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Does the pill make you gain weight?
ok so i guess the title is pretty self explanatory, however i'll give some background; I'm 17 f and my boyfriend and i are thinking of having sex, i thought it would probably be a good idea to go on the pill for obvious reasons. however i have always had trouble with my weight and the way i see my self. i know its mainly down to personal insecurity and my boyfriend says I'm beautiful no matter what i look like. but I'm still worried for my own vanity that i will notice a physical difference in my appearance. i want to find an effective method of birth control but i also want to feel secure about my body.
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I say find a birth control that works for you. I unfortunately was one of the women who did gain weight and had no interest in sex when i was on the pill, then when i switched and tried the shot, i was tired, STILL had no interest in sex and just wanted to sleep and eat all the time.
My now husband noticed it and grew concerned because i AM very sensitive to meds though and always have been. Dont let that scare you though, and just try what you think will work. Birth control is also his responsibility as well not just yours unless your planning to just have sex with yourself. ; ) lol.
usually condoms are enough, but its totally up to you.
good luck.
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The way the pill works, which any hormonal based contraceptive does, means its not unusual for a gal to gain weight from using it. Here's why.
The hormones used are a man made version of the same hormones your body releases once it is pregnant. these hormones begin helping some changes in your body, like weight gain, breasts becoming ready to nurse a baby so they can grow or feel achy and tender, a female can become more emotional, easy on edge or really weepy, can have lots of headache, can even experience a loss in desire for sex. The synthetic hormones are telling your body that it is already pregnant so that no egg is released, however you will still have some kind of period.
If your boyfriend sees you as beautiful, then thats what matters. Be thankful he doesnt believe in or ever got drawn in to believing that the medias representation of what beauty is in a female is real and true to life. Lets say we lived in a world without models, glamour, and media pushing sex and what they say is hot looking men and women. If we didn't have those distorted and impossible to reach looks at only one in a couple hundred are actually born with, then what would the general public's idea of beauty be? Women and men also have their own particular tastes in what they find attractive. I am in my fifties. I am not a model type but I still have men interested in me, even tho happily married. I have found guys like all sorts of body types in women and what we may consider extra fat on us isn't even noticed as fat, it is part of the whole package of a female the guy finds desireable to him to his particular tastes and those tastes can have quite a range.
So you have 2 issues, what is the best birth control for you and also working on your self image acceptance and the 2 are not related as much as you'd like to think they are.
Lets put it this way, when you ogle guys, do you ogle all of them? Aren't there some you just dont find visually stimulating at all in any way shape or form? Aren't there some who give you to creeps to even think of dating? thats your own personal preferences. Of the guys you have been willing to date, are they all famous models known for having the kinds of looks that the media is liking to promote? I'll bet not. Only once in my life, after divorce and before meeting my new husband did I come across a guy who wrote me on the dating profile and his pic was a distant one of him, all I could tell is he was slender. When I met in person, I couldn't believe my eyes, he did look like a male model you'd find in a magazine. unfortunately we didn't have enough in common and there wasn't a strong enough chemistry between us.
I still have to tell myself every day that I am beautiful to certain men, especially my husband, even though what I see in the mirror is a face with more wrinkles, sagging skin and more silver hair. If I however compare myself not to model and actresses, but to the general amount of women my age, its suddenly a different perspective and I now can see that many women in their 50s have stopped caring what they look like, don't even try to do nice things with their hair or wear clothes that bring out the best in them and stay active mentally and physically anddddd, still enjoy romance and sex. Too many women my age bracket don't fit that bill and so especially now at my age, I stand out. Think this way about yourself and it should begin to help. The girls your age may have the same looks but I guarantee they don't have your wonderful unique personalit to go along with. Thats definitely where you have the edge having the looks and the personality.
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The answer is yes and no.
Yes, a small minority of women do experience weight gain when they take oral contraceptives. Some studies put it as low as 10%, with even the vast majority of those women not experiencing more than 5-7 lbs of weight gain.
So it's not entirely untrue, but it's uncommon, and not significant. The idea that is always happens, and it a big deal, is a myth. Most women wont experience it, and of those who do, some wont even notice.
Here's the thing tho, a much larger number of women FEEL they have gained weight when they really haven't, because they have heard this myth and associate any bad feelings they have about their weight with the pill.
Pick a birth control that works for you. Talk to your doctor about it. Don't let yourself dwell and fuss about your weight. That probably has nothing to do with the birth control, and everything to do with your state of mind.
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