Medication question

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Rau said:
Did your doctor discuss with you any risks that may accrue to a baby should you be, or become, pregnant while taking that drug. I think that’s worth understanding.
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Just a bit more on this: The WebMD info for Medroxyprogesterone Oral says this under “precautions”:
This medication must not be used during pregnancy because it may harm an unborn baby, especially during the first 4 months of pregnancy. If you become pregnant or think you may be pregnant, inform your doctor right away.


I am NOT a doctor and I can’t be certain this is the same drug. But as I mentioned, this is something you might want to be clear on before deciding the appropriate course.
 
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Lenny said:
After all do you not abstain over lent? You are supposed to.
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Lenten abstinence is to do with abstaining from certain foods on certain days. It has nothing to do with not having sex.
Lenny said:
This is why one cannot marry over lent.
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I am not sure where you are getting your information from. One can marry in the Catholic Church on any day of the year except Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Marriages are permitted during both Lent and Advent. At most, couples may be advised that these periods of the liturgical year are less suitable for a wedding and that if a wedding is to be celebrated during these periods then the liturgy may have to be somewhat less exuberant than usual. But it is absolutely untrue that one is unable to marry during Lent. Furthermore, if a couple is dissuaded from celebrating their wedding during Lent, the reason will be liturgical. It has nothing at all to do with their not being allowed to have sex during Lent.
 
Well, the specifics are obviously wildly different between the two scenarios. That should be obvious. The drug the OP listed isn’t believed to be an abortifacient or harmful to a baby in the first trimester. If the OP was to become pregnant while on it, she could just stop taking it.
 
So a 32 year old study says one thing and current WebMD info says the opposite.

So I repeat my earlier advice that the OP would be wise to get clarity on the risks from her doctor.
 
There’s several others if you look at a Google search. I think the difference is in the dosage and the purpose. I presume the OP has already discussed such things with her doctor because most people don’t just suck down pills without getting the information first.
 
I looked at another;


This one reports that the US FDA classifies the drug as category X. I think that’s the case where you indicated personally you’d abstain.

But as you say dosage and other factors may be pivotal.

I hope all this pharmaceutical talk has not caused the point I made concerning morality - about consequences - to become lost.
 
That isn’t medroxyprogesterone acetate, which is what the OP is probably using.

Guys. Stop bandying web pages and studies about. The OP needs to discuss this stuff with her doctor, not us.
 
Yeah this. We’re just guessing and I assume most if not all of us aren’t doctors. In some situations progesterone is used to increase fertility, which makes for the same hormone we have wildly different uses. OP and her doctor have far more information than us.
 
Yup. Even if we were doctors (@Cecilia_Dympna is, I think), it would be inappropriate for us to comment on the safety, effectiveness, or teratogenicity of a medicine, and we don’t even know for sure what the OP is taking.
 
Lenny said:
s. After all do you not abstain over lent? You are supposed to. This is why one cannot marry over lent.
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Lenny , please quote an official teaching. As a previous poster said, this is news to me.

Where did you read this, or is it just your opinion, in which case you should have prefaced the claim with ‘In my opinion’.

Sudden thought - are you perhaps Eastern Catholic or even Orthodox, as I believe they are both very strict?

I have certainly never come across this as a (Roman) Catholic.
 
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Rau said:
If you were taking a drug known to cause birth defects - would you continue with marital relations unchanged?
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This is a matter of prudence, it is not a dogma, doctrine or tradition of the Church. It is not kind to add burdens to people that are more than the light burden of the Church.

People with birth defects are just as precious to God as perfect people.
 
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