One U.S. skater you didn’t see in the Olympics this year was Megan Henry: Her 2012 training was disrupted by pulmonary embolisms in both lungs, caused by her birth control device. She had to see five different doctors before one of them made the connection between multiple blood clots in both lungs and her choice of birth control. She's now participating with 3800 people in a multi-district lawsuit against the manufacturer of the device, who has announced it is willing to pay $100 million to resolve the lawsuit, but 95 percent of those who filed must accept a deal first.
Ladies, please think about what you are putting inside your body. Is it really worth your life?
Saturday, February 22, 2014
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Hormones have huge effects on us. The only reason birth control pills and other types of hormone based birth control seems safe to us is Marketing. We don't hear about the diaphram, because it doesn't make a lot of money: buy a diaphragm and it lasts for years. But hormone pills bring in money each month for the companies!
ReplyDeleteHello I had blood clots twice and was told by my doctor that the first one was caused by birth control. So I was taken off of birth control and became pregnant 4 years later then developed another blood clot and the doctors said the same hormones that were triggered from me taking birth control caused the second one. After having my now 5 year old I began to notice I would go into what seemed like a Black whole every month and thought I was suffering from post partum depression then was later diagnosed with PMDD. Within the last year since my 2009 diagnosis i've finally embrace that I have PMDD or should I say PMDD had me. My life seemed to be going down hill at a pace I could never seem to catch up to and so I decided to seem psychiatric help but truly don't feel like that take my diagnosis serious and the medicine they prescribed (generic welbutrin) doesn't seem to be helping with my symptoms. And now I'm at a place that I've never been before physically (because haven't been able to maintain regular), mentally (because of the stresses that come with my finances & world being turned upside down) & emotionally (because its challenging during that time of the month caring for my 5 year old & my family doesn't really take my diagnosis serious)! I'm grateful to see more people speaking out and sharing information about PMDD. And I'm praying that I will soon find and/or connect to the right option for me!
ReplyDeleteHello I had blood clots twice and was told by my doctor that the first one was caused by birth control. So I was taken off of birth control and became pregnant 4 years later then developed another blood clot and the doctors said the same hormones that were triggered from me taking birth control caused the second one. After having my now 5 year old I began to notice I would go into what seemed like a Black whole every month and thought I was suffering from post partum depression then was later diagnosed with PMDD. Within the last year since my 2009 diagnosis i've finally embrace that I have PMDD or should I say PMDD had me. My life seemed to be going down hill at a pace I could never seem to catch up to and so I decided to seem psychiatric help but truly don't feel like that take my diagnosis serious and the medicine they prescribed (generic welbutrin) doesn't seem to be helping with my symptoms. And now I'm at a place that I've never been before physically (because haven't been able to maintain regular), mentally (because of the stresses that come with my finances & world being turned upside down) & emotionally (because its challenging during that time of the month caring for my 5 year old & my family doesn't really take my diagnosis serious)! I'm grateful to see more people speaking out and sharing information about PMDD. And I'm praying that I will soon find and/or connect to the right option for me!
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