I asked my doctor to prescribe me a 'traditional' birth control pill to take. I thought it would be nice and easy, since I could just take it with my copaxone injections nightly, right?

My GP discouraged it, saying my neurologist would not want me to take a 'traditional' type of pill.

So she put me on Depo Provera. Been here before with horrible results a few years ago. Horrible results yet again.

Why would the doctor discourage the pill? She said I could take the progesterone only pill, but wouldn't that be the same thing as the Depo P. shot that's progesterone only?

I'm just curious what the pill does to those with MS that neurologists would discourage taking it.