Can spermicides be harmful?

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Registered: 10-03-2003
Can spermicides be harmful?
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Wed, 09-27-2006 - 10:50pm
I am considering (along with so many other things right now, LOL) using condoms with spermcide as a backup or even spermicide with diaphragm.
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Wed, 09-27-2006 - 11:38pm

Hi bjuana, welcome back!


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Thu, 09-28-2006 - 12:42am

You just got good solid advice from someone who knows alot more than me! But I can agree with the allergic reaction stuff or at least bad reaction. And this was after kids. Maybe it was a combination of everything mixed up hormonally from breastfeeding but sex became tortuous for me when we tried to use condoms with spermicide. I was red and raw and itched and hated my husband. (We were already using extra lubricant so that wasn't the issue) The minipill had decreased my milk production and I was nursing twins so we just decided to skip all birth control and life became better after that. Once I got a period, the kids were on solid food also and I went back on my regular BCPs and life was fine.

So try the spermicide but be ready with another method if you have bad reactions. I had no problems with them back in my pre-BCP days. But that could have also been the time I was sensitized to it and just happened to not have reactions until I tried it the second time around.

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Thu, 09-28-2006 - 1:15am
It is interesting that you mentioned about the vaginal film.
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Thu, 09-28-2006 - 1:23am
Thanks for your reply.
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