Zandria said:
I know i should ask on the womens forum, but they dont get answered as fast as this one.
I stoped taking Birth Controll pills for a wile, i make my BF wear a condom. hes getting fusterated and wanted me on BC again. I had a few questions regarding BC and winny/var/primo. If one is on a cycle of winny/var/primo is a woman more fertile or less fertile? And how would taking the female hormone effect it? If wile on winny/var/primo a woman is temparly sterile then i can say cool and wait till after a cycle to start on them.
And i say winny/var/primo as in a single cycle, not all three at once.
Us fellas here are unabashadley ignorant as to the complexities of the female anatomy. That said, I first began to educate myself on how the female menstrual works after my wife received "the shot", which is nothing but a mega dose of progesterone that completely stalls the endocrine system for three months or more.
After a two months of this shot, which, like I said lasts three or more months, she couldn't take its side effects. So, I began my research.
I'll just tell you that the way to cure the shot is 3 - 5 days of clomid at 50mg Ed. For a woman that is all that is required to jump start the menstrual cycle... crazy when you compare to a man's PCT.
But basically, this is what you're looking at on a typical month:
Testosterone isn't accounted for in this graph because the world has turned feminist and testosterone represents all that is evil
But we know what testosterone will do because of the inherent connection to LH and estrogen. So, just draw a shadow line underneath the estrodiol and that will give you a basic idea. Of course every woman is different just like every man; thus the specific shape of the graph will vary, but the derivative will remain the same.
Now, to begin to answer your question you need to understand the relation between all these hormones. I started to type out an explanation but then I found this little blurb on about.com so I'll let this get the ball rolling:
Tracee Cornforth said:
The area of the brain called the hypothalamus, together with the pituitary gland, control the hormones necessary for reproductive health.
Six hormones serve as chemical messengers to your reproductive system. These hormones include:
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)
Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
Luteinizing hormone (LH)
Estrogen
Progesterone
Testosterone
During your menstrual cycle, GnRH is released first by the hypothalamus. This causes a chemical reaction in the pituitary gland and stimulates the production of FSH and LH. Estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone (yes, the "male" hormone) are produced by the ovaries in reaction to stimulation by FSH and LH. When these hormones work in unison, normal menstrual cycles occur.
So, as you can see the estrogen in your birth control works by suppressing LH and FSH, via the negative feedback loop, preventing ovulation from occuring. Just in the same way that AAS shuts down the HPTA in men, everything kinda freezes in the presence of this disproportionately high hormone. Progesterone on the otherhand, works by tricking your body into thinking its already pregnant; thickening the walls of the uterus, blocking egg implantation, and creating the cervical mucus plug to block sperm. That is why progesterone rises after ovulation in a normal cycle. When you take testosterone you accomplish the same thing as taking estrogen, but as you are aware, with testosterone you run the risk of virilization. Anavar, winstrol, and primo should simulate the effect. So, I would say that so long as you keep everything reasonable you should be able to run BC and your choice AAS at the same time.
Additionally, I want to relay what I've heard about more and more women running BC continuously for 12 week cycles instead of the traditional 3/1 week split. Apparently, the continuity granted by the steadiness of hormone levels is favored by most women who tried it. I ran across this article
a few minutes ago when I was digging up the other part of your answer:
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/birthcontrol/a/cntnusbcuse.htm
In part, this is what they had to say,
Dr. Sulak feels that it is "remarkable" not just how eager women were to try this change in how they took their birth control pills, but how easily they were able to incorporate the change. "A large number of women chose to continue the extended regimen of real pills for long periods of time and indicated that the quality of their lives greatly improved."
This retrospective study was conducted by Dr. Sulak over seven years as she counseled patients about the way they took their monophasic 30-35 mcg oral contraceptives to decrease the unwanted symptoms of menstruation (migraine headaches, cramps, PMS.)
During the study, women were given the option of extending their use of the 'real' pills contained in the usual 21/7 day regimen. Women were able to choose to extend their use of the homone-containing pills for six, nine, or 12 weeks or until their body naturally developed breakthrough bleeding. When women reached their chosen number of weeks or when breakthrough bleeding occurred, women were advised to stop the Pill for three to seven days and then resume the extended birth control regimen with the hormone-containing pill.
This is just a thought of course, but I would think that not only would it be ok to be on BC while using var or whatever, but you might even want to use it for the entire time.
So, that's pretty much all I know about you crazy creatures
Van
