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c/glp1women·posted 1 year ago by u/gustav_lindholm

contraception is the most under-discussed thing on this board

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contraception is the most under-discussed thing on this board. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.

Started logging the cycle in the same sheet as the dose. Three months later the pattern was obvious and it had been invisible before.

Trial populations for the major programmes were not designed around the questions this board asks most often, which is why the evidence base here is genuinely thinner rather than merely harder to find.

Telogen shedding follows a period of significant weight change rather than a specific compound, and it resolves.

Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.

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u/zaid_grimaldi4 points·1 year ago

Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or fertility planning belongs with a clinician. That is not a disclaimer, it is where the answers actually are.

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u/yusuf_ramos-21 points·1 year ago

How many cycles has the pattern held for?

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[deleted]2 points·1 year ago

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u/ignacio_kuipers1 point·1 year ago

Went looking for trial data on the specific question asked here and found the population had not been enrolled.

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u/nayeli_iyer3 points·1 year ago

Fertility can change with weight loss and improved insulin sensitivity. That is a well-described phenomenon and worth knowing about in advance rather than discovering.

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u/dilara_szabo1 point·1 year ago

This. Anything involving pregnancy or contraception goes to a clinician, and this board should keep saying so.

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u/tared_twice1 point·1 year ago

nothing on this board is a substitute for someone who knows your history

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u/appeal_letter_al1 point·1 year ago

I would not read one person’s cycle-linked experience as a general pattern. The variation here is enormous.

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u/tared_twice3 points·1 year ago

fertility can change with weight loss and that surprises people

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u/wholesome_lurkerMOD1 point·1 year ago

Left up. It is precise about diagnosis versus finding, which makes the answers usable.

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u/nora_oyelaran0 points·1 year ago

Left up.

Agreed, and the research gap being real rather than imagined is worth saying out loud.

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u/vitamin_d_void1 point·1 year ago·edited

Agreed, and the research gap being real rather than imagined is worth saying out loud.

nora_oyelaran is right that a diagnosis and a finding are different things here.

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The questions the trials under-powered: PCOS and insulin resistance, cycle changes, fertility signal and contraception interactions, perimenopause and menopause weight physiology, and the fact that the pregnancy answer is always "not while trying, talk to your clinician".

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