The pill.. A few questions about it.?

Question

Hello, I have decided to go on the pill (monofeme) and am a little unsure about a few issues the doctor didnt quite cover.

Can you have sex (and be protected by the pill) at any time? E.g. after taking the 'inactive' pills.. say the day you go back on the normal ones, will you be covered than?

One person said you were not convered while on inactives, and not covered for 7 days after the inactives... however another source said you were.

I would like anyone with reliable information to give me some advice.. or personal knowledge?

Thank you. Much Appreciated.

Answer 1

Yes, you are covered. Also if you go straight from one months active, to the next month, you will miss your period. Comes in handy for special occassions, but don't do it too often

Answer 2

You are covered while on the inactive.

My wife and I had sex when ever we felt like and we have been doing like that for 5 years now.

I do believe you have to have taken the active pills for at least a week or 5 days before you go nutz when you first start out.

Not to mention you are safe anyhow so long as you are week before or after ovulation.

My wife and I had done the Ovulation watch for a long time too with no protection and nothing happend.

I hope I'm shooting blanks, that would be great. lol.

Answer 3

Hey.

every Pill works differently, and I'd HATE to give you any wrong advice, so best thing would be to speak with your doctor again.
But here is some info on how all my pills have worked.

You can start taking your first pill on the first day of your period and are immedeately protected, because it is your period obviously, and you can't get pregnant during a period. If you start it on the first day of your period you should get your period once you get to the 'inactive' pills, or 'reminder' pills. Since you should be on your period again, you should not get pregnant.

Also you can start your pill on the sunday after your period starts (unless it starts on a sunday), but then you MUST use a back up method of birth control for your first 7 days of being on the pill.

Answer 4

I'm currently on the pill, with active and inactive pills like yours, and I can tell you that you are protected when taking both active and inactive pills. I've never had a mishap. Also, if you didn't know, you don't have to take the inactive pills, so if you miss one, you'll be fine.

Answer 5

Yes, your covered, even as you take the placebos. I was on the pill for years and never had a problem.

The only thing is, once you start taking the pill, give it a few weeks to start working before you use that as your only means of pregnancy protection.

Answer 6

Taking The Pill means you are protected at all times, but remember no form of birth control other than abstinence is 100% safe.

Answer 7

don't do it. go buy the book by Suzanne Somers: Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones. buy it at the book store, amazon or ebay. it will tell you that women should never take the pill.
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Birth Control Pills and Breast Cancer
November 22nd, 2006

As Dorian noted in NewsSquawk a few weeks back, a meta-analysis of breast cancer data recently revealed a statistically significant correlation between use of the contraceptive pill prior to full-term pregnancy and premenopausal breast cancer.

I finally got a moment to hop over to Procedings, the journal of the Mayo Clinic that reported on the study, and while the article itself is limited to subscribers, the editorial that offers analysis on the findings is open to all.

First off, I was amazed to read that the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World Health Organization, categorized the contraceptive pill as a carcinogen in 2005. Granted, I’ve been a bit baby absorbed for the last couple of years, but I cannot believe I never read this news anywhere. Did it get any press? If not, why not?

Now for the findings…it appears that women who have ever used birth control pills have a ”small but statistically significant increased risk of breast cancer”. Furthermore, use of the Pill before having one’s first full-term pregnancy is more strongly associated with breast cancer than being on the Pill after having delivered a baby. The association is even stronger where these pre-baby Pill users were on birth control pills for four years or more. (The editorial further notes, “A higher risk of breast cancer for OC use before first full-term pregnancy was first described more than 25 years ago by Pike et al…” - again, I’m very surprised that evidence linking the Pill and breast cancer has been uncovered for so long, with so little press.)....

Posted by MommaSteph.
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from Suzanne's book:

Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones- strong synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link, and you'll learn more about it in this book.

Read on and see if you relate to my scenario: As I said, for twenty-two years, I was on synthetic birth control pills, the original ones that were very strong. I even manipulated my periods with them, if I didn't want to have a period on a particular weekend. I just didn't realize what was in those birth control pills, nor did I understand the dangers of messing with nature.

I did not realize that having only a two-day bleed meant that I was not ovulating fully. At the time, I thought it was great to have such a light period. I did not realize that the importance of ovulation in the human female body is to let the brain know that I was well, healthy, and reproductive. As far as my brain was concerned, I was not reproductive because I was not fully ovulating. An ovulating woman is a reproductive woman.

To believe that the body is not fully ovulating is a dangerous assumption for the brain to make. If the brain perceives us as unable to reproduce, its job, biologically speaking, is to try to eliminate us to make room for the reproductive ones. This is the nature in us. This is the template that was programmed in us from ancient times. Thus, this hormonal imbalance that I unknowingly put myself in was creating a backdrop for cancer. Why? Because we all have cancer in us, but as long as we are hormonally balanced, the brain perceives us as young, strong, and healthy. If we become imbalanced, this signals to the brain that the reproductive system is no longer in working order, and it is in this scenario that the cancer has a chance to come into being.

You see, cancer proliferates in an environment of hormonal imbalance. This is why I believe that Western medicine's standard of care, well-meaning as it is, is treating us incorrectly. Western medicine is looking at everything except the obvious. Western medicine is trying to poison the cancer out of us, further wreaking havoc with our hormonal systems.

Then, to prevent recurrence, we are given hormone ablation drugs such as tamoxifen or Femara, which interfere with the body's ability to read the hormones in some parts of the body. Plus, for many women these drugs cause horrible side effects. To me, it doesn't make sense to take any drug that prevents new hormones from being made in our bodies or to kill off any of the little bit of hormones we might have left. Why has Western medicine been trying to outthink nature? We are given fake hormones that don't replicate exactly what our bodies make naturally, and doctors are expecting them to work in the same way or better. It hasn't worked. Look around. Are the women you know doing well from midlife on? Most everyone has complaints, from mild to severe. No wonder women are in such bad shape.

Once you understand the importance of your brain perceiving the body as reproductive--our "brain template"--it will be easier for you to make decisions for yourself. We assume that the professionals who are taking care of us know what they are doing. But they can't know what they haven't been taught, and unless you find yourself a doctor such as the ones....