I was on BC for 15 years and went off to try to conceive. Months went by, and i went to the Dr many times to see why I couldn’t get pregnant. I was ovulating and everything seemed normal. Started putting me on progesterone and many other drugs that made me feel awful. For 5 years we tried, and it all chalked up to that I just couldn’t conceive. I was depressed and overly emotional. We eventually got a divorce and his next gf had a baby. So it was me. At 50 now, and never pregnant. So whatever my problem was, I probably never needed to be on BC in the first place. Or did it cause my infertility? These days, I’m just thankful for my life, without children and healing. I’m just praying for a healthy menopause.
@@Car-jy8pw thank you for your empathy. If that part of my life taught me anything, it is that I don’t trust big pharma, and I am very discerning about what I put in and on my body!
@@__-bz7wh thanks it definitely does, but i was 15 and it was my family doctor that put me on BC because I had heavy periods. I hear this from many friends too. Would’ve been in the 80’s.
I’ve been saying this for years. HBC impacted not just my mental health, but also my physical well being. I stopped taking it when I was in my early twenties (much to the weird protests of my doctors which is a whole other issue entirely). Never felt better and happier. If you’re a young woman on BC, please get off of it. It’s really awful that it’s normalized and almost expected for women to alter their natural body state when it comes to contraception. Start cycle tracking and use condoms unless you plan on child rearing with your sexual partner. It’s cheaper and healthier for you in the long run..spoken from personal experience.
I had a terrible experience with BC in my early 20s. I have had doctors look at me like I had three heads when I told them I was not TTC but I had no interest in the pill. What the heck is up with that?!
I had two exes in the past who were not on the pill when we started dating. They decided to go on it a few months in and the change was night at day. Zero libido, change in mood, weight gain, acne, etc. It was like dating a different person overnight. I'd never want to see someone I care for go through that again.
My wife was on birth control, and it ruined her hormone balance in her early twenties, she almost ended up in a psych ward and it took over a year before she felt improvement using progesterone.
In medical school they taught us that everything has a very slight risk of side effects, but the risks are minimal and the benefits outweigh the risks. So I was indoctrinated early on, and they glossed over any real risks. Curriculum brought to you by big pharma…..
Everytime and I mean everytime I share with another women about the LONG LIST of side effects from birth control, they have no idea!!! HOW COME? why doctors do not communicate all these?
Thanks for exposing this. I feel like I lost 7 years of my life due to these being pushed on me. I still remember the exact words of my doctor: ALL women are healthier on birth control.
@@whitneyweber6404I feel great, thanks for asking! I focused on regulating my blood sugar since a lot of my post-birth control syndrome stemmed from insulin insensitivity. I did go through a lot of acne, weight gain, and abnormal hair growth on my belly and face. Now that I’m focussing on holistic nutrition, supplementation, and consistent movement, a lot of those things have been clearing up. I think it just takes time, too.
@@whitneyweber6404 Mentally, i feel more connected to myself and grounded-I used to feel like i had no compass. And hey, maybe that’s just growing up, but I’ll take my wins as they come. I also realized I wasn’t attracted to my boyfriend of four years and that I’m actually gay and into women!
I use LH hormone test strips and an app called Premom. I can see exactly the days my LH starts to rise and then peak and fall back down. After it dramatically peaks and falls back to normal I know I have ovulated. Has worked for avoiding pregnancy.
Thanks! Scared to do it cause I'm so young (I'm currently using a hormonal IUD and will take it out in a few days) Never again messing with my hormones.
I haven't been the same since I had nexplanon, I'm now agoraphobic. It was removed 7 years ago and nothing since but I'm not the same person at all. I had to have an ultrasound and the sonographer asked me if I was on birth control, I told her I had the nexplanon and the horror on her face. She said a girl so young should never have been put on it. I still have anxiety, panic attacks, depression, acne, vitamin deficiencies (dont know if its linked) could go on forever the list is endless.
I took it aged 25, to kickstart my period and improve my low oestrogen. Consultant at the hospital recommended taking hormonal BC for 6 months. Unbeknown to me, my low oestrogen was due to undereating and over exercising. Wish I’d simply altered my lifestyle than take BC. My mental health was awful, I had such a disconnect, my head and my body felt like two different entities and the anger, or should I say rage, was awful. Felt like the devil was inside me. I would cry for no reason at all, I was constantly anxious and I knew was snapping at people close to me but I couldn’t stop. I also turned to overeating and gained weight very quickly. When I came off, after a couple of months I started getting jawline acne and even now 10 years on, my skin is still not as it was before. I will never ever take hormonal BC again. I was never asked about mental health or if depression and anxiety ran in my family. I was only asked about blood clots.
I took them for around a decade as a young woman. It was pushed on me quite heavily and I was completely ignorant to the side effects. (I was incredibly naive… I know.) I had shakes and tiredness and felt like something was very wrong with me for months after I stopped taking them. It’s been around 9 years now and I never got to where I felt completely normal again. I’ve assumed I feel awful since I’m older and maybe from other naive choices, but I do wonder if it left some permanent problem. Doctors dismissed my concerns and tried to either get me back on it or push anti-depressants. So I guess I’m on my own trying to figure things out.
Thanks for presenting this information. I’ve never taken hormonal birth control so I can’t speak from experience but I’ve read a lot of stories of women who have been affected by the pill. Seems to outweigh the good results but I know it can be helpful for some.
After 3 years, copper IUD started causing me anxiety. Maybe copper intoxication, I don't know. But 1 day after my doctor removed it, I felt so much better psychologically. I started researching if there's connection to copper IUD and found other women who had similar experience.
How do you know the copper was causing anxiety rather than placebo? Just curious. I also had issues with the copper IUD where my periods lasted 2 weeks, and when I took it out my period went back to lasting 7 days.
@@isbalella Because I didn't expect from copper to have any effect whatsoever. But then, when I noticed how defferent I was feeling, I started wondering if it could be the IUD, because it was the only thing that had changed. And when I googled it, I didn't expect to find anything. So, couldn't be placebo effect 🙂
This was like super coincidental, but just last weekend I had a really bad afternoon with my GF of almost 3 years, precisely because of a poor response to stress from her. She's always been a little anxious and self conscious, but as time has gone by I feel like her ability to handle all of this has worsened, specially in social contexts. Well, it turns out that she started using the subdermal contraceptive implant something like 7 months after we started dating. The thing has worked great with regards of us not getting pregnant in all this time, but seeing all of this, I know think she should be immediately looking into removing that thing from her body. And that was her plan actually, because I even got a vasectomy starting this year, so there's not even a reason for her to keep using birth control, it's just that we both have jobs and we're busy all the time, so she hasn't had the opportunity to go to her doctor and ask for the removal of the subdermal contraceptive. We're almost breaking up because of what happened last week and it turns out that we might not even be fully at fault for all of the problems we've had over the last two years.
Our 17 year old daughter is on various meds for anxiety and depression and just started taking BC to regulate her monthly cycle. We were told by the psychiatrist and obgyn that it should be fine and may even help with mood.
@@youtubeKathy she’s on so many pills now it would be hard to determine what caused a change in behavior. Goal is to get her off all of it but that is not happening any time soon.
The sympto thermal natural method is 99.9% effective when used properly. It's worked for me, several friends and family too. My mother is the only sister in her family to use a natural method (her 4 sisters used hormonal birth control). She's also the only sister to not get cancer. The medical industry doesn’t profit from natural methods, so many docs are completely ignorant of them. Grateful for this channel shedding light on the topic of detrimental side effects of hormonal birth control.
I’ve been on HBC since I was 14 at the recommendation of my dermatologist, and encouragement of my PCP. I’m 29. Several months ago I watched a video of yours that spoke about possible negative impacts of HBC. I had seen a few other videos regarding the issues with married couples and pheromones, but you raised my concerns enough to push past the fear of coming off of them. I have been off of HBC since February 19th and… the world didn’t end. My hormonal acne didn’t totally take over and my mood didn’t totally fracture… and I’m actually thinking back over the last couple months and I might be feeling more steady. I still have lots of concerns. I worry about my fertility and now that a lot of my anxiety, depressed mood, and stress responses that I have always thought were a part of me might actually be something I’ve been living with unnecessarily because doctors told me there was no other alternative. I wouldn’t be seeking out alternatives (or I would have waited even longer) if it weren’t for this channel. Thank you for what you do Mike.
That is so real! I was afraid to stop taking them after 7 years because I had this irrational fear my body wouldn't know what to do and I would fall apart. I also had fears of hair loss, which that didn't happen either.
I’m 53 and just now getting off of HBC and I struggle with depression, anxiety and I have been feeling that my cortisol is high…like I’m in a chronic PTSD state. I was put on continuous HBC for my depression…no periods to add to depression. I hope I can get through the detox without too much withdrawal symptoms. I have been eating carnivore for 5 months now, hoping that will help too.
On HBC for 10 years and now I’ve been off for about 7 years. BEST DECISION for my mental and physical health. I grieve what my body and mind (and marriage) could’ve been if I had never taken it in the first place. I use the Daysy app and I will not look back!
Please talk about how they say copper IUDs don't affect your hormones but they actually do...... I had a copper iud for almost two years and I experienced almost everything you just listed. This needs more research done. Look at the many many stories form women on youtube and reddit and the complications they had with the copper iud.
I was already a shy and anxious child, then I was on the pill by force, which could have been for the best, truly, but it probably really exacerbated my anxiety to the point where I found it hard to function at school
A big like and looking forward to another video about hormone therapy with more tips and tricks. Nowadays almost all teenage girls get prescribed oral contraceptives for menstrual irregularities and then they gain weight and then their mental state and libido modify and end up into a mental health provider who prescribes antidepressants which screws up even more their hormonal status and then a few years later we find ourselves in front of women - obese , depressed and infertile even - who want to come off of all these prescriptions and can't because everything is messed up.
I took hormonal birth control for 5 years. Getting off of it has destroyed my marriage... I should have never started, but my doctor lied about long term side effects.
I have never taken birth control (opting to practice safe sex instead: condoms and cycle tracking) and the more I learn about the growing body of evidence suggesting the real harm - I'm glad I never did.
🤘🏿The best birth control is abstinence. Though I understand how hard that is as a young man with your hormones going wild. I can’t speak to how it is for women. I was always careful, and picky about my partners, and was lucky to have found a good woman to share my life with. Now we have three wonderful, and beautiful children.
When i was 13 going on 14, getting ready to head out on my first date, my grandma gave me some advice before my mom drove me there, she said "be good, if you can't be good be careful, if you can't be careful don't name it after me." Now at this time I already had lost it and every single time I participated in that I still wrapped it up like I did for my first time when i was 12, so her advice what's more funny than helpful because I was already practicing safety, but even doing that at the age of 12 and never stopping that can also mess with a lot of things in your head because it becomes a major focus/distraction so I would agree that abstinence is the best practice because you can free your mind. I wouldn't know about that mental freedom because I'm still active and protected...
I have actually seen some videos where speakers talk to adolescents about abstinence and a lot of them are so relieved, its like they have never heard it before that they don't have to start having sx. Like it never occurred to them it was even an option. It makes you wonder what we are doing to our kids.
I truly believe the combo low estrogen birth control pill fucked up my hormones permanently and I’ve been off of it since 2016. I don’t feel the same and haven’t been the same since. I feel loads better not taking the pill but just who i am / my hormones feel different. Also have hormonal migraines that stuck with me after i stopped taking it.
My problem with the study - You can’t just throw together women taking an oral progesterone contraceptive AND women with a hormonal IUD. The delivery of the hormone(s) into the body is wildly different. For example, the Mirena IUD only delivers Levonorgestrel within the uterus, and very trace amounts of it enter the bloodstream. I’m sure there will still be differences in the data from women not on any BC, but to throw together oral and IUD contraceptive results seems daft to me. Please let me know if I’m misunderstanding the study, and they did segment the data.
@@CarnivoreMom_Of4 that's really sad. my girlfriend wants to start bc, she already have heavy mood changes and etc., I told her about the Side effects (especially in hormones), but she still wants it (to deal with her periods and to not get preg). Knowing that not even non hormonal ones (copper IUD and maybe silver) would work is discouraging.
I was on bc for 20+ years (only off when trying to conceive) a few years ago I had a horrible experience with debilitating anxiety and panic attacks. Many doctors tried to get me on SSRI’s. I refused and instead went through months of therapy instead. My husband got a vasectomy, I got off the pill and feel sooo much better, however I’ve gained weight being off the pill and am having a hard time losing it despite exercising and IM. Ive gotten my blood work done and everything looks good. It’s been less than a year since I’ve been off BC so hopefully it’s just my body still needing to adjust.
Women need to get back to tracking our cycles and not acting like men. We aren't! We are the givers and nurtures of life. Its a sacred position and role in the world we play. We need tobtake back our position, responsibility, health, and start being much more selective as to the men we choose to share our company. Things are just so out of balance and our bodies are telling us the truth. I was on the pill since 16 and stopped to start a family at 35. I got pregnant and had my son witjout any issues. I did however stop the pill 1 or 2 years prior. If I knew this info I would have never gotten on the pill and educated myself on my system and how to prevent pregnancies naturally. Our mothers and grandmothers had this knowledge. There is the morning after pill today as well.
Easy to say when we live in a time where men don't want marriage and they want to trick women in to sleep around. If I had it my way I would have been married to one man in my youth but the men in my time didn't want marriage. Some women may seem promiscuous but they are searching for the man to wife them up and they will kiss many frog's before finding their prince. I kissed many frog's but unfortunately never found my prince. The thing that gets me angry is the way men fake love to get a woman to let her guard down so he can convince her to sleep with him, when will we hold men accountable like we did in the past?
I hate my period so much that I’d rather have the Mirena IUD and deal with the issues of that. My period was never particularly horrendous, I just hate the menstrual cycle itself.
@Pedant_Patrol what the hell, dude. Women are people, not pawns or possessions. Why the hell would you force her to marry someone she doesn't even love? WILD.
Growing facial hair as a teen girl doesn't help the depression. Not gonna sell out how old my sister is now but as a teen she took BCP and she still grows chin hair like a man, and she has 2 sons and still has time to have more kids with her husband
@Epik Ocelot I definitely have pcos, so my hormones aren't great. My thyroid is doing good, though. A combination of a low carb diet and birth control pretty much keeps my symptoms down
@Genghisnico13 I got rid of most of my symptoms by limiting my carbohydrate intake to less than 50g a day followingmy doctor's recommendation. It has been two years, and I lost forty pounds
I went on it when i was 14 cause i had very bad menstrual pains and a lot of blood i went to the doctor and got put on birthcontrol rightaway a few months later the panics attacks started without a reason i can think of and from then on it just went downhill the difference with the person i was before i started was just night and day. But i never linked the two and two together.
@@moiragoldsmith7052 I've had it for 3 years. Started with little/no cramping during my cycle beforehand so the IUD making them worse doesn't make them that bad for me
I’ve had Liletta progesterone based local iud fir 7 years without any issues or known side effects, but i’d never take the pill that would affect my whole body that’s horrible
I was on BC for 15 years and went off to try to conceive. Months went by, and i went to the Dr many times to see why I couldn’t get pregnant. I was ovulating and everything seemed normal. Started putting me on progesterone and many other drugs that made me feel awful. For 5 years we tried, and it all chalked up to that I just couldn’t conceive. I was depressed and overly emotional. We eventually got a divorce and his next gf had a baby. So it was me. At 50 now, and never pregnant. So whatever my problem was, I probably never needed to be on BC in the first place. Or did it cause my infertility? These days, I’m just thankful for my life, without children and healing. I’m just praying for a healthy menopause.
I’m so sorry 💔
Yes, it can cause infertility. Although A LOT of things nowadays can.
@@Car-jy8pw thank you for your empathy. If that part of my life taught me anything, it is that I don’t trust big pharma, and I am very discerning about what I put in and on my body!
Feminism destroyed you. That's the truth nobody else will tell you
Wow that's terrible. Goes to show how important it is to find the best doctor you can and never trust them 100% without your own investigation
@@__-bz7wh thanks it definitely does, but i was 15 and it was my family doctor that put me on BC because I had heavy periods. I hear this from many friends too. Would’ve been in the 80’s.
I’ve been saying this for years. HBC impacted not just my mental health, but also my physical well being. I stopped taking it when I was in my early twenties (much to the weird protests of my doctors which is a whole other issue entirely). Never felt better and happier.
If you’re a young woman on BC, please get off of it. It’s really awful that it’s normalized and almost expected for women to alter their natural body state when it comes to contraception. Start cycle tracking and use condoms unless you plan on child rearing with your sexual partner. It’s cheaper and healthier for you in the long run..spoken from personal experience.
I had a terrible experience with BC in my early 20s. I have had doctors look at me like I had three heads when I told them I was not TTC but I had no interest in the pill. What the heck is up with that?!
I had two exes in the past who were not on the pill when we started dating. They decided to go on it a few months in and the change was night at day. Zero libido, change in mood, weight gain, acne, etc. It was like dating a different person overnight. I'd never want to see someone I care for go through that again.
Happened to me too
I'm sure you wouldn't want to put yourself through that again, either.
My wife was on birth control, and it ruined her hormone balance in her early twenties, she almost ended up in a psych ward and it took over a year before she felt improvement using progesterone.
Infertility drugs
Same with me.
I've been saying this for years. I have noticed that some of my friends got really mean.
In medical school they taught us that everything has a very slight risk of side effects, but the risks are minimal and the benefits outweigh the risks. So I was indoctrinated early on, and they glossed over any real risks. Curriculum brought to you by big pharma…..
Everytime and I mean everytime I share with another women about the LONG LIST of side effects from birth control, they have no idea!!! HOW COME? why doctors do not communicate all these?
Thanks for exposing this. I feel like I lost 7 years of my life due to these being pushed on me.
I still remember the exact words of my doctor:
ALL women are healthier on birth control.
Infertility drugs
That's disturbing your doctor said that. Hopefully people are more skeptical of doctors' advice since covid.
I quit birth control a couple weeks ago after taking it for 10 years (since I was 14). Thanks for the related info. Here’s to finding who I really am!
Update? How are you feeling?
@@whitneyweber6404I feel great, thanks for asking! I focused on regulating my blood sugar since a lot of my post-birth control syndrome stemmed from insulin insensitivity. I did go through a lot of acne, weight gain, and abnormal hair growth on my belly and face. Now that I’m focussing on holistic nutrition, supplementation, and consistent movement, a lot of those things have been clearing up. I think it just takes time, too.
@@whitneyweber6404 Mentally, i feel more connected to myself and grounded-I used to feel like i had no compass. And hey, maybe that’s just growing up, but I’ll take my wins as they come. I also realized I wasn’t attracted to my boyfriend of four years and that I’m actually gay and into women!
I use LH hormone test strips and an app called Premom. I can see exactly the days my LH starts to rise and then peak and fall back down. After it dramatically peaks and falls back to normal I know I have ovulated. Has worked for avoiding pregnancy.
Thank you for sharing. I will implement this
Thanks! Scared to do it cause I'm so young (I'm currently using a hormonal IUD and will take it out in a few days) Never again messing with my hormones.
I haven't been the same since I had nexplanon, I'm now agoraphobic. It was removed 7 years ago and nothing since but I'm not the same person at all. I had to have an ultrasound and the sonographer asked me if I was on birth control, I told her I had the nexplanon and the horror on her face. She said a girl so young should never have been put on it. I still have anxiety, panic attacks, depression, acne, vitamin deficiencies (dont know if its linked) could go on forever the list is endless.
thank you for caring about women
I took it aged 25, to kickstart my period and improve my low oestrogen. Consultant at the hospital recommended taking hormonal BC for 6 months. Unbeknown to me, my low oestrogen was due to undereating and over exercising. Wish I’d simply altered my lifestyle than take BC.
My mental health was awful, I had such a disconnect, my head and my body felt like two different entities and the anger, or should I say rage, was awful. Felt like the devil was inside me. I would cry for no reason at all, I was constantly anxious and I knew was snapping at people close to me but I couldn’t stop. I also turned to overeating and gained weight very quickly. When I came off, after a couple of months I started getting jawline acne and even now 10 years on, my skin is still not as it was before.
I will never ever take hormonal BC again. I was never asked about mental health or if depression and anxiety ran in my family. I was only asked about blood clots.
I took them for around a decade as a young woman. It was pushed on me quite heavily and I was completely ignorant to the side effects. (I was incredibly naive… I know.) I had shakes and tiredness and felt like something was very wrong with me for months after I stopped taking them. It’s been around 9 years now and I never got to where I felt completely normal again. I’ve assumed I feel awful since I’m older and maybe from other naive choices, but I do wonder if it left some permanent problem. Doctors dismissed my concerns and tried to either get me back on it or push anti-depressants. So I guess I’m on my own trying to figure things out.
It’s sad that we trust our medical system and don’t question their recommendations, especially as young women. Sending love and healing!
Thanks for presenting this information. I’ve never taken hormonal birth control so I can’t speak from experience but I’ve read a lot of stories of women who have been affected by the pill. Seems to outweigh the good results but I know it can be helpful for some.
After 3 years, copper IUD started causing me anxiety. Maybe copper intoxication, I don't know. But 1 day after my doctor removed it, I felt so much better psychologically. I started researching if there's connection to copper IUD and found other women who had similar experience.
How do you know the copper was causing anxiety rather than placebo? Just curious. I also had issues with the copper IUD where my periods lasted 2 weeks, and when I took it out my period went back to lasting 7 days.
@@isbalella Because I didn't expect from copper to have any effect whatsoever. But then, when I noticed how defferent I was feeling, I started wondering if it could be the IUD, because it was the only thing that had changed. And when I googled it, I didn't expect to find anything. So, couldn't be placebo effect 🙂
This was like super coincidental, but just last weekend I had a really bad afternoon with my GF of almost 3 years, precisely because of a poor response to stress from her. She's always been a little anxious and self conscious, but as time has gone by I feel like her ability to handle all of this has worsened, specially in social contexts. Well, it turns out that she started using the subdermal contraceptive implant something like 7 months after we started dating. The thing has worked great with regards of us not getting pregnant in all this time, but seeing all of this, I know think she should be immediately looking into removing that thing from her body. And that was her plan actually, because I even got a vasectomy starting this year, so there's not even a reason for her to keep using birth control, it's just that we both have jobs and we're busy all the time, so she hasn't had the opportunity to go to her doctor and ask for the removal of the subdermal contraceptive. We're almost breaking up because of what happened last week and it turns out that we might not even be fully at fault for all of the problems we've had over the last two years.
Get her off of it asap. I eventually separated with mine.
Our 17 year old daughter is on various meds for anxiety and depression and just started taking BC to regulate her monthly cycle. We were told by the psychiatrist and obgyn that it should be fine and may even help with mood.
Be careful even if she feels better initially it will probably change in some months. That’s why I never made the connection for the next 7 years
@@youtubeKathy she’s on so many pills now it would be hard to determine what caused a change in behavior. Goal is to get her off all of it but that is not happening any time soon.
She will get side effect
The sympto thermal natural method is 99.9% effective when used properly. It's worked for me, several friends and family too.
My mother is the only sister in her family to use a natural method (her 4 sisters used hormonal birth control). She's also the only sister to not get cancer.
The medical industry doesn’t profit from natural methods, so many docs are completely ignorant of them.
Grateful for this channel shedding light on the topic of detrimental side effects of hormonal birth control.
My wife wanted to go on birth control and I asked her not to because I didnt want her to screw with her hormones. She already does that enough.
Well, this explains a lot.
I’ve been on HBC since I was 14 at the recommendation of my dermatologist, and encouragement of my PCP.
I’m 29. Several months ago I watched a video of yours that spoke about possible negative impacts of HBC. I had seen a few other videos regarding the issues with married couples and pheromones, but you raised my concerns enough to push past the fear of coming off of them. I have been off of HBC since February 19th and… the world didn’t end. My hormonal acne didn’t totally take over and my mood didn’t totally fracture… and I’m actually thinking back over the last couple months and I might be feeling more steady. I still have lots of concerns. I worry about my fertility and now that a lot of my anxiety, depressed mood, and stress responses that I have always thought were a part of me might actually be something I’ve been living with unnecessarily because doctors told me there was no other alternative.
I wouldn’t be seeking out alternatives (or I would have waited even longer) if it weren’t for this channel. Thank you for what you do Mike.
That is so real! I was afraid to stop taking them after 7 years because I had this irrational fear my body wouldn't know what to do and I would fall apart. I also had fears of hair loss, which that didn't happen either.
who wouldve thought messing with hormones was a bad idea
I’m 53 and just now getting off of HBC and I struggle with depression, anxiety and I have been feeling that my cortisol is high…like I’m in a chronic PTSD state. I was put on continuous HBC for my depression…no periods to add to depression. I hope I can get through the detox without too much withdrawal symptoms. I have been eating carnivore for 5 months now, hoping that will help too.
On HBC for 10 years and now I’ve been off for about 7 years. BEST DECISION for my mental and physical health. I grieve what my body and mind (and marriage) could’ve been if I had never taken it in the first place. I use the Daysy app and I will not look back!
Please talk about how they say copper IUDs don't affect your hormones but they actually do...... I had a copper iud for almost two years and I experienced almost everything you just listed. This needs more research done. Look at the many many stories form women on youtube and reddit and the complications they had with the copper iud.
I was already a shy and anxious child, then I was on the pill by force, which could have been for the best, truly, but it probably really exacerbated my anxiety to the point where I found it hard to function at school
A big like and looking forward to another video about hormone therapy with more tips and tricks. Nowadays almost all teenage girls get prescribed oral contraceptives for menstrual irregularities and then they gain weight and then their mental state and libido modify and end up into a mental health provider who prescribes antidepressants which screws up even more their hormonal status and then a few years later we find ourselves in front of women - obese , depressed and infertile even - who want to come off of all these prescriptions and can't because everything is messed up.
I took hormonal birth control for 5 years. Getting off of it has destroyed my marriage... I should have never started, but my doctor lied about long term side effects.
I have never taken birth control (opting to practice safe sex instead: condoms and cycle tracking) and the more I learn about the growing body of evidence suggesting the real harm - I'm glad I never did.
🤘🏿The best birth control is abstinence. Though I understand how hard that is as a young man with your hormones going wild. I can’t speak to how it is for women.
I was always careful, and picky about my partners, and was lucky to have found a good woman to share my life with. Now we have three wonderful, and beautiful children.
Need more men like you. And also men who practice semen retention.
When i was 13 going on 14, getting ready to head out on my first date, my grandma gave me some advice before my mom drove me there, she said "be good, if you can't be good be careful, if you can't be careful don't name it after me." Now at this time I already had lost it and every single time I participated in that I still wrapped it up like I did for my first time when i was 12, so her advice what's more funny than helpful because I was already practicing safety, but even doing that at the age of 12 and never stopping that can also mess with a lot of things in your head because it becomes a major focus/distraction so I would agree that abstinence is the best practice because you can free your mind. I wouldn't know about that mental freedom because I'm still active and protected...
@@LatimusChadimus yes, agreed. Great advice from grandma too.
@@ellenanortje3707 is that sarcasm?
I have actually seen some videos where speakers talk to adolescents about abstinence and a lot of them are so relieved, its like they have never heard it before that they don't have to start having sx. Like it never occurred to them it was even an option. It makes you wonder what we are doing to our kids.
I truly believe the combo low estrogen birth control pill fucked up my hormones permanently and I’ve been off of it since 2016. I don’t feel the same and haven’t been the same since. I feel loads better not taking the pill but just who i am / my hormones feel different. Also have hormonal migraines that stuck with me after i stopped taking it.
I have a bad anxiety that got worse over last 2 years. I was on a mini pill for 5 years. Now 4 days off ❤️ hope that helps! 😢
Any info on endometriosis?
awsome video it gave so much clarity, great presentation
Sounds like the study was on young women, is that right? Because I understand it certainly helps balance hormones in peri-menopausal women.
My problem with the study -
You can’t just throw together women taking an oral progesterone contraceptive AND women with a hormonal IUD. The delivery of the hormone(s) into the body is wildly different. For example, the Mirena IUD only delivers Levonorgestrel within the uterus, and very trace amounts of it enter the bloodstream. I’m sure there will still be differences in the data from women not on any BC, but to throw together oral and IUD contraceptive results seems daft to me. Please let me know if I’m misunderstanding the study, and they did segment the data.
Copper IUD is no better. I experienced the same mental symptoms as hormonal.
Heavy metal poisoning
@@ST-yc7uj possibly but still no better 🤯
@@CarnivoreMom_Of4 that's really sad.
my girlfriend wants to start bc, she already have heavy mood changes and etc., I told her about the Side effects (especially in hormones), but she still wants it (to deal with her periods and to not get preg).
Knowing that not even non hormonal ones (copper IUD and maybe silver) would work is discouraging.
Yes ...yes it does...
I was on bc for 20+ years (only off when trying to conceive) a few years ago I had a horrible experience with debilitating anxiety and panic attacks. Many doctors tried to get me on SSRI’s. I refused and instead went through months of therapy instead. My husband got a vasectomy, I got off the pill and feel sooo much better, however I’ve gained weight being off the pill and am having a hard time losing it despite exercising and IM. Ive gotten my blood work done and everything looks good. It’s been less than a year since I’ve been off BC so hopefully it’s just my body still needing to adjust.
Gained 30+ lbs on the hormonal IUD and shot
Women need to get back to tracking our cycles and not acting like men. We aren't! We are the givers and nurtures of life. Its a sacred position and role in the world we play. We need tobtake back our position, responsibility, health, and start being much more selective as to the men we choose to share our company. Things are just so out of balance and our bodies are telling us the truth. I was on the pill since 16 and stopped to start a family at 35. I got pregnant and had my son witjout any issues. I did however stop the pill 1 or 2 years prior. If I knew this info I would have never gotten on the pill and educated myself on my system and how to prevent pregnancies naturally. Our mothers and grandmothers had this knowledge. There is the morning after pill today as well.
The morning after pill is no good. It can kill the baby.
Ideally, a woman's husband should be chosen by her father. But we are far from there in the West now. Very sad.
Easy to say when we live in a time where men don't want marriage and they want to trick women in to sleep around.
If I had it my way I would have been married to one man in my youth but the men in my time didn't want marriage.
Some women may seem promiscuous but they are searching for the man to wife them up and they will kiss many frog's before finding their prince.
I kissed many frog's but unfortunately never found my prince.
The thing that gets me angry is the way men fake love to get a woman to let her guard down so he can convince her to sleep with him, when will we hold men accountable like we did in the past?
I hate my period so much that I’d rather have the Mirena IUD and deal with the issues of that. My period was never particularly horrendous, I just hate the menstrual cycle itself.
@Pedant_Patrol what the hell, dude. Women are people, not pawns or possessions. Why the hell would you force her to marry someone she doesn't even love? WILD.
Growing facial hair as a teen girl doesn't help the depression. Not gonna sell out how old my sister is now but as a teen she took BCP and she still grows chin hair like a man, and she has 2 sons and still has time to have more kids with her husband
thanks for the info!
Can you talk about how hormonal birth control affects people with PCOS? I feel like my mental health is way better when i take hormonal birth control
@Epik Ocelot I definitely have pcos, so my hormones aren't great. My thyroid is doing good, though. A combination of a low carb diet and birth control pretty much keeps my symptoms down
Birth control can lead to PCOS...
@@MushroomMagpie I'm pretty sure that in my case it is hereditary. My mom has pcos, my grandmother has pcos, and so does my aunt
@@mackenzie305 there's certainly a genetic contribution, but don't underestimate diet.
@Genghisnico13 I got rid of most of my symptoms by limiting my carbohydrate intake to less than 50g a day followingmy doctor's recommendation. It has been two years, and I lost forty pounds
I went on it when i was 14 cause i had very bad menstrual pains and a lot of blood i went to the doctor and got put on birthcontrol rightaway a few months later the panics attacks started without a reason i can think of and from then on it just went downhill the difference with the person i was before i started was just night and day. But i never linked the two and two together.
Are you still taking it? If not did your panic attack get better?
I'm clicking the LIKE button but it does NOT change it's state to indicate I liked the video. Your content may be suppresssssed!
Ugh oh!?
I am on hormone replacement: what can i do?
Could you please make a video on PMDD and possible solutions? I almost just went on BC as a last resort
My pronounce are now Told/You/So
Of course it does, you can't mess with hormones without messing with the mind.
Not a surprise to me, but crp does a bit but shouldnt have
Same issues with bio-identical hormones during peri/menopause? Or are they different?
They make up for the hormones you lack. The BC adds hormones you don't need.
@@ST-yc7ujwhat hormone does bcp add to our system that we don’t need?
@@Gladeeez surplus
So glad I got the copper IUD!! 😋😋
Copper toxicity is unhealthy as well.
That was dreadful for me... pleased it works for you. 👍
@@moiragoldsmith7052 I've had it for 3 years. Started with little/no cramping during my cycle beforehand so the IUD making them worse doesn't make them that bad for me
Any studies that combines HBC and Social Media? Especially add that to your graveyard shift point.
No surprises there
#BirthControl #HormonalConjunctiveCortisolResponse
what a damn minute HITT is bad for cortisol/women?!?
Im glad im ugly and no guy wants to be with me and i don't need birth control 😅
your profile picture shows ressentment towards men;
maybe your not ugly, you're just not pleasant to be around with.
Induced infertility has to be unhealthy
Hormonal IUDs never made sense to me. If you're getting a damn IUD you might as well go copper, as it skips the bullshit mental effects of hormonal...
Copper iud’s cause many issues as well. Copper toxicity is not something you want to mess with
@@Psalm91-1 That side effect is rare last I checked.
Copper ones hurt way more
I’ve had Liletta progesterone based local iud fir 7 years without any issues or known side effects, but i’d never take the pill that would affect my whole body that’s horrible
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No shit. I discovered this pattern by 27 and stopped dating any girls on any contraception lol.
Does anyone do research before they start taking something like this?? If I was a chick I'd be like .....Pass
Really interesting study but as a non native speaker do you really need to talk that fast?
The shot is horrible for me
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