Contents:
- Medical Video: Birth Control Advice : How to Alter a Menstrual Cycle With Birth Control Pills
- How do birth control pills affect the menstrual cycle?
- What will happen when we stop taking birth control pills?
- What if the menstrual cycle doesn't return to normal too?
Medical Video: Birth Control Advice : How to Alter a Menstrual Cycle With Birth Control Pills
For the past dozen years, the program "just two children" is being promoted by the government. You often hear the program under the name Family Planning (KB). There are campaigns that are carried out so that couples will join the program. To reduce the birth rate, various choices of contraception are provided. KB is also various types, some are in the form of pills, injections, and rings. However, taking birth control pills means that you will change your hormones. Then, is there any effect on the menstrual cycle?
How do birth control pills affect the menstrual cycle?
Birth control pills function to prevent pregnancy by changing the menstrual cycle. The ingredients in the pill are hormones that can stop ovulation. Birth control pills can also reduce the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). When you stop taking birth control pills, the cycle in your body will return to normal.
These oral contraceptives involve the hormones estrogen and progestin (synthetic progesterone hormone) to work. Apart from stopping ovulation, contraception also works by changing the lining of the uterus and cervical mucus to prevent sperm from fertilizing the egg. Fertilization occurs when sperm can pass through the fallopian tube and reach the egg.
Birth control pills work with different periods of time, the dosage used also varies depending on the product used. When you go through weeks without birth control pills, the hormones in your body return to normal and trigger the uterus to shed its layers, so menstruation occurs. The dose of this birth control pill is actually low, so it is lightly consumed, has a short period of time, and is common to use.
What will happen when we stop taking birth control pills?
As mentioned above, after stopping taking birth control pills, your menstrual cycle will return to normal, you will also have the possibility to get pregnant. Pregnancy can occur in just a few days after you stop taking the pill or you have to wait around 2 to 4 weeks. However, there are also those that take months to allow ovulation to occur and the body returns to the normal menstrual cycle. In women who have abnormal menstrual cycles before taking birth control pills, a cycle delay will usually occur until they are completely back to normal.
There is a myth that drinking birth control pills for a certain period of time can cause infertility, but this information is not proven, because there are many women who get pregnant immediately after stopping taking birth control pills.
There are also other opinions that reveal that you can take birth control pills to help your menstrual cycle run regularly. When you stop consuming it, you may return to an irregular cycle or vice versa, the cycle is more consistent. If you want to cycle back to normal, but don't want to take birth control pills and don't want to get pregnant, you can use other contraceptives such as condoms.
What if the menstrual cycle doesn't return to normal too?
You can go visit a doctor. If your menstrual cycle doesn't return to normal after a few months, your doctor may test your hormone levels, including human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) - a hormone produced during pregnancy - to check for pregnancy. Checking the amount of hormones in the body can also help you know if there is a problem with the endocrine gland - which secretes hormones into the blood.
In addition to the problem of delaying pregnancy, if menstruation does not return to normal, there may be other conditions that cause it, including:
- Ovarian dysfunction, including early menopause - although it has been mentioned above that is less likely to occur in burial, but there is always a risk in some people
- High stress levels are high
- Chronic anxiety
- Extreme changes in body weight
When you want to stop taking birth control pills, you should discuss it first with your doctor, for whatever reason, whether you plan to get pregnant or decide to replace another contraception. This is because each birth control pill has different dosages, types, and ways of working. Discuss with your doctor, you will get information about exactly what will happen to your body, especially the reproductive system.
