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I am ready to have a baby and have been off birth control for over a year now, but nothing has happened yet.  As a woman in my late 20’s this doesn’t seem right, so my husband and I both went in to make sure everything was OK on our end.

The doctor gave us both a clean bill of health and said we were good to go, and he saw no reason why we couldnt’ conceive.  That was 5 months ago.  Now I know that when you go off birth control, sometimes it takes a little bit of time to get back to “normal” or whatever, but it’s been over a year.  What gives?

One of my girlfriends (who is not a doctor!) said it might be because I was on the Ortho Evra patch.  She said it delivered a higher dose than some other forms of birth control, and therefore could be the reason I’m taking longer to conceive. Does this sound right?  I loved the patch when I was on it and never had problems.  Am I paying for it now?

I had been on birth control since I was 17.  I started using it because my cycles were so sporadic and birth control evened them out.  I have always been a proponent of birth control. 

My only problem was the pills.  Now, I can take a handful of vitamins a day, no problem, but I always got the gag reflex from the Pill.  I have no idea why; probably in my head.  Nonetheless, the day my gyno told me about the patch was the happiest day of my life!  I loved, loved, loved it!  Talk about convenient!

About two years ago, I went off birth control altogether, as I am now trying to get pregnant.  Since then, I’ve heard all kinds of bad things about the patch.  Is it really true?  Is it too high of a dose?  WIll it have side effects?  I worry because some day I want back on birth control and I’d love it if I could go back to the patch.  Does anyone out there know the answer?  Seems like you can’t trust everything you read these days.