PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for October, 2000: Re: Confused on the Birth control thing.

Re: Confused on the Birth control thing.

From: stacey (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:19:24 -0500 (CDT)

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Most doctors here will NOT prescribe spiro without also ensuring that a female (of the age and with the ability to conceive) is on bcps - spiro is tetragenic (sp) - can and will cause deformities to the fetus/embryo should the female get pregnant while on the drug.

I've been on the pill for the past 10 years, mostly on, probably about 7 of the 10 years total. I prefer the pill and its convenience and the knowledge of when I'm going to cycle v. the not knowing. I am not trying to get pregnant (I have a 9 year old daughter). When I do try, I will just go off the pill, stay on the Met and try to conceive within the first cycle or 2 after I go off the pill (which is how I got pregnant with my daughter, since the pill "abates" the symptoms).

At Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Lisa wrote: >
>Hi, i need some help? I'm taking 100mg of spironlactone, and i'm on
>thyroid med's. I would like to try Met, but the doctor doesn't seem to
>anxious in handing out any perscriptions. She wants me to go on a bc
>pill. I have been on and off for many years. But i have heard so many
>awful stories about the terrible hormonal shifts going on and off the
>pill , and what it does to your body, re: hair, growth, and loss. I
>have suffered both. And i don't want to aggrivate it worse. It seems
>like a lot of women on this board are taking the bc pill.? And yet i've
>read some that are totally against them, I'm very confused, do i try
>again, and try and stay with it.I would like to try Diane 35. I live in
>Canada, so what i've heard , i can get them here. I just don't know if
>i can trust my doctor. i don't think she knows to much about pcos. Her
>wanting me to take the bc pill is on advise from a doctor in Toronto. I
>live in Winnipeg, if ANYONE knows of a doctor in my area, please let me
>know. I don't know where to turn.
>
>--
>Lisa
>

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