Maybe that's different where OP is from, but doesn't medication usually come with a package leaflet that she could/should have read to inform herself about what she was taking?

So do you read every leaflet for everything you take? Because I tend to trust my doctors to tell me something that significant and not read the leaflet for surprises.

Do NOT trust your doctor to tell you everything about the drugs! Doctors usually know every little about the meds they prescribe!!!

Lmfao ALWAYS read what you’re taking. -.\

Yes, I do

Yes ...? It would also be inefficient for the doctor to give me a 10 min lecture about everything that's in the leaflet if I can just read it myself. I'm not saying the doctor shouldn't have informed the wife about something as significant as the contraceptive effect of the drug he was prescribing, just saying she still could've informed herself.

if she was put on these as a young teen that leaflet probably would have been read by her parents. Frankly I never read them at that age my mom read them and then she would read them with me. I'm not gonna blame her for not knowing if she was like 13 at the time. Also frankly my mother only told me the side effects of my meds so we could watch out for them I was never even told what the intended effects were outside of the fact that they were for mood stabilization.