The Greatest Story Never Told
So why is it that around 3.7 million women in the UK are currently taking ‘the Pill’, and around 100 million worldwide? The keenest uptake is among the young. An incredible 64 per cent of women aged between 20 and 24 are on the Pill, more than in any other age group.
This post aims to briefly explain how Depo Provera works to prevent pregnancy, its common side effects and, most importantly, why and what to do about adverse experiences when stopping it.
According to a new Guttmacher Institute review of more than 66 studies conducted over three decades, a woman’s ability to control her fertility affects much more than just if and when she’ll start a family; contraception plays a big a role in the financial, professional and emotional lives of American women, too.
Estrogen plus progestin use is linked with increased breast cancer incidence. In addition, prognosis is similar for both users and nonusers of combined hormone therapy, suggesting that mortality from breast cancer may be higher for hormone therapy users as well, according to a study published March 29 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Something strange is happening to modern girls: menstruation is starting much earlier than it should. The traditional age of onset for menstruation is between ages 12 and 13, or around two years after the first signs of puberty begin. However, more and more girls are beginning to menstruate at 10 years of age – up to five years early. What is causing this significant and frightening shift?
Hormonal contraceptives certainly disrupt the reproductive system and have been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events, loss of bone density, decreased immune function and, in some studies, increased risk for breast cancer.
I have developed a Birth Control Comparison chart 12.21.12 Synthetic Birth Control Comparisons and Health Risks that may be helpful to women and their partners when they are trying to decide on a birth control method. I have also taken the liberty of adding in the side effects from taking synthetic hormone contraception.
The pill came out more than 50 years ago, and at the time, it was a symbol of liberation and freedom for women. Suddenly, they no longer had to worry about unplanned pregnancy. It was great. But now that 50-year-old technology is starting to lose much of the appeal it once had.
What we do know is that IUDs cause a ‘mild’ infection in the uterus. Coupled with that today’s IUDs are dripping synthetic hormones into the body in addition to the mild infection. Add in a nutrient depleted hormonally imbalanced body – an at risk immune system – and to me that spells risk of PID.
When women come off the pill they are hormonally whacked – and husbands also struggle with this transition. They marry women ‘high’ on hormones and when they come down they are mental/emotional wrecks.
