The harm and benefits of hormonal pills. Birth control pills benefit or harm. Obesity from birth control

Medicine has not stood still for a long time, women can choose the best method of pregnancy protection. Hormonal contraception  It is divided into two types: oral and parenteral. However, combined oral contraceptives, birth control pills, are considered the most popular and common.

All drugs in this group, regardless of the manufacturer, in one way or another affect hormonal background  women. As a rule, tablets contain two hormones - these are synthetic analogues of progesterone and estrogen, substances work to suppress ovulation.

In other words, the egg does not mature and does not enter the uterus. Additionally thickens cervical mucus, sperm penetration is prevented, the structure of the endometrium changes. Even if the sperm penetrates the uterine cavity, he is unable to gain a foothold there, the effectiveness of the method reaches 99%.

The benefits and harms of birth control pills

What are the consequences of birth control pills? Hormone pills are often prescribed to women with hormonal disordersfor example with irregular and painful menstruationpolycystic ovary follicular cyst. It happens that girls drink birth control pills to eliminate facial skin problems, acne.

The effectiveness of such therapy is quite high, the result appears in a short time. After a month, the skin becomes clean, menstruation comes on time, pain syndrome  gives way to moderate discomfort or disappears altogether.

As the reviews of taking pills show, the drug has a positive effect on the condition of nails and hair, which often bribes women.

The principle of treatment is simple:

1. with insufficient production of progesterone and estrogen, tablets "turn off" them;
2. a woman’s body works thanks to synthetic analogues of the hormone.

Cystic neoplasms in the ovaries are almost always accompanied by acne, which is due to an increased amount of androgen in the blood, a lack of estrogen. The situation is similar with hirsutism, when a woman suffers from male-type hair growth. Estrogen from birth control pills  helps to balance all sex hormones, eliminate the manifestations of violations.

However, not everyone is allowed to take birth control pills. Are hormonal contraceptives harmful? Doctors claim that the dose of hormones in the tool is scanty, taking the drug is safe and convenient. But is it really so?

First of all, you can not start the unauthorized use of contraceptives, only a gynecologist should select. It is also important to read the instructions before use, weigh the pros and cons of such a method for health.

Harm hormonal contraceptives  associated with a high probability of developing unwanted reactions of the body. From the organs of the endocrine and reproductive system are possible:

• breast enlargement, discharge from it, soreness;
• weight gain;
• change in libido, vaginal secretion;
• bleeding between menstruation.

In rare cases, a woman suffers from headaches, migraines, and her mood decreases. Harm of birth control pills can be manifested by digestive tract problems, vomiting, and nausea.

Nulliparous girls face the same symptoms as those giving birth. Any of these effects develops at the very beginning of the medication, and soon the intensity decreases.

Contraindications

The harm from birth control pills will be significant if a woman takes them rashly, has certain contraindications. The limitations include pathologies: hypertension, thrombosis, cardiovascular disorders. Do not use oral contraceptives after surgery, as well as if a woman is addicted to smoking.

From all of the above, we can conclude that useful contraceptives  can only be for an absolutely healthy female body. After some time, the body gets used to the tablets, they must be replaced by other means.

It is recommended to preliminarily undergo a full examination, establish the presence of diseases, determine the likelihood of thrombosis. During the reception, the gynecologist will tell the woman whether it is harmful to drink birth control pills, and how they affect conception, whether birth control pills are harmful to nulliparous.

Features of the effects of tablets on the body

Female body  - this is a holistic system, everything is interconnected in it. The hormonal background is regulated by the pituitary gland and hypothalamus, but taking birth control pills breaks the connection between the brain and ovaries.

Feedback from the ovaries is not observed, the main goal of contraceptives is to suppress their own system. A task hormonal drugs  is to deplete the ovaries, and not block their work.

Synthetic hormones are many times more active than natural ones, with prolonged use, a woman has disorders against the background of brain regulation. The ovaries cease to function, their size decreases, vasoconstriction is noted, when women drank drugs, there is a lack of nutrients.

The main effect of the pills is to create a pathology in the woman’s body that will prevent her from becoming pregnant and having a baby. Birth control pills  Permanent harm is given, a woman after lifting the pills for a long time will not be able to have children, she is forced to resort to measures:

1. hormonal stimulation of ovulation;
2. artificial insemination;
3. tablets for conceiving a child;
4. the reception hormonal drugs  throughout pregnancy.

In addition to malfunctioning ovaries, long-term use oral contraceptives  becomes the cause of endometrial atrophy, pathological changes in the cervix, up to a precancerous condition.

Mental and spiritual effects of birth control pills

Rötzer or the Cosmobiological Concept. What actually happens mentally and spiritually among the millions of women who regularly take the pill? Manfred Van Trick published his book Contraception Syndrome on the Internet. There he gives very well-studied numerous examples of the health effects of birth control pills.

Pill affects the psyche

What was above the mental-spiritual aspect was printed here once. If this means that even brain waves can change due to taking pills, you must be very sensitive because these waves again reflect consciousness. The history of taking pills very often shows that the psychological stress in the psyche after such a long time of taking the pill is so strong that they consult with nervous specialists who usually treat psychotropic drugs. Nervous doctors usually never see the pill as the cause of mental problems.

Obesity from taking contraceptives

Nothing good will come if a woman with a predisposition to overweight accepts hormonal contraceptives, since there is a risk of uncontrolled obesity.

The reasons should be sought in the increase in blood sugar, which for the body becomes a real stress. In turn, the pancreas is forced to produce more hormone insulin, a metabolic disorder develops.

In many countries of the world, such drugs are classified as carcinogenic, since they increase the likelihood of breast cancer. Doctors in advance warn women about this, warning against the disease.

It is good if a woman listens to the wishes of the doctor. You also need to know that such products protect exclusively from unwanted pregnancybut not from sexually transmitted diseases.

Should the product be used for medicinal purposes?

If a woman is undergoing treatment with birth control pills, you need to know that in fact no therapeutic effect occurs. The ovaries just stop working, the connection with the brain is lost. Pills are useful only at first glance.

The patient stops unpleasant symptomsmenstrual cycle is getting better skin integument  become cleaner, but in reality the problems only get worse.

Some gynecologists prescribe a remedy to eliminate the cyst, but if a woman wants to get rid of the disease and then give birth to a couple of children, it is not very useful to take contraceptives.

There have been cases when, after giving up contraceptives, a weakened internal system becomes even more vulnerable, suppressed. The restoration will take many months and even several years.

The most common adverse events after stopping hormonal contraceptives are:

• cessation of menstruation;
• the resumption of symptoms, which was before taking the tablets;
• decreased sex drive.

Is it harmful to take contraceptives with alcohol? If in reasonable amounts, there will be no harm to the body, however, large doses of alcohol cannot be tolerated, otherwise the active ingredients of the drug will not be absorbed.

Hormonal contraceptives in our country do not like - it is a "chemistry" that disrupts the body, which leads to many consequences. In general, the truth is there and it would be better, of course, not to take contraceptives. But everything is not as simple and obvious as it seems. Let's get it right.

  Dmitry Lubnin
  Obstetrician-gynecologist, Ph.D.
  best-selling author“Woman’s general book”   and “A good book for a future mother” 75 scientific papers and 3 scientific monographs
  member of the Russian Association of Human Reproduction
  Blog author“Council of the gynecologist”

1. Hormonal contraception (HA) is one of the most reliable methods of contraception. If you remove it, there will be: condoms (many of them also do not like it very much), intrauterine device  (often not suitable for sensations), spermicides (low reliability) and sterilization (essentially an irreversible method). Interrupted intercourse is not contraception, but calendar methodNot at all reliable. That is, GCs have the right to exist simply because there is a need for contraception, and all of the above methods for one reason or another are not suitable.
2. Various GCs simultaneously take the largest number of people in the world, in comparison with any other drugs, and have been doing this for over 30 years, that is, these drugs have been most studied and all their effects are as predictable as possible. On average, in America, Europe, and Asia, 25% of women use GCs for protection.
3. It’s hard to imagine that a quarter of women reproductive ageliving in civilized countries uses a contraceptive method that affects their appearance, mood and disrupts their ability to become pregnant in the future. Interestingly, no lawsuit has been recorded in the world regarding the harm caused by taking a contraceptive.
   

   
   

4. When you decide to start using HA, you will in fact acknowledge a few facts:
     you are not comfortable with the methods of contraception that you are using now;
     You realize that a lack of contraception or an interrupted intercourse can lead to an unwanted pregnancy, and abortion is always worse than taking medicines;
     you will begin to take a drug, which, in addition to the positive effect, has side effects, the development of which is individual;
     changes will occur in your body while taking medications, but they will not have irreversible effects on your health - this has been proven by numerous clinical studies.
5. If you are an apologist for preserving physiological processes, let me remind you: the only manifestation of male reproductive function is ejaculation, and female is pregnancy. The menstrual cycle does not exist for you to “menstruate”, it is not an excretory function, but a reaction to “the pregnancy that has not come again”. That is, from the point of view of physiology, you have not performed for years reproductive function  and make the menstrual cycle repeat more times than the body provides for. As it turned out, a lot of menstruation accumulates "errors" that are realized in gynecological diseases. If you are not convinced, you will forever have only three methods of contraception - a condom, a spiral and spermicides.
6. There is nowhere such a table that would show which contraceptive should be prescribed for you according to the results of hormonal tests.
   Analysis for hormones before the appointment of HA is not needed.

   At the heart of the selection of the Civil Code is only a few points: collecting your story (you need to find out if you have any contraindications), standard gynecological examination + Ultrasound, assessment of the blood coagulation system and several biochemical parameters (if there are indications for this). All.

7. The emergence of new HA does not mean that these drugs have become better compared to previous generations. This is simply an extension of the spectrum, which allows you to select a drug from a larger palette. Issues to be addressed in the selection process:
     how to inject the drug into the body (tablets, patch, ring, spiral, implant);
     how much hormone will be contained in the preparation (now the doses are low, but there is a choice between a little less and a little more);
     what progestational component in the preparation and whether all tablets will be the same in composition or composition will change, mimicking the menstrual cycle.
   In fact, all this choice applies only to tablets, since the ring, patch, spiral and implant exist in only one version.
8. The selection of contraceptives is like the selection of shoes. The seller asks you questions about preferences, tries to pick up your option initially, but until you put on and go around the store, it’s impossible to say unequivocally that the couple came up.
   Sometimes you have to change 2-3 drugs until the desired option is found.

   The drug should fit like perfect shoes, so the selection is overkill until the most comfortable option is found. The condition is given 2 months.

9. All women who report that HA led to terrible consequences (weight, swelling, mood changes, decreased libido, deterioration of the condition of hair, skin, the appearance of secretions, etc.) were essentially not informed that all you don’t have to endure it for months, but this is an occasion to change the drug. Exactly the same way you can respond to any shoes that are not chosen correctly - shoes can wipe your feet in blood, cause scary calluses and deform your fingers and foot. There are women who never manage to choose the ideal drug or it is contraindicated for them.
10. A pronounced decrease in libido, mood changes, pain in the mammary glands and weight gain are not mandatory companions for taking HA, these are signs that the drug did not fit and needs to be changed.
    

    
    

11. The terrible stories about thrombosis against the background of the GC - the truth, this is clearly written in the instructions. Identifying a predisposition to this is of great importance: the history of diseases of all close relatives, the history of the patient, smoking, etc. For women at risk (based on the collected data), a special analysis is carried out showing the presence of a predisposition to this complication, and an individual decision is made. Varicose vein disease of the lower extremities without thrombosis is not a contraindication to taking HA.
12. It is preferable to take the drug continuously.
    The need for a break in taking GC “so that the ovaries remember how they work” is a myth invented in Russia.

    The spotting that occurs while taking HA is not a menstrual period in the physiological sense, it is a “pharmacological show”. These secretions are just a reaction of the uterine mucosa in response to stopping the drug. There is no physiological meaning in this, it was created only for the woman to see that she "is having her period, then everything is fine, there is no pregnancy, and I am healthy."

13. There is a continuous way of taking HA, that is, several packs of the drug without a break or without “dummies”. It is proved that this method of administration is better tolerated, associated with fewer side effects  and preferred. The only thing is that spotting spotting may periodically occur in the first three months.
14. The menstrual cycle after drug withdrawal should be restored within a few months.
    Taking GC does not affect your ability to become pregnant after withdrawal.

    If the menstrual cycle does not recover, it means that before taking the drug, you might have a violation of its regulation, which manifested itself again.

15. Taking HA does not affect the ovarian reserve in any way, that is, preserving the follicles in the ovaries and prolonging youth in this way will not work. Despite the fact that the ovaries are at rest and ovulation does not occur, follicles continue to regress according to their program.
16. There is still no unambiguous data on whether GK affects the risk of breast cancer - there are studies that prove the risk, but there are those who deny it. But it is shown that taking HA slightly increases the risk of cervical cancer. It is believed that taking HA increases the likelihood of cell damage due to human papillomavirus. therefore cytological smear from the cervix.
17. Taking HA reduces the risk of three cancers: ovarian cancer (40-80%), endometrial cancer (50%) and colorectal cancer (colon and rectal cancer) (40%), while the effect will continue after the drug is stopped.
    

    
    

    
    

18. GK also has other positive effects:
      reduction of pain during menstruation;
      decrease in profuse menstruation;
      severity pMS symptoms;
      a decrease in the severity of acne and greasy skin, the growth of unwanted hair;
      a decrease in the likelihood of developing the following gynecological diseases  and conditions: endometriosis, uterine myoma, endometrial polyp, adenomyosis, ovarian cyst, endometrial hyperplasia, ectopic pregnancyrupture of ovarian cysts, inflammation of the appendages, mastopathy.
19. There are no age restrictions for taking HA (you can often hear that women cannot be taken after 40 years of age). On the contrary, HA facilitates the transition to menopause, reduces the likelihood of menopause, maintain bone density, and also protect against the development of endometrial hyperplasia, which often develops in this period against the background of disorders menstrual cycle, which entails the need for curettage. But smoking on the background of taking GC after 30 years is impossible!
20. GC does not treat any gynecological diseases - this is important to remember. We use HA to solve operational problems, for example, to stop bleeding, regression functional cyst  or to reduce the severity of symptoms of certain diseases. Most often, GCs are prescribed for the prevention of relapse of gynecological diseases after operations, since, as described above, GCs reduce the likelihood of their development.
    HA can not cure a single disease.

    But they can remove the symptoms, for example, with endometriosis they will reduce soreness or profuse menstruation. HA can help reduce the severity of acne, greasy skin and the growth of unwanted hair, but the cause is not eliminated. Remember that GCs do not treat infertility, a violation of the regularity of the menstrual cycle and are not able to "restore the hormonal background." GC for a gynecologist (if not to talk about contraception) is just a tool for a temporary solution to some problems, but nothing more.

21. HA can not cure polycystic ovary syndrome. Against the background of their intake, the cycle becomes regular, but this is nothing more than a “pharmacological show”, and not the restoration of the correct functioning of the ovaries. The ovary while taking HA is at rest. To treat this condition, endocrine disorders are eliminated and / or ovulation is stimulated for a specific pregnancy. At the same time, taking HA in PCOS can simply freeze the solution of the problem until the time of the necessary pregnancy, if contraception is needed in parallel and there are no other aesthetic tasks.

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