这时实验室的一个男生就插话说男性吃birth control的话depression的比例和程度都会比女性严重得多(这个我以前还真不知道,也不准备在这引申女权话题)。总之,这次谈话是我第一次意识到似乎该停药试试了。不知道是不是心理作用,停药之后,我之前很多depression的症状都消失了。后来翻了一些paper,发现科学界和医学界似乎...
Hormonal Birth Control and Depression Contraceptivesthat use hormones to keep you fromgetting pregnantcome in many forms. They includethe pill,the mini pill, implant, shot,intrauterine device(IUD), patch, and vaginal ring. Researchers don’t have enough evidence to say for sure if hormonal birth ...
Hormonal birth control can do more than lower your odds of getting pregnant—it may also impact your mood and is associated with an increased risk of depression.
My regular doctor and gyno wanted me to either get on a drug for anxiety/depression, or get back on birth control. But my mom reasoned that I was fine before birth control and learned from researching online that birth control was probably the cause of these problems in the first place. ...
Some recent headlines and news stories claiming the birth control pill is linked to depression have overstated the findings of a new study and caused panic among some women. Some journalists have misinterpreted the study findings and made it sound like t
I was on birth control for about a month, I stopped taking it because of the side affects, depression, moodiness, ect. I took the pill in june, and stopped taking it by the end of june, early july. My boyfriend and I started dating in Sept., and I've been trying to get pregnant...
In a large study involving more than 1 million women, Danish researchers found an increased risk for depression tied to taking hormonal birth control. According to the New York Times, the women were between the ages of 15 and 34, and were tracked over the course of 13 years between 2000...
While the data clearly shows a relationship between birth control use during adolescence and increaseddepressionrisk in adulthood, the researchers note that it does not prove one causes the other. "Millions of women worldwide useoral contraceptives, and they are particularly popular among teenagers,"...
There were also people, like myself, who actually felt more balanced on the pill, and even experienced depression after getting off of it. But the study, nevertheless, has profound implications for women and mental health. Mood changes areone of the biggest reasons many stop using the pillwit...
Depression Headaches Nausea Ovarian cysts Progestin Arm Implant (Nexplanon) The arm implant is a hormonal (progestin) device about the size of a matchstick. Your doctor puts it directly under the skin in your arm. It can work for up to 3 years. This method is almost 100% effective and is...