one of the most insidious wellness/health trends is the “women ditch your birth control because it’s bad for you!!! they’re trying to poison you but it’s okay you can track your cycle naturally and that alone will prevent pregnancy”
can guarantee that if you go into the following of these accounts, the sources cited from these accounts, the tagged posts from these accounts - they are nearly always linked to greater movements about “restoring the west”, “we need women at home having children again” and other weird trad shit
“many women have issues with birth control because women are routinely dismissed/misdiagnosed by medical professionals” =/= “you should trust suspicious people about high risk alternatives”
My grandmother used the rhythm method.
My grandmother had 7 daughters.
Use birth control. At least condoms jfc y'all.
To add on to "T is not birth control": there are forms of hormonal birth control that don't conflict with T! Anything progesterone-only (the implant; hormonal IUDs; the depo provera shot; the progesterone-only pill) doesn't affect T. So if these methods work for you, you can take them while taking T 👍
and look. It's true that no method of birth control is 100%, perfectly effective. But modern birth control methods (the pills, shots, IUDs, hell, even modern condoms) are significantly more effective than just using natural methods like the rhythm method or just breastfeeding longer and hoping for the best.
Safe and effective birth control is a huge deal. Don't throw it away because bigots are trying to mind-control you. If you look at all the facts and decide that you don't like it, that's your choice, but please make an informed decision first.
Once again begging: if you use birth control and experience all the horrible symptoms wellness influences insist are poisoning you? Please speak to a doctor or health professional. Even one "method" has variations, different times of day to take it, different dosages, same dosage but different manufacturers, different combinations of hormones... and that's just "the pill", there's different things based on what you need. Chemical or material (copper IUD) oral or injection, anything. If your doctor is at all decent they will work with you to find something else that works if you ask to review it.
Sometimes I worry that all this reaction is just because some people are lucky and contraception is the only medication they take. Both chronic and temporary conditions I had took trial and error to figure out what works best. Every medication has side effects you need to balance with their usefulness. "this is fine but could be better" or "well you reacted poorly to this, so I'll give you a different kind if antibiotics, it takes longer but will make you feel less nauseous". Any decent doctor tells me "lets see how you react to this and then we'll see if we should adjust it".
and the worst thing? Influencers will tell you to quit certain medications cold turkey and they point to your reaction as proof of getting over an addiction or it having been bad. A lot of meds, even very benign and easy to take ones, will cause a negative reaction if you quit all at once and your body gets used to the new balance. And there is always "I feel so well clearly I don't need it anymore". That's the devil talking
