Another pill question...

HagerVor

well.. the hormones arnt filtered out of the water... so obv it edventually gets back into drinking water... and men drink it... YOU'RE TURNING US INTO WOMEN!!! ...slowly..

Not actually true. It was noticed that fish living near sewage outlets were becoming more feminised and made sterile. However they were unable to find even the tiniest trace of contraceptive hormones in the water. What they DID find was traces of another oestrogen analogue which is actually found in some plastics, which was having this effect on the fish.

So the thing about the pill making the men of our country infertile is, I'm afraid, rubbish.

Reply 7

can i ask a serious question: if i forget when i'm suppoed to start and my pill and thus to be on the safe side,take it a day early,is that ok?

thanks

OP

This wasn't a joke thread I just wanted some scientific evidence to prove to an animal rights obsessive friend that the pill didn't make fish sterile. I mean it's pretty unlikely that we'd pee oestrogen/ progesterone anyway.

Reply 10

Did I not answer that question?

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jellybones

This wasn't a joke thread I just wanted some scientific evidence to prove to an animal rights obsessive friend that the pill didn't make fish sterile. I mean it's pretty unlikely that we'd pee oestrogen/ progesterone anyway.

you do actually,how do you think pregnancy tests and drug tests work? ^o)

some hormones are not filtered by the kidney and they get on the pregnancy kit thing which then does what it does and tells you if you're pregnant or not.

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Helenia

Did I not answer that question?

you did and so did lessthanthree

Reply 13

jellybones

OP

Helenia

Did I not answer that question?

Yea and thanks I was just clarifying that this thread was in fact serious and not a joke :redface:

Reply 14

jellybones

OP

Shylock

you do actually,how do you think pregnancy tests and drug tests work? ^o)

some hormones are not filtered by the kidney and they get on the pregnancy kit thing which then does what it does and tells you if you're pregnant or not.

D'oh of course! I forgot about that...

Reply 15

Shylock

you do actually,how do you think pregnancy tests and drug tests work? ^o)

some hormones are not filtered by the kidney and they get on the pregnancy kit thing which then does what it does and tells you if you're pregnant or not.

But it's not oestrogen or progesterone that works on pregnancy tests.

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Helenia

But it's not oestrogen or progesterone that works on pregnancy tests.

but hormones do pass through urine. i've been studying my bio :p:

and yeh i think it's one of the two,coz they're higher levels in the blood so it's released by the body,i can't be too sure though,but i am sure that hormones can be released into urine.

Reply 17

Shylock

but hormones do pass through urine. i've been studying my bio :p:

and yeh i think it's one of the two,coz they're higher levels in the blood so it's released by the body,i can't be too sure though,but i am sure that hormones can be released into urine.

It's not either oestrogen or progesterone that's tested for by a pregnancy test. It's human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).

I'm not 100% sure of the metabolic fate of oestrogen/progesterone, but as I said, they were unable to find traceable levels of it in water near sewage outlets, where logically it would be at its highest.

Reply 18

i don't disagree i doubt it's enough to do anything to the fish,people just like to make huge arguments over nothing.i'm not referring to the OP here,just anti-protection people etc

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