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After reading a post in a previous question i have worried myself, some one posted that being A rhesus negative can affect the effectiveness of the contraceptive pill? Does any one know any more on this subject?
I have only recently found out my blood type after giving blood but now after reading this i am worried that my pill may not be working as it should be?
Can any one help to put my mind at rest or give me some advice?
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Your rhesus status is separate from your blood group, no matter what blood group you have you can be either rhesus negative or positive. About 42% of English people have blood group A. The proportion of people with rhesus negative is 85%. I can't find any stats on how many are A rhesus negative but at a guess it is 85% of 42% which is about 38% of the population (21 million or about 10 million women).
I have had a quick search online and also on various medical literature databases I have access to, and it came up with no articles having anything to do with any problems. Considering how many women are on the pill and how many are A-negative, there would definitely be information on it and we would all be told about it when we first started using it.
Don't worry. I have no idea where Hectic got his/her information but I'm sure it is not correct.
Gemma if you want to know more about what Greenspirit was talking about, rhesus negativity in pregnancy, then have a look at
http://www.babycentre.co.uk/refcap/1480.html
however notice this doesn't have anything to do with the contraceptive pill.
Also just realised I got my sums a little wrong, 85% are rhesus POSITIVE. However it still ends up that millions of women are A Rh Negative so my argument still holds!
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