WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for August, 2002: Re: I need advice on getting off pill - too many problems

Re: I need advice on getting off pill - too many problems - please advise ASAP!

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:45:02 -0500 (CDT)

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In reply to: Cindy: "I need advice on getting off pill - too many problems - please advise ASAP!"

At Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Cindy wrote: >
>I wrote earlier about the late pills and starting early period - Now - I
>have been reading up on pills and finding out it may be affecting me
>more then I thought. I have been tring to loose weight (I gained 50
>pounds with my pregnancy - my son is 11 mths old). I have been on a
>strict diet and excersize program for almost 3 months and have lost
>maybie 2 pounds (I have lost inches and clothes feel better). Also, I
>am always retaining water (found out that could be BCPills). Plus I
>have been moody.

Pregnancy makes all of that worse.

>
>My question is - Can I just stop taking the pills

Sure, but it is usually better to finish a pack and then not start the next pack.

and will I go back to >my regular self (I was so regular - you could set your clock by me).

Maybe, maybe not.

I >have my yearling GYN appt at the end of October. I would like to stop
>taking the pill today and maybie see about another form of Birth control
>in October - and from now till then - get my regular self back.

And if you get pregnant in the meanwhile?????????

My >husband said he did not care we could just use a condom - if I want to

Failure rate with condoms is 12 times as high as it is with the OCP's. 6 pregnancies per 100 woman years with condoms and 0.5 pregnancies per 100 woman years with the pill.

>stop taking it - then stop. I want to know if it will be better for me
>- to stop taking the pill and just be NORMAL or is there some kind of
>benefit to using the pill, that makes up for the retaining water, etc.

The pill lowers the incidence of ovarian and endometrial cancer and it decreases the incidence of breast biopsy.

--
R.Daniel Braun, MD  FACOG   FOG
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