Alternative to birth control pill for medical reasons?

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I was just wondering if anyone knew of any other forms of medication that can help a woman to ovulate besides the birth control pill. My fiance and I will be married in about a year, and we would like her to be off of the birth control pill well before then. She is taking the pill now because she does not ovulate and have periods without it. It would be nice to know if there are any alternatives out there to the pill which she can take now and when we are married that won’t contracept. She has an appointment with her OBGYN in the near future, but we would like to know ahead of time what alternatives we can expect to hear and bring up ourselves for a newly married Catholic couple. Thanks in advance for any help!

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The first place to start is to learn NFP. After several cycles of charting, you will have some information to help you decide what should be done. Nutrition can be a big help. If that doesn’t work or help enough, then you can talk to a competent doctor that understands fertile cycles.

How do you know she doesn’t ovulate? NFP can help improve cycle irregularity.
 
While I understand and have researched the benefits of NFP and off-the-pill charting for those with irregular cycles, that is not the case with us. My wife-to-be is unable to have periods at all without being on the birth control pill. We are very open to life and would like to find an alternative now that can let her have periods withough the negative side effects and closure to life that the birth control pill brings. Since it is widely known that even after going off the pill the effects of it can last for some months, we would like to find something else as soon as possible. The bottom line is that she has to take something in order for her to ovulate and have periods.

Thank you for your responses so far!
 
I’m not sure if this will help but I am also on birth control to help me ovulate. I don’t ovulate on my own because I have what is know as PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.) There are some ‘alterantive’ treatments out there. I would recomend asking her OB/GYN and maybe also seeing an endocrinologist who can help with hormones. Hope this helps.🙂
 
The Pope Paul VI Institute is a terrific resource, as someone else mentioned - definitely check them out. Also, you might try getting in touch with an nfp teacher just to ask them questions and see if they have any suggestions. This link may or may not have helpful info for you and your fiancee. It discusses the effects certain vitamins and supplements can have on fertility and ovulation. Best wishes!

ccli.org/articles/lookingback.shtml
 
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keysersaucy:
While I understand and have researched the benefits of NFP and off-the-pill charting for those with irregular cycles, that is not the case with us. My wife-to-be is unable to have periods at all without being on the birth control pill. We are very open to life and would like to find an alternative now that can let her have periods withough the negative side effects and closure to life that the birth control pill brings. Since it is widely known that even after going off the pill the effects of it can last for some months, we would like to find something else as soon as possible. The bottom line is that she has to take something in order for her to ovulate and have periods.

Thank you for your responses so far!
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The BCP does not cause you to ovulate and it only simulates a period. Taking an NFP class and gettting off the pill ASAP is your best bet coupled with a NFP supportive/only doctor. It sounds like something is wrong and the Pill isn’t solving the problem but just masking it.

Matt
 
The pill solves the problem if the woman has serious problem such as PCOS. If it is taken properly (at the same time, every day, without forgetfulness) it will not cause abortion (and of course you must pray for that). There are a lot of food supplements, vitamins that may be tried first. But that usually doesn’t help if it is very serious problem.
I have the same problem as your wife-to-be. I tried many kinds of medicines but they didn’t help me. I went to talk with priests and asked them what I must to do if I am not open to life. And they answered me if it is very serious problem with the health it is not a sin to use the hormonal medicines (the pill). Every day my husband and me we are praying for our children-to-be and for not killing them.

God Bless You both

Ice
 
Perhaps finding an OB that emphasizes and trusts NFP and other pro-life issues might help also. Try the One More Soul website (sorry, I don’t have the address). They list doctors who are pro-life by specialty and location. Hopefully, there’s a good OB in your area.

Kris
 
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keysersaucy:
I was just wondering if anyone knew of any other forms of medication that can help a woman to ovulate besides the birth control pill. My fiance and I will be married in about a year, and we would like her to be off of the birth control pill well before then. She is taking the pill now because she does not ovulate and have periods without it. It would be nice to know if there are any alternatives out there to the pill which she can take now and when we are married that won’t contracept. She has an appointment with her OBGYN in the near future, but we would like to know ahead of time what alternatives we can expect to hear and bring up ourselves for a newly married Catholic couple. Thanks in advance for any help!

God Bless.
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Although it is more of an “alternative” treatment, progesterone creams are sometimes used to stimulate the ovaries to ovulation. There are doctors that specialize in hormonal therapies such as this and other bio-available hormones.

While it may sometimes be morally permissable to take the pill for medical reasons, it will never let your fiance ovulate and at some point she will want to come off so that you can start your family. 🙂
 
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Ice:
The pill solves the problem if the woman has serious problem such as PCOS. If it is taken properly (at the same time, every day, without forgetfulness) it will not cause abortion (and of course you must pray for that). There are a lot of food supplements, vitamins that may be tried first. But that usually doesn’t help if it is very serious problem.
I have the same problem as your wife-to-be. I tried many kinds of medicines but they didn’t help me. I went to talk with priests and asked them what I must to do if I am not open to life. And they answered me if it is very serious problem with the health it is not a sin to use the hormonal medicines (the pill). Every day my husband and me we are praying for our children-to-be and for not killing them.

God Bless You both

Ice
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This is mostly correct. The pill is very effective at preventing ovulation in most *but not all women * if used precisely. You must take the pill at the exact same time every day (ie at 9pm, not just sometime in the evening), you can’t take any medications (over the counter or prescription) and you can’t ever get sick or run a fever. Many moral theologians caution that a married couple using the pill abstain during the time of the month when break through ovulation is most likely to occur.

I was not one of those “most women”. Over a 7 year period my doctors tried 10 different birth control pills trying to find one that would regulate my hormonal cycles. In the end, the pills had only masked the real problem. 😦
 
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kmktexas:
This is mostly correct. The pill is very effective at preventing ovulation in most *but not all women *if used precisely. You must take the pill at the exact same time every day (ie at 9pm, not just sometime in the evening), you can’t take any medications (over the counter or prescription) and you can’t ever get sick or run a fever. Many moral theologians caution that a married couple using the pill abstain during the time of the month when break through ovulation is most likely to occur.

I was not one of those “most women”. Over a 7 year period my doctors tried 10 different birth control pills trying to find one that would regulate my hormonal cycles. In the end, the pills had only masked the real problem. 😦
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Actually, the pill always masks the problem by either temporarly stopping it and putting temporary conditions in place. PCOS doesn not go away after a course of taking the pill but it will return.

The one problem with the suggestion to abstain a particular time of the month with the pill is that while breakthrough ovulation is likely to occur at a certain point in the pill cycle we don’t know where it will actually occur in the cycle due to the many variables you noted in your post. If a couple has relations in the morning and then some of those conditions exist a few hours or a day later then you have a the potential for a healthy pregnancy, death of a newly conceived child, or severe birth defects due to the pill in a pregnancy. www.popepaulvi.org www.ccli.org Exhaust resources that are not the pill first…try to solve the problem first insted of grabbing a pill that provides temporary (at best) relief.

Under the Mercy,

Matthew
 
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