Painful Periods – Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill Helps

posted by Melda Page on 18 Jan 2012 at 1:11 pm

For heaven’s sake, this has been known for a long time.My periods began when I was 17, 1958, and were horrible from the very first–felt like I was being cut with a knife, were like contractions, were extremely irregular, and extremely long with severe bleeding. It is a wonder I did not die from all the aspirin I took in those years. in 1964, age 23, I got married. Birth control pills had been invented just a few years before and I went to the doctor a month before my wedding to get birth control pills–I think it was orthonovum. The pills reduced my pain to almost nothing, made me regular, reduced the heavy bleeding, etc. and in two weeks time cured the horrible acne I had had since age 10.At age 29 I decided to have a baby. went off the pills.All the former problems came back immediately, including the horrible acne. had the baby and went back on the pills for about another 6 to 7 years. Stopped after reading so much about their supposed dangers, altho I never had any bad effects. All the problems and acne came back again. At age 43, went on HRT–all the bad effects again went away along with the acne, and stayed on HRT for 25 years–still no bad effects. After going off the HRT the acne is back again, although not quite as bad as it was when I was younger. For me, both the birth control pills and the HRT have been wonderful.

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