Can someone out there expain this to me please?

LegacyUser

Hi,
I was put on a contraceptive pill (Dianette) for irregular peroids three years ago. I had no peroids for roughly two years give or take. When I went back to get a repeat perscription a locum GP said to me that the 'peroid' that I was having was fake! I have had numerous sca done in my local hospital and all came back normal. I am only a twenty year old and I am now slighly confused as to what this means. I am not under any circumstances looking for medical advice in this forum, but I would like someone's imput that has either experienced similar or someone that knows what this means.
At this minute I am away from home for at least two more months and won't be able to see my GP until after I get back.
My main concern here is that I am considering concieving with a long-term partner and I am afraid I will be unable to do so. I know I am only young, but children would be a huge factor in my life and also the fact that my older sister is almost thirty and hasn't been able to concieve no matter how many times she has tried....

Nevyn

When on the pill the period you get is not natural it is fake caused by the stopping of the artifical hormoans in the pill.

I think you should read up on how the type of pill you were prescribed works and then question your GP about it and about your return to fertility once you stop taking the pill.

LegacyUser

Hi it's OP here,

Thanks for your response. I thought about it quite a bit last night and had a converstaion with my boyfriend and we both feel that now is the time to have children even though we are both quite young.

I have done a bit of reading up on Dianette and the bit I don't understand is if I go off the pill will I get a real peroid, or has it gone completely? The idea of having fake peroids all along kind of annoys me, probably bacause I didn't look into it at that time and I was in a bit of a hurry to go on the pill for contraceptive reasons as well.

Now that things have changed, it has brought up all these issues for us and I deeply fear that I may not be able to provide a family for my long-term boyfriend, which is something I couldn't live with.

In the past, my peroids were practically non-existant and going off the pill now makes me think they will just go back to square one!

I am going to question my GP when I get back but it's just something I wish was explained to me from day one. I'd rather get to the actual route of the problem that pump artificial hormones into my body....

meganj

Hi OP,

I actually take Diannette for much the same reasons as you, I got my first period and then nothing for about three years! Your period isn't gone, it's just when your on hte pill it tells your body not to have a period and the bleed you get is a withdrawl bleed, so while your off the pill for the seven days of your break week the hormones it places in your body decrease and you have a bleed.

If you go off Diannette or any pill, you may not get a proper period for a couple of months as your body is weaning itself off the hormone. It's nothing to worry about and happens to most people. Diannette shouldn't affect your chances of getting pregnant but you may wish to discuss the reprecussions of going off diannette with regards your irregular periods and conceiving.

In addition to this the reason my doctor put me on the pill in the first place as she hoped to regulate my cycle, almost to give it a "kick-start" so my body would get used to having a period, as it happens the last time I went off the pill for a while, bar the first couple of months where my body was getting used to the lack of hormones, I got a regular period.

Best of luck!

ahaaha

Thaedydal is right- when on the pill you have a 'fake' period - that is nothing to stress about though don't worry, but i understand how you would be upset, thinking that your cycle might have just 'evened itself out' when you were on the pill. you are panicking now but don't - two months is a short time and your GP will do his/her best for you and might even refer you onto a gynacologist if you are really worried about fertililty.

one thing i will say to you though - you and your partner are obviously very mature and open with each other, and personally i think you might just want to take a step back from the worry and consider why do you want children now? Are you ready financially, emotionally etc? Don't rush into this because you think you might have problems conceiving. I wish you the best of luck

LegacyUser

OP Here,

Thanks for explaining that to me, I was really confused and worried about going off Dianette and having fertility problems. It's has affected my family quite alot down through the years. And when I saw how it has affected my older sister, it really concerned me. She also was on Dianette when she was in her late teens and hadn't had any sort of peroid until she was 26.

I myself have seen a gynae at the start of all this and they have yet to have found anything, so it's slightly frustrating!

As for having children, it's a decision the both of us have made together. On my part, I do fear infertility, so I feel if I want to have children it needs to be sooner rather than later. I am a second year student in college and I am more than willing to give up college and have a child. My partner is a manager in a large retail chain. Even though I don't financially want to depend on him, and I have some savings myself.

I know deep down he is comitted to me and I am comitted to him, we have no major worries in our relationships all has been really smooth.

Thanks all....

LegacyUser

Hiya I think what a lot of the pills seem to do is stop you ovulating.

Just quick recap from home ec, period is caused mostly by the lining of the womb which builds up every month to allow a fertilised egg to implant itself into. When the egg remains unfertilised then there is no need for the lining to remain so it is discharged, along with the ova, every month to begin a new cycle. Most of the period is the lining of the womb being expelled, and cramps are caused by this lining being contracted as it were. As far as I am aware (open to corrections) some types of pill will stop you ovulating but the lining still builds up, there is just no egg to be dischareged as well. So a period has more to do with the lining of the womb than with the actual egg.

Im fairly sure thats how my pill works (on yasminelle)

Again open to corrections but is one explanation for fake periods.

neuro-praxis

off-topic: It's really none of my business but I would still suggest waiting a few years to have children. As soon as a baby arrives, your lives are going to change in ways that you could never have anticipated.

What is the rush?

LegacyUser

OP here,

Thanks for replies. Some good explanation there.

As for the post telling me to wait until later on to have children, the thing is that we don't want to wait!! We have weighed up all the options and have decided that this is what is right for us. I don't want to wait in case I am too late and can't concieve....We know that our lives will change dramatically and we are more than ready for this....

I have done more research on Dianette and it seem that it is perscribed for people who may have PCOS something that I was investigated for before but came back negative:) So maybe I was given it to cut back on the symptoms I was/am experiencing.