Originally Posted by gdawson6
Birth Control Pills are terrible. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have over indulged in sex when I was younger. I was always monogamous but knowing that I could have sex with my girlfriend whenever I wanted without the consequence of children just made it seem worry free. It made sex into a purely pleasureful act without realizing that sex's true purpose is reproduction.

They deplete zinc and probably a handful of other minerals.

A lady in her 30's, a lady my neighbor worked for...was healthy by all means and had a stroke out of the blue...and the doctor told her it was birth control pills and that its not uncommon at all!!!!!!! She is still in therapy trying to regain full use of her body.


I tried those right before getting married and thought my BP was going to go through the roof - I felt so agitated! I felt inspired to read a book in a health food store and it warned off from them so I got off.... Now, my newly wed daughter got off them a few months ago, too. I have to say when I saw her in December for her wedding she was not her self. I thought it might be the BP pills. After a while she picked up on what it was doing to her and I'm grateful she's now off. She's also back to her sweet little self and will, hopefully, make me a grandma in the coming year or so! They're trying natural methods but we'll see how that goes : ) The problem is that when you ovulate that is mother nature's way of telling you to procreate (and when you want to have sex the most!). I always felt more of an instinct to get pregnant then, too, so would throw caution to the wind...