What are combined hormonal methods?

"Combined hormonal methods are combined hormonal oral contraceptives. Actually the combined hormonal methods, injectable is not again available in India. You have different forms. You have pills, you have patches, you have rings, you have oral pills and then it should be started within the first 5 days of periods or if you are switching over from one contraceptive to another, then it has to be started off immediately. Suppose if you are removing the Copper T, then you start the combined oral contraceptive immediately and then for the first one week, follow additional precautions or you can start it within the first 3 days of your periods and each pill pack will have a 21 day pills. The government supply has an extra 9 tablets of iron tablets. So at the end of it you will have a withdrawal bleeding and then you will start having a regular menstruation. So again you have to start the best pill pack within the first 3 days of the next periods. The same combined oral contraceptive is also available if you are not able to tolerate orally. Like if you are having nausea and vomiting, you don’t like it, but you want the contraception, then the same thing is available in the ring for, which can be inserted in the vagina a little high up. It is a small ring the pessary type within the 5 days of periods, kept in place for 2 weeks and then removed, then a day or two, you might start off your menstruation. So a new ring has to be fitted in place within the 5 days of periods and then the combined oral contraceptive is available as a patch, which can be applied over the skin. But unfortunately it is not available in India. But that patch if anybody is travelling abroad, then you can ask for it or ask your local doctor there and use it. It has to be changed every week for 3 weeks. Like of you are starting it on a Sunday, then you remove it and then you put a new patch the next Sunday. Like that you have to follow for 3 weeks. The once you stop it, you will have a bleeding, like a menstruation. Then you again go for a patch, 5 days after your menstruation, for 3 weeks. So the concept is the combined oral contraceptives are taken for 21 days, whether it be an oral pill or a ring or a patch, it is 3 weeks, so that at the end of it, you will have a menstruation like the regular mensuration it has to be followed every month, but you have to make sure that if you are taking oral pills not to forget it. Take it in the regular manner, say that if you are taking it in the night, take it every day in the night so that you will remember"