Medicine: birth control patch dosing drowning you in estrogen

A little behind on this one, but ya know:

The warning from Johnson and Johnson subsidiary Ortho McNeil, makers of Ortho Evra, says women using the patch will be exposed to about 60 percent more estrogen than those using typical birth-control pills because hormones from patches get into the bloodstream and are removed from the body differently than those from pills.

Thursday's warning comes four months after reports that patch users die and suffer blood clots at a rate three times higher than women taking the pill.

So yeah, time for birth control the old-fashioned way: pills and shots and oral sex.