Long term side effects. Surprisingly no research. I asked a doctor and they told me, "The pill has no effect on fertility" which is insane, that's literally what it does. It stops fertility. But there are no studies showing the effects of 5-10+ years of uterus poison vs. women who never touch it.
My experience is every woman who was on the pill sees tons higher miscarriages after, sometimes never carrying a baby to full term again/ever.
Not just that but there's no real study I know about the emotional effects. My ex was on and off birth control and it was like she was two completely different people when she was on and off. Her interests, preferences for food, etc like it was like I was dating two different people and I had two keep both sets of that in my head.
girlwriteswhat had an interesting post on that topic on reddit. One thing that the pill influences, that seems relatively minor is the sense of smell (hence the change in food-preferences). Now, these same changes happen when a woman gets pregnant (bc simulates pregnancy), but pregnancies last for 9 months not years on end.
One interesting tidibit she shared was that she couldn't stand the smell of her husband anymore after she got her tubes tied and off the pill. He'd have showered and 5 minutes later she hated his odor.
The theory is that the change in sense of smell and the disgust she had for her husbands smell is evolutionary. As in: When her body isn't tricked into thinking that it's pregnant, her sense of smell would have told her that she and her husband do not make a good genetic match.
I could be wrong here, but I think to remember that her children aren't paragons of health (including severe allergies)
Now do birth control.
At least the primary endpoint whether your contraceptive pill actually does what it claims to is fairly binary.
Long term side effects. Surprisingly no research. I asked a doctor and they told me, "The pill has no effect on fertility" which is insane, that's literally what it does. It stops fertility. But there are no studies showing the effects of 5-10+ years of uterus poison vs. women who never touch it.
My experience is every woman who was on the pill sees tons higher miscarriages after, sometimes never carrying a baby to full term again/ever.
Not just that but there's no real study I know about the emotional effects. My ex was on and off birth control and it was like she was two completely different people when she was on and off. Her interests, preferences for food, etc like it was like I was dating two different people and I had two keep both sets of that in my head.
girlwriteswhat had an interesting post on that topic on reddit. One thing that the pill influences, that seems relatively minor is the sense of smell (hence the change in food-preferences). Now, these same changes happen when a woman gets pregnant (bc simulates pregnancy), but pregnancies last for 9 months not years on end.
One interesting tidibit she shared was that she couldn't stand the smell of her husband anymore after she got her tubes tied and off the pill. He'd have showered and 5 minutes later she hated his odor.
The theory is that the change in sense of smell and the disgust she had for her husbands smell is evolutionary. As in: When her body isn't tricked into thinking that it's pregnant, her sense of smell would have told her that she and her husband do not make a good genetic match.
I could be wrong here, but I think to remember that her children aren't paragons of health (including severe allergies)