About Brigid Kowalczyk Expertise Natural Family Planning issues related to fertility and health
Experience Your period is a natural normal function of your body. Protect your fertility. Birth control pills are bad medicine for something that is delicate and easily destroyed. Now is a good time to quit using the pill.
Anonymous scientist wrote at 2007-07-21 06:26:12
Whoever asked this question must be horrified by this answer. Not only does this answer fail to acknowledge the question at hand, but it goes off on an inaccurate anti birth control pill rant.
Here is your real answer: The risk of becoming pregnant in this specific case is very low...when the switch is done according the pills directions. Since the switch is between two COCs (combined oral contraceptives), there should be no back up method necessary (again, when switched correctly). Only when switing between COCs and POPs (progestogen only pill) do things become more complicated. However, that does not apply here.
As for the totally unrelated anti birth control rant...
This author has clearly failed to do proper research and seems to have injected their personal anti-pill agenda into the aswer. Many of the facts are simply incorrect and most statements are completely unsupported by science.
No studies have shown that birth control pills cause many of the horrible things this article claims will happen, in fact, many studies show positive side effects of the pill, such as decreased risk for ovarian cancer.
COCs do not cause:
-Acne Many COCs actually help rid of acne and I can personally testify to that
-Increased risk for ectopic pregnancy The pill tends to decrease the risk of ectopic pregnancy, actually.
Also, just because a hormone is synthetic, does not make it automatically not "healthy for a woman to be exposed to them." Long term studies show no bad side effects from prolonged use of these synthetic hormones. Birth control pills DO NOT but your body in an unhealthy state, as suggested by this article.
As far at the libido damage, some women complain of decreased libido, while others have no problem. The pill has NOT been shown to permanently destroy libido, espcially since these hormones do not build up in the body but are constantly being cycled out.
Why would someone answer the article with so many (untrue) reasons not to use the pill, when the person who asked the question is a clear supporter and user of the pill?
I felt the need to correct this article for the sake of any readers who may stumble across it in the future.
bleeding heart liberal wrote at 2007-10-19 01:08:37
sounds like we have a christian in the house. no clinical reasons for birth control pills? try, preventing unwanted pregnancies.
