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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. UBB Code™ Images not permitted. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Heather: [QB] The idea that we "lose" eggs isn't quite right, no matter what. If and when our ovaries DO release an egg cell (which usually isn't happening when someone is using the combined pill, as it suppresses ovulation as part of how it works, and then it isn't fertilized, it's basically just absorbed by the body the way our other cells often are. Some of that cell matter may also be part of discharges. I don't know what was on that TV show (don't watch it), but most medical shows are frequently providing inaccurate medical information. When we start puberty, we have most of the egg cells we're going to have, and sparing certain health conditions, or things like excessive radiation, etc., we're not going to "lose" them. Every cycle, our ovaries, when they do, will tend to release one. For anyone whose ovulation is suppressed, that ultimately doesn't change their fertility later, nor give them "extra" egg cells. I don't believe that we know, specifically, about what happens per egg cells with women using the pill so much in this regard, because I don't even know how we'd really do that research. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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