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 Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:15 pm
So I'm a sex-loving monogamous woman with a highly active sex life.
I've been having tons of sex only using hormonal birth control pills due to my high allergic reaction to latex and the ridiculous price of non-latex condoms.
This has gone on for five years. In this time, many of my friends or acquaintances have fallen pregnant, gotten abortions or kept the pregnancy, and yet I haven't ever gotten accidentally pregnant.
Am I just doing things right, or could I be infertile, or is the fertility of women just weird, or maybe it's just because of the way that others use birth control/don't use birth control?
After all, the Pill is considered to be practically 100% effective (and I take it at the proper time every day), so am I lucky or am I just good at using the pill well?
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:09 pm
No method of birth control is 100% effective, even when taken exactly as intended. However, many of them are pretty close to 100%.
If you're taking the pill every day and at roughly the same time every day, then it is certainly no mystery that you are not pregnant. Most of the people who get pregnant while on birth control do so because they are not using it like they are supposed to in the first place. Many people use only the pill without a condom or other backup method.
I have been sexually active for over seven years and have yet to get pregnant. It is really not that difficult to avoid pregnancy in most cases. I would not worry about infertility. It is a possibility, of course, but you have no reason to think you might be infertile at this point from the sound of it. It just sounds like you take the pill like you are supposed to, so the pill is doing what it is supposed to.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:03 pm
LorienLlewellyn No method of birth control is 100% effective, even when taken exactly as intended. However, many of them are pretty close to 100%. If you're taking the pill every day and at roughly the same time every day, then it is certainly no mystery that you are not pregnant. Most of the people who get pregnant while on birth control do so because they are not using it like they are supposed to in the first place. Many people use only the pill without a condom or other backup method. I have been sexually active for over seven years and have yet to get pregnant. It is really not that difficult to avoid pregnancy in most cases. I would not worry about infertility. It is a possibility, of course, but you have no reason to think you might be infertile at this point from the sound of it. It just sounds like you take the pill like you are supposed to, so the pill is doing what it is supposed to.
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