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Posted 10/1/2010 1:55 PM (GMT 0)
I went to my primary doc yesterday and she told me that when you have uc that your birth control pills effectiveness is lowered big time. She also said since they aren't 100% sure that I don't have drug induced lupus yet that I have a high high chance of getting blood clots from the pill if I do in fact have lupus from the remicade.

She said that the pill is mostly absorbed in your small intestine but that with uc you don't absorb everything and that I shouldn't be on this because it ups the chance that I could get pregnant.

Now we don't want anymore kids and I don't want to get pregnant on the meds I'm on and since the remi isn't working. Don't you think a GI should know this and should have told me this. I wouldn't have been happy had I got pregnant. They want to put a IUD in instead.

This is a new primary doc and I really like her. My last primary didn't say a word either. Sometimes I think docs know about as much as we do.

Posted 10/1/2010 2:52 PM (GMT 0)
My GI told me UC doesn't effect BC pills at all, but my primary doctor said it does. My GI is an idiot, so I went with what my primary doctor said. I am now on the nuvaring.
Posted 10/1/2010 3:30 PM (GMT 0)
I use the pill and I haven't gotten pregnant. I wanted to get an IUD but my insurance wouldn't cover much of the cost and it was too expensive.
Posted 10/1/2010 3:47 PM (GMT 0)
I've been on the pill with uc since I had my daughter in June of 2008 and I haven't gotten pregnant. I've been on the pill since I was fourteen and haven't had any problems. My husband is talking about getting fix but we wanted to wait till our daughter was a little older just in case. We don't want any more kids but just in case something happened. We are still pretty young. I will see if my insurance will cover the IUD and than maybe go that route because I don't want to get pregnant while on remicade and with this flare being constrant since I was pregnant with her I think pregnancy made it worse.
Posted 10/1/2010 7:00 PM (GMT 0)
You could consider tubal ligation....eliminates another pill you won't have to take.

q
Posted 10/1/2010 7:30 PM (GMT 0)
the Mirena IUD is awesome, especially if you have heavy periods. It makes them much, much lighter and for some women, they stop getting them all together.
Posted 10/1/2010 8:47 PM (GMT 0)
I have problems with practically all forms of birth control due to being genetically predisposed to blood clots and getting infections very easily. I have only used natural methods and condoms. It has worked for me for the past 30 years. I know it doesn't work for everyone though.

You could try using other methods and see how you and your partner feel about it.

My older daughter has an IUD (which I can't get because of the possibility of infections).

Post Edited (subdued) : 10/1/2010 2:55:20 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 10/1/2010 8:58 PM (GMT 0)
I was on the Birth Control pills for about 6 years, even through my flares and never had a problem. I did ask my obgyn about UC and Birrth control pills and she said that Birth control pills shouldn't effect UC.
Posted 10/1/2010 9:03 PM (GMT 0)
Birth control pills should only take about 30 minutes to breakdown. Unless your transit time, mouth to anus, is less than 15 minutes your birth control should be effective.

Sue
Posted 10/2/2010 3:28 AM (GMT 0)
The other risk beisdes less proctection from being on the pill and having UC (or even CD) is that whenever you're on antibiotics along with the pill, the antibiotics can lessen the effectiveness of the pill...the pill is highly suspected of being one (of many) triggers specifically for crohn's disease (likely due to the fact that it does get absorbed in the small intestines.
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