Contraceptives to regulate perimenopause?

[Carol4Mary]

I was wondering if its a sin to take a contraceptive if you are not in a relationship nor planning to be but your doctor has prescribed it for disabling hemorrhage due to fibroids, swollen ovaries and hemorrhoids due to menopause?

I am 51 and going through this, I have to work to support my teenage children, and during my menses I could hardly sit down due to pain from all the congestion in that lower abdominal region. I would go to work wearing diapers and sometimes would still have accidents.

I tried a low dose contraceptive which offered much relief but caused terrible headaches, now I have to go back to where I was, but was it a sin to try this therapy? and does someone know of an effective herbal remedy?

THe loss of blood was making me anemic and making sleep difficult also as a result.

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

In such a case the medication is not used for contraception but rather legitimate medical purposes. This is perfectly acceptable.

Humanae Vitae

1. On the other hand, the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation should result there from—provided such impediment is not directly intended for any motive whatsoever.