If a woman is sexually active and able to become pregnant, she might ask herself, "should I become pregnant?" it is completely a woman's prerogative whether she wants to become pregnant or not. Birth control devices hence are very important to give that freedom to her to lead her life the way she wants to.

If a woman does not want to get pregnant at some point of her life, she needs to decide when does she want to conceive? Does she plan to become pregnant in the future or much later in life or never at all? Her answers to these questions can determine the fact whether they want to go for any birth control measure and if at all then which one shall they use.

There are a number of different ways to describe birth control. Birth control means to prevent pregnancy from taking place, similar ideas are family planning, where the family is planned and a fixed number of children are aimed at, contraception- where medications are used to prevent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention. None the less, no method of birth control available today provides perfect protection against sexually transmitted infections in women and men except abstinence from it.

Desogen should not be taken if the woman is pregnant or if she had recently had a baby. It should also not be used if a person has the medical conditions that include blood circulation problems caused by diabetes, jaundice caused by birth control pills, a hormone-related cancer such as uterine or breast cancer, high blood pressure, migraine headaches and a heart valve disorder.