Do you ever wonder if swallowing your pill is really good for you? We asked a gynecologist.
According to the gynecologist we spoke to, there are benefits to continuing to take the pill † And we don't mean that we recommend that you start taking the pill, but that if you do take it, you don't necessarily have to take a break.
A gynecologist from the University Hospital of Brussels explains:"It is not necessary to have a period every month. Do you think doctors get their periods every month? No, if I have major operations or many births on the program, I take the pill Just by. Most of my female colleagues do the same.”
When you the pill swallow, the pill mimics the menstrual cycle. If you stop swallowing, there will be bleeding after two or three days. During a normal menstruation, the matured egg is removed. When taking the pill, there is no matured egg, the bleeding is the result of the sudden drop in the hormone estrogen in the body. But also with this 'fake menstruation' you can suffer from PMS due to the hormone fluctuations.
Take the pill 84 days in a row (three strips) and only take a stop week once every three months. As a result, you only have a stop week four times a year, which means that you also suffer from complaints less often. The period of three months is often recommended because then you will suffer less from breakthrough bleeding † You can also swallow all year round, if that works well for you and you feel comfortable with it.
Swallowing does not make the pill any more unreliable – on the contrary. Sometimes we forget a pill. Between twenty and thirty percent of women accidentally skip a day. If women swallow, this drops to seven percent. This is probably because the habit of taking the pill every day stays in place better.
The fact remains that you get more hormones if you take seven pills . every month extra swallows. “The contraceptive pills of today have a lower dose of hormones than in the past. Studies into the slight increase in steroids you ingest have shown that it has no effect on, for example, the functioning of the liver and that the risk of cardiovascular disease does not increase.
We don't get our periods for nothing, that's part of being a woman, right? Gynecologists hear all the arguments. In the past, women had more children and breastfed for longer. As a result, they had an average of 160 periods in their lives. Now that is a whopping 450 times. “That is unnatural – and therefore unnecessary too,” says the gynecologist.
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