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Re: Bernstein Diet & Birth Control Tri Cyclen
From: Lakefever2 (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:10:14 -0800 (PST)
I will be starting Ortho-tricycline this week. I'm
due for a period. My doctor is an RE and they're the
onese that prescribed it to me since I was on it
before and never had many problems. So you think this
is not a good bcp to use with PCOS??? When I was on
it, I had not been diagnosed witih PCOS and that was 2
years ago.
--- jodi <anonymous@obgyn.net> wrote:
> I don't think the spotting has anythig to do with
> the diet. A lot of
> women have spotting on the pill. Sometimes it goes
> away with time - I
> had spotting on ortho-novum for two months, then it
> stopped - and
> sometimes it does not - I had spotting on Alesse for
> 5 months and gave
> up on it. As far as I know, if you are spotting, it
> by no means means
> you are more likely to become pregnant on the pill -
> I have had
> countless doctors tell me this. It may mean,
> however, that that brand
> of pill is not right for you. If you have PCOS,
> ortho-tricyclen is not
> a very good pill to be taking anyway. A mono-phasic
> pill is supposedly
> better for us. Maybe you could switch to
> ortho-cyclen?
>
> At Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Shanna wrote:
> >
> >Before starting the diet, I was told there would be
> no complications
> >with taking birth control and that I may have some
> spotting but
> >pregnancy would not be a factor.
> >
> >I started the diet 2 1/2 weeks before I would get
> my period. All was
> >going well and normal. Now a month and a half
> later I have a bit of
> >spotting during the last two days of my pills. The
> only thing that has
> >changed is that the nurse gave me a b6 vitamin shot
> instead of the
> >combined one. Then I got the spotting a few days
> later. I should be
> >getting my period this week anyway. But I've never
> had spotting before
> >I was done my pills. I'm getting married next year
> - if I got pregnant
> >it would be a disaster.
> >
> >Is anyone having the same problem?
>
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