If you have diabetes, high blood pressure or heart problems you need to ask your doctor about whether birth control pills are the safest birth control method for you. Smokers over the age of 35 should probably not use the pill. Healthy, non-smokers over 35 appear to be at no greater risk for complications that their younger friends. Birth control pills also do not protect against sexually transmitted disease. And once a pill user stops the medication the ovaries quickly jump back into production.
Most women get normal periods and ovulation within three months of stopping the pill.
For women who want to consider using birth control pills the news is all good if you are not a smoker and don't have any other chronic illness that your doctor thinks might be made worse by the hormones in the medication. Pill users should have annual examinations and pap smears. Pills are prescribed by health departments and most doctors who do pap smears. Dr. Joseph Baum More Information about Birth control Contraception Information on the Web BabyData - the premier website for pregnant couples and those trying to conceive. Your questions and answers will be posted to the web, but you will not be identified in any way.