So apparently the period we get during our
sugar pill/inactive pill week isn't
exactly a real period... So if this is
the case, would you still recieve you're
"period" or blood flow during your
inactive week if you are pregnant?
If this is so... Other than taking a
preg. Test, how will you know if you're
preg?
This just scares me even more now.
Great.
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julia1311
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Posted: 06-27-06 23:11pm
Hmm... Well thank you, that clears up a
bit of my worry, however if it is a real
period, then why have I read that it's not
considered a real period because you don't
ovulate while on bc...
I'm so confused...
Ingi or carifairy...? You both always
seem to know the answers lol
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Ingi
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Posted: 06-28-06 10:47am
relax your risk of getting pregnant
while taking birth control is very, very
low. Isn't that why you chose this form
of birth control anyway?
Taken correctly, the pill is considered
99.9% effective in preventing pregnany.
You would not have your period during
pregnancy. Pregnancy is not hormonal
birth control. Not the same thing.
Oral contraceptive pills prevent women
from ovulating, so no eggs are being made,
and with that the sperm cannot fertilize
the egg, because there is no egg to
fertilize. It also changes the lining of
the uterus, thickens the mucus in the
cervix.
Talk to your doctor if you are concerned
and also make your partner wear a condom.
Relax. You are taking the pill for a
reason. Allow it to do it's job.
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Carifairy
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Posted: 06-28-06 13:47pm
Actually a period you get on pills is just
a withdrawal bleed, it is not like a
regular period at all...This is common
medical knowledge, and the reason why
women can skip periods for years if they
wanted to.
There is a new birth control pill that has
no placebo weeks..And female gyn docs in
med school would skop periods all the time
too!
If you were pregnant you would still miss
your 'period' or only spot lightly, just
like a regular woman would do.
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Carifairy
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Posted: 06-28-06 21:37pm
There is very little lining to shed, but
you will shed some yes.
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Ingi
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Posted: 06-29-06 10:23am
lolbahlolbah123
wrote:
carifairy
wrote:
actually a period you get on
pills is just a withdrawal bleed, it is
not like a regular period at all...This is
common medical knowledge, and the reason
why women can skip periods for years if
they wanted
to.
it is still the uterus shedding the
lining... A period. Just a
hormonally controlled
one.
all bleeding is not a period. A 'period'
is a cycle, with a luteal phase, an
ovulation phase, a period phase. All of
them naturally hormonally based. When you
are taking birth control pills, you mess
up that cycle. Thus your 'period' is not
based on any phase, other than the sugar
pills you take on your 'off week'.
If you bleed in the middle of your cycle
it is never considered a 'period', it is
considered break thru bleeding.
If you bleed when you are pregnant, even
if it comes at your normal 'period' time
for months at a time, it would never be
called a 'period'. It would be called
break thru bleeding and/or spotting.
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Carifairy
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Posted: 06-29-06 14:02pm
Very true...Although people do call any
bleeding they get a period...
