Why did my doctor put me on birth control when I'm trying to Posted: 04-03-06 16:36pm
k this question is opposit of getting
pregnant me and my boyfriend have been
trying to get pregnant for at least a yr.
and a half it started in 2004 we started
having sex so I got on birth controll for
4 months then we decided to start trying
so I got off and we tryed about a month
after then we tryed all through 2005 and
now its 2006 and still no luck then I
started having problems with my period I
was off for 4 months so I thought I was
pregnant but then I started and I was on
for a whole month and my doctor told me to
get back on birth controll to make it
regular so now Im back on I dont no why Im
not getting pregnant theres nothing in my
family and his family that would make it
not possible to conceve?
It seems that your gynecologist
recommended birth control pills so that
the hormones found in the pills might help
normalize your menstrual cycles. Birth
control pills can normalize irregular
cycles but no ovulation will occur during
use of the pills. There is no chance that
you and your boyfriend can conceive while
using birth control pills because there is
no ovulation (no production of ova, eggs).
It seems best to address the reason why
your cycles are irregular. One possibility
is that aren't ovulating naturally.
Menstrual cycles for women who do not
ovulate are usually irregular. Birth
control pills can bring regularity to the
menstrual cycle but cannot induce
ovulation. You can request a hormonal
analyses from your gynecologist (FSH, LH,
estrogen, progesterone, prolactin,
testosterone, DHEA, thyroxin) to identify
if your current experience of sterility is
actually caused by a hormonal disturbance
in the axis hypothalamus-pituitary
gland-ovaries, or not.
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