Artifical birth control causing infertility

[MrsATurner]

I have heard in the past that artificial bc can cause infertility. I even had a specular friend tell me it damages eggs. Is this true? I took it for years when I was younger and not a member of the church at the time. I was diagnosed with PCOS but is e wondered if BC caused the problems that the doctors claim is caused by the PCOS. Also I’d there any studies that reflect this? Just so I could show people like my mother who believe that birth control is good for you.

 

[bstorm]

PCOS is a medical diagnosis - you either have it or you don’t. Hormonal BC has probably masked your symptoms before so it was not diagnosed earlier. Do not blame yourself for your infertility, there are many women who struggle with the infertility and never took any BC.

 

[1ke]

I have heard in the past that artificial bc can cause infertility. I even had a specular friend tell me it damages eggs. Is this true? I took it for years when I was younger and not a member of the church at the time. I was diagnosed with PCOS but is e wondered if BC caused the problems that the doctors claim is caused by the PCOS. Also I’d there any studies that reflect this? Just so I could show people like my mother who believe that birth control is good for you.

This is a medical question, and it is against forum rules to give medical advice/information.

 

[SuperLuigi]

I have heard in the past that artificial bc can cause infertility. I even had a specular friend tell me it damages eggs. Is this true? I took it for years when I was younger and not a member of the church at the time. I was diagnosed with PCOS but is e wondered if BC caused the problems that the doctors claim is caused by the PCOS. Also I’d there any studies that reflect this? Just so I could show people like my mother who believe that birth control is good for you.

Given what 1KE has said, I think you should consult with a doctor or two you can trust.

What I can elaborate on are these studies, and please be aware that they may not always be correct or consistent with your situation.

Self-diagnosis by academic studies is not the way one should determine their health and wellness in every instance.

Also, birth control is not good for anyone spiritually and in a valid marriage it lessens the attachment of the act and offends God to say the least.

 

[MrsATurner]

I’m not asking for medical advice I am asking if anyone knows of references that show artificial birth control causing infertility. I was just told this by several people and was wondering the truth in it.

 

[Allegra]

Do you mean studies that prove that ABC causes irreversible infertility? Obviously, it causes infertility. That’s why people take it. The prescriptions themselves usually tell you how long to wait before attempting to become pregnant and it differs with each medication. I don’t know of any proof that ABC causes permanent, unintentional infertility, unless you count the certain IUDs that have damaged women’s reproductive organs and are no longer on the market for that reason. I think the biggest health concern for those drugs are breast cancer and stroke.

 

[MrsATurner]

What someone told me is that ABC causes prolonged infertility meaning it can cause women to not to be able to get pregnant for months of years.

Let me take a moment to clarify. I am not asking this for medical advice. All I am wondering is if there is evidance backing up this idea that ABC can cause infertility. My statments about my own medical condion are simply to explain why I am interested in knowing. I was diagnosed Pcos only because I wasn’t fertile and wasn’t having periods after being off ABC for 6 months. This is just the reason why I am asking. Not for medical advice.

 

[LongingSoul]

This article refers to recent studies in the UK.

dailymail.co.uk/health/article-207039/Pill-harm-future-fertility.html

Pharmaceuticals companies have enormous influence in the marketplace and I think that there would be a lot of pressure to keep any studies of this nature under wraps.

Common sense tells us though that hormones and fertility go together in a delicate interplay and using hormones to cause sterility for a long period of time could very easily affect the bodies natural management of its fertility.

This is just an anecdotal titbit but from 45 years ago but my aunty had been married three years and hadn’t fallen pregnant so on the advice of all the ‘old lady’ wisdom around my mother ‘loaned’ her my baby brother for and week and her body seemed to get the picture and switched her fertility on. That was a common trick in the olden days.

 

[manualman]

Not medical advice, but food for thought:

Isn’t it just a tiny bit silly that Americans pay millions of extra dollars every year for organic meat, eggs and dairy products to avoid the potential for secondary trace amounts of hormones being in their food, but have no second thoughts about intentionally ingesting massive doses of synthetic human hormones meant to trick their own bodies into thinking they are pregnant - for YEARS! Weird people, those Americans…