The contraceptive pill

Hi all!!!! I havent posted a message on here in a while, Have been doing well though and cant believe that it has been nearly 6 months since having my pacemaker fitted!! I have got used to a lot of the feelings i get now with my pm and although i do still think of it everyday, i have accepted its just another part of me now.
Any how what i am posting on this site now is probably a strange question, But does anyone know if i am allowed to be on the contraceptive pill? The night before i got admitted to hospital having had an episode of blacking out i had stopped the pill due to some bad headaches i was getting(my GP told me to stop immediately)...I have not been on one since and the fact that i am only 30 i feel i need to sort this out, 1st i dont want to get pregnant and 2nd i have a condition called polycystic ovaries. So at the moment i am putting on weight and finding it hard to shift it and i am getting covered in acne which are both side affects of this condition. I have made a phone call to my heart doc but his secretary said they will call me back....still waiting. I know that obviously i will have to talk to my GP about this but was just trying to put the feelers out on this subject. Any advice or knowledge will be helpful.
Thank you all for listening and reading my ramble!
Take care, lots of love to you all.
Louise.xx

6 Comments

Not Offended!

by LouLou21 - 2008-09-28 04:09:33

Hey smitty!!! I feel its been a while since we talked! I'm not offended in the slightest, If anything it made me chuckle! Thanks for the imput, I will be definately talking to the doc about it. I kept telling myself that there had to be solutions to things that people have on top of their heart conditions.
Speak soon, Take care of you.

Louise.xxx

Contraceptive Pill & PM

by SMITTY - 2008-09-28 11:09:07


Hi Louise,

I doubt that your pacemaker would care one way or the other. However, many of us that have a pacemaker have other health problems for which we take medicines. Since there is no way to even guess if there could be in undesirable side effects from the health problem or the medicine interacting with the contraceptive, a doctor will have to provide you with an answer.

Or, I guess you could use the remedy I heard my grandfather suggest for a neighbor more than 60 years ago. The neighbor had just had her 9th child in 12 years and when my grandmother told him about the blessed event his reply was "humph, that woman oughta try sleeping with both feet a gallon 'lasses bucket."

Now please don't be offended as I know that is crude, but I never hear anyone talking about birth control measures that I don't think of my grandfather's solution to the problem. My grandmother and grandfather were more than 60 years old and I was only about 10, maybe 12, years old a the time and I remember so well my grandmother saying to him, "hush Robert, you oughta be ashamed of yourself." It was a couple years later that I learned how his solution was supposed to work.

Smitty

Hi :)

by Milli - 2011-10-23 07:10:04

Heya I'm new to the site and only found it because I was searching this question online! Its an awesome forum! =] I'm 19 and had my pacemaker fitted in April as I was diagnosed with 2nd degree heart block.

But anyway I know you posted ages ago but I was just wondering what the out come was?

I asked this question to my doctor as I know that sometimes there is more risk of blood clots with the combined pill, but he thinks I should be fine! But I still cant help but worry as there is even more risk of blood clots anyway, having a pacemaker.

Milli xx

Welcome!!

by LouLou21 - 2011-10-24 07:10:33

Hey Milli!!!!
Welcome to this wonderful site! It is completely the best site I've ever been on and totally helped me when I first got my pm. All these questions come whizzing through you mind and the docs don't seem to want to answer stuff like this, especially gp's. So yeah! I have taken the combined pill and the mini pill too. I have issues with these pills through different reasons-nothing to do with my pm. I have taken it come off it gone back on it and I have literally just started to take it again after being off it for over a year. Just completed my 3rd month and so far so good. I have had conversations with my technician since and she said it's perfectly fine to take this contraception. Obviously you have to try and keep yourself healthy and exercise as much as you can within reason of how much you can do yourself as these pills do come with risk. I do hope that this has helped you, and you are well with your pm. There is always someone on here who can help you. Their a lovely bunch!!
Take care,
Love Louise.xx

thank youu!

by Milli - 2011-10-31 10:10:06

thank you sooo much Louise!
Its nice knowing that there is someone else having the same worries! and its good to know that you have also been told that you will be fine taking it, as I do sometimes get the impression that the doctors are slightly unsure as its still a relatively new thing, having younger people with pacemakers.
I've been taking it for a week now! and I feel absolutely fine! But I still have those worries at the back of my mind, but I'm sure after a while I'll completely forget about them!

keep me updated
thanks again
milli xxx

Bless you!!

by LouLou21 - 2011-10-31 11:10:21

No worries Milli. I am feeling fine still, I get the odd headache but think it's a hormonal thing going on. The good thing about us having pacemakers is that I think it allows you to get to know your body that little bit more and you start to understand your limits and what you can and can't do. You will know if the pill starts to make you feel not very good. Good luck and you too keep me posted. Take care.
Lou.xxxxxx

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