[identity profile] plasticjesus.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] vaginapagina
I looked this up and didn't find what I was looking for.


Your "period" on The Pill is just withdrawal bleeding correct? Assuming this is correct, would you still get your "period" if you were pregnant and on the pill?

Thanks ladies. :)

Date: 2003-10-22 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] invisibelle.livejournal.com
Nnooo... I don't think I'll be able to explain this as well as some of the other resident BC experts, but basically the answer is no, you would not get your period if you were pregnant but still taking the pill. (Of course, if you're taking the pill correctly, theoretically you're not pregnant, but I'm assuming that's beside the point.)

Birth control pills are hormones that trick your body into not ovulating (in essence, it makes your body think that you are pregnant and no longer need to ovulate). If you are pregnant, your body is already producing these pregnancy hormones anyway, so you're basically getting a double dose if you're pregnant and taking the pill.

Date: 2003-10-22 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khlela.livejournal.com
I don't know about logically if you would or not but when I got pregnant I didn't have a period and i was still on the pill (until I found out i was pregnant of course)

Date: 2003-10-23 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenkangaroo.livejournal.com
were you taking it incorrectly?

Date: 2003-10-22 10:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] geminigirl
Some women continue to experience bleeding when they get pregnant, but generally, even if you're on the pill, and you become pregnant, your body wants to keep that uterine lining and blood, to protect and nourish the growing fetus.

Date: 2003-10-23 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenkangaroo.livejournal.com
You can't be pregnant and on the pill at the same time, unless you take the pill incorrectly. If you are taking it incorrectly, then your egg has been released, so it is a real period. The pill stops an egg from being released, so there is no egg to be fertilized.

Date: 2003-10-23 02:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-dervish821.livejournal.com
It *does* happen. I'm due in a month with a Pill baby. Pills taken correctly, same time of day, no antibiotics, no vomiting/diarrhea, nothing that I know of that reduces effectiveness. But I didn't have my period after the whole off-week of pills, and that's how i got suspicious about pregnancy.

um, no.

Date: 2003-10-23 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sismith42.livejournal.com
A 0.01% chance (the value my old pill cited as the "if taken correctly" chance) is still a chance. Heck, it's liklier than winning the lottery (assuming one plays)! It's just really really improbable, which is what makes it BC, but that doesn't make it IMPOSSIBLE. The only thing that would make it IMPOSSIBLE (except by divine intervention) is if no ejaculation-fluid gets close to the vagina (so, oral sex or hands, but no rubbing or penetration. hm, anal would be ok, too.) at the "right" time of the month.
It's a bit misleading to say "yeah, you're definatly safe" when it's really "yeah, the likelyhood is so low that you're almost definatly safe". Of course, I do prefere to know the dangers & risks, no matter how small, so as to walk into things with my eyes open. Maybe I've just met too many "pill-babies".

Date: 2003-10-23 09:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] irememberaurora.livejournal.com
some women are really fertile and get pregnant even with taking the pill 100% correctly. over at [livejournal.com profile] birthcontrol they've mentioned REALLY fertile couples who have gotten pregnant even after both were sterilized. a good reason to use backup.

Date: 2003-10-23 01:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenkangaroo.livejournal.com
also, the uteran lining that you shed every month on your period builds up as cushioning just in case your egg does indeed get fertilized. you wouldn't have a real period during pregnancy, although you may leak some discharge.

Date: 2003-10-23 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pillu.livejournal.com
Thats not entirley correct....Some women do experiance real periods during the early months of their pregnancy.
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Date: 2003-10-23 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pillu.livejournal.com
well.... when your on the pill your bleeding without an egg, so does that mean you can't call it a period?

My mother had 4mths of heavy normal periods when she was pregnant with me, and shes had her period with every pregnancy, thats how she knew she was pregnant, it would always get heavier.

Date: 2003-10-23 08:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ourika.livejournal.com
FYI, my sister’s first pregnancy was a pill baby (but she was on antibiotics and the doc hadn’t thought she’d need to be told about the problems with pills b/c he didn’t know she was on them). However, she continued taking her pill and continued getting periods for several months. (btw, super-healthy baby, 9.9 on the apgar scale!!!)

Her second pregnancy was a condom baby (that was used correctly). And she continued to menstruate for months after she got pregnant.

In general, most women don’t have periods when they’re pregnant, but some do…

Date: 2003-10-23 08:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sadhe-sati.livejournal.com
Theoretically, you won't get your period if you're pregnant and on the pill because the level of hormones in your system still remain high, but I know a few people who have continued to get periods during pregnancy (This can happen to non-pill users as well).

In most cases, you won't, but there are some people who do.

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