Can prolonged condom use decrease a woman's ability to conceive?
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My girlfriend just told me that a doctor once told her that using condoms for prolonged periods of time may make it more difficult to conceive once a couple decides they want to do that. She claims that it could have something to do with the lubricants. I am googling this but finding nothing. Anyone ever hear of such a thing?
I have never heard of that…and if you can’t find anything online about it then Im guessing that doctor is a quack OR your girlfriend miss heard what the doctor had said….
Never heard of this.
When I got off the pill and told my doctor I was only using condoms, she said "Do you want to be pregnant? Cos you probably will be if this is the only precaution you’re taking."
(I was with my husband so I didn’t really care anyway.)
But 4 years later we decided to have a baby and there was no problem.
They say you shouldn’t use lubricants when you’re trying to conceive because it inhibits the sperm’s ability to travel through the cervix.
But in all my research on trying to conceive, I’ve never ever read what your girlfriend’s doctor said.
That can’t be true…I have never heard anything like that. Think about the millions of people who use condoms and still concieve when they finally decide to have kids
Your GF’s doctor is wrong. Getting older, frequent sex, medications, stress, illnesses (including depression) all contribute to less natural lubrication. Don’t blame the condom.
I have never heard of that, it really doesn’t make any sense. I think she may have misunderstood what he was telling her. I do know that women are not supposed to use the pill or any other hormonal method of birth control for more than 5 years straight because these regulate the reproductive system artificially and if that goes on too long the body may not be able to produce it’s own hormones and regulate itself anymore.
Nope, never heard of that. I was with a guy for 4 1/2 years and used condoms with spermicide on them every time, and am currently pregnant with my fiance. Maybe it is his personal opinion, but he sounds like a weird doctor.
NO
I have never heard this. Hormonal methods (pill, patch, shot, implant, etc) can have this effect because the hormones screw up your natural cycle and your body must get rid of all those excess hormones before it gets back on its normal cycle. I have never heard that condoms can have this same effect because they do not contain any hormones in the rubber or the lubricant (the lube may contain spermicide though, which I have also never heard of causing problems with conception if the couple later decides to try).
I would tell her to ask her doctor for more information if you´re really that curious: I suspect that may have misunderstood or got confused and accidentally passed on false information to you.