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Birth control and Crohns

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fromthegut

My gut is tellign me that somehow.. don't know why .. birth cotnrol helps my disease. I was on it for a short period.. no pun intended...a coupel years ago. I hadn't been on it for some time. I felt good durign that period. My problem was my GP was so busy I could't get a repeat past the 3 months.
I am goign to try try again.. with a new health care team.. I don't think my gstro would prescribe and I wonder if a Health Clinic would for this reason ????
Anyone ?? too bad men coudln't take it.. mayeb it's the horomones that help ??!!
 
xJillx

xJillx

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I have read many say they could not achieve remission while taking the pill. However, I take the pill and I don't think it has an effect. Everyone is so different...
 
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Gwen pippy

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Ireland
I only ever used the 3 month injection, Crohns was fine for first year, but started to flare and didn't make any connection at that stage, but on one of the visits for the injection I got chatting to nurse and told her about crohns, she was part of a general study for osteoporosis and suggested I get checked, I went back to GI who reluctantly agreed, I had dexa scan 2 months later and was told I had skeleton of a 75yr old, I was 25!!! It was recommended that I stop inj as it wouldn't have helped bone density and as soon I did the symptoms of my crohns improved!!!
I didn't use anything after that and years later had children and to everyone's surprise the pregnancies improved the bone density and it's now a minor form of osteopenia.
Just check out if the birth control will have effects on any other parts of your health.

Best of luck
Gwen xxx
 
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HeatherMN

My CD would always get worse right before my period. My old GI (old man) thought I was crazy when I would complain about it, but my current GI (woman!) knew what I meant. Her daughter has Crohn's also, so she get it. I would also get pre-menstrual migraines, so I started taking the pill again.
I stay on it constantly for 3-4, sometimes 6 or more months and then I take a week off. It's been several years now so I don't even get my period on the off week anymore. YAY!! My primary doctor said I don't even have to take the week off at all, I don't do it as often as I used to.
I don't need it for birth control, I am fixed :)
 
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Lydia

There are some studies that show that taking hormones like in the pill can cause a flare. However statistics mean nothing to the individual and everything to the group. So if it helps you feel better then take it.
 
akanderson

akanderson

I ask that to my GP and she told me naw couldn't have a connection. I am on mirena, the flux compastor to my fiance, and after talking to her, I just figured I was crazy. But honestly, I didn't have sevre symptoms till a month or two after I got it, and then when I got full time job at a bakery, I was in so much pain they finally diagnosed me with Crohns. I don't know if that helps. Probably not. But I have still to this day sometimes thought maybe the mirena triggered it... But could just been nature... Who knows.
 
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