Hey ladies! So I just scheduled my VSG for November but my surgeons office told me to stop my birth control. I'm worries stopping it will cause me to get prego before surgery and then it will be all for nothing....

Don't get me wrong I want to have babies, that's the reason I'm having this surgery but I dont want them when I weight 350 lbs.

Did your dr not want you taking Birth control 2 months before your surgery?

Thank you ladies!

My doctor said it is mandatory for me to stay on birth control before surgery and 8 months after.

My surgeon's guidelines are no hormonal bc one month before surgery. Much higher risk of clots.

I scheduled surgery about a month before I actually had it. At that time, my doctor told me to finish out the pack I was currently taking, and don't start a new one. However, if my current pack was not going to end before surgery, keep taking them as normal-- don't stop a pack halfway through, in other words. I think doctors are weighing the slightly higher risk of blood clots if you are on BC, against the risk of getting pregnant.

I wonder why they ask you to stop BC? My dr talked to me about using birth control. I have never used it. I have never been able to get prego so I assume it is a lost cause and at 48 I dont think I need it.

They ask you to stop because it raises your risk of blood clots with surgery.

Thank you ladies, I'm just worried that i'll get prego before surgery and I don't want that.

Im going to ask if I can stay on it til.a month out.

I wasn't advised either way on my bc. I did have one med they had me stop a week prior to surgery, but that was it. As far as birth control in the meantime goes, as long as you are consistent and use your chosen method correctly every time, you should be fine. You could always discuss with your doctor or Planned Parenthood, or whatever, doubling methods (condom and spermicide jelly, perhaps) and what the most effective combinations might be.

Thank you! I'm going to talk with my PCP to see what she thinks I should do.

I wasn't advised either way on my bc. I did have one med they had me stop a week prior to surgery, but that was it. As far as birth control in the meantime goes, as long as you are consistent and use your chosen method correctly every time, you should be fine. You could always discuss with your doctor or Planned Parenthood, or whatever, doubling methods (condom and spermicide jelly, perhaps) and what the most effective combinations might be.

I'm on the Depo injection and I continued throughout pre and post op. I had 6 weeks of heparin injections twice a day post op to minimise the risk of DVT.

Hmm, I continued to use my pills throughout the whole process. Guess it's another one of those things that varies surgeon to surgeon.