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does birth control impair the process the answer is no but there's a couple important caveats one is that the birth control pills especially if you take them continuously or for a prolonged period of time the the body is smart and the ovaries start to say we're not really doing anything and one of those markers of ovarian reserve we have is amh and that's antimullerian hormone
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if your amh is being suppressed because of the birth control pill because it's decreasing the activity of those granulosis cells you might get a low amh value when you've been on the birth control pill for a long time that is completely reversible but it can be significant
if it does come back low we're going to have to make a decision are we going to stop the birth control pill for a period of some months use alternative contraception if you don't want to be pregnant and then repeat this test to see if this is a true low
amh may be up to 30% lower in somebody who is on the birth control pill
And in prolonged periods of not ovulating, AMH can be suppressed, whether it's from birth control pills, pregnancy, postpartum, whatever the reason is. So AMH is imperfect, but it is something. And it's a very simple blood test.