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Re: Birth Control self aborting?

From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:23:14 -0600 (CST)

At Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Adrianne wrote: >
>Hi
>
>I am a 35 yr old woman. I have only had two fullterm pregnancies in my
>life, resulting in two sons now ages 14 and 9. I have had more work in
>the last year than I have had dates and my physician recommended I try
>to remain off the pill as I have a fast heart due to coffee, smoking,
>lack of exercise. I was off the pill for about 2 months when I had a
>sexual encounter . I noticed two weeks after this that I had very much
>strong symptoms towards pregnancy: full breasts, sleeping continously,
>lack of appetite. I was worried at first that perhaps it was heart
>related but had never had any of these symptoms before. On retrospect
>of my one sexual encounter, I decided to begin the pill again
>temporarily until I had another form more readily available to me. I
>continued on the pill dismissing that I could be pregnant, denying the
>possibility to myself even while the symptoms persisted. To make a long
>story short, I did recieve my period about roughly 3 weeks later. The
>symptoms ceased.
>I have tried to find information relating to whether I could have truly
>been pregnant and lost it due to the birth control but had only recieved
>the opposite as truth, stating that the birth control cannot create a
>miscarriage once a pregnancy has taken place.

true. even if you were pregnant, and even if you miscarried, using hte pill owuld not have caused it. Since you had unprotected sex, have you had STD screening?

>I have been very confused about this as I am unsure whether I caused my
>own miscarriage and would like to know if the relation between birth
>control and an existing pregnancy could result in this. I realize that
>there is nothing I can do to change the above but I would like to put it
>to rest.
>Thank you
>Adrianna

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M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG
S. Lake Tahoe, CA


author of "Your Over-35 Week-by-Week Pregnancy Guide"


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