Does birth control affect future fertility?

Answer 1

After a woman stops using the Birth Control shot, her fertility may return right away or may take as long as 18 months to return. The average delay is nine months. This delay does not depend on the length of time the woman used the method.

Answer 2

There are no birth control methods with long-term effects on the ability to get pregnant in the future. The biggest threat to future fertility is sexually transmissible infections. If you are serious about wanting to protect your ability to have children in the future, get tested regularly for chlamydia and gonorrhea, and use a condom every time you have sex.
The answer is: it is possible, if you are referencing hormonal based birth control (the pill). Hormone based contraception makes your body think it's pregnant, therefore shutting down a woman's natural fertility functions. When the pill is taken for years at a time, an unnatural situation occurs and certain fertility functions atrophy or weaken due to inactivity. If these hormones are taken long enough fertility functions simply never return when birth control is stopped. Here is a quote from an expert on this very subject.

"The other more insidious problem with the Pill is the undetectable effect it can have on the cervical crypts within the cervix. These channels produce the healthy, slippery cervical fluid necessary for conception to occur. The Pill often destroys the cells that line the channels, preventing a woman from producing the wet cervical fluid, which allows the sperm to swim through the cervix around ovulation. Often a woman's body will be able to regenerate the destroyed cells, but if not, she may need to resort to intrauterine insemination (IUI) in order to bypass the "biological gate" which is preventing the sperm from reaching their prized destination of the egg."

Toni Weschler is the author of the popular book Taking Charge of Your Fertility.

In summary, the answer is: it is possible to become sterile from birth control. Currently, there is no research being done here in the US that examines this topic. Therefore it is impossible for anyone to state it can or can not occur. However, research outside of the US points to a connection along with the increasing rate of infertility among women of child bearing years.

When taking birth control, the chemicals contained in the pills prevent a woman from ovulating which stops pregnancy from occurring.

Answer 3

Birth control does not affect fertility. Sexually transmitted infections like chlamydia can affect your fertility, so be sure to take precautions against infection, like using condoms and getting tested, if your fertility is important to you.

Answer 4

The birth control patch does not affect future fertility. People become pregnancy at the same rate after patch use as those who never used the patch or hormonal birth control.

Answer 5

Only in rare cases. But for most women, the patch won't affect you permanently.

Answer 6

The contraceptive implant does not affect future fertility.

Answer 7

The contraceptive implant does not affect future fertility.

Answer 8

No. It shouldnt.