Health

What Happens To Your Body When You Stop Taking The Pill?

By now, we’re accustomed to seeing the attention around birth control as more or less hype. Women in implant or IUD commercials and ads are actresses, glamorous working moms, or liberated, fulfilled career women, all because of the artificial hormones currently dictating everything from their hormones to their mental health.

By Gwen Farrell4 min read
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It seems like going against the grain to question hormonal birth control, or even, as one female journalist said, “anti-feminist.” Cognitive dissonance aside, we continue to hear about women choosing hormonal birth control (HBC), but rarely do we hear about when they decide to stop taking it.