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julia1311

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Posted: 06-27-06 20:23pm

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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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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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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Posted: 06-28-06 21:37pm

There is very little lining to shed, but you will shed some yes.
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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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Posted: 06-29-06 14:02pm

Very true...Although people do call any bleeding they get a period...
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