Can the contraceptive pill be taken to regulate the fertility cycle?
A.Cycle irregularity can mean different things. Most of the time it is not caused by a serious illness, rather it is caused by some hormonal imbalance. In a time when managed care dominates the practice of medicine, physicians oftentimes are forced to be expedient at the expense of thoroughness. It is easier to prescribe the contraception pill rather than order tests to discover which hormones need to be adjusted. In reality, the pill does not regulate a cycle. It causes a regular withdrawal bleeding without the ovulation. The root of the hormonal imbalance which caused the irregularity in the first place still exists and will return after the therapy is over. Since the individual is solely responsible for his or her health care decisions, the woman should not just settle for the contraceptive pill without asking for other testing to diagnose the root cause of the irregularity and the appropriate medication or therapy to treat it. (Click on http://www.naprotechnology.com/ for more info
