Birth control pill halts women's periods

[yessisan]

I studied human sexuality while I was in college, in fact it was the emphasis of my major. In my biology/phisiology class we learned most can cause temporary to permanent fertility.

Sorry, I meant **infertility **

 

[Julianna]

yessisan…that depends on how old you are. If you and your DH want children…yes, for you maybe going with it would be the way to go. IMHO, that would get old after age 40 and something would have give, or be removed permanantly.

I was told by my OB/GYN that I could have the fibroid scraped out from my uterus, BUT it could grow back. I was 31, we had 2 kids and were satisfied with that, so I took the surgery and haven’t looked back.

If you want children go for it.

 

[Listener]

Thank you for starting this post. I agree with much of what everyone wrote. I have been taking the pill because of excrutiating periods that lasted 12 days at a time, and were very heavy. Some days I could not leave the house. I had all sorts of medical tests done but have yet to find the root cause of the problem. I am not sexually active so am not using it for birth control.

For a tiny few, the pill can make a huge and postiive difference. It has for me. For most people, however, the risks outweigh any possible benefit. But sadly, most people are unaware of the risks. Many women also lie to themselves and convince themselves they need to take the pill for a medical reason, when that is not the case. What I find extremely frustrating is, doctors push the pill, which treats the symptom, rather than correcting the problem.

I have always had a troublesome period but it got much worse in my mid-twenties. The pill has made things bearable, but is not without side effects. I think of the pill as the option of last resort.

I currently live overseas, and when I am back in the States, will continue the search to identify the problem, and correct it. Before I moved overseas, I had wonderful doctors who did all sorts of tests and everything came back fine. They used all the latest technology, and did every possible test. I was very satisfied with my medical care, but disappointed they could not find the root problem. Most doctors, however, push the pill on you, in an attempt to mitigate the symptoms, without bothering to try to find out the problem. In my case, I tried every available option, before resorting to the pill.

I know we are not able to give medical advice online. I also do not wish to disclose personal medical details online (well, more than I have already!). But if anyone has been in my shoes, and found a solution, please PM me.

Even though I had a hysterectomy many years ago, I always wondered if there was something else I could have done (besides going on the pill until menopause). Better nutrition, vitamins, etc. didn’t do a thing for me. You would think that in this day and age there would be something else a person could do. People on these forums complain that the pill “masks” the symptoms, but what else are you going to do? Lose your job for missing too many days of work? Maybe a woman who wanted to keep her uterus could go on the pill for awhile for a “vacation” from the problems and then tough it out for awhile by going off the pill. This is okay with the Church if it is done for medical reasons.

Looking at this another way, women who lived hundreds of years ago didn’t have nearly as many periods as women do today. They were constantly pregnant or breast feeding. My understanding is that it was not unusual to breast feed until your child was four or five years old. And menopause - forget it! You were probably dead by then!

 

[fin]

i’ve also read this last yr. in d newspaper. a girl was interviewed. she took BCP because she wanted to get less periods as much as possible. Periods are uncomfortable.

 

[LJN21]

Even though I had a hysterectomy many years ago, I always wondered if there was something else I could have done (besides going on the pill until menopause). Better nutrition, vitamins, etc. didn’t do a thing for me. You would think that in this day and age there would be something else a person could do. People on these forums complain that the pill “masks” the symptoms, but what else are you going to do? Lose your job for missing too many days of work? Maybe a woman who wanted to keep her uterus could go on the pill for awhile for a “vacation” from the problems and then tough it out for awhile by going off the pill. This is okay with the Church if it is done for medical reasons.

There are ways to correct other problems they mask. No said if you have a serious issue with your period just to stuffer through it. The problem is these doctor prescribe the pill as the magic cure all all for everything and they don’t even bother educating them selves on other methods of treatment. I wonder how much advancement there might be on correcting these things if they weren’t all suck on handing out the pill like candy.

Doctors can be so wrong about so many things. Just simple stuff. When I was little my brother broke his arm, it took 3 different doctors and 2 weeks for them to decide it was actually broken and put a cast on it! My MIL was told she needed a hysterectomy because she had cancer. She ended up electing not to do the surgery after a strange chain of events and her next set of test came back negative and she had 4 more kids and still to this day no cancer.

 

[tamccrackine]

Since one of the functions of birth control pills are to suppress the natural shedding of the uterus (or making it hostile to implantation), this article (and the news coming with it) makes me really wonder what happens to your body after you stop taking the pill. To me, the uterus has the function to get rid of the lining every month. There is nothing stopping it from building it up every month. So what happens to all that “stuff” (tissue and blood) that is built up? Does it actually stop building up every month?

And it makes me really sad about the idea that this will cause so many people to have possible chemical abortions or children with birth defects because they won’t know if they’re pregnant and continue to take the pill.

 

[pink]

So what happens to all that “stuff” (tissue and blood) that is built up? Does it actually stop building up every month? .

It stops building up for this particular pill, that’s why there is no placebo pill.

And it makes me really sad about the idea that this will cause so many people to have possible chemical abortions or children with birth defects because they won’t know if they’re pregnant and continue to take the pill.

It won’t cause birth defects. Speaking of which, I know someone who actually was on the pill throughout her pregnancy, (she didn’t know she was pregnant, how, I don’t know) and the baby was fine. Her child is in his teens, he is 19. Graduated highschool with top honors.

 

[tamccrackine]

It stops building up for this particular pill, that’s why there is no placebo pill.

hmmm, that’s interesting. I didn’t think this particular pill was strong enough to TOTALLY stop bodily funcitons. Seeing how some of the pills do cause women to experience breakthrough bleeding, something must be building up.

pink:

It won’t cause birth defects. Speaking of which, I know someone who actually was on the pill throughout her pregnancy, (she didn’t know she was pregnant, how, I don’t know) and the baby was fine. Her child is in his teens now.

Knowing one person doesn’t equate to the possiblity of others having birth defects. Glad your friend has a kid that is ok, but it does happen because the pills are not too friendly to a growing baby, kwim?

Any substance that can cause abnormal development of the egg in the mother’s womb is called a teratogen. In the first two months after conception, the developing organism is called an embryo; developmental stages from two months to birth are called fetal. Growth is rapid, and each body organ has a critical period in which it is especially sensitive to outside influences. About 7% of all congenital defects are caused by exposure to teratogens.

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What is a teratogenesis?

Drugs and environmental chemicals: 13-cis-retinoic acid (isotretinoin, Accutane), aminopterin and methylaminopterin, androgenic hormones, busulfan, captopril and enalapril (ACE inhibitors), chlorobiphenyls (PCBs), Dioxin in the case of the dioxin contaminated Herbicide Agent Orange, cocaine, coumarin anticoagulants, cyclophosphamide, diethylstilbestrol, diphenylhydantoin (Phenytoin, Dilantin, Epanutin), ethanol, etretinate, lithium, methimazole, organic mercury compounds, penicillamine, tetracyclines, thalidomide, trimethadione, uranyl (hexavalent uranium),methoxyethyl ethers and valproic acid.

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Birth control pills contain a few of those chemicals (and others not listed here), they aren’t straight progesterone, estrogen or combo pills. “Low Dose” pills “MAY” not cause birth defects, but there is no concrete study to confirm those allegations. Everything that I’ve looked into all say “may not” (and most of those sites are the pro-abortion side anyway such as planned parenthood, etc) so it’s biased anyway.

 

[DiannaK]

These posts have been excellent, especially from Ruby and Duskyjewel.

I was on oral contraceptives from age 14, until 20. (phew … didn’t realize how long it had been!) I stopped taking them when I got engaged to my first husband, knowing I wanted children quickly.
I also used NuvaRing after my divorce, while in a self-destructive promiscuous phase of my life. As far as I can tell, I’ve not had any lasting ill effects yet … hope I never do.

I am another woman who feels much better WITHOUT any artificial means of birth control. I’m gotten a bit granola over the past few years (since meeting my husband), and I appreciate the changes I can observe in my body, without being masked by chemicals.

Even if I weren’t Catholic, and strongly opposed to ABC, I would still feel like this birth control being discussed is TOO WEIRD. It’s not normal, not natural for women to only have a few periods per year, or none at all. I can’t help but worry that, 10 years down the road, these women will discover that this has opened up numerous health problems.

Here’s more food for thought … notice how there aren’t any meds designed to stop men from producing sperm?? That’s a natural bodily function … yet no one’s attempting to squelch it.

 

[tamccrackine]

These posts have been excellent, especially from Ruby and Duskyjewel.

I was on oral contraceptives from age 14, until 20. (phew … didn’t realize how long it had been!) I stopped taking them when I got engaged to my first husband, knowing I wanted children quickly.
I also used NuvaRing after my divorce, while in a self-destructive promiscuous phase of my life. As far as I can tell, I’ve not had any lasting ill effects yet … hope I never do.

I am another woman who feels much better WITHOUT any artificial means of birth control. I’m gotten a bit granola over the past few years (since meeting my husband), and I appreciate the changes I can observe in my body, without being masked by chemicals.

Even if I weren’t Catholic, and strongly opposed to ABC, I would still feel like this birth control being discussed is TOO WEIRD. It’s not normal, not natural for women to only have a few periods per year, or none at all. I can’t help but worry that, 10 years down the road, these women will discover that this has opened up numerous health problems.

Here’s more food for thought … notice how there aren’t any meds designed to stop men from producing sperm?? That’s a natural bodily function … yet no one’s attempting to squelch it.

When the pill was first tested… men and women did the study. A few men had their testicles shrink so they stopped testing on men. Three women died and they just changed the dosage. How’s that for equality?

 

[HouseArrest]

Yes, there are more (scroll down to adverse reactions on page 3). This is the prescribing information for Ortho Tricyclen, but the side effects of BCPs are the same with a few exceptions.

Thanks. Wow.

 

[vluvski]

Here’s more food for thought … notice how there aren’t any meds designed to stop men from producing sperm?? That’s a natural bodily function … yet no one’s attempting to squelch it.

I studied medicinal plants, and one of the plants discussed was a bean that grows in Asia. Natives used it during WW I or II or some other major war (can’t remember) because they lost access to basically all other foods.

Not a single child was born for some astounding number of years. Turns out this bean causes loss of sperm mobility, and is apparently almost 100% effective at preventing pregnancy. I really did wonder why drug companies are not smothering that “opportunity.”

I sure as heck wasn’t going to suggest it though!

On the other hand, BC has a lot to do with the feminazi agenda to promote women’s “liberation.” If it is up to the man to take the BC to prevent pregnancy, the woman is still at the mercy of the man to take his pill. I think that’s part of the explanation as to why male BC is not so thoroughly researched. It all makes sense in that twisted, nonsensical way.

 

[Mirror_Mirror]

On the other hand, BC has a lot to do with the feminazi agenda to promote women’s “liberation.” If it is up to the man to take the BC to prevent pregnancy, the woman is still at the mercy of the man to take his pill. I think that’s part of the explanation as to why male BC is not so thoroughly researched. It all makes sense in that twisted, nonsensical way.

Just wanted to point out that it does make sense, and I am glad that you posted that. It is hard for many to agree with what you have said, but to me, it seems as if since the BC pill, society has been in a downward spiral. While many of us try our best to swim upstream, it becomes increasingly difficult to not be part of society.

You made a very good point and I wanted to commend you for it :clapping:

 

[astegallrnc]

Here’s more food for thought … notice how there aren’t any meds designed to stop men from producing sperm?? That’s a natural bodily function … yet no one’s attempting to squelch it.

This is being researched actually.