... to halve my Pill because I'm a small person?

[peachesoncream]

I take a daily dose of Cerazette: the Mini Pill. I can't take the combined pill because I have migraines, and I quite like a pill that covers me for 12 hours rather than 3.

I am a little person. I am just over 5 feet tall, and weigh 7st9lb. There are women double my weight with the same pill as me. The GP's dosage is not based on my weight.

Seeing as I am small in stature and low in weight, should I be on the same dosage as someone double by weight?

Am I playing with fire to only take a half or 3/4 of the tablet? Incidentally, getting pregnant would not be the end of the world- maybe a few months earlier than planned, but no catastrophe.

Not all medications are weight variable. Hormones are not affected by weight. AFAIK the only thing weight can affect is the metabolism, and in certain pain relief the conversion into morphine (codine is one of them), happy to be corrected on that last one though.

Also, how on earth would you halve it?

I can't tell if you are being serious of not LineRunner but if you are...

How cool!

:o

You bite it...

Babooshka, have you ever heard of a geologist with a sense of humour? We're all too busy halving pills with our little hammers.

Also, what happens if you have an august baby? Or a july baby? Both of mine were exactly 6 weeks early. No reason for it. I just went into labour and had them.

Then how the heck do you know you are taking the exact same dosage each time?

Do you weigh the half you take? Measure it?

These are hormones you are messing around with.

Please don't

Nothing happens. I doubt the baby will implode in a giant fireball of pain and fury. I might be wrong.

There is well documented evidence to suggest summer babies don't do as well in early schooling. If I can choose when I conceive, then I will do it so that I don't have a summer birth.

:o LineRunner.

I must admit I am . What a wonderful job!

Sorry if it's actually shyte.

Right well, have fun biting your pills in half. I hope to god your on the wind up, because if your husband does not know that the pill is not weight variable, then he needs to rethink his career.

AFAIK the only contraception that is variable by size if the implant. I'm not a doctor, any doctor who doesn't know more than a 22 year old can find out herself shouldn't be in the job.

OOH, i want a little hammer for halving pills!

If you don't want a summer baby, then... stay on the pill for a few more months.

Sorry, but I can't take being patronised from someone asking such an idiotic question, and then ignoring people who are giving them correct information.

"There is well documented evidence to suggest summer babies don't do as well in early schooling. If I can choose when I conceive, then I will do it so that I don't have a summer birth."

You don't know that you won't have a summer birth. As I just explained.

Coil, not implant

Babooshka, it's kinda true but these days I do mostly poorly paid project write-ups at home. The perils of being a [lone] parent.

Ffs Coil

People double your weight are often advised to take 2 cerezette a day. So no don't half it, it won't work.

Im on the same pill as op, and still have a lot of baby weight to lose

I certainly wasnt told to take 2 pills!!

Sorry to hear that LineRunner. :(

However people like me have visions of you jumping from rock to rock avoiding huge bats with nothing but a hand gun, a laptop and a Kendal mint cake.

"Just over 5ft" isn't small either. 5ft4 is the national average. I'm 2 inches taller at 5ft6 and would not describe myself as large. I'm also only a stone, possibly less, heavier than you.

And that would be me bonkey :)

On pill for 6 years, a few forgets which were hastily rectified by morning after pill or not having sex... But basically thought I was totally protected. Except I discovered a little bun in the oven quite unexpectedly 11 weeks after having... Well having done nothing unusual at all!

Read the box, remembered the statistic of 99.something% protection... & realised there is always a risk of conceiving. Feel very guilty having told my friends this story then finding out they are desperate to get pregnant.

Not so predictable this stuff is it

(Ds is the best thing that has ever happened to me btw in case anyone was wondering!)

Babooshka, I have my moments ... and I will rise again!

BtW I'm another one with an autumn baby born in the summer. Smart kid, good at physics.

I'm a doctor. Not a GP, but medically qualified.

If you want to c

If you want to conceive, stop the Pill. If you don't, keep taking it.

Halving the dose because you're "small" is ridiculous.

There may be all sorts of evidence about summer babies but you cannot apply population statistics to an individual.

Your EDD may be late Sept and the baby might be born at 30 weeks - you cannot plan pregnancy and delivery to this degree and I'm surprised your GP husband isn't telling you this.

(DOI - Summer baby, a few degrees etc, reasonable IQ - don't think I did too badly at school!)

I was told that it might take 18 months to conceive at my age coming off the contraceptive injection. Second month out DD was in oven. If you want to get pregnant, do. If not take the pill.