contraception: what the trials say vs what this community says
contraception: what the trials say vs what this community says. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
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.
Insulin resistance is a common feature in PCOS, which is why the metabolic conversation overlaps so heavily with this board. A diagnosis and a finding are still different things and the distinction matters for what the evidence says.
Hormonal variation across the cycle affects appetite, fluid retention and subjective symptom intensity independently of anything else, which is why an unannotated log can look mysterious.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Questions about oral contraceptive absorption and gastric emptying are legitimate pharmacology questions with product-specific answers. A pharmacist can answer them properly; a board cannot.
Agreed that the vocabulary here is imprecise and it causes people to answer different questions to the ones asked.
Disagree — that is a general claim about absorption and the specific question needs a pharmacist rather than a board.
How many cycles has the pattern held for?