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Rigevidon

I've been prescribed a course of Rigevidon and when I searched information about this pill, I was alarmed because there is a petition to say this pill should be withdrawn.
People as young as 23 have died and had stroke. While I understand that there is always a risk of DVT, depression or stroke when taking contraceptive pills, I was thinking, there are other brand of pills which contains more or less the same hormones ethinylestradiol and levonorgestrel. So should I be concerned? I have been on other brand of pills in the past which contained ethinylestradiol and norethisterone and I was fine with it.

Also, what causes these illness when in fact we naturally produce oestrogen and progesteron and also need them. I understand that contraceptive pill contains synthetic version of hormones but it is mind boggling.
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