Wow this article really does make a lot of baseless claims...everything is anectdotal, and not based on actual studies. How can you prove that all of those side effects were the pills and not something else? Especially since you started pills so close after delivery...perhaps your bonding horemones were wearing off and post-partum depression was setting in? I mean who knows, very big things happened to you at a time in your life when a lot was going on besides starting pills, and you blamed it all on the pills. There is no research that supports the notion that modern birth control pills can cause any kind of weight gain besides slight water retention (which would not exceed 5lbs). It's an old wives tale that pills cause weight gain; older pills used to cause a negligible amount but that is not even a concern anymore with newer pills.
I'm not saying oral contraceptives are the best things in the world to be taking, but I am saying that your article is baseless and anectdotal and relies on your own personal experience with unfounded claims and zero evidence. Let's forget about scientific proof that pills cause these things in general, since you're only using yourself as an example...do you have scientific and medical proof that the pills caused the things you mention to you specifically?
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Wow this article really does make a lot of baseless claims...everything is anectdotal, and not based on actual studies. How can you prove that all of those side effects were the pills and not something else? Especially since you started pills so close after delivery...perhaps your bonding horemones were wearing off and post-partum depression was setting in? I mean who knows, very big things happened to you at a time in your life when a lot was going on besides starting pills, and you blamed it all on the pills. There is no research that supports the notion that modern birth control pills can cause any kind of weight gain besides slight water retention (which would not exceed 5lbs). It's an old wives tale that pills cause weight gain; older pills used to cause a negligible amount but that is not even a concern anymore with newer pills.
I'm not saying oral contraceptives are the best things in the world to be taking, but I am saying that your article is baseless and anectdotal and relies on your own personal experience with unfounded claims and zero evidence. Let's forget about scientific proof that pills cause these things in general, since you're only using yourself as an example...do you have scientific and medical proof that the pills caused the things you mention to you specifically?
July 30, 2009 - 9:00pmThis Comment
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