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All medicines balance on a knife's edge when it comes to benefits vs side-effects. Even water is dangerous if one drinks too much. Birth control is no different
by WheelsAtLarge 7y ago
All medicines balance on a knife's edge when it comes to benefits vs side-effects. Even water is dangerous if one drinks too much. Birth control is no different. The pill made it possible for women to decide when they wanted to have children. That's an immense benefit.
What's important is that the side-effects are known by the individuals that take the medicine.
- DanielleMolloy 7y agoIt’s the “like candy” part. People are on antidepressants, anti-ADHD, hormonal birth control constantly for years and much longer than these meds were tested in clinical studies. Some severe side effects are downplayed or ignored if they only develop after this long-term use. Women in particular are often not taken seriously by practitioners, check out current lawsuits surrounding hormonal IUDs (mentioned side effects include heavy migraines that happen to end up in dangerous intracranial hypertension in many). Gynecologists don’t even check for a family history of thrombosis when handing out the pill. Alternative solutions that don’t involve selling pills for years are underexplored to the point that research is actively prohibited (e.g. psychedelics against addictions or depression).