Can the birth control pill cause POF?
There is no evidence that birth control pills cause POF. If you look at a very large group of women and examine the reasons for loss of periods whether they were on the pill or just came off the pill, the percentages of women with each of the possible disorders is identical regardless of pill use. They have the same sorts of problems in the same sorts of percentages as women who never took pills, including disorders like POF. That’s the basic way in which it was determined that pills don’t cause POF. POF appears once a woman stops the pill because the pill supplies hormones to the uterus that will result in a monthly period. If you independently for whatever reason run out of eggs while you are taking the pill, there is no way for you to know. If your head was chopped off, but you could still take pills, you would get a period every single month despite having something dramatically wrong with you (sorry about the tasteless example!) While you are taking pills, your ovaries are not pro
