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Advice on the pill please

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Anxious3 · 15/10/2019 07:48

Does anyone know the rules about the contraceptive pill please?
I am 54, and still having periods, with no menopausal signs yet.
I don't smoke; don't have migraines; not overweight; healthy & active. No family history of breast cancer.

My GP surgery is refusing to prescribe the pill.
The Nurse was very rude to me about it.
I asked "Can I still get pregnant?"
She shrugged, and when I looked shocked, she then said "Don't look at me like that!" in a very rude manner.
She also said the pill was dangerous, and stopping it now "is for your own good."

There has never been any mention of this on previous visits...

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bigbluebus · 15/10/2019 08:10

I was on the mini pill until I was 53 at which point the nurse said I needed to make an appointment with the GP to discuss it. I didn't have any bleeding on the pill so no way of knowing if I'd reached menopause or not. GP prescribed further 6 months of pills and said it was up to me when during those 6 months I stopped taking them to see if periods returned, but I was not to go back and request further pills without stopping them first. As it turned out, bleeding did not return at all so that was the end of it. GP did not make a big song and dance about risk though (I'm fit, healthy and non smoker) and the implication was that I would get more pills if I had not reached menopause.

dementedpixie · 15/10/2019 08:12

www.womens-health-concern.org/help-and-advice/factsheets/contraception-older-woman/

Combined should only be used until age 50. Mini pill until age 55

dementedpixie · 15/10/2019 08:16

www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/menopause-contraceptive-pill/

NHS says you can stop contraception at age 55

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Anxious3 · 15/10/2019 08:38

Thank you.
If they'd handled it like that it would have been less of a shock.
The Nurse also told me I needed to use other contraception! Then why not leave me on the pill until 55?!

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Anxious3 · 15/10/2019 08:41

Thank you.
It's mini, so still can't see why they didn't just tell me it would finish at 55.
I wasn't told any of this in advance and now they're saying I should use other contraception!
Family history of late pregnancy: my gran was 47 when she became pregnant with my mum.

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