It's similar to
the way hormonal birth control works in women.
Not exact matches
Hormonal birth control prevents your body from ovulating, and also prevents your endometrium (uterine lining) from thickening and shedding the
way you're used to with normal periods.
Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several
ways: 1)
Hormonal medication (a low dose
birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.
What's new in
hormonal birth control is that there are so many different
ways to get the stuff into your body.
In the beginning: The Pill Roughly 30 percent of American women are introduced to hormones via the Pill, the most popular form of
birth control, which is also regularly prescribed as a
way to mute PMS,
control erratic periods, and diminish
hormonal acne.
(Read up on more
ways to treat
hormonal acne without
birth control.)
For many of us, we were prescribed the Pill or another kind of
hormonal birth control way back when we were teens.
One more noteworthy piece of info about
hormonal birth control is that it changes the
way you're attracted to potential partners.
These are wonderful
ways to avoid the problems of
hormonal birth control.
You know exactly what you need to do to transition off
hormonal birth control in a
way that doesn't feel extreme or send your body into post-pill craziness.
We are often told that
hormonal birth control is the only
way to balance hormones at a young age.
It wasn't the Paragard giving me the heavy periods, but the
hormonal birth controls kept my periods from flowing the
way they should.
The only
way to address this issue is to get off of
hormonal birth control.
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.
My
Birth Control Protocol gives you the exact steps to get off any kind of
hormonal contraceptive in a safe and effective
way.