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Birth control?!

Okay soooo I start my liquid diet tmrw! Sleeved on the 20th! Im so excited but oddly, I just got sex life and i'm not on BC and i want to be. Is there anyone on BC who has to stop taking it for surg? Or.... Does it even matter!? Help please! Xoxo

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      It is my understanding that doctors strongly recommend birth control for at least a year after surgery. Talk to your dr. I was on depo and loved it, but had to switch because its not for "long term.

    • NerdyMHC
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      I was on the pill and stopped taking it about a month before surgery because of the risk of blood clots. My husband and I used condoms for that month and then for a month after. I then got the shot an

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    Oh my billiejoe! Here's to hoping for smoother sailing this time around. Wishing you the best!!!

    And unless, of course, you want to keep growing the family, Maybe hubby gets his own V procedure, because your body obviously would cheat a tube tying too! Lol! :-)

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