Patient's question:
Can I not take the birth control pill prescribed by the doctor after the crowd? I heard that sometimes taking birth control pills can affect a woman's fertility. We want to avoid pregnancy through abstinence for the next three months, but I don't know if this birth control pill has any other effects.Doctor's answer:
My wife has been taking Ursodiol for several years. The main side effect is drug-induced hepatitis. She gets her liver function checked every six months. If her transaminase levels are high, she stops taking the medication for a month, and it recovers quickly. Don't listen to the nonsense from some traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. I'm not trying to insult traditional Chinese medicine here. I specialize in traditional martial arts, and I actually hold it in very high regard. However, modern traditional Chinese medicine is either off track or fails to keep up with the times. You can't take everything a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner says at face value. I've encountered a 10-year-old girl in puberty with dysfunctional uterine bleeding who believed in traditional Chinese medicine. She was told things like, "hormonal medications are harmful," and ended up with severe anemia, nearly suffering from hypovolemic shock. She came to our emergency department for treatment.