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Plan B
posted by Joy on 24 Apr 2006 at 11:04 pmThis is really a question. I was wondering if the the Plan B might have the same effect on SHBG levels, especially if used more than once.
Read the news article that this opinion was posted about:
Birth Control Pill Could Cause Long-Term Problems With Testosterone, New Research Indicates
Birth Control Pills: The Real Side Effects
posted by Armida Pineda on 20 Aug 2010 at 12:02 pm
The birth control pills have many side effects that haven't really been mentioned... it also causes: blood pressure, impaired vision, cause stroke, blood clots, heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms, cancer of breast and/or reproductive organs, liver tumors, fetal abnormalities (because not every contaceptive pill, ring, ,or shot etc.. is 100% sure. even if you use many at the same time) It might also cause infertility for the future. it also lowers your defenses leaving you more prone to contracting all kinds of venereal diseases, including AIDS.
Not a guarantee
posted by Kitty on 02 Nov 2010 at 11:21 am
The pill does not CAUSE all the symptoms you mentioned, else there would be a LOT of dead women about... Most of those are rare side effects. The studies into breast cancer and the pill are not definitive, and it has been shown to reduce the risk of some types of cancer of the reproductive organs, as well as non-cancerous breast and ovarian cysts.
Also, how exactly does it cause blood pressure?
Someone's been scare-mongered...
~K
Study Has shown this
posted by Dee on 09 Nov 2010 at 7:21 pm
Yes the pill does CAUSE all of the symptoms mentioned, look at this web site if you do not believe me.
http://www.sandiegosexualmedicine.com/?page=female/sexual-health-problems/birth-control-pill-oral-contraceptives
Birth Control Pill Caused Problems
posted by Mary Smith on 08 Jan 2011 at 8:04 am
Kitty,
Go to the Yahoo vulvar message boards and post that to the wonen that are having vulvar pain issues and sexual dysfunction. I was perfectctly normal until I went on the BCP at age 38 and after that I had chronic infections, low testosterone, etc. The BCP ruined my life. There are more women out there than you know of with issues. Too many of us women are uneducated to the negative effects of the birth control pill. We are not educated on hormones etc by our doctors. I had to learn the hard way after having issues. The first doctor I went to said take an antidepressent and didn't even want to check my hormone levels. I refused and started my own research. I am still having issues to this day. Wish more docs understood this information and did inform us on our doc visit that there is a possibility that our health could be harmed by taking BCP.
So if it doesn't happen to you...
posted by Lindsey on 09 Jan 2011 at 10:54 am
...kitty, so what you're saying is if it doesn't happen to you or to EVERY woman it's not a potential side effect? Um, brilliant.
Birth Control Pills SUCK!
posted by Michelle on 10 Jan 2011 at 9:08 pm
Women are not warned enough about the potential side-effects from using the pill. Had I known then, what I know now, I would have never used them. I developed vulvodynia while on them and it took me years to get out of 24/7 pain. The pill also caused problems with my libido and I don't think it's ever fully recovered. Women should be adequately warned about ALL the side effects from using the pill, especially the potential of vulvar pain! It's not worth it!
Windy
posted by Wendy on 26 Jan 2011 at 10:54 am
I have been on birth control for (yikes) 27 years. I have had minor but annoying health issues for about 10 years that I believe may be related to an overgrowth of yeast in the body, probably caused by birth control pills.
A little over 5 years ago I had a Merina IUD placed. No need to worry about forgetting the pill and I had no periods. More time for sex, right? Problem was I had no sex drive and sex became increasingly painful. Toward the end of the 5 years I finally asked my PCP if it is possible that the IUD was causing the pain. She denied it and said it's "called being 45, honey". She then prescribed me 3 months of birth control pills. A week later no more pain. Now a couple of days after stopping the birth control pills I have been able to sleep all night without getting up to go to the bathroom at least 2 times a night.
The pill that reduces your period to 4 times a year is being advertised. I can't help but think there has got to be something wrong with controlling our hormones that drastically. Hormones play such an important role in the body.
In Kitty's Defense
posted by NurseP on 31 Jan 2011 at 8:26 am
As a healthcare professional, I have to back Kitty up in this argument. I think most people who have posted here are misreading what she is saying. The way medicine is practiced through out the world is through evidence based practice. This means that in order to market and sell medications to individuals, that medication must go through a rigorous research process in order to prove its safety.
The birth control pill is one of the oldest and safest medications on the market. Yes, it does have some side effects (as Kitty was pointing out). But if you look at every medication on the market, they all have side effects as well. You are putting a foreign substance into your body that is designed to alter normal body processes. This is, by the laws of nature, not normal.
The problem with medications is that you cannot control the biological processes in each individual that the medication is being given to. Each person will react differently to a medication, because each person has a different genetic make up, and has been exposed to different environmental chemicals that can potentially alter how they metabolize medications.
There is no possible way to know for sure how each person will react individually to a specific medication unless that person takes the medication. So, to answer the question - yes, birth control is safe. Yes, it has side effects. If you take birth control and you experience side effects that are bothersome - then stop taking the pill.
The thing to take away from my post is that birth control hormones are not right for everyone. But they are perfectly safe, if taken properly as long as you do not smoke. If you smoke (even if you are under age 35) there is a risk of developing blood clots. The risk is still there, so use another form of contraception if you do not want to quit smoking. It's not worth risking your life.
No Boyfriends, a new side effect!
posted by Stevie Wonder on 02 Mar 2011 at 12:26 am
Dear women,
I have been dating, and was even planning on marrying, the girl of my dreams for 3 years. About a year and a half into the relationship she started complaining of painful intercourse. University nurse practitioner A diagnosed her with a chronic yeast infection. After 6 weeks of diflucan still no results. She then went to her regular doctor B who referred her to specialist, Gynecologist C who told her nothing was wrong. I then suggested that she might have a rare disease such as lichen sclerosis which she brought up to Gynecologist C at a second visit who told her that I was not a doctor and that she had a yeast infection and prescribed more diflucan.
Great, three doctors back to square one. After treating her yeast infection she still experienced pain and I suggested that she might see a more open minded specialist. We are now at Gynecologist D who has diagnosed her with vulvodynia which although it is a better diagnoses then a yeast infection I believe she has vestibulodynia because, for the past 5 years she has been on the pill and during the past 2 has switched the type of pill twice. Longterm BCP usage has been shown to irreversibly reduce the active testosterone in the blood stream.
Vestibulodynia is believed to mainly be caused by low testosterone levels in the blood which cause the vestibule tissue to grow abnormally and become irritated. After trying lidocaine, nortriptyline, diflucan, electric therapy, there has been no results (except the electric therapy which was discontinued due to costs and somewhat effective). It has been three months to date of no sex drive, less kissing, and no sex. Who would want to date a eunuch? (I have an awful lot of respect for those married to disabled partners incapable of intercourse, I really do)
Thanks nuva ring, Thanks microgestin, thanks TriVora, Trinessa, and Tri-Norinyl, and to all the other hormone therapies out there I may have missed, thank you. For helping me identify a new irreversible and incurable side effect of birth control treatment. No boyfriends. On the optimistic side, at least she won't be pregnant and she doesn't even need the pill anymore!
I HATE MIRENA!!....OR JUST HORMONES!!
posted by LaChic Buchanan on 26 Jan 2012 at 4:48 pm
Hello gang, Im a 31 yr old chick, I have a 5 yr old mini me. I got the Mirena on Dec.20 2007, I thought it was gonna be great, not gonna have to take a pill everyday...whoohoo!!! everything was working out fine them BAM!!! im on the bathroom floor with paramedics around me, Im "coming to" speaking to everyone, saying hello, hi. IM totally confused as to what the hell happened. The doctors are describing to me that I just had a seizure. Im thinking to myself "where the hell that come from"...I've never had one in my 31 years of living. The docs wanted to medicate me and send me home.(i didnt want it). A couple more months go by...and here goes another one(daydreaming out the window)back to the hospital we go again. they hook me up to the machines to try and cause a seizure with all the flashing lights...NOTHING!!!....WHY because im not epeliptic...hhhmmmm. this time I take the med's. Now im feeling tingling in my fingers, im feeling slow..a little stupid and cant concentrate at times, and forget words that Im liiking for while talking...very frustratng!!!!. Now a year later everything is cool then BAM!!! POW POW...I hit a car and a light pole due to having a seizure while driving(tear)!!! Then it hits me...all this CRAP starting after I got this DAMN IUD!!!! but these damn shitty ass doc's wanna say its irrelivant??? really??? oh im crazy huh??? this thing is cummin out!!!! bet that!!!
BCP'S an autism
posted by Lois Seiner on 30 Mar 2012 at 5:30 am
I'm wondering if there is a cause and effect between use of birth control pills and autism. Since males outnumber females by 5 to 1 with the diagnosis it sould be considered due to the hormones in BCP's. I am past menopause but suffered from hot flashes and what I called "brain fog" until my Gyn put me on estrogen replacement therapy and my thinking became sharp and clear again and no more hot flashes! I have the feeling that the high female hormone levels and subsequently low testosterone levels that male babies may suffer such a drop in hormone levels after birth which can possibly lead to brain disorders labelLed autism. Is there any research being conducted along this thought?
No
posted by nola on 20 Apr 2012 at 12:06 am
An early prediction: not statistically significant.
In fact, little at all. A woman would have to take Plan B repeatedly for months-days on end to see significant effects as shown in these results. If at all for that matter.
What About Use To Lower Testosterone?
posted by amy on 03 May 2012 at 10:21 pm
I was trying to research whether or not taking birth control pills would help me to lower my testosterone, as I believe mine is too high? Sounds like it might help, I am having some serious problems with too much testosterone!
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