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So I'm wondering.. I have been on b/c now for a couple months, no biggie. I'm finished with my pack and we are supposed to be starting to TTC as soon as AF arrives. Im on Yasmin, and Im wondering if anyone knows if that can affest fertility at all..and also, I did skip a period on it last month, meaning I just skipped the inactive pills and started a new pack, stupid I know but I didn't want AF on my vacation!!! My question is, is my period going to be horrible this month because I skipped one last month? And also, would that affect my fertility?

ETA: And another question for one of my friends, they have been TTC for 7 months now She ALWAYS used to skip periods (take the pills back to back), could this be why she isn't concieving?

Most women begin ovulating fairly quickly after stopping hormonal contraceptives, but the secondary infertility that can be associated with them is usually the result of the way the pill affects the cervix. The pill shrinks and shrivels up the crypts in the cervix where good fertile mucus is produced, without mucus sperm cells can't survive long enough to reach the egg. A woman's ovaries can begin to respond again quickly by ovulating, but it can take the cervix much longer to heal completely and produce adequate mucus for sperm survival. Lots of other factors play into this though - such as which contraceptive was used, how long the woman was on it, whether she took it prior to the age of 25 or for longer than 5 years, etc. The pill also inhibits the growth of the lining of the uterus to prevent implantation, so sometimes it can take a few cycles for the endometrium to get thick enough to support a pregnancy - but this is an effect whether the pill was used to skip periods or not.

You can't really speculate about your friend's difficulty with TTC - the pill could definitely have contributed to it, but not because of skipping periods - because the pill just has that effect on some women anyway. However, she could also have underlying feritlity problems that existed before she ever went on the pill too. Who knows. 7 months isn't very long, considering it takes couples with healthy reproductive systems an average of 6-12 months to conceive.

thank you very much for all that info..:) I appreciate it!

I agree that it can take a while for your body to adjust to not being on b/c. It took me 3 months to get back to normal after using the patch. Everyone is different and every kind of b/c is different.

I wouldn't stress just yet.

Angie

Typically the pill is only in your system as long as you continue to take it (that is why you can get pg from missing only one pill).