gardenmama

I tried to go on the pill a couple of months ago, and had to stop after a week because of side effects. After years of fertility treatments, that month I used nothing but the birth control pill that I took for 7 days, and I not only ovulated, but got pregnant! I lost it immediately for other reasons, but it was quite the surprise. I then had surgery for endometriosis (I have that as well as PCOS), and afterwards started back on Ortho-Tricyclen. I know it may not be strong enough to prevent cysts, but I also knew I was on it for years with no problem, so I opted to try it so I didn't have the side effects again. Anyway, that month that I ovulated and got pregnant out of nowhere, I KNEW I was ovulating - after all the fertility treatments I do know what it feels like. I get tremendous pain coupled with cervical mucous. Well, last month was my first full pill pack, and sure enough... it happened again! I don't know 100% that I ovulated because I didn't test or anything, but I SWEAR it felt exactly the same as the previous time. I read the packet and having never missed a pill, it still says in the packet to use protection for the first month - so I chalked it up to just needing to get into my system more. Well... this is month #2 on a full pill pack, and the same thing is happening AGAIN! Right at ovulation time. From what I've read, with PCOS I can't ovulate because my LH is too high. The pill is supposed to stop LH production and also prevent ovulation. Is is possible that because my LH is so high to begin with, that the pill is only slowing the LH production - possibly bringing it to a normal level and allowing ovulation? Is this possible? I googled and googled, and found nothing. Just thought I'd give it a shot here. Any thoughts?

RunnerDuck

My son is a pill baby.

The thinking is with PCOS a lot of times as the pill shuts down production of hormones and stops ovulation... for us it lowers the production to normal and ALLOWS ovulation. There are a number of cysters who got pregnant on BCPs... some more than once.

I think it's pretty unusual for it to happen regularly but who knows.

FWIW I tried going back on the pill I got pregnant on (Yasmin) and no dice.

I know what you mean about KNOWING what O feels like after being through fertility treatments. I had one time during a break where I felt O and I was like, could it really be?? and 14 days later, AF arrived. (We didn't TTC that cycle, we were going out of town and the last thing I wanted was to fly and worry over being newly preg!) I wonder if I will ever O again, if I will recognize it...

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Sinabuns78

not yet but I have just been placed on Ortho Tri to help us get pregnant strange but weird but true...lol

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JosieFB

I have a friend who got pregnant twice on BCPs. After the first time, the doctor put her on the high estrogen pills and it happened again.

Sinabuns78

i hope the same happens to me!

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ksb918

the one and only time i ever got Pg was on the pill and it always makes me "O"

Sinabuns78

see i am confused...
my doc put me on it and told me to stay on it for approx 3 months and i should get preggo when i come off making it easier.

Yet i hear ladies saying "while on the pill" so it siunds that they were having unprotected sex and just happened to get preggo ...and if that the case then i am screwed againbecause i have not stopped spotting since day one of taking the pill

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ksb918

Sin, i was told that it takes a month to work correctly and a month or two to get it out of your system.. i was always told that it still helps the hormones but has less of the med, in your system therefore making it safer should you get that BFP,

linds3

i was told by my doctor that it can take up to 6 months for the pill to fully kick in so you might want to be more protected during that time

RunnerDuck

Years ago one of the standard treatments for women with PCOS wanting to get preg was to do a few months on the pill... it will basically rest your ovaries, make them stop putting out crazy PCOS hormones... then when you go off, the hope is, with your body hormonally at rest, you will be able to ovulate for a month or two and get pregnant on your own before the crazy hormone levels go back up. This has worked for a lot of women. Even if not TTC some women with PCOS will have a month or so of ovulatory cycles once going off BCP. The only problem is the opposite can occur, you can go off the pill and have NOTHING happen for months and months... even without PCOS this can happen. It can take a while for cycles to start up again.

It sounds like you have been told to go on the pill for 3 months and then stop? 3 months is considered the upper limit for ovarian cysts to go away - it can take 1-3 cycles - the hope is in 3 months your ovaries will be all clear and functioning for a while.

But if you are on OrthoTri this is generally NOT a good pill for PCOS as the low dose of hormones early in the pack aren't enough to whack our crazy ovaries into submission, so to speak... lower dose pills are also typically associated with more break through bleeding...

Anyway. That's the rationale for going on the pill to get pregnant. In most cases you don't get pregnant ON the pill, but rather when you stop it. But I'd personally not pick a tri-phasic pill to try this with.

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Viper20072002

Umm. The pills isn't supposed to STOP ovulation all together. Depending on the pill it just makes sure you ovulate on the same day, or pretty darn close to the same day every month instead of ovulating one month and then not doing it again for two or three. How the ones you get one or four periods a year work I have noooooo idea. But in general there are certain types that prevent implantation if fertilization should occur and whatnot. Idk really...

RunnerDuck

Where on earth did you get this information?

The pill prevents pregnancy first and foremost by preventing ovulation. At least, combination BCPs do - which is what most women mean when they say "the pill." Kind of as secondary measures, they thicken cervical mucus which makes it harder for sperm to get in... as well as make the uterus slightly less hospitable to implantation, should all else fail - but so many pill pregnancies occur, I am skeptical of that reasoning. Most of the time in most cases, it prevents ovulation.

The periods you get while on the pill are not the result of ovulation and progesterone reliease, which happens when you ovulate normally... they're the result of going off the pill for a week and losing the progesterone the pill supplied. As you withdraw from the progesterone, you bleed. You can stay on the pills as long as you like and manipulate your periods as you see fit - plan for vacation or whatever. Some say there is no lofical reason to need to have a period every month so the period a few times a year pills have become popular.

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