicide, that you place high up in your vagina. It’s between 68% and 84% effective. You can also use spermicides — gels, creams, and foams — with other birth control or on their own. Alone, they’re about 70% effective.
A few options — like the diaphragm, cervical cap, and cervical shield — are available only by prescription. They’re rubber or silicone barriers that you place far up in your vagina. They’re about 90% effective in preventing pregnancy.