In High school I took the pill, for a variety of reasons, bad periods, cramping, acne etc. I did very well on the pill, no obvious side effects and did not have any after.
Well after my 4th child I decided to give it a shot. I went to my gyno and got a script. As I was in there she was giving me side effects and all that good stuff, and had me sign a paper for liability. OOPS red flag 1, why do I have to sign something that says its not there fault, what can possibly happen to me?? Red flag 2, when I asked that question she laughingly said "well if you taking this short term you are fine, but they have said after 3 years your risk to ovarian cancer goes up exceedingly.) hmm, wow! well I was desperate not to get prego again, so I risked it.
In the first month i started taking it I became terribly sick, this went on for 3 months. In the fourth month I had a terrible women infection that never seemed to go away. The only thing that put it at bay was taking probiotics. In about the 6th month I was moody, getting pudgy, and my periods were whack. So by month 8 I had Enough! I got off the pill. It took 2 months for that infection to go away (it has never returned) And about 6 months for my periods to re-regulate. That was the most terrible thing I ever did to my body, and Roy gave me the I told you so the whole time. :) ..So after my lovely little adventure, I did some research. Here is what i found:
For 40+ years millions of women worldwide have taken BCP's, believing they were safe and effective for contraception. Unfortunaltly since the introduction of the Pill, there’s been an explosion of women’s diseases and maladies in a scope never experienced before in the history of medicine:
Migraine headaches
PMS
Breast Cancer
Heart Disease
Heart Attacks
Strokes
Blood Clots
High Blood Pressure
Uterine Cancer
Infertility
Depression
Post-Partum Depression
Uterine Fibroids
Unnecessary Hysterectomies
Anxiety Disorders
Before 2003, doctors used to cite protection from breast cancer, heart disease, depression and fibroids as advantages of oral contraceptive use. But all this has changed with further follow-up studies. What was once thought to be the protection is now the cause.
As with many prescription medications, it takes time to figure out the true side effects.
And many tragedies have occurred. PremPro® is one of the most significant embarrassments to the pharmaceutical industry ever uncovered. It was stopped prematurely in 2002 and reported on the front page of every newspaper throughout the world. PremPro® was fingered for causing or increasing breast cancer, heart attacks, lung clots, Alzheimer’s Dementia and for even causing a decline in memory capacity.
What’s truly scary is that BCP’s are nearly chemically identical to PremPro®. What’s even worse is that the level of synthetic hormones in most BCP’s are FOUR TIMES the amount found in PremPro®. The main difference is that women taking BCP’s are considerably younger than women taking PremPro®. But how long does the fountain of youth last?
How this Pill works??
The Pill contains two types of synthetic hormones(chemically altered substitutes): Chemically altered estrogen's and progestins. They are similar – but not identical - to hormones made by a woman's ovaries. These hormones work by preventing the ovaries from releasing its egg (ovulation). The earliest versions of the Pill contained very high levels of estrogen's and progestins. Over the years, it was discovered that high levels caused numerous health problems. Subsequently, later generations of BCP’s kept coming out with lower and lower synthetic hormone levels. The latest versions of BCP’s are called “third generation” pills, featuring synthetic estrogen's and synthetic progestins in the lowest doses to date. Unfortunately, even these doses are still four times higher than the equivalent natural hormones in a menstruating woman.
Most of the health problems now known to be caused by oral contraceptives were uncommon before the birth control pill appeared on the market.
PMS is a new condition that simply did not exist 50 years ago. It’s been only recently (in the last 10 years or so) that the medical profession has even acknowledged its very existence!
The key reason why birth control pills are so destructive is precisely because of the synthetic, chemically altered “hormones” used in their formulation. These “fake” hormones exert unnatural effects on a woman’s entire body. Altered estrogen and altered progestin act similar to their natural counterparts. But your body knows the difference! It recognizes them as chemically different and foreign elements – substances it had never seen before. Altered estrogen and altered progestin (the two main synthetic hormones in the Pill) act in many ways similar to their natural counterparts. But your body knows the difference! It recognizes them as chemically different and foreign elements – substances it had never seen before.
Looking at the chemical structures of estrogen and testosterone, they seem to be very similar. the only difference between estrogen and testosterone is a single electron. It’s that small and seemingly insignificant variation that separates whether a baby will manifest male or female characteristics. Crazy huh??
If a single electron can produce such a massive difference between men and women, imagine what an entire, long chain of artificial chemical additives can do to an existing hormone!
The progestin chemical in particular causes the ovaries to shut down production of natural progesterone, because it’s being flooded with a synthetic variation. Once the ovaries stop production of natural progesterone, a radical shift in the estrogen-progesterone balance occurs. Estrogen becomes dominant - and natural progesterone becomes essentially non-existent. Once the estrogen-progesterone balance makes this fundamental shift - then the adverse medical conditions we mentioned begin to form.
Additionally, the synthetic, chemically altered hormone itself can cause irreparable damage, remember.
We now know that HRT actually makes heart disease, strokes, memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease worse – or just outright causes those conditions. But it took 30 years to figure it out.
But Hormone Replacement Therapy was mostly for older women. But what about younger women taking BCP’s containing four times the synthetic hormone doses?
So, why do drug companies manufacture these potentially harmful drugs? The existing patent laws are to blame. In this and most other countries, natural substances or compounds already found in nature can’t be patented. In order to patent something, you HAVE to chemically change what nature created. Essentially, you must invent a non-natural substance. It’s THAT simple.
Drug companies spend more money on marketing and advertising to doctors than they do on new drug research – a whopping $8.5 billion in the year 2000 alone.
There are other forms of birth control similar to BCP’s that utilize the same poisonous effects of chemically altered hormones. Birth control patches like Ortho Evra, now the target of a nationwide class action suit, along with the long acting injection (depo-Provera) and Norplant implants are just such methods.The “Morning After Pill” (Emergency Contraception) is just a much higher dose of BCP’s - albeit a little late. They all have the same toxic side effects as BCP’s and should be avoided. Ortho Evra has been singled out as doubling the already unacceptable risk of blood.
Amazingly, many women have done just fine. Initial observations indicate that fully 50% of women who have taken BCP’s or HRT haven’t experienced any noticeable medical problems.
This is more a credit to the resiliency of the human body rather than the actual substances themselves.
So how do you get the benefits and convenience of the Pill and not play Russian Roulette with your health?
Best Advice, Get off the pill! There are plenty of other options available.
If your not married I suggest Abstinence 100% effective.
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