Re: Health anxiety due to starting birth control
The first time I went on the pill I took Yaz - before it had some negative connotations to it. I did okay for awhile, but then it started making my migraines worse, so I went off it.
I'm now on an ortho tri cyclen generic. I don't have any complaints. There are tons of side effects listed out there, but they're pretty rare.
The pill helps with acne and it makes my cycle lighter and far less painful. I also took Accutane a couple of years ago - there are some serious horror stories out there for that drug that put me in a major HA spiral - but wouldn't you know it, nothing happened. It cleared up my acne, but no major side effects - my skin didn't even get all that dry.
So yeah, there's a lot of crazy on the internet. We have all seen it before.
One of the girls I work with took BC and it did cause her blood pressure to rise (it can happen). But it's not one of those scary, immediate things - it was just higher a few times when she went for checkups, so they switched her.
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