Your Questions About Hormone Pills During Pregnancy

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Youre still protected during placebo week as long as you take the rest of them correctly

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Use a condom if you dont want a baby.

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Don’t be alarmed if you lose weight during your pregnancy. I am a plus size woman, and in my first 11 weeks I packed on 26 pounds. Then I got hit with food poisoning and morning sickness around the same time. I lost 28 pounds while I was dealing with that. I since have gained back the 26 pounds.

I asked my OB about this when I was losing weight and he said that everything with the baby looked great, and that the baby would take what it needed from me.

Just be aware that the BABY WILL TAKE WHAT it needs from you, so once you are feeling better get back on your vitamins and make sure you get enough calcium. The baby requires lots of calcium and if you are not getting enough your teeth will be the first place you notice the problem. I have several people in my family that because of their pregnancies they have horrible teeth. I honestly drink about 5 gallons of milk a month, take my prenatals and take 2 tums a day.

Good Luck, Congrats on your blessing and Hope you feel better soon!

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The hormone that dropped was the hormone hCG, which is produced by the body during pregnancy. Normally is it under 5, but when you get pregnant it rises rapidly and doubles every other day or so in the first weeks. A test of a viable pregnancy is to test the level one day then test again 2 days later, to see if it went up appropriately.

If your levels do not rise, or they go down, your body is losing the pregnancy and you have a miscarriage. The body can’t sustain a pregnancy without the hormone.
There is no lasting problem from this. The hormone level itself isn’t a problem, it’s just that it goes down when the pregnancy miscarries for whatever reason.

Another hormone your dr. May be talking about is progesterone. It is required to help the body sustain the pregnancy, it is not produced by the pregnancy. If the levels are low, low enough to cause threat of miscarriage, a supplement can increase the levels enough to have a healthy pregnancy. With my 2nd, I had low progesterone and I took a supplement for the first 12 weeks and now I have a healthy 7-month old.

I became pregnant with her 3 months after I miscarried, with dropped levels of hCG like I talked about before.

So, essentially you more than likely have nothing to worry about. Miscarriages happen for a variety of reasons, and I can’t speak for why you had yours, but as far as the hormones go, it sounds like you are a-ok.

Here is a website that tells you more about hCG:
www.americanpregnancy.org/duringpregnancy/hcglevels.html

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Wow I never had symptoms this intense coming off prometrium. I did have suicidal thoughts and such when I was on the NuvaRing and the clinician told me it was due to my body not handling the estrogen well and she took me off of it and put me on a progesterone only bc pill (which I got pregnant on a year later lol but that’s another story)

i would think if anything you would be reacting to the extra estrogen your body is producing. I would definitely talk to your doctor about this and tell her because anything so severe it causes suicidal thoughts needs professional intervention. Good luck!