A lot of things baffle me about the medical industry’s approach to birth control, but the one thing I’ve struggled with the most has to do with the thyroid. For the life of me, I couldn’t understand how any doctor could prescribe The Pill to a patient and not be concerned about the affect it […]
It’s funny how clearly some mundane memories stick in your mind. I still recall the first time I took my car in for an instant oil-change. The shop’s marketing had spoken to my heart with a promise to have me in-and-out in under 10 minutes. If I wasn’t already hooked, something about navigating my car […]
“The doctor wouldn’t have given it to me if he thought it was dangerous, right?”My wife asked this salient question as we discussed the pros and cons of The Pill. It sent us both into deep reflection. Everything we read said The Pill was dangerous, but the doctor had acted like they should come in a Pez […]
I vividly recall the most unexpected reaction I got when I told a friend that we were pregnant with our daughter. He asked me not to mention it in front of his wife. He explained that she was in the midst of an emotional crisis. Their attempts to conceive had been unsuccessful, and the doctors […]
Dr. Ernst Rietzschel described his findings as ‘startling.’ His fellow cardiologists buzzed in agreement after he presented the findings at the American Heart Association 2007 annual meeting. His Ghent University lab in Belgium had discovered that women taking hormonal birth control and those who ever took them for more than a year have an increased […]
Once you become familiar with the wide variety of side effects linked to birth control, you begin to see them everywhere. Daily revelations paint a clearer picture of the large price women have paid for taking The Pill.While recently working on a Fashion Week event, I was reminded of a very common but seldom-mentioned side […]
Doctors frequently dismiss irritability and depression as minor side effects of birth control – a mere inconvenience that can easily be treated. All you need is another prescription. In fact, we saw in my previous article on lupus how quickly some doctors will prescribe an anti-depressant for virtually any side effect triggered by The Pill.Trivializing changes […]
Half a century ago, the National Institutes of Health sponsored a study on the metabolic effects of hormonal contraceptives. In the committee’s final report, Dr. Salhanick wrote: “These accumulated data and others suggest that no tissue or organ system is free from a biological, functional, and/or morphological effect of contraceptive steroids.” [ NPH, Page 6567 […]