Scary stuff. I wonder what they are going to say about the new drugs that stop your period like seasonale. Monkeying around with one or two periods a year although it sounds wonderful just seems like the type of bad science that frightened Mary Shelley.

This is part of why I had a vasectomy. While it's permanent, it is the safest way to prevent pregnancy in a committed relationship.

Over 20 years ago my ex husband came home from his part time job at a vitamen store with a book about how birth control pills and HRT were bad for women. I stopped taking the pill as did a couple of my friends. 20 years later the woman who wrote the book (seems like the title was Women and the Sex Hormone Crisis but a google leads nothing) was making the rounds of news shows when it was finally proven she was right.

I think Seasonale is the one that has the misleading commercial about how since you won't have periods anymore, no more pms and hence better moods, as if it's a birth control and ssri all rolled into one. I hope that's not on the drawing boards.

Among the warnings for Seasonale, you guessed it seasonale.com, is this one, if you are not having periods anyway, you can't know if you are pregnant until it's very late in the game, late enough that the pregancy has likely been harmed by the pills. That was a serious problem with regular birth control pills too.

Oh well, it looks like the ads feature the daughter of the abilify woman.

Re: birth control pills and the post re: Depakote and Women: the medication rx to my daughter IS BC pills.

Now let's take that round the block again. What did I just say?

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome-Depakote Black Box warning for girls and women.

I had a friend die of a brain aneurysm, and the doc said it was from BC pills.[ she dropped dead, and was a mother of little kids].Besides blood clots in the legs and all those things, yeah I agree with non-chemical birth control.

One thing I would want to know about the birth control study is some details about the women in the study. Did they smoke? Were they overweight? Obese? All of those factors are going to be important. Also, many women know that the older they get the risks with birth control pills increase (at least if your gyno is honest like mine). I've had to make some difficult decisions about birth control pills. I'm one of those women who has about 2 periods a year (not by choice that's just the way my body has always worked). By not having periods I'm at increased risk for uterine cancer. Birth control pills can cause DVT, breast cancer, etc. Those aren't fun choices to make, but I accept those risks because I don't smoke (so my risk for DVT is decreased) and breast cancer doesn't run in my family. However, I know that by taking birth control pills I'm taking on some risks - and I'm okay with that.

For me the issue is informed consent. Funnel cake clogs arteries, but people still eat it and nobody is getting sued over it. You know when you eat funnel cake cooked in a vat of grease that it is not good for your arteries. This is about people being informed of risks.

I have been fortunate to have gynos who discussed the risks of taking birth control pills. I may have to re-evaluate my decision to take them as I get older since my risks will increase. I have not been so fortunate when it comes to psychiatrists. They have not discussed risks of psych meds with me, and I've had more than one psychiatrist. All I want is for physicians and pharma to be honest about risks, so that I can decide what's best for me. I don't appreciate having a psychiatrist tell me that there is no risk of tardive dyskinesia with atypical antipsychotics, because that's not the truth. Just tell me the truth, and if you don't know then say you don't know. Is that really so much to ask?

thanks for this info. My daughter will be going off her birth control pills. She was put on the pill because of heavy periods.

This Seasonale drug sounds like a nightmare. Are we now at the stage of cosmetic medication? Big Pharma's market is just ever-expanding.

Hormones play such a huge role in women's lives and health that I think it's insane to take anything artificial to alter them. Even more insane are parents that put their young teenagers who aren't even fully developed or mature on the b.c pill. Their breast tissue is vulnerable and they have incomplete bone density-their little bodies are the perfect breeding ground for future breast cancer and oesteoporosis (spelling ??). Women really should rethink putting artificial hormones in their bodies. There are many other methods of birth control that don't have such scary side effects.

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