I am sixty now, but wanted to go on the pill when I was 17. The doctor I went to vigorously discouraged me- stated that he believed the pill was dangerous and would cause more problems than it would solve. That was when doctors could be doctors, though.
@@agnesberes4084 the pill coused me to be dizzy also, along with elevated bp and brain fog. i have been off it for 12 years now and we have 4 children that were planned. there are other ways to avoid pregnancy and still have sex in you're marriage. so, my husband got a visectamy afture our 4th child was born, we also regret that because he has been having trouble ever since the surgery. but i have now been having severe trouble with my period recently so i whent to my OB knowing it's a hormonal imbalance and my endocrine system was probably in trouble. she didn't eaven want to check my hormone levels and wanted to put me on birth control pills. when i refused and told her why, listing off side effects like increased risk of autoimmune disorders, she got mad and said those things don't happen to everyone. well, i replied, I'm not taking that chance with my health. i proceeded to tell her that i wanted to know why this was happening and not just mask the symptoms. the symptoms were not my concern, the underlying health issue was. i will not go back to that doctor and i still have not found a doctor that's willing to look at the issue instead of masking symptoms with a pharmacy.
I'm in my 20s and the last time I visited a doctor she asked if I wanted birth control. I said "no" because I have no need for it. She proceeded to ask my two more times throughout my appointment if I wanted birth control. It made me really mad and I have since then switched doctors. I will not be bullied into taking something I don't need nor want.
I went on the pill around 17. I got pregnant at 17. I had a drug induced miscarriage via planned Parenthood, then said I am never going through this again, and got a hormone intrauterine device. Doctors said issues were very rare. When I tried to take it out two years later i found it had pierced, sunk, and implanted itself into the side of my uterus. Only at the hospital did they then inform me that they see patients with implanted iud's incredibly frequently. They put me under anesthesia and then ripped it out of me. Just weeks later, I started experiencing sharp pains run through my reproductive area, and incontinence. Now, I am 26 and have been surviving now metastisized ovarian cancer for the last four years.
Birth control pills killed my sister....35 year old registered nurse. Massive stroke, multiple clots to the brain! The doctors did every test....but they never said what caused the clots. But we know that the pills caused it!
I went to the doctor with my 13-year-old daughter, she was having heavy periods and they doctor tried to make me put her on the pill. When I said no I won’t be doing that she started challenging me asking what my problem is with the pill and telling me that’s the only solution to heavy periods. I took her to a naturopath and got some vitamins and minerals and at 17 everything is normal and her periods have sorted themselves out. Glad I trusted my intuition. The pill made me extremely angry and depressed and put on weight and I got brown pigmentation all over my face so bad that people thought I had a moustache and kids asked me if I have dirt on my face. I stopped taking the pill in my 20s when I realised all my problems were from that.
I am 40 years old now and my mom did the same for me. I am so thankful for her intuition back them as well. I had heavy periods and abnormal periods I wouldn’t get them every month. She went and gave me herbs and vitamins and within 2 years everything was back to normal. Also I had to eat more Whole Foods. Mom intuition knows best ❤
Damn these docs are crazy, its normal to have heavy, irregular periods after hitting puberty. I come from a country where girls are usually sexually active after marriage so getting a doc to give the pill to a 13 yo is mad crazy to me
I went off of birth control 3 months before trying to conceive my son. I used ovulation strips every morning. I felt like my emotions didn't feel out of control and we never got pregnant until we wanted to. I've told my husband I will never take it again. I feel like we should be taught to have a better understanding of our cycle and how to track it in school and not taught how to go get on birth control. When I have a daughter I will be teaching her about her cycle, how to track it, and take responsibility for it. So she can feel empowered with knowledge and understanding of her body's cycles.
Good take however don’t forget that not all women have a regular cycle. And tracking your cycle is only for people who are really disciplined. Mistakes can happen unfortunately.
When I was 16, every girl I knew was on birth control and I wasn't. My Mother told me that she did not want to risk my health and reproductive rights and she wanted me to watch if those girls would change. All of them became depressive, Emo, their thoughts and feelings became darker and I was still enjoying my childhood. I now know 1/3 of those girls are finding out that they can not get pregnant and we are just turning 30. Hormonal Birth control is destroying women's bodies and seeing children being given puberty blockers is terrifying me, because i remember too well how mean and cruel those girls could get from my childhood.
My sister took the pill from when she was 14-19. She’s struggled with autoimmune diseases throughout her life. She developed alopecia during adolescence as well as severe depression and anxiety. After she had her first son at 19, she developed a horrible disorder known as CIDP. She has an issue with her thyroid and has recently been diagnosed with gout.
Great podcast 👏 The longest I've ever taken the pill was 4 weeks, as for me I gained weight and made me feel tired. So I quit. For me, I've always thought messing with our bodies, especially in this way, was not a good idea. ❤❤❤
I've had migraines since I was a teenager. I started on birth control at age 30. My OBGYN told me I would have to cease taking them at 35 as the risk for a stroke increases for women who suffer from migraines. He passed away and I mentioned this suggestion to my new OBGYN. He responded that was nonsense and the pill was completely safe. This is making me reconsider this. Thank you for shedding light on the effects!!
Bizzy, this is true! My sister, who also has migraines, is recovering from a blood cloth in her brain after starting on birth control. Her neurologist said it is pretty well understood amongst neurologist that this is a risk. The neurologist also expressed a frustration with the OBGYN community for not knowing that.
Thank you, for being honest your experience, because I don't feel so alone on my thoughts on this! I'm not against birth control, yet I'm wondering if there's a more safer method of medication I could take, for fibroid management?
I didn't start getting migraines until around age 30 something...the likely culprit was breast implants that were breaking down and later ruptured...however I also stopped BC so we could start our family amd I never went back to BC it's been 10 years. I do get migraines but much less now. My elder sister has had chronic migraine since her teens....she also took various BC...I wonder about this...
Please can someone tell that if not for birth control how can we prevent getting pregnant ?? For example I'm happily married but i dont want to have like 15 babies like some of our relatives had for not using a birth control. I don't want to bring any child that we don't have resources to take care of!!
@@ملتقىدجلةوالفرات I'm currently reading this book that many of you recommend here "Taking charge of your fertility" I'm also interested in the app natural cycles if I remember correctly. I'm trying to figure out something else because personally I don't want any pills or to mess up my hormones. Well you can always use condoms. I know it's not ideal, of course you can use hormonal birth control but it's still good to know how it might impact you, especially if that's your go to :)
@@ملتقىدجلةوالفرات Ps. I wish it was easier too 😅 but also remember that women ovulate only once a month, so we can get pregnant 1/4 a month. I really recommend this book I mentioned, although I'm only on the page 40 :D
To have monthly periods also helps the body to release toxins. Then, when the periods stop, one's body might experience hot flushes/ heating up; in order to help with detoxification - as needed. Got so anxious when this started happening, because of not knowing what the useful purpose was; instead it is seen as something bad happening that should be treated away 🤦
I wonder if there is something about the fact that having casual sex, or sleeping with a man who doesn't make you feel secure and provided for and can afford to care for children, affects us negatively. What if our brain generally knows that sex brings babies - and the lack of babies coming then aggravates depressive expression? What if women who use the pill because deep down they know their partner isn't going to be a good husband (or a husband at all) feel extra depressed because they know they shouldn't be sleeping with these guys? What if the girls who go on the pill early actually end up having lots of mediocre partners for the rest of their lives, because they don't consider sex sacred and are repeating bad choices, and THAT makes them more depressed?
One of Tammy's best interviews so far. As usual she is gentle while asking the question on everyone's lips, and shares her own experiences with grace and candor. Dr. Hill explained the ethical and practical challenges of experimental research in this field well. But "the pill" has been a double-edged sword for women and society for all of the reasons our wiser elders in the 60's predicted. Lesson: don't mess with Mother Nature whom, despite our extreme hubris, we are far from completely understanding. It makes the looming transhumanism that is pushing ahead with zero guardrails a very grave concern. The newer cycle-monitoring devices are as easy and quick to use 1st thing in the AM as it is to take a pill, cheaper than the pill over time (as cheap as it is in North America) and extremely accurate, besides being totally safe. They take your temperature and can tell exactly when those estrogen releases begin, account very well for irregular cycles, and can be combined with other methods. All young women should be taught what all of the options are without bias from the pharma/medical device/OB-GYN industry. Women are not just "consumers" to have "reproductive healthcare" dollars wrung from for ages 13-50, and need to demand more humane solutions for the whole person.
I was on the pill since I was 15. I now have thyroid’s disease. I’m 54. Diagnosed at 23. I do believe that my disease came about from being on the pill. Had really bad periods a DNC at 33. A hysterectomy at 44. A right thyroidectomy at 50.
I am 31 years old and I have always had hormonal imbalance issues. In Jamaica, my doctors just ALWAYS suggested birth control even though I wasn't sexually active and have remained celibate. I just didn't understand why. I felt doctors have always just been too lazy to question these things. I would start and stop like a few weeks in. I moved to Japan and it was the same. I just always felt uncomfortable about these pills. In my early 20s, I just started to refuse to use them. I prefer to deal with the imbalance than complicate things. I won't take these steroids again. When I get married and become active, my husband and I will just have to deal with it naturally. Women are having more conception issues than ever before. There has to be a correlation. 😢😢😢Something is just not right and that is enough to make me stop using it.
I have always wondered how women who shop at whole food stores and want everything "organic" could then turn around and put synthetic hormones in their bodies. There is a price for everything we do that is against nature.
I’ve had so many doctors try to push this on me, and one get frustrated when I talked about researching it first. He then proceeded to talk down to me about “google research” I’m a college graduate who knows how to research proper articles, etc but clearly I can’t follow my bodies instincts or do proper research. Anyhow…I have severe PMDD and looking into this birth control stuff I discovered that any woman with PMDD has trouble with the MTHFR gene and should not be on hormonal birth control. So there it is..grateful I listened to my body.
Never took the Pill. Probably the only woman in my friend circle who didn't. I'm also the only woman in my friend circle who is still happily married to my first and only husband (37 years and counting).
I'm currently 20. I started experiencing dysmenorrhea when I was 17, so the doctor suggested that I should start taking the pill, in order to regulate my extreme period pain. Needless to say, the pain didn't get better, I became moody, always tired, my hair thinned out, and I had joint pain,also later experienced a blood clot from the pill, so I stopped when I was 18. That's when I found Mikhaila's "Don't Eat That" video, and I tried going gluten free, and I switched to a low carb diet, which completely fixed my pain. It's beyond amazing how many lives you're changing! Eternally grateful for you and your family, also can't wait to see the Jordan tour in Budapest in May. May God bless you!
@@notanlcrx6708 Yes. Sounds weird, I don't know how that works, but there are some online studies about how for example 70% of the women with endometriosis had a decrease/disappearance in pelvic pain after going gluten free.
Hormonal IUD gave me severe panic attacks, depression, anxiety and hot flashes. And an ovarian cyst that burst and was so painful that I thought I was dying. Doc dismissed me and offered me an SSRI. Doc tried to gaslight me about the IUD and tried to claim my symptoms weren’t caused by the IUD even tho it’s all there on the insert. Low carb diet and supplements was the only thing that helped. Recovered now.
I had the copper iud and had severe panic attacks ,heavy and long periods, pain, insomnia, lost weight due to lack of appetite. This went on for 6 months. 3 doctors dismissed me and said I had pmdd. One doctor suggest I remove it and see how I felt. The day I removed it all the symtoms went.
exactly! we try to turn it off and we end up cousing infertility for life. there's a reason so many women have infertility problems.....and autoimmune disorders and thyroid problems ect......it's all from birth control. almost evert women is on birth control at some point in their life and all these issues are a pandemic in our modern world.
Yes, as Romans 1 explains: When not thankful towards, and not worshipping God as Creator; then one worships created things instead, and is eventually given over - by God - to destructive thoughts and actions.
@@peacefulhome6 Imagine the most intimate aspects of one's life to be controlled by government, while under the delusion that one is making the decision oneself 🤦
I knew I should never go on birth control. 1. Cancer 2. Sexual affections 3. Affects and shortens reproduction years. Doctors for a long time told me I was wrong. I disagree. I still believe I'm correct. Thank you Mrs. Peterson for this knowledge. 😊😊😊
'First do no harm'... Yet, inflicting perfectly healthy patients with an infertile status, while somehow under the impression this is beneficial to them... Then follows the costly struggle later to reclaim sacrificed fertility... How insane! Sadly the medical establishment had been hijacked by the anti-life population control ideology. Church leaders are equally in bed with this alternate religious view, while true faith in God - Our Creator, Who is in control - is on the back-burner; to be somehow resurrected in case of an emergency.
Ty for this video. I was 39 when I got divorced and went on the pill at my doctors suggestion and nearly 10 yrs later I finally stopped the pill and many of daily health issues disappeared and NO ONE ATTRIBUTED anything to the pill. It was this video that help me realize I didn’t need to be on it (several reasons I wont go into here) but truly didn’t need it. Crazy how its handed out like candy and NO ONE even looks twice at it, but blames everything else including saying a person is depressed and needs SSRIs etc
I agreed to my 17 year old daughter going on birth control out of ignorance. She was in a serious relationship- they married!- but the change in her was like night and day! She got irritable, disagreeable and moody. She didn’t stay on it very long.
Not only the pill, Tammy, but after my second child was born, I had a copper IUD placed. I had constant debilitating pain for months before I finally begged my midwife to remove it. Then my husband left and I switched to abstinence, the best birth control of all, although that wasn’t what I wanted… So thrilled to see you and Dr. Peterson in Rome and looking so well and healthy. So much love for you both.
My copper IUD just spontaneously decided to exit my body after 6 months of long painful periods... People don't even want to believe me when I say this...I thought it was a good option as I had bad side effects of hormones. But this didn't work either...
@@sarapickard7634 Wow... I remember when I was on the oral contraceptives I had massive migraines and I was looking into getting off them. I was offered a progesterone pills instead that made me bleed for 3 weeks per month for about 4 months.. When I said that doesn't work they suggested a HORMONAL implant or Mirena IUD, which is also HORMONAL.... And I remember the doctor being angry with me that I rejected those options. I complained that I have hair loss and she said to me that her hair is falling out too, and it's probably the northern climate and it's not a big deal. Didn't even think to check my iron levels for example, given that I tend to get anemic.... I mean... If you don't fend for yourself and don't have knowledge then you're given any random product with any side effects. If you object they are frustrated...
Yes. I had the copper IUD for 2-3 years, then removed. Definitely had more heavy, painful periods on it but didn't think too much of it since I was told to expect that. When we wanted to conceive, however, it took 11 months. No known miscarriages, just couldn't conceive at all. I mentioned this to a nurse at our first ultrasound, and she said 'yeah, I know they say you can conceive right away after, but I have my doubts'. But someone sure is making bank on those things, they're expensive!
I had the copper IUD for 6 years. It was very painful and I felt constant pressure and inflammation in my uterus the entire time. It was all rusty when they took it out. 🤢
I was on birth control for two years and had debilitating depression. Didn't know why, I had never felt that way before. Two years on it and my pharmacy forgot to refill the prescription. Went off of it and felt so happy, it was like a switch had been turned back on. I felt elated. Vowed never to use birth control ever again.
So insightful for all young women. My experience was my brain feeling dulled down. Couldn’t experience the whole spectrum of emotions. Natural birth control methods help you be in tune with your reproductive cycles , and your whole body in a respectful way.
There are smart devices like the Dysy that are just as effective as the pill to know your cycles and know when your ovulating and to avoid sex during that time and you should also be using condoms to protect from STI’s anyway.
the rhythm method put you in tune with yourself and works amazingly well. for a woman that gets pregnant at first attempt every time, the rhythm method worked exceptionally well with no side effects. there is a 6 year gap between 2 of our children because of the rhythm method, and we decided to have another and i got pregnant at first try. the pill can actually couse infertility
@@Jannette-mw7fg 8 children, that's wonderful! what a blessing! definitely, if you don't want children then don't have sex. i was married when using the rhythm method so having children wasn't a concern. if it happened then it was ok but if we could plan when then ot was eaven better. it worked very well. abstinence is the most reliable way to not get pregnant. i have known several women who have gotten pregnant on the pill, IUDs, depo shots ect. the only way to make sure you don't get pregnant is abstinence.
Was on the pill for 11 years didn’t realise until I came off what it felt like to feel normal. I’d had Anxiety, low mood, intrusive thoughts (this was horrendous like permanent brain Tourette’s) ,difficulty problem solving all that time. I’d not put the 2 and 2 together maybe because of the problem solving difficulty. But within a couple of months off the pill I felt calm .my brain stopped it’s constant intrusive thoughts and I just felt more switched on . I can now parelell park for instance which I just could never figure out on the pill 🤷♀️weird
I could not take it because it made my emotions crazy within days of taking it. I told my doctor and she said that wasn't possible. I showed her the pamphlet that confirmed what I said and she disregarded it. I am so thankful at 50 that I was never really on birth control.
I was only ever on BC twice, for stretches of 6 months and 3 months. The second time I quit, I was like holy crap I'm human again. I had even forgotten what it felt like to be sexually attracted to men. I watched a man walk past the bus I was sitting in, and I had a literal bodily reaction to the way he was carrying himself. Haven't been on birth control ever again. Abstinence and picking the right man to have babies with works just fine.
It gave me depression...then i was prescribed antidepressants. The combo made me go from being a cute teen into an olmost obese young woman. I quite anticonceptives 10yrs ago and antidepressants last year. Im very close to a normal weight for my height now. I feel much better and at peace
Within days of trying birth control, I had anxiety through the roof and developed dark splotches on my face and body. I stopped taking it and never looked back. Interestingly when I expressed concern to my Dr. about going on it she told me I had nothing to worry about.
Excellent topic. I was always distrustful of altering natural hormonal balance with drugs and only ever used the Billing’s method/ rhythm method for contraception. My husband and I had four children and only one of them wasn’t planned. Many times I kinda wished our method had been less successful really. 😊
i also used that method with conceiving our 4 children. it was very successful! i am extremely fertal and got pregnant at the first attempt with all our children but the rhythm method worked very well. there's a 6 year gap between 2 of our children because we used this method. afture our 3rd child my husband was going to get a visectamy and we had an unplanned conception.....the first and only. God had planned for this little girl to be brought to this world and for us to be her parents and I'm SO glad that was in His plans. i think the rhythm method is a good way to avoid always being pregnant but also not playing God. that said, my husband did get his visectamy, 3 years ago now, which i believe is playing God, and we regret it because he has been having trouble ever since.
Sorry to ask, what kind of trouble had he been going through? My husband had his last June, we still use protection, but it hasn't affected him in any way. I'm just curious. Thank you, God bless!
@@virginiaherrera5972 pain during arousal and prostate trouble. visectamy actually increases risk of prostate cancer also. sometime we didn't know untill afture. he already has a high risk of prostate cancer so we are concerned.
I’m 21 now, but a year after my cycle started (14) I had unbearable cramps so bad that I couldn’t walk and would become delirious. I have a high pain tolerance, so for me to be crying for my mom in public on the floor, was very concerning. My pediatrician and mom told me to get on birth control. I, at the age of 15, knew birth control wasn’t for me, because I was certain I wanted kids and disrupting the natural process of your biology sounded off to me. Healthy bodies naturally do what is necessary for the body to stay well. So, stopping a natural process SCREAMED “more issues than they let on” for me.
I was 21 (i think) when a doctor in canada recommended i go on birth control pills (which i will keep taking forever) so i can have a regular period. Thank fully, I declined. I just started having a regular period from 2022 and i took no drugs or birth control pill I just exercise and eat more balanced diet
Anecdotal evidence from a guy, I actually now can notice when a woman is on birth control now. Like it's hard to describe but women on it seem to me to be disconnected?
I read a study when I was in my early 20s that taking the pill could change the type of mate you would be a attracted to. I thought about the fact the hormones would effect my brain development (I was study educational psychology at the time) and decided to quit. What a difference it made. I had been on it for 5 years and my brain felt much less foggy and (at least in my opinion) more balanced.
I thought I was the only one that felt like that. I’m 28 and I’m on BC and I noticed it makes me feel less attracted to my boyfriend. I’m trying to find a way to get off of them.
It does affect attraction. Im into masculine, respectful and protective men. While on birth control i was into indecisive, baby faced, "need to be saved" type of men.
@@zannasealey i hope you dont me wrong. But im 34. And childless and alone. If you think your bf is husband material do settle down and quit the BC so you can have children. Dont wait until its late. Please dont be me. I wish you all the best.
my side effects to Yasmin didn't start until after about 6 months on the pill, so I never made the connection as to why I was gradually becoming crazier and crazier over the next 7 years. But once I was aware that everything I was experiencing was a known side effect of this pill, I quit taking it. within 2 weeks, I felt emotions and calmness that I had not even realized was missing for the past 7 years. Lost 7 years of my life.
Wow! This was super interesting and enlightening. Thank you for shining a light on this topic. This is one of those things where we wish we could go back and make different choices and do better, but we can't. All we can do is educate others and do better moving forward. The conclusion i come to is that, more often than not, birth control does more harm to our bodies and society than it does good.
Approaching middle age and never used hormonal birth control in my life. Always feared its effects, especially as I heard about blot clots from the pill 30 years ago.
Birth control gave me my life back. Every month my period came around and I couldn’t eat and would throw up the first 3 days of my period and it would last for around 8 days. I don’t know how I was even functioning. I was always so tired and anemic because I was losing so much blood. My gynecologist recommended a low hormonal birth control and the changes I felt were dramatic. My skin improved, my period was lighter and I got my energy back. It was like night and day. And as I person who has a multitude of reprohealth issues I know pregnancy is not an option for me ever. I’m not interested in further debilitating my body. Let’s not scare women. Informed consent is important. Everyone’s health is different and it’s important you make a decision that’s right for you with a conversation with your doctor and doing your own research.
But this lecture is discussing the dark side of birth control pills, that we didn't know previously, so we're going to be hearing a lot of negatives as opposed to positives. Lol Glad that you benefitted tho!
Read the book "the fifth vital sign" You are not experiencing a real period...in order to have a real biological period you have to ovulate first...on hormonal birth control, your ovulation is suppressed and you actually never released an egg. So that's why your "periods" are lighter, and since your suppressing your hormones your acne cleared up. Instead of stopping and manipulating your body's natural cycle, do some research and balance your natural hormones and your periods WILL be easier, and no acne. My Grandfather was a doctor, so is my father and I'm educating now too....please, read the book "The Fifth Vital Sign".
This is different usage. For you, it is medicine to help your sickness. Most usage for birth control is to prevent pregnancy. This is optional choice. Your is required choice for a more normal life. But everything have a cost, there is a cost to use a pill.
Yes I am considering taking natural pergesterone not projestin (synthetic) so I can manage a thickened uterine lining which is caused by not having periods ( i go three months without) AND debilitating heavy, massive clotting when I do have them.
I've always been prone to depression, but when I tried the pill, it completely went sideways. I got severely depressed, and for the last few days I used it I woke up in the middle of the night with a really bad headache, I just had to quit. I'm glad I don't use it, and I will never put that stuff in my body ever again.
I never used birth control for more than two months before knowing it was not for me, but i also experienced an awakening following each of my births….it is a beautiful thing our fertility and the fruits of it and what it does to makes us grow as women and find different sides of us. I really want to read this book now!
What is for example amazing, is how during each pregnancy stem cells are released from the growing baby into his/her mother. This has an impact in the long term on a mother's ability to maintain youthfulness, vitality, and longevity. Then there is Oxytocin hormone excreted while in labour, during child birth and while breast feeding. Amongst other functions, it not only enhances bonding between mother and infant, but impacts the mother psychologically (for example towards being more agreeable), and enhances physical healing in general by restoration of integrity of various organs' membranes' tight junctions, which could have been compromised secondary to for example leaky gut.
Thank you so much for bringing this up. I had so many issues with birth control and every time I went back to the doctors and raised the question if the pill could be causing it, my reply was not, it's all in your head or there must be something else. I've tried multiple brands and some made me suicidal, it was terrible. I share all these things with my teen daughters in hope they can make a well informed decision when the time comes and they do opt for the pill. I feel there is not enough share info specially when it comes to women and even more teens on what changes and consequences to their bodies they can expect.
I was on the pill very briefly. I soon noticed extreme emotional changes. I contacted my doctor, who was the head of OB-GYN at a major hospital in one of the largest cities in the U.S. He told me i was imaging that, and it had nothing to do with the pill. Luckily my mother’s friend was also an OB/GYN so I spoke with her. She immediately told me about studies proving that I was not alone in my experience, and the mood swings were related to the pill. When I told her exactly what he had prescribed she was shocked because she said it was too strong a dose (I guess there were different options and he prescribed a really strong one). That was the beginning of the end of my trust for the white coats. Some doctors are still in integrity but even some who mean well are totally brainwashed. I am very wary of the entire medical industry now due to so so many experiences of deception and harm I experienced. Thanks for speaking out about this.
My 16 year old daughter was on the mini pill and right away she sense her mood changes. She has anxiety and she felt depressed and we knew it was the pill because that was her only big change she had done. She stopped taking it right away. She also notice when her friends got on birth control they had similar changes and she would let them know to do some more research on the type of birth control they were on. We need to be more cautious of everything we put into our body.
Very interesting talk! I would have loved to hear also a few words about the environmental consequences of hormones taken by humans (for contraception, menopause treatment, sex "change"...): how all of that affects all humans, even those who don't take the pill, through the contamination of drinking water and of the food chain. Take care!
@@TammyPetersonPodcast Remember from being involved with doing research about oral contraceptives; 3 decades ago there already was a schoolgirl - as I remember in UK - who had done for her science project a study about estrogens in the ground water in their community... There also is the issue of our general exposure to plastics, which mimics estrogen.
I'm hearing a lot more about the impact of the hormone changes from Birth Control. I've personally known several women who couldn't use birth control because it made them emotionally unstable or depressed. This also leads me to want to see more research on the potential impact of Ritalin on brain development in youth. She is correct that men and women need their own studies done. Science has been quite ignorant for so long and the advancements in technology have allowed us to truly see the differences more clearly. I can still remember learning Science in the 90's as a kid and it was still taught that male studies were assumed to be applicable to women. This dialogue causes me to think of so many different things that are out of alignment with our society that have negatively impacted men, especially over the last 50 years. What we have done as a culture to the two sexes......could have some really terrible and far reaching consequences.
I could not take it because it made my emotions crazy within days of taking it. I told my doctor and she said that wasn't possible. I showed her the pamphlet that confirmed what I said and she disregarded it. I am so thankful at 50 that I was never really on birth control. Now I am praying my daughter can go off when she is married.
@@susanmunson4905A condition many medical professionals seem to be suffering from: Instead of 'first do no harm' to be believing that it is in order for them to be and remain ignorant about the detrimental effects of medications they are prescribing; this in spite of it being written in inserts. How can they not be listening to what their patients are telling them about what is happening to them? It's insane! A form of willful blindness and/or cognitive dissonance.
im 33 have never taken a hormonal contraceptive and i am so grateful for learning to trust God with everything including my reproductive system i dont suffer from any weight problems,headaches or other abnormalities that women my age are suffering from
Thank you for talking about this! Very important information!!! And I am so glad I stopped using tampons AND never took birth control. I was warned as a teenager and I listened because I really wanted to age well and be healthy and that made me much more serious about sexually activity because the magic pill wasn't in my system and I'm glad for it.
Thanks for touching this topic:) It"s very important to emphasize the truth . I was about 24 when my doc offered to try horm. pills. Reason for that was to make my period more regular. First 3 pills and my face changed. I had some kind of tumors under my skin. Was shocked, horrified and just trew that away. End of story. Now I am glad that I did it.
Hormonal birth control made me severely depressed. My sister had no effects that she knows of, and my other sister ended up with fibroids (of which her doctor said were due to so many years on the pill) and ended up infertile. Everyone is so different. Not getting the information about possible side effects out ther clearly before people start taking hormonal drugs can be so damaging.
My mom forced me to go on the pill when I was 16 despite that I wasn't at all sexually active (didn't even become sexually active until last year at 23). I was only on it for less than a year but I know it was the most horrible period in my life mentally and emotionally. I'd cry just about every single day at the slightest inconvenience or disagreement or really just about any experience that wasn't positive or neutral. It was the only time in my life I was actively suicidal instead of my usual passive suicidal thoughts. Sure, the doctor did mention 'mood swings' as a possible side effect, but only in the list of the dozen or so other possible side effects. No real elaboration of what 'mood swings' means and of course I wasn't going to ask because why would I think it would be any worse than the usual mood swings I get around my period? I don't even remember if I had any of the physical side effects because the mental and emotional ones overshadowed anything else. Of course I didn't feel like anything was wrong inside of me and just thought I was having reasonable reactions to negative experiences. Eventually, I sort of figured out it might be because of the pill but any attempt at trying to voice my concerns about it to the people around me(even to my counselor) was dismissed. And I never got to discuss any of my concern with the doctor after because she had to go deliver a baby the day of my follow-up appointment. So I was sort of left on my own to sort out myself and what to do. Despite my mom's protests, I decided to get off the pill and I almost instantly felt like myself again, which is definitely not perfect but I know is manageable. After that, I swore I would never go on anything like that again, no one can make me put ANYTHING in my body again. Even years after, I still never saw or heard of any women going through anything similar with the pill. If they did have mood swings, they didn't talk about anything close to what I had. I'm not even 25 minutes into this video and it's already all the things I needed to hear and talk about years ago. Thank you so much for talking about this and letting the world hear all about it.
I've never taken birth control in my life, so I'm fortunate I don't possibly suffer from adverse effects of it. That doesn't mean I don't have mood change around my menstrual cycle. I also have only ever skipped a period in my life when my mom passed away. Not being on the pill also helped me to see that a inhaler medication I was on was drastically affecting my menstrual cycle by extending it to 14 days and then only breaking for a week before starting again for another 14 days. If I were on the pill, I wouldn't of been aware of this to promptly quit the medication and tell my doctor.
I have a memory of my grandpa telling me if someone insists on being called a DR. That’s when you know that it’s not a person to look up to and not worth the respect. When he died we learned that he died with 5 PHDs. We only knew of 2 before then. So when I encounter people who insist on DR. Label I feel not positively about their character.
The effects on men were not discussed much in this, the most alarming being the feminization of men through estrogen in the water supply. But, great interview 👍 I was on birth control for over 10 years starting at age 15. And I shudder to think the harm it has done to me...I had no idea to question it back in 2000. I have struggled with depression and bad choices in partners. But I am lucky that I didn't have more side effects, that I know of. I will definitely be telling my daughter all about the dangers. Edit: forgot to add I had cysts on cervix and thinning hair.
It is specifically noted in (some) inserts of contraceptive pills (under side effects and special precautions); that when it comes to pregnancy and lactation, "Feminisation of the male foetus may occur."
Good job with the podcast Tammy, I'm so glad that you're making this content for the world to see. Good luck with all of your future endeavours and cheers to your health.
I am SO thankful for my mom's strong convictions about premarital sex and did not take me to get birth control when I asked as a teenager. I'm 45 now, only 1 pregnancy & 1 live birth, nvr taken any form of birth control, and don't have any medical records (save eye dr & dentist) for the last 20+ yrs ... And I plan to keep it that way too. #lawsofNature #lawsofNaturesGOD
I found when I started taking the pill that it helped balance me out. It didn’t really help with the cramps but Atleast I don’t feel like I’m going crazy. I don’t really want to be on it. I would rather find out what was causing my hormones to be out of wack then just fixing it with a pill.
Don't go on the pill for the reason of painful periods. Try a serious hormonal balance program and see how your body responds to the proper balance. Naturally losing weight is also nice. I haven't been on the program for over 1 year and I still have almost zero discomfort and my period lasts a light 2.5 days. When I was on a hormonal balance eating lifestyle and taking vitamins, I only knew I had my period because I had to wear a product - otherwise, zero pain, clear head, and no bloating.
I think we don’t know, but we also don’t care because we want what we want. We would rather the conveniences today than the responsibilities/considerations for tomorrow. This pretty much applies to everything in and out of the sexual revolution.
My parents put me on the pill because they mistakenly assumed I was having sex with my boyfriend, when I wasn't. We were abstaining. They told me they were doing it for my menstrual cramps, though. Anyway, when I was on the pill, I got into physically violent fistfights on the school bus, the only fistfights that I have ever had in my life, before that time, and after that time. I only took the pill for a little while and stopped.
I’m so glad I got off birth control. I didn’t experience any negative side effects like most women but it just didn’t feel right. I was always fatigued.
I've been on hormonal birth control at three different times in my life. The first was when I was 17 after a missed miscarriage. The second was when I was 19 when I wanted to have sex with my bf at the time, the third and final time was when I was 23-24. The first time I lost 18 pounds in two weeks and was throwing up all the time. The second time I lost all affection for my BF and I had several psychotic episodes. Finally, I got the IUD three months before getting married to my now husband. I was violated while he was inserting it, I was screaming for him to stop and not even the chaperone took me seriously. I fainted multiple times before leaving the building, I lost my favorite job due to the debilitating pain preventing me from being able to do my work, and my poor husband who was a virgin until our wedding night could feel the strings 80% of the time we had sex for the first 9 months of our marriage. I was very violent, paranoid, no one would believe me, and I had an emotional affair. When I got it removed I could feel my brain literally making connections that it couldn't before. I'll never go back to birth control, and we don't have to as my husband got the snip while I was pregnant with our last. A lot of the information you shared was new to me, but the vast majority of everything talked about are things that I have learned since recovering from the psychological trauma due to birth control. Thank you for speaking up about this.
Amazing interview! I saved this in my watch later and finally got to the video and it’s one of the best interviews of cult/ or Scientology available. Wtg! And yes!! Congratulations on getting sober! Please keep sharing that 🙏
❤ thank you for this video! Like many others I was a completely different person on the pill; depressed & anxious to the point I ended up taking Fluoxetine at 19 years old. I would often get myself in a state where I’d end up sobbing uncontrollably and was so jealous that it caused several romantic relationships to end. With my current partner I was going to counselling for a year for this behaviour. During this time I had a routine pill checkup with my GP and told her I was experiencing migraines so she advised me I should switch which pill I was taking as the one I was on (Yasmin) had highest risks for blood clots. I decided to just cease taking the pill altogether and within a couple of weeks I was a different person. Like you described, it was like a fog had been lifted and I felt like myself again. Not feeling jealous or anxious anymore. Because id been attending talking therapy for a year I wanted to make sure it was the pill that had caused this so I went back on the pill (a different one) and within a week or 2 I was crazy again! So I came off it and haven’t been back on it since.
This comment really hits home for me as I am currently on Yasmin and I get very sad and teary and get migraines sometimes related to being upset a couple of days before my period starts. I had pms before going on the pill but in a way it has made it worse. I am on the pill because of my pcos which I wasn't able to manage just my cutting carbs and weight training. Overall I'd say the pill had been good for me because I am managing my pcos symptoms which were very unpleasant and mood swings were a part of it too. Sometimes I wonder whether I am doing the right thing being on the pill since now I don't get excessive hair growth, bad acne, mood swings and it's easier to maintain a stable weight. But I do get periods of time when I am in a depressed state that's difficult to get out. I really wish there were other alternatives and treatments. This podcast has been really interesting to listen to :)
@@maryathensv2011Becket Cook recently hosted a discussion with a female gynaecologist, who explained the natural methods she uses successfully to treat her patients. The video highlights how contraceptives are also abortive, since making the womb's lining uninhabitable for implantation of already fertilized eggs.
@@maryathensv2011 You might also be interested in looking into doing coffee enemas to support the liver... Have read testimonies about how young women's painful periods had been completely alleviated by using CE.
Shit this makes a lot of sense. My ex went bat shit crazy after our son was born. Coincidently, after our son was born she went on birth control and IUD. She already had personality issues but it turned up the volume 10x. I had to divorce her. Took about 10 years for her to calm down and be able to be civil again.
Amazing topic and one that is not addressed enough and I understand why . I just wish that doctors would not gaslight and dismiss people that fall within the 1-2% of people who do not have a good reaction to birth control. help us the best way you can instead. My Gyne is amazing he has been willing to try different methods of birth control and even told me "I will not let you take that, because it has many side effects." (for disclaimer I get hives /swelling when I take birth control, when I'm pregnant and during my period. - basically whenever my hormones change.)
How many women have cancer today or died because of the pill or had an abortion because you mess with your hormones? We don’t talk about it so women don’t know.
When I was a teen I suffered from horrible, debilitating cramps and menstrual symptoms where I had to be in bed for days. I tried so many natural alternatives to aleviate the crippling pain. The ONLY thing that eliminated all of this was birth control. People like to hate on "big pharma" but for some people, some medications help. I am fully aware of the side effects and would say that if you don't need it, try your best to stay away from it but don't feel bad for taking a medication if you need it and it helps!
I started taking hormonal birth control. Within 3 months I gained 10kg, bleed continuously for a full month, tiredness,breathlessness and before I knew it I was battling PCOD. Never ever will I put that stuff in my body ever again
I went on the pill when I was 20 in the early ‘80’s and immediately felt a negative affect. I was able to come off easily as I didn’t have a regular partner. However, I am very interested to listen to this talk, to have verified that my internal barometer was right on… The use of hormones in industrialised animal husbandry, in the distribution of the pill to women and also HRT I guess really needs to be studied more.. And the effects of consuming all these hormones in the water and food?? Hey I guess more research needs to be done…
I tried going on the pill just after my second child. I began bleeding perfusively. I had never bled so heavily in my life, not even right after pregnancy. I felt heavy, like fluid buildup in my body. I had never had a problem with fluid retention. I got headaches, another thing I did not have happen in my life until I took the pill. I could hear my heart beat, and felt an uncomfortable pressure that made my chest ache, and made me tired, I felt anxious. I sweated worse than normal. And, I became depressed. I felt like I a freak, like I was undesirable, even more so than I think I would naturally postpartum. After my first child I did not have such issues with negative feelings towards myself. I know that was from the birth control. I went right off of it after only 6 months. I never returned to trying birth control again. I knew from this experience that I am not compatible with birth control pills, nor Norplant, nor shot, nor IUD with hormones.
I first learned about this topic from Dr Janet Smith. People forget but the Catholic Church was really hammered over this. Funny how people are slower to learn truths than falsehoods
A missing conversation when I was that age. Culturally, we underestimate the importance of what we put into our bodies as it pertains to food and ALL prescription and recreational drugs. I was surprised how many people lined up so quickly to take the recent inoculation shots despite the trials being incomplete.
When previously doing research about this issue, had - to my shock - come to terms with how in fact there are no proper trials done - ever - before launching any vaccines 😳 Therefore it came as no surprise to me when covid came on the table, and the same happened. (Look for example into the valuable work of environmental lawyer and author Robert Kennedy Jr.)
My mother had fibrocystic breasts and I was nervous about taking birth control pills, so I didn’t! My husband and I decided not to use birth control at all. We had seven living children and miscarried 5. We didn’t know what we were doing 😂but, God did! I’m so thankful for all my children God gave us! That was the life we chose. God had placed in our hearts to invest in eternal treasures. That, they are!
Thank you for sharing your life Deborah. I have just had baby no1 and I am trusting God for the amount of children He wants to give us. I decided not to use birth control even though all doctors and midwives said I must go on it after I gave birth. I pray He might bless us with more children as He did with you. I really am glad I read your comment. God bless you 💕
I remember when I was first married 43 years ago, my wife went on the pill. We knew the risks, but didn't think they were that serious. She had a double mastectomy last year. I'm extremely certain she would not have taken it if she'd known then what we both know now.
I was 23 when I went on the pill in 2002. I never felt right on it. I remember trying to explain that to my Dr and being dismissed. I don't remember exactly what she said, but it was something like, "The pill doesn't do that, but we can try a different version if you want." I went through several different oral pill, the internal ring, the patch etc and never felt quite like myself on any of them. I went off hormonal birth control to get pregnant around 2005 and never went back on. I feel so vindicated that this kind of information is becoming available now.
It's like these highly trained doctors somehow had lost some abilities; such as reading (inserts) and listening to what their patients are telling them... As if making a choice to remain ignorant... Cognitive dissonance... Willful blindness 🤦
I think birth control has an important role for a lot of things. I have PCOS and endometriosis and birth control really helped with very intense pain that would come along with my monthly cycle. However, my mom/doctor originally started me on birth control when I was like 12 or 13 for acne. So I’ve been given birth control for most of my life for various issues. I wish someone had educated me on what it might be doing to my body. Now I have a 12 year old daughter and I’m already receiving pressure to put her on the pill and I DON’T want to do that. I’d like her to develop her hormones through puberty naturally before I start giving her medicine to change them.
I have endometriosis and hormone options are how I can live my life. I don’t like how it’s typically only seen as birth control when many people like me need it to live normal lives. We know the risks but it’s better than being in bed most of the time and not being able to live.
You might be interested in a recent discussion about contraception; that Becket Cook had with a female gynaecologist who specializes in treating women for various conditions; this without suppressing their body's natural functioning. Also, Dr. Jason Fung and Megan Ramos had found how intermittent fasting (in combination with a high fat/low carb diet) can be instrumental to restore women's reproductive health - including recovering from infertility, which is a huge problem for many. What is important to keep in mind, is how toxins are released monthly from a woman's body with their menstrual flow. When this natural function is suppressed, toxins accumulate - eventually leading to various adverse health outcomes.
A high fat, animal-based diet does wonders to balance hormones, as our hormones are fat soluble. Many women with PCOS and endometriosis are stopping their symptoms with a carnivore diet.
Tammy, you need to talk to Jason Evert. He’s a devout Catholic who has spent the last few decades giving talks on sex and chastity to teenagers all over North America. He’s written multiple books on birth control, gender, and sex such as Pure Womanhood, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul, and YOU: Life, Love, and the Theology of the Body. A lot of this brith control stuff ties into larger discussions on feminism and gender ideology. I think you’d have lots to talk about and I, for sure, would love to listen to you two! Thanks for the interesting conversations! 🙏🏻 ❤
I am a nurse, and I also took birth control for a few years. It absolutely destroyed my sex drive absolutely no interest ... when on the birth control pill, I forget which one it was
I am sixty now, but wanted to go on the pill when I was 17. The doctor I went to vigorously discouraged me- stated that he believed the pill was dangerous and would cause more problems than it would solve. That was when doctors could be doctors, though.
I'm in my sixtys as well. My doctor prescribed the pill to me at 15 without my parents approval. You were fortunate to have a good physician
I only took the pill for half a year, because I was dizzy all the time. I figured the pill causes it.When I stopped, the dizzyness also stopped.
@@agnesberes4084 the pill coused me to be dizzy also, along with elevated bp and brain fog. i have been off it for 12 years now and we have 4 children that were planned. there are other ways to avoid pregnancy and still have sex in you're marriage. so, my husband got a visectamy afture our 4th child was born, we also regret that because he has been having trouble ever since the surgery.
but i have now been having severe trouble with my period recently so i whent to my OB knowing it's a hormonal imbalance and my endocrine system was probably in trouble. she didn't eaven want to check my hormone levels and wanted to put me on birth control pills. when i refused and told her why, listing off side effects like increased risk of autoimmune disorders, she got mad and said those things don't happen to everyone. well, i replied, I'm not taking that chance with my health. i proceeded to tell her that i wanted to know why this was happening and not just mask the symptoms. the symptoms were not my concern, the underlying health issue was. i will not go back to that doctor and i still have not found a doctor that's willing to look at the issue instead of masking symptoms with a pharmacy.
I'm in my 20s and the last time I visited a doctor she asked if I wanted birth control. I said "no" because I have no need for it. She proceeded to ask my two more times throughout my appointment if I wanted birth control. It made me really mad and I have since then switched doctors. I will not be bullied into taking something I don't need nor want.
I went on the pill around 17. I got pregnant at 17. I had a drug induced miscarriage via planned Parenthood, then said I am never going through this again, and got a hormone intrauterine device. Doctors said issues were very rare. When I tried to take it out two years later i found it had pierced, sunk, and implanted itself into the side of my uterus. Only at the hospital did they then inform me that they see patients with implanted iud's incredibly frequently. They put me under anesthesia and then ripped it out of me.
Just weeks later, I started experiencing sharp pains run through my reproductive area, and incontinence.
Now, I am 26 and have been surviving now metastisized ovarian cancer for the last four years.
I had a massive stroke at 28 that was attributed to the pill. On life support to over 2 weeks. Praise God I made it through and can now tell others.
Wow, how terrible! 😮
Birth control pills killed my sister....35 year old registered nurse. Massive stroke, multiple clots to the brain! The doctors did every test....but they never said what caused the clots. But we know that the pills caused it!
That's insane that nobody talks about these side effects. It's all good until it's not.
I'm so sorry you had to endure that.
I went to the doctor with my 13-year-old daughter, she was having heavy periods and they doctor tried to make me put her on the pill. When I said no I won’t be doing that she started challenging me asking what my problem is with the pill and telling me that’s the only solution to heavy periods. I took her to a naturopath and got some vitamins and minerals and at 17 everything is normal and her periods have sorted themselves out. Glad I trusted my intuition. The pill made me extremely angry and depressed and put on weight and I got brown pigmentation all over my face so bad that people thought I had a moustache and kids asked me if I have dirt on my face. I stopped taking the pill in my 20s when I realised all my problems were from that.
I am 40 years old now and my mom did the same for me. I am so thankful for her intuition back them as well. I had heavy periods and abnormal periods I wouldn’t get them every month. She went and gave me herbs and vitamins and within 2 years everything was back to normal. Also I had to eat more Whole Foods. Mom intuition knows best ❤
Damn these docs are crazy, its normal to have heavy, irregular periods after hitting puberty. I come from a country where girls are usually sexually active after marriage so getting a doc to give the pill to a 13 yo is mad crazy to me
What vitamins did you use, I might also try it against my spotting
I'm glad you stand your ground! I'm sure your daughter will thank you one day.
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I went off of birth control 3 months before trying to conceive my son. I used ovulation strips every morning. I felt like my emotions didn't feel out of control and we never got pregnant until we wanted to. I've told my husband I will never take it again. I feel like we should be taught to have a better understanding of our cycle and how to track it in school and not taught how to go get on birth control. When I have a daughter I will be teaching her about her cycle, how to track it, and take responsibility for it. So she can feel empowered with knowledge and understanding of her body's cycles.
Why in school ? Everyone has internet access
@Sweet Cheeks some people don't learn by reading or research, they are in person learners. Some need to have actual conversations to learn.
@@spiritranger9202, risk - lol.
While you are at it teach here not to be who are
Good take however don’t forget that not all women have a regular cycle. And tracking your cycle is only for people who are really disciplined. Mistakes can happen unfortunately.
When I was 16, every girl I knew was on birth control and I wasn't. My Mother told me that she did not want to risk my health and reproductive rights and she wanted me to watch if those girls would change. All of them became depressive, Emo, their thoughts and feelings became darker and I was still enjoying my childhood. I now know 1/3 of those girls are finding out that they can not get pregnant and we are just turning 30. Hormonal Birth control is destroying women's bodies and seeing children being given puberty blockers is terrifying me, because i remember too well how mean and cruel those girls could get from my childhood.
My sister took the pill from when she was 14-19. She’s struggled with autoimmune diseases throughout her life. She developed alopecia during adolescence as well as severe depression and anxiety. After she had her first son at 19, she developed a horrible disorder known as CIDP. She has an issue with her thyroid and has recently been diagnosed with gout.
This needs to be talked about more! Birth control can be really dangerous for women!!!
Great podcast 👏 The longest I've ever taken the pill was 4 weeks, as for me I gained weight and made me feel tired. So I quit. For me, I've always thought messing with our bodies, especially in this way, was not a good idea. ❤❤❤
I've had migraines since I was a teenager. I started on birth control at age 30. My OBGYN told me I would have to cease taking them at 35 as the risk for a stroke increases for women who suffer from migraines. He passed away and I mentioned this suggestion to my new OBGYN. He responded that was nonsense and the pill was completely safe. This is making me reconsider this. Thank you for shedding light on the effects!!
Bizzy, this is true! My sister, who also has migraines, is recovering from a blood cloth in her brain after starting on birth control. Her neurologist said it is pretty well understood amongst neurologist that this is a risk. The neurologist also expressed a frustration with the OBGYN community for not knowing that.
@@aleprst Thank you for this info. I hope your sister is recovering well.
The pill is NOT safe!
Thank you, for being honest your experience, because I don't feel so alone on my thoughts on this! I'm not against birth control, yet I'm wondering if there's a more safer method of medication I could take, for fibroid management?
I didn't start getting migraines until around age 30 something...the likely culprit was breast implants that were breaking down and later ruptured...however I also stopped BC so we could start our family amd I never went back to BC it's been 10 years. I do get migraines but much less now. My elder sister has had chronic migraine since her teens....she also took various BC...I wonder about this...
I’m so glad I’ve never used any birth control pill or IU device. I feel so comfortable knowing that my natural rhythm has been protected!
Me too! ❤
Please can someone tell that if not for birth control how can we prevent getting pregnant ?? For example I'm happily married but i dont want to have like 15 babies like some of our relatives had for not using a birth control. I don't want to bring any child that we don't have resources to take care of!!
@@ملتقىدجلةوالفرات I'm currently reading this book that many of you recommend here "Taking charge of your fertility" I'm also interested in the app natural cycles if I remember correctly. I'm trying to figure out something else because personally I don't want any pills or to mess up my hormones. Well you can always use condoms. I know it's not ideal, of course you can use hormonal birth control but it's still good to know how it might impact you, especially if that's your go to :)
@@ملتقىدجلةوالفرات Ps. I wish it was easier too 😅 but also remember that women ovulate only once a month, so we can get pregnant 1/4 a month. I really recommend this book I mentioned, although I'm only on the page 40 :D
@@ملتقىدجلةوالفرات Trust in God. Life is precious. ❤️
Never been on the pill.
Always wanted my body to do what it's meant to do, naturally. Now nearly 52, still having periods.
To have monthly periods also helps the body to release toxins. Then, when the periods stop, one's body might experience hot flushes/ heating up; in order to help with detoxification - as needed. Got so anxious when this started happening, because of not knowing what the useful purpose was; instead it is seen as something bad happening that should be treated away 🤦
I wonder if there is something about the fact that having casual sex, or sleeping with a man who doesn't make you feel secure and provided for and can afford to care for children, affects us negatively.
What if our brain generally knows that sex brings babies - and the lack of babies coming then aggravates depressive expression? What if women who use the pill because deep down they know their partner isn't going to be a good husband (or a husband at all) feel extra depressed because they know they shouldn't be sleeping with these guys?
What if the girls who go on the pill early actually end up having lots of mediocre partners for the rest of their lives, because they don't consider sex sacred and are repeating bad choices, and THAT makes them more depressed?
Probably yes, there’s a connection.
One of Tammy's best interviews so far. As usual she is gentle while asking the question on everyone's lips, and shares her own experiences with grace and candor. Dr. Hill explained the ethical and practical challenges of experimental research in this field well. But "the pill" has been a double-edged sword for women and society for all of the reasons our wiser elders in the 60's predicted. Lesson: don't mess with Mother Nature whom, despite our extreme hubris, we are far from completely understanding. It makes the looming transhumanism that is pushing ahead with zero guardrails a very grave concern.
The newer cycle-monitoring devices are as easy and quick to use 1st thing in the AM as it is to take a pill, cheaper than the pill over time (as cheap as it is in North America) and extremely accurate, besides being totally safe. They take your temperature and can tell exactly when those estrogen releases begin, account very well for irregular cycles, and can be combined with other methods. All young women should be taught what all of the options are without bias from the pharma/medical device/OB-GYN industry. Women are not just "consumers" to have "reproductive healthcare" dollars wrung from for ages 13-50, and need to demand more humane solutions for the whole person.
I was on the pill since I was 15. I now have thyroid’s disease. I’m 54. Diagnosed at 23. I do believe that my disease came about from being on the pill. Had really bad periods a DNC at 33. A hysterectomy at 44. A right thyroidectomy at 50.
I am 31 years old and I have always had hormonal imbalance issues. In Jamaica, my doctors just ALWAYS suggested birth control even though I wasn't sexually active and have remained celibate. I just didn't understand why. I felt doctors have always just been too lazy to question these things. I would start and stop like a few weeks in. I moved to Japan and it was the same. I just always felt uncomfortable about these pills. In my early 20s, I just started to refuse to use them. I prefer to deal with the imbalance than complicate things. I won't take these steroids again. When I get married and become active, my husband and I will just have to deal with it naturally. Women are having more conception issues than ever before. There has to be a correlation. 😢😢😢Something is just not right and that is enough to make me stop using it.
So glad the truth is coming out and everyone is better informed. Thank you!!!!!
I have always wondered how women who shop at whole food stores and want everything "organic" could then turn around and put synthetic hormones in their bodies. There is a price for everything we do that is against nature.
I’ve had so many doctors try to push this on me, and one get frustrated when I talked about researching it first. He then proceeded to talk down to me about “google research” I’m a college graduate who knows how to research proper articles, etc but clearly I can’t follow my bodies instincts or do proper research. Anyhow…I have severe PMDD and looking into this birth control stuff I discovered that any woman with PMDD has trouble with the MTHFR gene and should not be on hormonal birth control. So there it is..grateful I listened to my body.
Never took the Pill. Probably the only woman in my friend circle who didn't. I'm also the only woman in my friend circle who is still happily married to my first and only husband (37 years and counting).
Should have discussed how BC causes infertility.
Yes, because it does by thinning the lining of the uterus so much that fertilised eggs are unable to attach effectively to the uterine wall.
I'm currently 20. I started experiencing dysmenorrhea when I was 17, so the doctor suggested that I should start taking the pill, in order to regulate my extreme period pain. Needless to say, the pain didn't get better, I became moody, always tired, my hair thinned out, and I had joint pain,also later experienced a blood clot from the pill, so I stopped when I was 18. That's when I found Mikhaila's "Don't Eat That" video, and I tried going gluten free, and I switched to a low carb diet, which completely fixed my pain. It's beyond amazing how many lives you're changing! Eternally grateful for you and your family, also can't wait to see the Jordan tour in Budapest in May. May God bless you!
you're saying that you stopped taking the pill, change your diet and this only food changement made your dysmenorrhea pain disappear ?
@@notanlcrx6708 Yes. Sounds weird, I don't know how that works, but there are some online studies about how for example 70% of the women with endometriosis had a decrease/disappearance in pelvic pain after going gluten free.
You have an OB? OB is only for pregnancy. A gyno is what you're talking about.
@@SK-ut6tw Yes english is not my first language tho.
@@SK-ut6tw shutup
Hormonal IUD gave me severe panic attacks, depression, anxiety and hot flashes. And an ovarian cyst that burst and was so painful that I thought I was dying. Doc dismissed me and offered me an SSRI. Doc tried to gaslight me about the IUD and tried to claim my symptoms weren’t caused by the IUD even tho it’s all there on the insert. Low carb diet and supplements was the only thing that helped. Recovered now.
Oh my goodness! Happy you are all better now
Omg I had that too and the ob made me feel like I’m all wrong it’s other issues, I even had to see a cardiologist and then go to a therapist.
I had the copper iud and had severe panic attacks ,heavy and long periods, pain, insomnia, lost weight due to lack of appetite. This went on for 6 months. 3 doctors dismissed me and said I had pmdd. One doctor suggest I remove it and see how I felt. The day I removed it all the symtoms went.
@@oneandonly3139 I’m so sorry to hear that. Glad you’re better.
@@laurentherabbit989 thank you. I thought I was dying. Had no idea birth control can do that to you.
Fertility is a gift from God, not a tap we can turn off and on, thanks for this.
Wrong, people can decide for themselves
exactly! we try to turn it off and we end up cousing infertility for life. there's a reason so many women have infertility problems.....and autoimmune disorders and thyroid problems ect......it's all from birth control. almost evert women is on birth control at some point in their life and all these issues are a pandemic in our modern world.
Not at all.
Yes, as Romans 1 explains: When not thankful towards, and not worshipping God as Creator; then one worships created things instead, and is eventually given over - by God - to destructive thoughts and actions.
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Imagine the most intimate aspects of one's life to be controlled by government, while under the delusion that one is making the decision oneself 🤦
Off topic: Tammy Peterson has such a lovely soothing voice, I could listen to her all day ❤
I knew I should never go on birth control. 1. Cancer 2. Sexual affections 3. Affects and shortens reproduction years. Doctors for a long time told me I was wrong. I disagree. I still believe I'm correct. Thank you Mrs. Peterson for this knowledge. 😊😊😊
'First do no harm'... Yet, inflicting perfectly healthy patients with an infertile status, while somehow under the impression this is beneficial to them... Then follows the costly struggle later to reclaim sacrificed fertility... How insane!
Sadly the medical establishment had been hijacked by the anti-life population control ideology. Church leaders are equally in bed with this alternate religious view, while true faith in God - Our Creator, Who is in control - is on the back-burner; to be somehow resurrected in case of an emergency.
Ty for this video. I was 39 when I got divorced and went on the pill at my doctors suggestion and nearly 10 yrs later I finally stopped the pill and many of daily health issues disappeared and NO ONE ATTRIBUTED anything to the pill. It was this video that help me realize I didn’t need to be on it (several reasons I wont go into here) but truly didn’t need it. Crazy how its handed out like candy and NO ONE even looks twice at it, but blames everything else including saying a person is depressed and needs SSRIs etc
I agreed to my 17 year old daughter going on birth control out of ignorance. She was in a serious relationship- they married!- but the change in her was like night and day! She got irritable, disagreeable and moody. She didn’t stay on it very long.
I have a 14 year old daughter and she will be watching this. Thank you both for your work.
Same here.
Not only the pill, Tammy, but after my second child was born, I had a copper IUD placed. I had constant debilitating pain for months before I finally begged my midwife to remove it. Then my husband left and I switched to abstinence, the best birth control of all, although that wasn’t what I wanted…
So thrilled to see you and Dr. Peterson in Rome and looking so well and healthy. So much love for you both.
My copper IUD just spontaneously decided to exit my body after 6 months of long painful periods... People don't even want to believe me when I say this...I thought it was a good option as I had bad side effects of hormones. But this didn't work either...
When i had a copper IUD, I bled for a whole YEAR…. I went to the dr for it and she basically shrugged and told me “idk”. Women’s care is wild.
@@sarapickard7634 Wow... I remember when I was on the oral contraceptives I had massive migraines and I was looking into getting off them. I was offered a progesterone pills instead that made me bleed for 3 weeks per month for about 4 months.. When I said that doesn't work they suggested a HORMONAL implant or Mirena IUD, which is also HORMONAL.... And I remember the doctor being angry with me that I rejected those options. I complained that I have hair loss and she said to me that her hair is falling out too, and it's probably the northern climate and it's not a big deal. Didn't even think to check my iron levels for example, given that I tend to get anemic.... I mean... If you don't fend for yourself and don't have knowledge then you're given any random product with any side effects. If you object they are frustrated...
Yes. I had the copper IUD for 2-3 years, then removed. Definitely had more heavy, painful periods on it but didn't think too much of it since I was told to expect that. When we wanted to conceive, however, it took 11 months. No known miscarriages, just couldn't conceive at all. I mentioned this to a nurse at our first ultrasound, and she said 'yeah, I know they say you can conceive right away after, but I have my doubts'. But someone sure is making bank on those things, they're expensive!
I had the copper IUD for 6 years. It was very painful and I felt constant pressure and inflammation in my uterus the entire time. It was all rusty when they took it out. 🤢
I was on birth control for two years and had debilitating depression. Didn't know why, I had never felt that way before. Two years on it and my pharmacy forgot to refill the prescription. Went off of it and felt so happy, it was like a switch had been turned back on. I felt elated. Vowed never to use birth control ever again.
I had anger spells and violent outbursts, depression and anxiety. Once I stopped I no longer needed depression meds
Tammy is an absolutely delightful interviewer! Loved listening to this conversation.
So insightful for all young women. My experience was my brain feeling dulled down. Couldn’t experience the whole spectrum of emotions.
Natural birth control methods help you be in tune with your reproductive cycles , and your whole body in a respectful way.
There are smart devices like the Dysy that are just as effective as the pill to know your cycles and know when your ovulating and to avoid sex during that time and you should also be using condoms to protect from STI’s anyway.
Yes. I almost felt controlled.
the rhythm method put you in tune with yourself and works amazingly well. for a woman that gets pregnant at first attempt every time, the rhythm method worked exceptionally well with no side effects. there is a 6 year gap between 2 of our children because of the rhythm method, and we decided to have another and i got pregnant at first try. the pill can actually couse infertility
@@Jannette-mw7fg 8 children, that's wonderful! what a blessing!
definitely, if you don't want children then don't have sex. i was married when using the rhythm method so having children wasn't a concern. if it happened then it was ok but if we could plan when then ot was eaven better. it worked very well. abstinence is the most reliable way to not get pregnant. i have known several women who have gotten pregnant on the pill, IUDs, depo shots ect. the only way to make sure you don't get pregnant is abstinence.
Was on the pill for 11 years didn’t realise until I came off what it felt like to feel normal. I’d had Anxiety, low mood, intrusive thoughts (this was horrendous like permanent brain Tourette’s) ,difficulty problem solving all that time. I’d not put the 2 and 2 together maybe because of the problem solving difficulty. But within a couple of months off the pill I felt calm .my brain stopped it’s constant intrusive thoughts and I just felt more switched on . I can now parelell park for instance which I just could never figure out on the pill 🤷♀️weird
I could not take it because it made my emotions crazy within days of taking it. I told my doctor and she said that wasn't possible. I showed her the pamphlet that confirmed what I said and she disregarded it. I am so thankful at 50 that I was never really on birth control.
I was only ever on BC twice, for stretches of 6 months and 3 months. The second time I quit, I was like holy crap I'm human again. I had even forgotten what it felt like to be sexually attracted to men. I watched a man walk past the bus I was sitting in, and I had a literal bodily reaction to the way he was carrying himself. Haven't been on birth control ever again. Abstinence and picking the right man to have babies with works just fine.
It gave me depression...then i was prescribed antidepressants. The combo made me go from being a cute teen into an olmost obese young woman. I quite anticonceptives 10yrs ago and antidepressants last year. Im very close to a normal weight for my height now. I feel much better and at peace
Within days of trying birth control, I had anxiety through the roof and developed dark splotches on my face and body. I stopped taking it and never looked back. Interestingly when I expressed concern to my Dr. about going on it she told me I had nothing to worry about.
I think that’s the story of many of us women, it happened the same thing to me.
Did you read Humanae Vitae bij pope Paul VI
Yep. Pope Paul called it!
They are all trained to not think, just medicate. Doctors are not health experts. They are managers of illness.
Same here, anxiety through the roof and a doctor who said there's nothing to worry about just stick with it and you'll get used to it.
Excellent topic. I was always distrustful of altering natural hormonal balance with drugs and only ever used the Billing’s method/ rhythm method for contraception. My husband and I had four children and only one of them wasn’t planned. Many times I kinda wished our method had been less successful really. 😊
i also used that method with conceiving our 4 children. it was very successful! i am extremely fertal and got pregnant at the first attempt with all our children but the rhythm method worked very well. there's a 6 year gap between 2 of our children because we used this method. afture our 3rd child my husband was going to get a visectamy and we had an unplanned conception.....the first and only. God had planned for this little girl to be brought to this world and for us to be her parents and I'm SO glad that was in His plans. i think the rhythm method is a good way to avoid always being pregnant but also not playing God. that said, my husband did get his visectamy, 3 years ago now, which i believe is playing God, and we regret it because he has been having trouble ever since.
Sorry to ask, what kind of trouble had he been going through? My husband had his last June, we still use protection, but it hasn't affected him in any way. I'm just curious. Thank you, God bless!
@@virginiaherrera5972 pain during arousal and prostate trouble. visectamy actually increases risk of prostate cancer also. sometime we didn't know untill afture. he already has a high risk of prostate cancer so we are concerned.
@@peacefulhome6 Thank you for sharing this. These experiences are a possibility people need to know about.
I’m 21 now, but a year after my cycle started (14) I had unbearable cramps so bad that I couldn’t walk and would become delirious. I have a high pain tolerance, so for me to be crying for my mom in public on the floor, was very concerning. My pediatrician and mom told me to get on birth control. I, at the age of 15, knew birth control wasn’t for me, because I was certain I wanted kids and disrupting the natural process of your biology sounded off to me. Healthy bodies naturally do what is necessary for the body to stay well. So, stopping a natural process SCREAMED “more issues than they let on” for me.
My daughters 17 year old friends have been put on the coil. Its incomprehensible!
I was 21 (i think) when a doctor in canada recommended i go on birth control pills (which i will keep taking forever) so i can have a regular period.
Thank fully, I declined. I just started having a regular period from 2022 and i took no drugs or birth control pill
I just exercise and eat more balanced diet
Anecdotal evidence from a guy, I actually now can notice when a woman is on birth control now. Like it's hard to describe but women on it seem to me to be disconnected?
This is very helpful to help explain the Catholic position on the matter
I read a study when I was in my early 20s that taking the pill could change the type of mate you would be a attracted to. I thought about the fact the hormones would effect my brain development (I was study educational psychology at the time) and decided to quit. What a difference it made. I had been on it for 5 years and my brain felt much less foggy and (at least in my opinion) more balanced.
I thought I was the only one that felt like that. I’m 28 and I’m on BC and I noticed it makes me feel less attracted to my boyfriend. I’m trying to find a way to get off of them.
Non hormonal coil was a good solution.
It does affect attraction. Im into masculine, respectful and protective men. While on birth control i was into indecisive, baby faced, "need to be saved" type of men.
@@zannasealey i hope you dont me wrong. But im 34. And childless and alone. If you think your bf is husband material do settle down and quit the BC so you can have children. Dont wait until its late. Please dont be me. I wish you all the best.
Loved this so much. I quit the pill many many years ago … I’d never take hormones again! They destroyed me in so many ways!
my side effects to Yasmin didn't start until after about 6 months on the pill, so I never made the connection as to why I was gradually becoming crazier and crazier over the next 7 years. But once I was aware that everything I was experiencing was a known side effect of this pill, I quit taking it. within 2 weeks, I felt emotions and calmness that I had not even realized was missing for the past 7 years. Lost 7 years of my life.
Do not seek to control nature, but rather, learn to live in harmony with it.
Wow! This was super interesting and enlightening. Thank you for shining a light on this topic. This is one of those things where we wish we could go back and make different choices and do better, but we can't. All we can do is educate others and do better moving forward. The conclusion i come to is that, more often than not, birth control does more harm to our bodies and society than it does good.
Approaching middle age and never used hormonal birth control in my life. Always feared its effects, especially as I heard about blot clots from the pill 30 years ago.
Birth control gave me my life back. Every month my period came around and I couldn’t eat and would throw up the first 3 days of my period and it would last for around 8 days. I don’t know how I was even functioning. I was always so tired and anemic because I was losing so much blood. My gynecologist recommended a low hormonal birth control and the changes I felt were dramatic. My skin improved, my period was lighter and I got my energy back. It was like night and day. And as I person who has a multitude of reprohealth issues I know pregnancy is not an option for me ever. I’m not interested in further debilitating my body. Let’s not scare women. Informed consent is important. Everyone’s health is different and it’s important you make a decision that’s right for you with a conversation with your doctor and doing your own research.
Same this isn't telling the whole truth, it's very one sided.
But this lecture is discussing the dark side of birth control pills, that we didn't know previously, so we're going to be hearing a lot of negatives as opposed to positives. Lol
Glad that you benefitted tho!
Read the book "the fifth vital sign"
You are not experiencing a real period...in order to have a real biological period you have to ovulate first...on hormonal birth control, your ovulation is suppressed and you actually never released an egg.
So that's why your "periods" are lighter, and since your suppressing your hormones your acne cleared up.
Instead of stopping and manipulating your body's natural cycle, do some research and balance your natural hormones and your periods WILL be easier, and no acne.
My Grandfather was a doctor, so is my father and I'm educating now too....please, read the book "The Fifth Vital Sign".
This is different usage. For you, it is medicine to help your sickness. Most usage for birth control is to prevent pregnancy. This is optional choice. Your is required choice for a more normal life.
But everything have a cost, there is a cost to use a pill.
Yes I am considering taking natural pergesterone not projestin (synthetic) so I can manage a thickened uterine lining which is caused by not having periods ( i go three months without) AND debilitating heavy, massive clotting when I do have them.
I've always been prone to depression, but when I tried the pill, it completely went sideways. I got severely depressed, and for the last few days I used it I woke up in the middle of the night with a really bad headache, I just had to quit.
I'm glad I don't use it, and I will never put that stuff in my body ever again.
I never used birth control for more than two months before knowing it was not for me, but i also experienced an awakening following each of my births….it is a beautiful thing our fertility and the fruits of it and what it does to makes us grow as women and find different sides of us. I really want to read this book now!
Thanks for your comment
What is for example amazing, is how during each pregnancy stem cells are released from the growing baby into his/her mother. This has an impact in the long term on a mother's ability to maintain youthfulness, vitality, and longevity.
Then there is Oxytocin hormone excreted while in labour, during child birth and while breast feeding. Amongst other functions, it not only enhances bonding between mother and infant, but impacts the mother psychologically (for example towards being more agreeable), and enhances physical healing in general by restoration of integrity of various organs' membranes' tight junctions, which could have been compromised secondary to for example leaky gut.
@@maricamaas2326 thanks for your comment. The human body: Fascinating and comprehensive design
Thank you so much for bringing this up. I had so many issues with birth control and every time I went back to the doctors and raised the question if the pill could be causing it, my reply was not, it's all in your head or there must be something else. I've tried multiple brands and some made me suicidal, it was terrible. I share all these things with my teen daughters in hope they can make a well informed decision when the time comes and they do opt for the pill. I feel there is not enough share info specially when it comes to women and even more teens on what changes and consequences to their bodies they can expect.
I love how Tammy starts her interviews like she's speaking to a friend. It's so natural and feminine. 😊
I was on the pill very briefly. I soon noticed extreme emotional changes. I contacted my doctor, who was the head of OB-GYN at a major hospital in one of the largest cities in the U.S. He told me i was imaging that, and it had nothing to do with the pill. Luckily my mother’s friend was also an OB/GYN so I spoke with her. She immediately told me about studies proving that I was not alone in my experience, and the mood swings were related to the pill. When I told her exactly what he had prescribed she was shocked because she said it was too strong a dose (I guess there were different options and he prescribed a really strong one). That was the beginning of the end of my trust for the white coats. Some doctors are still in integrity but even some who mean well are totally brainwashed. I am very wary of the entire medical industry now due to so so many experiences of deception and harm I experienced. Thanks for speaking out about this.
My 16 year old daughter was on the mini pill and right away she sense her mood changes. She has anxiety and she felt depressed and we knew it was the pill because that was her only big change she had done. She stopped taking it right away. She also notice when her friends got on birth control they had similar changes and she would let them know to do some more research on the type of birth control they were on. We need to be more cautious of everything we put into our body.
Thank you for covering this. It would be great if you could discuss antidepressants and their effects
Very interesting talk! I would have loved to hear also a few words about the environmental consequences of hormones taken by humans (for contraception, menopause treatment, sex "change"...): how all of that affects all humans, even those who don't take the pill, through the contamination of drinking water and of the food chain.
Take care!
Thanks for your comment. Yes more research on hormones and the environment
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Remember from being involved with doing research about oral contraceptives; 3 decades ago there already was a schoolgirl - as I remember in UK - who had done for her science project a study about estrogens in the ground water in their community... There also is the issue of our general exposure to plastics, which mimics estrogen.
She's great! Nice to meet another mother against putting children on psychotropics 👏
I'm barely 30 seconds in and already exclaiming; FINALLY! YES. Say more! Say it louder for the people in the back.
I'm hearing a lot more about the impact of the hormone changes from Birth Control. I've personally known several women who couldn't use birth control because it made them emotionally unstable or depressed.
This also leads me to want to see more research on the potential impact of Ritalin on brain development in youth.
She is correct that men and women need their own studies done. Science has been quite ignorant for so long and the advancements in technology have allowed us to truly see the differences more clearly. I can still remember learning Science in the 90's as a kid and it was still taught that male studies were assumed to be applicable to women.
This dialogue causes me to think of so many different things that are out of alignment with our society that have negatively impacted men, especially over the last 50 years. What we have done as a culture to the two sexes......could have some really terrible and far reaching consequences.
I could not take it because it made my emotions crazy within days of taking it. I told my doctor and she said that wasn't possible. I showed her the pamphlet that confirmed what I said and she disregarded it. I am so thankful at 50 that I was never really on birth control. Now I am praying my daughter can go off when she is married.
@@susanmunson4905A condition many medical professionals seem to be suffering from: Instead of 'first do no harm' to be believing that it is in order for them to be and remain ignorant about the detrimental effects of medications they are prescribing; this in spite of it being written in inserts.
How can they not be listening to what their patients are telling them about what is happening to them? It's insane! A form of willful blindness and/or cognitive dissonance.
im 33 have never taken a hormonal contraceptive and i am so grateful for learning to trust God with everything including my reproductive system i dont suffer from any weight problems,headaches or other abnormalities that women my age are suffering from
This is so sad what we've done to ourselves. 😢😢😢
Thank you for talking about this! Very important information!!! And I am so glad I stopped using tampons AND never took birth control. I was warned as a teenager and I listened because I really wanted to age well and be healthy and that made me much more serious about sexually activity because the magic pill wasn't in my system and I'm glad for it.
Thanks for touching this topic:) It"s very important to
emphasize the truth . I was about 24 when my doc offered to try horm. pills.
Reason for that was to make my period more regular. First 3 pills and my face changed. I had some kind of tumors under my skin. Was shocked, horrified and just trew that away. End of story. Now I am glad that I did it.
Hormonal birth control made me severely depressed. My sister had no effects that she knows of, and my other sister ended up with fibroids (of which her doctor said were due to so many years on the pill) and ended up infertile. Everyone is so different. Not getting the information about possible side effects out ther clearly before people start taking hormonal drugs can be so damaging.
My mom forced me to go on the pill when I was 16 despite that I wasn't at all sexually active (didn't even become sexually active until last year at 23). I was only on it for less than a year but I know it was the most horrible period in my life mentally and emotionally. I'd cry just about every single day at the slightest inconvenience or disagreement or really just about any experience that wasn't positive or neutral. It was the only time in my life I was actively suicidal instead of my usual passive suicidal thoughts.
Sure, the doctor did mention 'mood swings' as a possible side effect, but only in the list of the dozen or so other possible side effects. No real elaboration of what 'mood swings' means and of course I wasn't going to ask because why would I think it would be any worse than the usual mood swings I get around my period? I don't even remember if I had any of the physical side effects because the mental and emotional ones overshadowed anything else.
Of course I didn't feel like anything was wrong inside of me and just thought I was having reasonable reactions to negative experiences. Eventually, I sort of figured out it might be because of the pill but any attempt at trying to voice my concerns about it to the people around me(even to my counselor) was dismissed. And I never got to discuss any of my concern with the doctor after because she had to go deliver a baby the day of my follow-up appointment. So I was sort of left on my own to sort out myself and what to do. Despite my mom's protests, I decided to get off the pill and I almost instantly felt like myself again, which is definitely not perfect but I know is manageable.
After that, I swore I would never go on anything like that again, no one can make me put ANYTHING in my body again. Even years after, I still never saw or heard of any women going through anything similar with the pill. If they did have mood swings, they didn't talk about anything close to what I had.
I'm not even 25 minutes into this video and it's already all the things I needed to hear and talk about years ago. Thank you so much for talking about this and letting the world hear all about it.
Yep, I could never stay on birth control for long. The effects were so intense, my life would flip upside down for that period of time, always.
I've never taken birth control in my life, so I'm fortunate I don't possibly suffer from adverse effects of it. That doesn't mean I don't have mood change around my menstrual cycle. I also have only ever skipped a period in my life when my mom passed away. Not being on the pill also helped me to see that a inhaler medication I was on was drastically affecting my menstrual cycle by extending it to 14 days and then only breaking for a week before starting again for another 14 days. If I were on the pill, I wouldn't of been aware of this to promptly quit the medication and tell my doctor.
I have a memory of my grandpa telling me if someone insists on being called a DR. That’s when you know that it’s not a person to look up to and not worth the respect. When he died we learned that he died with 5 PHDs. We only knew of 2 before then. So when I encounter people who insist on DR. Label I feel not positively about their character.
Só important!! I kinda grew up in “believing it’s safe”. I chose not to take the pill and I’m quite happy about it
The effects on men were not discussed much in this, the most alarming being the feminization of men through estrogen in the water supply. But, great interview 👍 I was on birth control for over 10 years starting at age 15. And I shudder to think the harm it has done to me...I had no idea to question it back in 2000. I have struggled with depression and bad choices in partners. But I am lucky that I didn't have more side effects, that I know of. I will definitely be telling my daughter all about the dangers. Edit: forgot to add I had cysts on cervix and thinning hair.
Depression and bad choices in partner. Me too. I identify myself so much wih this
It is specifically noted in (some) inserts of contraceptive pills (under side effects and special precautions); that when it comes to pregnancy and lactation, "Feminisation of the male foetus may occur."
Good job with the podcast Tammy, I'm so glad that you're making this content for the world to see. Good luck with all of your future endeavours and cheers to your health.
I am SO thankful for my mom's strong convictions about premarital sex and did not take me to get birth control when I asked as a teenager. I'm 45 now, only 1 pregnancy & 1 live birth, nvr taken any form of birth control, and don't have any medical records (save eye dr & dentist) for the last 20+ yrs ... And I plan to keep it that way too.
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I found when I started taking the pill that it helped balance me out. It didn’t really help with the cramps but Atleast I don’t feel like I’m going crazy. I don’t really want to be on it. I would rather find out what was causing my hormones to be out of wack then just fixing it with a pill.
I love this podcast so much and really think that women should think twice before taking the pill !!
Don't go on the pill for the reason of painful periods. Try a serious hormonal balance program and see how your body responds to the proper balance. Naturally losing weight is also nice. I haven't been on the program for over 1 year and I still have almost zero discomfort and my period lasts a light 2.5 days. When I was on a hormonal balance eating lifestyle and taking vitamins, I only knew I had my period because I had to wear a product - otherwise, zero pain, clear head, and no bloating.
I think we don’t know, but we also don’t care because we want what we want. We would rather the conveniences today than the responsibilities/considerations for tomorrow. This pretty much applies to everything in and out of the sexual revolution.
My parents put me on the pill because they mistakenly assumed I was having sex with my boyfriend, when I wasn't. We were abstaining. They told me they were doing it for my menstrual cramps, though. Anyway, when I was on the pill, I got into physically violent fistfights on the school bus, the only fistfights that I have ever had in my life, before that time, and after that time. I only took the pill for a little while and stopped.
I’m so glad I got off birth control. I didn’t experience any negative side effects like most women but it just didn’t feel right. I was always fatigued.
I've been on hormonal birth control at three different times in my life. The first was when I was 17 after a missed miscarriage. The second was when I was 19 when I wanted to have sex with my bf at the time, the third and final time was when I was 23-24.
The first time I lost 18 pounds in two weeks and was throwing up all the time.
The second time I lost all affection for my BF and I had several psychotic episodes.
Finally, I got the IUD three months before getting married to my now husband. I was violated while he was inserting it, I was screaming for him to stop and not even the chaperone took me seriously. I fainted multiple times before leaving the building, I lost my favorite job due to the debilitating pain preventing me from being able to do my work, and my poor husband who was a virgin until our wedding night could feel the strings 80% of the time we had sex for the first 9 months of our marriage. I was very violent, paranoid, no one would believe me, and I had an emotional affair. When I got it removed I could feel my brain literally making connections that it couldn't before.
I'll never go back to birth control, and we don't have to as my husband got the snip while I was pregnant with our last.
A lot of the information you shared was new to me, but the vast majority of everything talked about are things that I have learned since recovering from the psychological trauma due to birth control.
Thank you for speaking up about this.
Amazing interview! I saved this in my watch later and finally got to the video and it’s one of the best interviews of cult/ or Scientology available. Wtg! And yes!! Congratulations on getting sober! Please keep sharing that 🙏
❤ thank you for this video! Like many others I was a completely different person on the pill; depressed & anxious to the point I ended up taking Fluoxetine at 19 years old. I would often get myself in a state where I’d end up sobbing uncontrollably and was so jealous that it caused several romantic relationships to end. With my current partner I was going to counselling for a year for this behaviour. During this time I had a routine pill checkup with my GP and told her I was experiencing migraines so she advised me I should switch which pill I was taking as the one I was on (Yasmin) had highest risks for blood clots. I decided to just cease taking the pill altogether and within a couple of weeks I was a different person. Like you described, it was like a fog had been lifted and I felt like myself again. Not feeling jealous or anxious anymore. Because id been attending talking therapy for a year I wanted to make sure it was the pill that had caused this so I went back on the pill (a different one) and within a week or 2 I was crazy again! So I came off it and haven’t been back on it since.
Thanks for your comment. I'm glad you feel better!
This comment really hits home for me as I am currently on Yasmin and I get very sad and teary and get migraines sometimes related to being upset a couple of days before my period starts. I had pms before going on the pill but in a way it has made it worse. I am on the pill because of my pcos which I wasn't able to manage just my cutting carbs and weight training. Overall I'd say the pill had been good for me because I am managing my pcos symptoms which were very unpleasant and mood swings were a part of it too. Sometimes I wonder whether I am doing the right thing being on the pill since now I don't get excessive hair growth, bad acne, mood swings and it's easier to maintain a stable weight. But I do get periods of time when I am in a depressed state that's difficult to get out. I really wish there were other alternatives and treatments. This podcast has been really interesting to listen to :)
@@maryathensv2011 What about metformin or berberine with a carnivore or ketovore high fat diet? I've seen it do wonders for PCOS.
@@maryathensv2011Becket Cook recently hosted a discussion with a female gynaecologist, who explained the natural methods she uses successfully to treat her patients. The video highlights how contraceptives are also abortive, since making the womb's lining uninhabitable for implantation of already fertilized eggs.
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You might also be interested in looking into doing coffee enemas to support the liver... Have read testimonies about how young women's painful periods had been completely alleviated by using CE.
13 years ive been on the combo pill... ive been off for a week. Wish everyone all the luck ❤ I'm excited to finally be me...
Shit this makes a lot of sense. My ex went bat shit crazy after our son was born. Coincidently, after our son was born she went on birth control and IUD. She already had personality issues but it turned up the volume 10x. I had to divorce her. Took about 10 years for her to calm down and be able to be civil again.
Amazing topic and one that is not addressed enough and I understand why . I just wish that doctors would not gaslight and dismiss people that fall within the 1-2% of people who do not have a good reaction to birth control. help us the best way you can instead. My Gyne is amazing he has been willing to try different methods of birth control and even told me "I will not let you take that, because it has many side effects." (for disclaimer I get hives /swelling when I take birth control, when I'm pregnant and during my period. - basically whenever my hormones change.)
How many women have cancer today or died because of the pill or had an abortion because you mess with your hormones? We don’t talk about it so women don’t know.
When I was a teen I suffered from horrible, debilitating cramps and menstrual symptoms where I had to be in bed for days. I tried so many natural alternatives to aleviate the crippling pain. The ONLY thing that eliminated all of this was birth control. People like to hate on "big pharma" but for some people, some medications help. I am fully aware of the side effects and would say that if you don't need it, try your best to stay away from it but don't feel bad for taking a medication if you need it and it helps!
I started taking hormonal birth control. Within 3 months I gained 10kg, bleed continuously for a full month, tiredness,breathlessness and before I knew it I was battling PCOD. Never ever will I put that stuff in my body ever again
I went on the pill when I was 20 in the early ‘80’s and immediately felt a negative affect. I was able to come off easily as I didn’t have a regular partner. However, I am very interested to listen to this talk, to have verified that my internal barometer was right on…
The use of hormones in industrialised animal husbandry, in the distribution of the pill to women and also HRT I guess really needs to be studied more..
And the effects of consuming all these hormones in the water and food??
Hey I guess more research needs to be done…
I tried going on the pill just after my second child. I began bleeding perfusively. I had never bled so heavily in my life, not even right after pregnancy. I felt heavy, like fluid buildup in my body. I had never had a problem with fluid retention. I got headaches, another thing I did not have happen in my life until I took the pill. I could hear my heart beat, and felt an uncomfortable pressure that made my chest ache, and made me tired, I felt anxious. I sweated worse than normal. And, I became depressed. I felt like I a freak, like I was undesirable, even more so than I think I would naturally postpartum. After my first child I did not have such issues with negative feelings towards myself. I know that was from the birth control. I went right off of it after only 6 months. I never returned to trying birth control again. I knew from this experience that I am not compatible with birth control pills, nor Norplant, nor shot, nor IUD with hormones.
I first learned about this topic from Dr Janet Smith. People forget but the Catholic Church was really hammered over this. Funny how people are slower to learn truths than falsehoods
A missing conversation when I was that age. Culturally, we underestimate the importance of what we put into our bodies as it pertains to food and ALL prescription and recreational drugs. I was surprised how many people lined up so quickly to take the recent inoculation shots despite the trials being incomplete.
When previously doing research about this issue, had - to my shock - come to terms with how in fact there are no proper trials done - ever - before launching any vaccines 😳 Therefore it came as no surprise to me when covid came on the table, and the same happened. (Look for example into the valuable work of environmental lawyer and author Robert Kennedy Jr.)
So glad you are doing podcasts!! Love your husbands work and now glad to see you out here too! Yay!
Proof again that women and men aren’t interchangeable.
My mother had fibrocystic breasts and I was nervous about taking birth control pills, so I didn’t! My husband and I decided not to use birth control at all. We had seven living children and miscarried 5. We didn’t know what we were doing 😂but, God did! I’m so thankful for all my children God gave us! That was the life we chose. God had placed in our hearts to invest in eternal treasures. That, they are!
Thank you for sharing your life Deborah. I have just had baby no1 and I am trusting God for the amount of children He wants to give us. I decided not to use birth control even though all doctors and midwives said I must go on it after I gave birth. I pray He might bless us with more children as He did with you. I really am glad I read your comment. God bless you 💕
cystic breasts are a common thing for women starting in their 30s and has nothing to do with hormonal bc.
I remember when I was first married 43 years ago, my wife went on the pill. We knew the risks, but didn't think they were that serious. She had a double mastectomy last year. I'm extremely certain she would not have taken it if she'd known then what we both know now.
I was 23 when I went on the pill in 2002. I never felt right on it. I remember trying to explain that to my Dr and being dismissed. I don't remember exactly what she said, but it was something like, "The pill doesn't do that, but we can try a different version if you want." I went through several different oral pill, the internal ring, the patch etc and never felt quite like myself on any of them.
I went off hormonal birth control to get pregnant around 2005 and never went back on. I feel so vindicated that this kind of information is becoming available now.
It's like these highly trained doctors somehow had lost some abilities; such as reading (inserts) and listening to what their patients are telling them... As if making a choice to remain ignorant... Cognitive dissonance... Willful blindness 🤦
I think birth control has an important role for a lot of things. I have PCOS and endometriosis and birth control really helped with very intense pain that would come along with my monthly cycle. However, my mom/doctor originally started me on birth control when I was like 12 or 13 for acne. So I’ve been given birth control for most of my life for various issues. I wish someone had educated me on what it might be doing to my body. Now I have a 12 year old daughter and I’m already receiving pressure to put her on the pill and I DON’T want to do that. I’d like her to develop her hormones through puberty naturally before I start giving her medicine to change them.
I have endometriosis and hormone options are how I can live my life. I don’t like how it’s typically only seen as birth control when many people like me need it to live normal lives. We know the risks but it’s better than being in bed most of the time and not being able to live.
You might be interested in a recent discussion about contraception; that Becket Cook had with a female gynaecologist who specializes in treating women for various conditions; this without suppressing their body's natural functioning.
Also, Dr. Jason Fung and Megan Ramos had found how intermittent fasting (in combination with a high fat/low carb diet) can be instrumental to restore women's reproductive health - including recovering from infertility, which is a huge problem for many.
What is important to keep in mind, is how toxins are released monthly from a woman's body with their menstrual flow. When this natural function is suppressed, toxins accumulate - eventually leading to various adverse health outcomes.
I'm sorry is this a western thing? We didn't even think of putting our preteens and teenagers on bc in the Caribbean.
@@queentiff9827 I think it is. It’s seen as so normal now without even thinking about the long term effects.
A high fat, animal-based diet does wonders to balance hormones, as our hormones are fat soluble. Many women with PCOS and endometriosis are stopping their symptoms with a carnivore diet.
Tammy, you need to talk to Jason Evert. He’s a devout Catholic who has spent the last few decades giving talks on sex and chastity to teenagers all over North America. He’s written multiple books on birth control, gender, and sex such as Pure Womanhood, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul, and YOU: Life, Love, and the Theology of the Body. A lot of this brith control stuff ties into larger discussions on feminism and gender ideology. I think you’d have lots to talk about and I, for sure, would love to listen to you two!
Thanks for the interesting conversations! 🙏🏻 ❤
I am a nurse, and I also took birth control for a few years. It absolutely destroyed my sex drive absolutely no interest ... when on the birth control pill, I forget which one it was
Tammy you have such a soft and gentle soul ❤️