Not exact matches
I am a women in her late 40's and was
on the
birth control pill for many
years not realizing the great increase risk of breast cancer the
pill causes or even the church teaching
on birth control.
Consider that if
birth control pills have an 8 \ % typical use failure rate, we can expect eight of 100 women
on the
pill will get pregnant each
year.
In consultation with my midwives, I went back
on a regular
birth control pill about a
year ago, even though I was still nursing when I went back
on.
Maybe you've been
on birth control pills for many
years, and a dirty secret no one told you is that they can lower the levels of the active form of testosterone, and your sex drive begins to disappear.
I also factor in nutrient - depleting medications — Margaret had been
on birth control pill for
years — that can manifest as anxiety.
I got off the
birth control pill just over a
year ago (having been
on it 8
years), and about 6 months in began showing symptoms of what I think might be a hormone imbalance - cystic acne, terrible PMS, anxiety, insomnia, and depression.
I was
on hormonal
birth control for
years (the
pill and the ring) and suffered recurrent infections the whole time.
I got
on birth control pills in my 20s for about 7
years.
I am have hypothyroid for the past 12
years and i have been
on Levoxyl.i am nealry 100 pounds overweight.I tried Tim ferris diet (low carb) for 20 days.I felt great in the beginning, but crashed at the end of 20 days.I was bed ridden for almost a month with low BP, dizziness and severe hair fall.My bad timing, i started
birth control pills 2 months before starting the diet and was feeling hyper.So my gynec by mistake asked me to reduce the thyroid tablets.
In fact I had been
on Diane 35 for the last 5
years of my 15
year relationship with
birth control pills.
I wish i had more information
on support for coming off of hormonal
birth control pills years ago.
Was
on birth control pills pretty much for 20
years.
i said and decided to go back to
birth control pills, i was really tired of spending lots of money at this private clinic (i'm from Russia, health insurance doesn't cover it, blood tests are very expensive) so i was
on birth control for about 1,5
years and didn't care much about it all, i was working out, eating about 100 - 150 carbs a day, very low fat, and always in caloric restriction, 1300kkal maybe..
By the time I became aware of the damage
birth control could cause, I had been
on the
pill for 5
years.
They immediately put me
on birth control pills, and told me to use it for
years with no worries!!!! Until this March when I finally stopped the
pills, because I was really tired after all, and I was trying to find a solution.
My doctor first put me
on birth control pills for a couple
years to help regulate my periods, however I ended up gaining weight and later having surgery to remove a cyst that was growing due to the
birth control.
I was
on the
birth control pill for 8 - 10
years and I started to get completely brown periods.
«I've been
on the
birth -
control pill on and off for almost 15
years,» wrote Lena Dunham in a Lenny Letter that rounded up contributors» favorite contraception methods.
One of the most immediate changes for women was the ACA's
birth control benefit, which ensured that more than 55 million women now have
birth control without a copay, and helped women save an estimated $ 1.4 billion
on the
pill in the ACA's first
year alone.