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Myths and Realities of hormonal contraceptives
In virtually every culture has searched for methods to regulate the number of children, so finding effective ways of controlling reproduction is a constant in human history. The reason that leads the couple to use birth control is to avoid pregnancy, for various reasons, to enjoy a sex life, birth spacing, not having too many children, and maintain the health of the mother and the children among others.
Thus, from the onset of hormone-based contraceptive in 1956 to date, this type of family planning method has become one of the most popularly used. However, many women choose to use them or leave due to certain misconceptions or myths that often have their own medical journals led by its lack of clarity over the 50 years of existence of these products . Among these are:
* Produce cancer: no clear evidence in most studies this is true. Has been shown only for cervical cancer increases the risk for women who have used them for long. However, the risk also depends on lifestyle, vaginal infections, smoking and sexual practices among others. So the doctor and the user should also take stock of these hormones bring benefits such as: the protection against ovarian cancer (where they produce eggs and female sex cells) against endometrial and benign breast tumors , which persists until 10 years after use.
They cause infertility: this belief is that in some women who have used them for long, its discontinuation, bleeding regular menstrual period return takes between three to six months, so we think that could affect fertility. Currently, these methods are very reliable and fully reversible, so that users must trust that the return of menstruation will be able to quickly get pregnant
* Produce weight gain: in the beginning, the amount of hormones that had these products cause fluid retention, which was reflected in increased weight. Currently they are formulated based on low dose and there is no scientific evidence to cause weight gain, so this problem should no longer be a barrier to its use.