Ask Women on Sidechat | all right, I have a question that I thought of and it’s a little weird, so an IUD usually stops your period, but in some cases you still get it while you have it it’s just lighter, so if it stops ovulation but you still get it then do you still ovulate?

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Ask Women 10w

all right, I have a question that I thought of and it’s a little weird, so an IUD usually stops your period, but in some cases you still get it while you have it it’s just lighter, so if it stops ovulation but you still get it then do you still ovulate?

Anonymous 10w

Ovulation and menstruation are completely different tho. I’m on the pill, it blocks ovulation but not menstruation bc it’s a “false” or “fake” period. Similar to that of an IUD

Anonymous 10w

like the whole purpose of it is to prevent ovulation but if you’re still technically getting your period does that mean you technically still ovulate to some extent?

Anonymous 10w

thank you for all of your inputs to my weird ass question, I do speak to a lot of healthcare professionals and I sometimes stump them with the questions so this just gives you an insight into how I think

Anonymous 10w

You dont ovulate

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OP 10w

this also counts for Nexplanon

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Anonymous 10w

I mean, that’s what I figured, like that’s what the literature says at least, it was just something that I was talking to some doctors about and some were like no you don’t and others were like it’s a possibility

Anonymous 10w

so it pretty much leaves you open to ectopic

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#2 10w

yeah but you stop taking the pill in order to get your period, and iud is in all the time so therefore it should be different no?

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OP 10w

False. I take the pill on my period. It’s meant to replicate a period. There is no shedding bc there are no eggs, bc there is no ovulation