Pharmacokinetics of progesterone a few other countries under the brand name Progestasert. It was marketed between 1976 and 2001. The IUD was never widely used due to a relatively high contraceptive failure rate of 2.9% and the requirement of annual replacement. It contained 38 mg progesterone and released 65 μg progesterone into the uterus per day (adding up to about 35 mg after one year). For comparison, a woman's body produces on average about 25 mg progesterone per day during the luteal phase. While effective as a form of contraception and for decreasing menstrual bleeding and discomfort, long-lived IUDs can fundamentally only deliver
Menstrual synchrony synchrony. Setchella, Kendala, and Tyniec investigated whether menstrual synchrony occurred in a semi-free-ranging population of mandrills of 10-group years. They reported that mandrills do not synchronize their menstrual cycles and concluded that cycle synchrony does not occur in non-human primates. Oestrus synchrony has been reported of female lions living under natural conditions in the wild. Menstrual synchrony Menstrual synchrony, also called the McClintock effect, is an alleged process whereby women who begin living together in close proximity experience their menstrual cycle onsets (the onset of menstruation or menses) becoming more synchronized together in time than when previously living apart. "For