10 Myths about hormones
The doctor prescribed me hormones! usually ladies say this phrase in a tremurous voice and such a horror as he prescribed them something poisonous provoking deathful nettle rash or at least complete loss of hair. Hormone treatment is equal to capital punishment for the vast majority of women. It is difficult to find a medicine which causes so many hears and myths. They say that hormones bring about obesity or even can be the cause of lethal outcome. The most frequent myths about hormonal contraception as well as their distproofs are exposed to your attention below.
Myth 1
There are many other reliable nonhormonal methods of contraception.
Of course, there are other methods of contraception, such as diaphragms, intrauterine devices, etc. But oral contraceptives are recognized to be the most reliable method. Exactly they have helped to diminish the number of abortions all over the world.
Myth 2
These are very harmful.
Hormonal contraception has been used only for 35 years. The second and the third generation pills with the least amount of hormones appeared only 15 years ago. That is why a bad opinion of birth control pills no longer obtains. Hormonal preparations have a system impact on the organism. This impact cannot be defined as a good or bad one. It is compulsory to correlate the risk of the side effects emergence and the 100 per cent guarantee of unwilling pregnancy impossibility. Many hormonal preparations are prescribed as curative ones and their contraceptive effect is a side one. But the same pills can provoke rather serious health problems in some cases. However, abortion is much more dangerous and harmful than any birth control pills.
Myth 3
Hormones are good only for young women not older than 35.
Before there was a certain age limit for birth control pills taking. But nowadays the pills contain quite different doses of hormones. That is why these preparations can be prescribed to women who are older than 35.
Myth 4
It is impossible to get pregnant for a long time after quitting birth control pills taking.
Quite the reverse. The possibility to get pregnant rises sharply after the hormones cancellation. The doctors often prescribe hormone preparations to their patients to provoke the cancellation effect and cure light infertility. The pills taking before pregnancy does not do any harm to the future baby.
Myth 5
Birth control pills cause obesity.
Indeed, some women notice that they begin to eat much more than before they began to take pills. It is impossible to predict the pills influence on your organism in advance. Gestogen is an oral contraceptives constituent, and namely it is responsible for putting on weight. Thats why if the woman is inclined to fat the she is prescribed pills with a little amount of this hormone.
Myth 6
Hormones can provoke an intensive hair growing.
On the contrary, some hormonal preparations help to get rid of extra hair caused by hormonal defects.
Myth 7
Hormones provoke blackheads and schauders.
Acne is the result of abnormal masculine hormones production, menstrual disorders and other hormonal defects. You can be a permanent client of a beauty shop for years, but you will not manage to get rid of this problem, as the cause which provokes the appearance of skin rash is inside you. Modern hormonal preparations can help you to cope with this trouble within a month.
Myth 8
You feel awful when taking birth control pills. You suffer from faintness, depression and lack of sex appetence.
In this case you might be taking an old generation pills. Indeed, they can cause such unpleasant side effects. But modern preparations do not influence your well-being badly and some of them are characterized by an absolute acceptability.
Myth 9
Oral contraceptives provoke cancer.
On the contrary, they are a good precaution of different kinds of tumor, and namely of ovaries cancer. Tumors appear as a result of wrong hormones balance in the organism. So every hormonal disorder should be treated promptly.
Myth 10
It is very difficult to choose an appropriate hormonal treatment.
Simply, it must be done by a professional. The doctor must examine you thoroughly and only after that he should prescribe a preparation which is suitable exactly for you. If we speak about hormonal contraception, complicated analysis is not necessary.