The Pill

[Japanese machine]

Hey everybody....

My girl just started going on the pill, and its her first time on it. It's called
Tri-cyclen and comes in a green flat box.

The problem is, shes been on it for 3 days and she has been taking it at around 11:00pm before bedtime. At arounf 5-6am she wakes up extrememly nausious and feel like vomiting. Her stomach has mild pains every minute or so for a couple seconds. She told me all these feeling subside after a while and she feels perfectly normal again.

I'm not sure if this is a common side effect, I read the pamphelet with her pretty well. Can anyone give me some insight? I am a little worried for her.


Thanks.

 

[NubianBeauty]

Nausea and vomiting are some of the sides associated with OCs

 

[flexygrl]

Hi,

It's very common. See if she can get an even lower dose one. The lowest they have.

When I was on it I would have to take it at bedtime so that I could sleep through the nausia. It was awful. It got to the point where I would look at those little bastards and feel sick to my stomach. I also gained weight on them.

Now I am on nothing but good old mother nature. It has been working for almost 7 years and now we are thinking of starting a family, so if it doesn't work, it's no big deal. I hope her tummy feels better!!!

 

[Japanese machine]

Thanks for the input girls

 

[Nonerz]

Nausea and vomiting are some of the sides associated with OCs

and pregnancy...

 

[Sassy69]

Definitely check back with the doc! Think about it - she is putting hormone adjusters in her system. Esp when you start OC for the first time it takes a few tries to determine the correct dosage. I never experienced nausea, however I had breakthru bleeding at the 2-week point in my cycle and the cramping was ungodly. So I went back, told the doc and we tried something else. There are millions (ok, well not literally) of combinations of estrogen & progesten combinations that can be tried to see what matches her system the best. I often wonder if some docs start with the pill that has the most marketing behind it (recall that many drug companies will push a certain brand, regardless of whether it is really necessary).

So just give it a shot. The Pill is supposed to help, not hurt. Also don't forget that which ever one she does end up using, its going to be at least 1 full month of the cycle before you can expect to be "safe" from pregnancy.

 

[Japanese machine]

Thanks Sassy, that was great!

 

[KEL]

Sorry guys, babydoc says he won't respond until George starts paying him comission for his advice which adds value to this website.

The answer given to me is that OCP's (oral contraceptive pills) mimic pregnancy, that is they fool the body into thinking it's pregnant. As such, the first couple of weeks/months can be like pregnancy, then the body gets accustomed to the slightly higher than physiologic (normal) levels of hormone and the nausea subsides.

Switching pills hodge-podge won't help because:
1. All pills have this higher-than-normal level of hormone, and
2. It's difficult if not impossible to guess which type of progesterone will cause less nausea in whom, so in the end you'll be going through half-a-dozen pills in the first 2 months when you probably would have been fine by sticking it out for 4-6 weeks.