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After a woman stops using the Birth Control shot, her fertility may return right away or may take as long as 18 months to return. The average delay is nine months. This delay does not depend on the length of time the woman used the method.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThere are no birth control methods with long-term effects on the ability to get pregnant in the future. The biggest threat to future fertility is sexually transmissible infections. If you are serious about wanting to protect your ability to have children in the future, get tested regularly for chlamydia and gonorrhea, and use a condom every time you have sex.
The answer is: it is possible, if you are referencing hormonal based birth control (the pill). Hormone based contraception makes your body think it's pregnant, therefore shutting down a woman's natural fertility functions. When the pill is taken for years at a time, an unnatural situation occurs and certain fertility functions atrophy or weaken due to inactivity. If these hormones are taken long enough fertility functions simply never return when birth control is stopped. Here is a quote from an expert on this very subject.
"The other more insidious problem with the Pill is the undetectable effect it can have on the cervical crypts within the cervix. These channels produce the healthy, slippery cervical fluid necessary for conception to occur. The Pill often destroys the cells that line the channels, preventing a woman from producing the wet cervical fluid, which allows the sperm to swim through the cervix around ovulation. Often a woman's body will be able to regenerate the destroyed cells, but if not, she may need to resort to intrauterine insemination (IUI) in order to bypass the "biological gate" which is preventing the sperm from reaching their prized destination of the egg."
Toni Weschler is the author of the popular book Taking Charge of Your Fertility.
In summary, the answer is: it is possible to become sterile from birth control. Currently, there is no research being done here in the US that examines this topic. Therefore it is impossible for anyone to state it can or can not occur. However, research outside of the US points to a connection along with the increasing rate of infertility among women of child bearing years.
When taking birth control, the chemicals contained in the pills prevent a woman from ovulating which stops pregnancy from occurring.
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∙ 8y agoBirth control does not affect fertility. Sexually transmitted infections like chlamydia can affect your fertility, so be sure to take precautions against infection, like using condoms and getting tested, if your fertility is important to you.
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∙ 10y agoThe birth control patch does not affect future fertility. People become pregnancy at the same rate after patch use as those who never used the patch or hormonal birth control.
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∙ 11y agoOnly in rare cases. But for most women, the patch won't affect you permanently.
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∙ 9y agoThe contraceptive implant does not affect future fertility.
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∙ 9y agoThe contraceptive implant does not affect future fertility.
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∙ 14y agoNo. It shouldnt.
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Does long-term birth control use affect future fertility?
There is no proof that birth control has a long term affect on being pregnant.
What significantly affect fertility rates in a given area?
Type of birth control and used
If you repeatedly miss your birth control pills will this affect your fertility?
Yes, missing birth control pills increases the likelihood of getting pregnant.
Can taking 4 or 5 birth control pills in one day cause infertility?
Taking four or five birth control pills in a day does not affect future fertility. This is how emergency contraception was done before Plan B came on the market.
Why do birth control have hormones?
Birth control pills have hormones because hormones are the chemicals that affect ovulation and other aspects of fertility in the female body.
Does penicillin affect birth control?
Penicillin does not affect birth control.
Can Flagyl get you pregnant?
It's a antibiotic so if you are on the pill it will not work and you risk pregnancy. If you are not on the pill or use some other birth control it will not affect your fertility.
Can levora birth control make a female more fertile?
Birth control pills are for reducing, not increasing, fertility.
Does taking a contraceptive pill while you have a contraceptive device increase your risk of pregnancy?
I've seen this question around and I have already answered it once today and I wonder where this comes from. Of course birth control does not make it easier to get pregnant! Birth control prevents ovulation and you can not get pregnant without a egg. in order to get pregnant you have to quit using any type of birth control. And yes, birth control is not 100% effective but not using it is 0% effective. It never helps you getpregnant!
Does Motrin IB affect birth control pills?
Asprin doesn't affect birth control.
How long after getting the implanon out can you get pregnant because mine has been out for about a year and iam still not pregnant?
If you have been having sex without birth control for a year without getting pregnant, see your health care provider for advice and an exam. The implant does not affect future fertility.
What has the author Harriet B Presser written?
Harriet B. Presser has written: 'Sterilization and fertility decline in Puerto Rico' -- subject(s): Birth control, Human Fertility, Population, Sterilization (Birth control)
