What are the side effects of male birth control pills?

When it comes to oral contraceptives, the first thing that comes to mind is medicine for women, but medicine has also developed some contraceptives that men can take, and the effects are also very good. However, any medicine generally has certain side effects. So as for male contraceptives, what are the main adverse reactions? Next, let me tell you the answer.

Male contraceptives use autologous hormones, such as testosterone alone or in combination with progesterone, which inhibit the pituitary gland from secreting gonadotropin and thus inhibit spermatogenesis through negative feedback. Regular injection of testosterone enanthate can achieve anti-fertility effects, which can be restored after discontinuation of the drug. It is a promising male contraceptive. But male birth control pills may have some side effects:

1. Use corresponding antibodies of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone to block the effects of these hormones. However, since both hormones contain the same alpha subunit, which is identical to the alpha subunit of thyroid-stimulating hormone, when the antibody cannot specifically target the hormone, it may cause unnecessary side effects.

2. The anti-fertility effect of cottonypol, a drug that selectively inhibits the spermatogenic epithelium, was first discovered by Chinese scholars and has been extensively studied and clinically tested in China. The 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 disadvantages, namely, they are slow to take effect. This is because the above-mentioned drugs have no killing effect on the sperm that has already been produced; and because the spermatogenesis process takes a certain amount of time, the recovery of reproductive function is also slow after stopping the drug.

The above contents are all adverse symptoms that men may experience when taking contraceptives, so it is best for everyone to be cautious about this type of drug and not use it blindly, so as not to make the side effects more obvious and severe. The editor suggests that if men want to achieve more effective contraceptive effects, they can use harmless condoms.