my fasting insulin moved and I cannot work out whether contraception is why
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: my fasting insulin moved and I cannot work out whether contraception is why.
Trial populations for the major programmes were not designed around the questions this board asks most often, which is why the evidence base here is genuinely thinner rather than merely harder to find.
Fertility can change with weight loss and improved insulin sensitivity. That is a well-described phenomenon and worth knowing about in advance rather than discovering.
Questions about oral contraceptive absorption and gastric emptying are legitimate pharmacology questions with product-specific answers. A pharmacist can answer them properly; a board cannot.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Hormonal variation across the cycle affects appetite, fluid retention and subjective symptom intensity independently of anything else, which is why an unannotated log can look mysterious.
Have you asked a pharmacist about the absorption question specifically?
Standing reminder: nothing here is medical advice, and pregnancy questions go to a clinician without exception.
Standing reminder: nothing here is medical advice, and pregnancy questions go to a clinician without exception.
Disagreeing with this line: the absorption question has a product-specific answer and a pharmacist has it.
I would not read one person’s cycle-linked experience as a general pattern. The variation here is enormous.
Agreed that the vocabulary here is imprecise and it causes people to answer different questions to the ones asked.
iron and ferritin questions come up here more than anywhere else on the site
Cosigning on fertility changing with weight loss. It catches people who were not expecting it at all.
That trial did not enrol the population you are asking about, so it cannot answer this.
Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or fertility planning belongs with a clinician. That is not a disclaimer, it is where the answers actually are.
Disagree — that is a general claim about absorption and the specific question needs a pharmacist rather than a board.
Careful — anything touching pregnancy is not a board question in any form.
Careful — anything touching pregnancy is not a board question in any form.
This is the practical fix for half the confusing weeks on this board — annotate the cycle.
Small fix — insulin resistance is a feature commonly seen in PCOS, not a synonym for it.
fertility can change with weight loss and that surprises people
Correction: that trial did not enrol the population being discussed, so it cannot support the claim.
Correction: that trial did not enrol the population being discussed, so it cannot support the claim.
Adding the one thing nobody warns about — fertility can change, and quickly.
Telogen shedding follows a period of significant weight change rather than a specific compound, and it resolves.
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