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Can I Get Pregnant While On Birth Control Pills?
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This is a little complicated but I have a lot of questions, and I really appreciate any help I can get.
I wanted to get pregnant, but I'm on Seasonale birth control. My period is the worst experience, and I dread getting it. (It's so heavy I soak a pad and a tampon together every hour, and I get the worst migranes and backache.) So I skip it usually. Anyhow, starting on May 7 I started to take my pill irregularly, and continued to have unprotected sex. (I've been having sex almost every day, in attempt to get pregnant.)I was one week and two days away from my scheduled placebo pills when I would get my period. But my boyfriend said that what if bith control could hurt the baby if I would get pregnant. So last night and the night before, I didn't take my pill at all, because one, I had a higher chance of maybe getting pregnant, and two, if I had managed to by taking my pill irregularly, it might hurt my baby. But then I started reading up more and more on it, and I'm afraid it could actually kill the baby, especially if it is in very early implantation stages. I don't know what to do, because if I skip my pill again and I'm not pregnant, I will start to get my period, which I really don't want. So, what I should do is one of my questions.
Also, how does this birth control work? Are all the active pills the same? When you miss one, do you ovulate automatically? And if you do, then why do you bleed when you stop taking them? I thought that ovulation occurs between cycles, not soon before bleeding.
Also, what are the chances that I am pregnant?
This is a little complicated but I have a lot of questions, and I really appreciate any help I can get.
I wanted to get pregnant, but I'm on Seasonale birth control. My period is the worst experience, and I dread getting it. (It's so heavy I soak a pad and a tampon together every hour, and I get the worst migranes and backache.) So I skip it usually. Anyhow, starting on May 7 I started to take my pill irregularly, and continued to have unprotected sex. (I've been having sex almost every day, in attempt to get pregnant.)I was one week and two days away from my scheduled placebo pills when I would get my period. But my boyfriend said that what if bith control could hurt the baby if I would get pregnant. So last night and the night before, I didn't take my pill at all, because one, I had a higher chance of maybe getting pregnant, and two, if I had managed to by taking my pill irregularly, it might hurt my baby. But then I started reading up more and more on it, and I'm afraid it could actually kill the baby, especially if it is in very early implantation stages. I don't know what to do, because if I skip my pill again and I'm not pregnant, I will start to get my period, which I really don't want. So, what I should do is one of my questions.
Also, how does this birth control work? Are all the active pills the same? When you miss one, do you ovulate automatically? And if you do, then why do you bleed when you stop taking them? I thought that ovulation occurs between cycles, not soon before bleeding.
Also, what are the chances that I am pregnant?
Thu, 29 Jun 2017
While taking contraceptive pills there development of endometrium which occurs but however ovulation is inhibited as the hormonal levels in the body is not favouring ovulation.
So when you stop pills there is withdrawl of external hormones which are present in the pillsvand hence endometrium that is uterine lining sheds as menses and also when the external hormones are withdrawn the hormones required for ovulation come in to action and you can ovulate.
With use of contraception you will rarely become pregnant.
Next thing if you are planning to get pregnant than stop contraceptive pills and use drugs like tranexamic acid when you start your periods which helps in controlling bleeding
So when you stop pills there is withdrawl of external hormones which are present in the pillsvand hence endometrium that is uterine lining sheds as menses and also when the external hormones are withdrawn the hormones required for ovulation come in to action and you can ovulate.
With use of contraception you will rarely become pregnant.
Next thing if you are planning to get pregnant than stop contraceptive pills and use drugs like tranexamic acid when you start your periods which helps in controlling bleeding
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