Questions about Birth Control?!

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Your questions are not very clear but I think you're asking about how quickly fertility returns after ceasing different types of birth control and if taking birth control can affect a woman's long-term ability to conceive.

Fertility returns very quickly after ceasing most forms of birth control. The only exception to this rule is the injectable forms of contraception (ie depo provera) - it takes about 7-8 months for fertility to return after ceasing this type of contraception.

It is rare for modern methods of contraception to impair future fertility. The IUD (intra-uterine device) could in rare circumstances potentially cause scarring of the uterus if they were to become infected or if the woman developed pelvic inflammatory disease (a sexually transmitted disease) whilst the device was in situ. Scarring of the uterus could later lead to problems conceiving.

PS. The thing that she is getting put inside her could be either an IUD (implanted in the uterus) or the implanon (implanted in the upper arm).

Well, do you want her to become pregnant? Does SHE want to become pregnant? Because, yes, she will have to quite all forms of birth control in order to become pregnant.

And having an IUD (the thing she'll get put inside of her, as you were talking about), and the pill at the same time? Is that even safe to do....? Just wondering.

Without knowing what she is getting put inside her, we can't tell you how effective it is.

It does sound like an excellent conversation to have with her. I think it's very important for couples to sit down and know whats being done to prevent conception/disease sharing.

If I'm understanding you, she is getting the Implanon bar put into her arm. If this is the case, then there is no reason for her to be on the birth control pill unless she gets irregular bleeding.

Implanon by itself is more effective than using just condoms or just the pill because it is a steady release of hormones into her system without her having to remember to take anything, and you don't have to remember to put a condom on correctly!

It is safe to do both, but is really an overkill. She can go off the pill completely, and it wouldn't make a difference in your chances of getting her pregnant, because, as I said before, Implanon is more effective and more reliable than the birth control pill.

Seriously, either choose the pill or the bar, and use condoms and spermicidal lube as a precaution. Too many hormones going into your girlfriend's system is not going to be a good thing. Both forms of contraception have their side effects, and those side effects could be made worse by the other.

If you are both that worried about falling pregnant, to be using 3 methods of contraception, I would suggest you stop having sex altogether. I would never usually even say such a comment, but when someone goes to the lengths you and your girlfriend are, that would tell me that any sex between you both is a great risk of lots of things, not just pregnancy. Loosing trust in each other would be one of them if you can't even trust a form of birth control with condoms as a back up.

To answer your question, however, if she went off of the pill, and had the implant still correctly inserted her arm, there is less than 1% risk of her falling pregnant. Having said that, make sure that you wait at least a week for her body to accept the implant and for it to start working, or at least use condoms for that week. If she does just the pill, you need to wait a full month before ditching the condoms.

Best of luck.

I'm a 21 year old female who has an Implanon in her arm. I have un-condomed sex with my fiancé a fair bit, and we haven't even had a scare.