Sentences with phrase «from hormonal birth control pills»

Smoking increases your risk of serious cardiovascular side effects from hormonal birth control pills, including death from heart attack, blood clots or stroke.

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Holly Grigg - Spall is the author of «Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked On Hormonal Birth Control» and a consulting producer on the documentary it has inspired, from filmmaking team Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein.

She convinced me to go off hormonal birth control pills and finally start taking Nature - Thyroid — a hypothyroid medication made from actual pig's thyroid, that has a better balance of essential thyroid hormones T3 and T4.

To understand when you should take the Pill, it will probably be helpful to quickly review how the Pill works to prevent you from getting pregnant The Pill is a hormonal birth control method.

I decided to take a break from the pill (while of course using other methods) at the end of February for a couple of reasons, and I don't think I want to go back on hormonal birth control — I know not necessarily everyone will be affected the same way, but after it's started to wear off, the amount of difference it makes for me is HUGE and kind of scary.

Danish researchers, whose study looked at non-pregnant women ranging in age from 15 to 49 over 15 years, found that women taking birth control pills with low - dose estrogen mixed with different progestins experienced strokes and heart attacks about 1.5 — 2 times more than women not taking hormonal contraceptions.