From overly tight underwear to conceiving after 35 – experts bust fertility myths
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By Paisley Gilmour
The pill harms your fertility
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It can take around three menstrual cycles for someone’s expected fertility to return once they stop taking the pill, but there’s no long-term impact. In fact, around 83% of women get pregnant within 12 months of coming off the pill. Why, then, do 69% of college students worry that it’ll affect their future fertility?
‘The pill masks changes in your natural cycle. So when you stop taking it, you may see symptoms that indicate shortened cycles or painful periods,’ says Dr Danielle Lane, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, fertility specialist and medical director at Lane Fertility Institute in California. These are often mistaken for side effects of coming off the pill.
In reality, the pill can reduce the risk and slow the progression of endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Many people don’t realise that they have a condition that affects their fertility until the...
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