About a month ago, I decided to make a very unpopular decision: I went off birth control after being on it without a break for six years.
I had never had any issues with it. No pregnancy scares or weight gain or mood swings, like many of my friends seemed to have experienced. But I just wanted to see what my body was like, naturally, because it had been such a long time.
I went on it for all the normal reasons: to improve my skin, calm my PMS and stop little babies from forming inside of me. This little pill I took every day seemed to solve so many of my issues. And it worked great. My skin improved, my boobs got bigger, and still no mini-me.
But there was one thing that I have only realised since I stopped taking it.
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And something else they never mention - the pill also decreases your sex drive
To provide a counterpoint, I came off the pill and hated it. My skin went out of control and my moods fluctuated wildly. I'm now back on it and, after a few months everything has settled down and I feel much more like myself. I was prescribed the pill to aid me in managing my PCOS, and I believe that it has been the right choice for me.