The hardened abdomen protects the coconut crab and reduces water loss on land, but has to be moulted periodically. Adults moult annually, and dig a burrow up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long in which to hide while vulnerable. It remains in the burrow for 3 to 16 weeks, depending on the size of the animal.
Jolessa â¢ (levonorgestrel/ethinyl estradiol) is a prescription birth control pill. Despite common knowledge, weight gain is probably not a side effect of Jolessa or most other birth control pills.
Weight gain is probably not a real side effect of birth control pills, despite what you may read or hear. Even if birth control pills actually cause weight gain, Loestrin 24 Fe would be theoretically less likely to do so, since it contains a low dose of hormones (compared with older birth control pills).owever, because studies for birth control pills do not compare the medication to a placebo (a sugar pill with no active ingredients), it is difficult to know whether the weight gain was actually related to Loestrin 24 Fe.