long term usage of birth control and its effects?

Question

my sister has been taking brith control for over 5 years (i think?) or around that area....and my parents are convinced that some of her problems are caused by that pill...like she cramps and tires out easily after walking for maybe an hour or something like that....i know its not helathy to be taking the pill for that amount of time but i want to know if there really are side effects and what they are

Answer 1

Birth control pills – which work by suppressing your native hormones - can themselves lead to many health problems. Many of the problems of estrogen dominance, including fluid retention, depression, headaches, and urinary tract infections, are experienced by women using birth control pills.
Having altered your normal hormonal cycles when using the Pill, you are more prone to symptoms at midlife as well as potentially more serious health problems. This is because the synthetic estrogens and progestins used in the Pill can interfere with the body’s own progesterone receptors. The progestins are more potent and may inhibit the product of your body’s own sex hormones.

The side effect least talked about is its tendency to silence a woman’s libido by decreasing testosterone levels. Contraceptive drugs slow down the production of hormones in the ovaries and raise levels of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), a chemical that kills the libido. Permanent Libido Damage!

If you want to research about the long-term effects, go to www.mercola.com and search. Dr. Mercola has many wonderful articles detailing exactly what happens to our bodies when we poison them with hormonal contraceptives.

Answer 2

Her cramps and tiring are unlikely to be from the pill, but from her body changes themselves. The tiring is a symptom of an underactive thyroid because I had that.

If there is a concern, she should go to her Gyn and be checked. Possibly have her hormones and thyroid checked.

I have been on the pill for thirteen years (mostly the low dose ones) and I don't experience those effects nor anything major for that matter.
I have had body changes over the years, but they're not related to the pill. I get cramps occasionally, but they are not related to the pill because I had them before I went on the pill.

However, if a woman takes the high-dose pills for a long time (over a year), the major side effect of that is developing gallbladder disease (stones).

Taking the pill (the low dose) is actually healthy in the sense it prevents ovarian cancer and pregnancy.

Answer 3

I've heard nasty stories about girls on birth control. You never hear the stories about infertility, depression, hormonal wackiness, and other side effects. I'm not Catholic but I prefer my wife not take birth control just because of what it does to her body.

Oh the joys of the sexual revolution. Thank goodness all sexual morality is out the door.

Answer 4

i know one side effect is slight difficulty in concieving when you come off..