What are the side effects of male oral contraceptives?

Many people living in big cities are under great pressure in life, so for some young couples, they refuse to have babies at the beginning of their careers. Therefore, many women will take birth control pills to prevent pregnancy when they have sex. In fact, not only women can take birth control pills, but men can also. We know that long-term birth control pills are not good for women's health, so do men also have side effects when taking birth control pills?

Male oral contraceptives are a new type of contraceptive drug specifically for men. They can effectively inhibit sperm production and reduce sperm quality, reaching azoospermia or oligospermia, thus making it impossible for women to conceive. Male oral contraceptives are not only more effective than female contraceptives, they can be 100% effective, and they do not cause too many adverse side effects to the user.

1. Long-term and excessive use of gonadotropin-releasing hormones can inhibit spermatogenesis by down-regulating the secretion of pituitary gonadotropins (follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone).

2. Use corresponding antibodies to follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone to block the effects of these hormones. However, since these two hormones contain the same α subunit, which is the same as the α subunit of thyroid-stimulating hormone, when the antibody cannot specifically counteract this hormone, it may cause unnecessary side effects.

3. Cottonpol, a drug that selectively inhibits spermatogenic epithelium, was first discovered by Chinese scholars to have an anti-fertility effect, and a large number of studies and clinical trials have been conducted in China. This research has attracted international attention. It is a male oral contraceptive that is cheap and easy to use, but it also has certain side effects. All male contraceptives have similar shortcomings, that is, they take effect slowly, because the above drugs have no killing effect on the sperm that has been produced; and because the spermatogenesis process takes a certain amount of time, the recovery of fertility function is also slow after stopping the drug.

In fact, whether it is female contraceptives or male contraceptives, contraceptives have side effects on people's bodies. Although the side effects of male contraceptives are much smaller than those of female contraceptives, the editor still recommends that you do not take drugs for long-term contraception. The best contraceptive method is to use condoms and avoid having sex during a woman's ovulation period.