Re: Bernstein Diet & Birth Control Tri Cyclen
From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:08:20 -0600 (CST)
Ortho-tri is supposedly not good for PCOS. Monophasic pills are
supposed to be better for us. However I will admit that like you, I
once took ortho-tri with no problems (that I can recall...) as far as
side effects... however i went on BCPs at the time due to excess body
hair and when the pill did nothing for that, i quit taking it. (i was
young and have since given up on magical body hair reducing cures...)
so i will admit that your milage may very. a momophasic may well be
best for you, but if the ortho-tri works for you, go for it.
At Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Lakefever2 wrote:
>
>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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