Re: Re: Birth Control Question???

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Can someone explain to me why the Depo shot and birth control pills are not

recommended after this surgery? Is anybody still doing either of those???

Thanks for the help!!!

April

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April sands wrote:

>

> Can someone explain to me why the Depo shot and birth control pills are not

> recommended after this surgery? Is anybody still doing either of those???

> Thanks for the help!!!

> April

>

(1) When you are morbidly obese, your body will make estrogen (and other

hormones) from places other than your ovaries, such as your adrenal

glands. Your estrogen level (and other hormones) are out of whack. So

when you lose weight, these places are still producing estrogen and you

have too much. Thus, the Depo Provera shot and birth control pills,

which rely on interrupting the normal balance of hormones, don't work --

they just make you nauseous and make many people vomit.

(2) Did I mention they don't work (for birth control)?

As long as you are losing weight, they are not reliable, so you have to

use some other means of birth control.