Posted on 02/17/2019 7:21:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Kelsie Bryson says the excruciating migraines started around 2008, when she was 18 years old.
They would come about once a month and cause what the now 28-year-old Bryson calls “really terrifying side effects.”
“I would experience numbness in the right side of my body — including in my mouth, which would prevent me from talking for 15 or so minutes at a time — vomiting and confusion,” she told Global News.
“I would be at work, and suddenly, it would be hard to read words or speak. I would bump into things and then my body would go numb. I even went to the hospital once because the numbness on my right side lasted for about six hours.”
Finally, a doctor told Bryson that her symptoms were likely caused by the birth control pill she was on and advised her to stop using it. After taking the pill for eight years, she went off.
“The migraines stopped completely for a few years; I maybe get one every 18 months now,” she said. “My cramps definitely worsened [being off the pill], but it’s worth not having the migraines.”
Bryson is one of many women who have gone off the birth control pill in recent years.
According to a survey by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, the number of women on the pill has dropped. In 2006, 39 per cent of women over 30 said they used oral contraceptives; as of 2016, just less than 16 per cent said they did.
Reported side effects, paired with growing interest in non-hormonal birth control, are some of the reasons why fewer women are taking the pill today . . .
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My girlfriend in the 1960s had extremely painful menstrual cramps, almost every month.
When she went on The Pill, the cramps completely disappeared.
Never had a headache until I went on the pill. That ended that method.
Ah, no.
The biggest side effect to the pill is more refugees. Funny how same libs who say we are overpopulating our great environment, now say we need refugees because we haven’t had enough kids.
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It's usually more than the timing of her cycle.
Often it's the debilitating cramps and uncontrolled bleeding that motivate a woman to go on the pill.
Uh, yeah.
I used to have cramps so bad I’d pass out on Day One. Almost every month, throwing up and passing out. Men have no idea.
Hormone changes can cause migraines. But birth control meds do not have to be involved. Plenty of women have these debilitating migraines at times in their cycle where it is clear the fluctuations are a cause. Who don’t take BC pills.
Some women get the worst migraines ever while pregnant, while for some migraneurs, pregnancy is the only time they go 9 months without a single migraine.
So it isn’t a certain amount, absense of hormones, or one specific hormone causing it. Bc pills may be the problem or it may not.
My previous post was really only to say that RE hormone changes and migraines, pills are only one small part of a much larger picture.
However, taking hormones orally is not a good idea and can lead to many bad things including cancer. Fake hormones are not good for us. If you need hormones they should be taken any way but oral.
You mean that 8 year old headache was real and wasnt an excuse?
I’m not far off from that.
Only it was two days for me.
Labor was NOTHING compared to what I went through.
You’re right. Men don’t get it.
And what’s actually worse is the women who have no problem who sneer and act like it’s all in our heads. Makes me want to rip theirs off.
We’re already reaping what we sow. There are studies out there that show hormonal BC influences mate selection in some women. To wit, they’re more likely to choose less masculine men while on BC. Then they get pregnant and bear less masculine boys. Such a thing WILL eventually hurt our society if the SHTF and there is less “toxic masculinity” around to shoulder the load.
I’m injecting a supplement to counteract low T, which to my benefit, has brought other hormones into balance, as well as helped me to achieve an optimum level of testosterone (which, BTW, is NOT 1,000, like all us men wish we had).
The endocrinologist offered it either by injection, cream or an implant. I picked injection. No pills were offered, so I’m not going to bother with off the shelf supplements.
I can believe it. I have a friend who, following her divorce, moved to her sister’s house temporarily. While she was there, she bled for literally 7 weeks. She thinks her body might have been trying to synchronize with the cycles of her sister and her sister’s wife — yeah, you read that right.
“She thinks her body might have been trying to synchronize with the cycles of her sister and her sister’s wife”
I understand that’s very common, but have never heard anything that drastic. Usually it’s a subtle process — with dorm-mates, etc.
I was on them for cramps. In my 70 years that’s the most excruciating pain I’ve ever had — and I’ve been through a lot. The pills were a blessing.
I was at that place, too. If I was LUCKY I’d pass out. I’d hallucinate and watch movies on the wall that weren’t there. At work I’d be in a fetal position under my desk, sometimes puking. Worst. Pain. Ever.
“Labor was NOTHING compared to what I went through.”
My mom said the same thing.
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