I remember well my freshman girlfriend at college (fall ‘69) had problems with irregular periods and her doctor put her on the pill. It really improved her regularity.
It does help that way, but the anti-birth control crowd won’t acknowledge there are legitimate, medical reasons for hormone treatment like that.
Their assumption is that any woman on birth control is on it for sexual license and won’t believe that it can be for medically necessary reasons.
“I remember well my freshman girlfriend at college (fall ‘69) had problems with irregular periods and her doctor put her on the pill. It really improved her regularity.”
Hormonal therapy has it’s good side, and it’s ugly side. Over the long term it could cause problems women on the pill I’ve been taking hormones for years and many of them don’t even realize it but there are drawbacks to persistent hormonal therapy. If you can get around it it’s probably recommended from what we know through various studies and through the passage of time over the last 50 years or so...
Does hormonal therapy have its benefits? Yes and no. Some people absolutely need hormonal therapy for quality of life. As in anything else there are trade-offs. Doctor rarely talked about trade-offs, but that is changing, which is necessary for medical transparency.