Women are sharing their stories about quitting hormonal birth control after experiencing negative side effects. NBC News’ Maya Eaglin spoke Dr. Jessica Shepherd, OBGYN and chief medical officer of VeryWell Health about birth control options and navigating side effects.
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Basically they have been experminting on women for the last 60 years. when men seen this we said NO THANKS.. LOL
It causes depression and anger
I only used hormonal birth control for a very brief period of time in my early 20s. I stopped using it because of experiencing negative side effects and I didn't think it was good for my health. I tried to use it again (this time low dose) when I was 30 and it didn't work as I got pregnant anyway with my wonderful son. 😂 😊 ❤
It's still horrifying there are politicians trying to take the right to birth control away. Women who want tubal ligation have a very hard time getting it unless it's after the hirth of a child, and usually not after the first child. The right to that procedure should be guaranteed.
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They should have let the women talk more about what it was like when they went off of it but instead it was big pharma doing damage control and setting up the next stage, sad!
Birth control our mothers and grandmothers took? What in the bullhsit? My mother never took birth control, let alone my grandmother.
We do have many options and most of them are harmful for women.
What about women who have PMDD?? Did BC help?
The interviewee doesn't answer the question succinctly. Awful choice
I’m considering getting off bc because my weight has been on a steady incline since I switched from the pill from age 14 to 17 to the ring, and then the ring to the patch at 21, my activity level has increased and no change in diet, but I’ve gained 30 lbs in 2 years alone. I’ve never been off it since I started so im wondering what it would be like being off it
Women are done sickening themselves so men can find them more convenient to sleep with? Cool.
Birth control = Cancer
I’ve never been on birth control. I’m 34 years old, been together with my man 12 years, very safe as we never got pregnant. I take care of my health holistically and do not immediately go to western medications. The moment we decided to have kids, I got pregnant right away (literally the next day). Pregnancy is okay so far, everything is all about diet and lifestyle choices. Save medications for when you’re dying in the emergency room
Birth control is necessary for women to have to regulate hormones and heavy periods.
There's no need to ban it. Just don't take it if you don't want to.
Never ever get the IUD even if it’s the non-hormonal one.
Almost had a stroke . The other was less but my heart wasn’t good either
Super Video!! Genau solchen nerdig-linguistischen Content liebe ich ❤
I refuse Birth Control I even made a doctor mad at me. Well I no longer see her. Birth control causes more harm than good. Intense periods, depression, either way to high s*x drive or none at all. After having many female health issues, I will pass on Birth control! ✌️ Plus I know someone that got a blood clot then passed away from taking Birth Control also… 😢
Idk if progesterone is a preferable alternative to the traditional estrogen pill. All women need to know the side effects of progesterone and estrogen, and please talk to the blood-related women in your family about how they’ve reacted to birth control. Every single woman in my family told me “the pill” made them crazy. “Just didn’t work for me. Do it if you need it, but be careful and explore alternatives.”
I had the reverse, was severely depressed without birth control due to hormonal imbalance
I'm getting my fallopian tubes removed. I'd rather not have children at all than be forced to do so against my will and not even be entitled to a safe pregnancy.
I have never and will never use the pill, it’s literal poison
Gotta work on your pull out game kids
I’ve personally got on birth control started at maybe 12 when I first got my period.
I’m 22 now and thank goodness I’m gonna get a hysterectomy by my choice.
Not to mention the arm implant that I had ruined my life after one year I begged them to take it out it was the worst decision I've ever made
I suffered with migraines my entire adult life it wasn't until I had my last child and had my tubes tied that my migraines completely went away. I used to be in the ER 4 to 5 times a year with the migraine and now I haven't had one in 3 years. I know 100%, it was from birth control
Poison
I got married and me and my husband decided birth Control was not a option for us. He told me what ever God wants to give us will take 🙌 so we had 6 🥰 thank God I never took that stuff 😊
I’m sick of some doctors denying that weight gain is a side effect
I'm pretty sure my kyleena is causing me so many issues!!!!
I got on birth control to help my cramps due to endometriosis and to stop ovulating to avoid ovarian cyst. I got such bad mood swings and it was affecting my relationship. I rather deal with the cramps end up in bed crying every month cuz of the pain. No more first control for me….
So what do we do for people who get it for free?
I started to get anxiety after discontinuing it how many months it takes to become normal
The pill killed my libido. It’s a common side effect
Man get a vasectomy
Why don’t men go take birth control ?
My doctor told me not to use it years ago and she was a black doctor I trust her opinion over any doctor I ever had and she was right everytime
For me, it was the opposite. For eight years, I had no issues with birth control, not even hair loss, and I have thick hair until the jab showed up and messed up my birth control. I had to come off birth control because I was suffering from water retention to the point that my clothes wouldn't fit and now I can't lose weight and have hormonal acne but again it was the freaking jab that destroyed my hormones not birth control
Sure, synthetic hormones for all receptors, a smaller hypothalamus in studies shown leading to depression and lower function in the body..gestagens similar to testosterone, flooding the adaptpgen receptors giving masculine effects and thinking that taking not bioidenticical hormones that lead all your functions in the body in life…would not harm or have side effects..the anti baby pill in history was bad, but Margaret sanger and co wanted to give more birth control and the side effects were not important
You can not ask the organisations, who get paid, the doctors and study scientists who get paid to sell worldwide anti baby pills.
Its the biggest market, synthetic hormones. Do you think, they are honest to you?
You don't need a pill to be happy.
You know everyone with everything that's going on TODAY, you'll are wasting all this money and time over BIRTH CONTROL???? NO WONDER THAT LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY IS A REALLY BAD IDEA
Progesterone. The feminist hormone. :/