Ladies: Your birth control is making you fat!

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  • frg4bama
    frg4bama Posts: 78 Member
    Well, I will share with you some of my story. I was not over weight when I graduated from high school. I weighed 140 pounds. I gained maybe 5 pounds in college. I started Depo shot for BC and my doctor told me I would gain weight but, I didn't believe her. I busted my *kitten* for a month so that I wouldn't gain weight. I gained 12 pounds in one month. Now, I weigh well over 250. Now, I do realize that not all of my weight issues are from taking BC. I am an emotional eater and I have had many stressful things happen to me over the years. However, I can dang sure pinpoint when my weight problems STARTED and that is when!! I am convinced that monkeying around with hormones causes a lot of problems. Just my humble opinion...
  • spartangirl79
    spartangirl79 Posts: 277 Member
    Do you know anything about the Mirena? That's what I have.

    The Mirena was a nightmare for me for five solid years. If it's still working well for you, that's great. If you have any questions please feel free to message me. The pharma company did NOT do its part by providing complete and factual side-effect info in the patient info insert, and the Mirena pretty much ruined my life for five years. I had to have a $15,000 surgery to remove a softball-sized ovarian cyst, and that was the least annoying part of my Mirena experience. Got it out a year ago and still recovering.

    My hormones are still so out of whack, it's been hard to find a birth control pill I can tolerate. I need the pill because of endometriosis, which stinks.
  • 10acity
    10acity Posts: 798 Member
    ... doesn't matter if you are under your calories if you are eating all crap.

    This is absolute nonsense.

    I've never had a problem with the pill, but have avoided other methods (depo, specifically) because the last thing I need is help gaining weight.
  • WalkingGirl1985
    WalkingGirl1985 Posts: 2,046 Member
    I'm on Depo, and also still managed to lose weight as well.
  • lauren128m
    lauren128m Posts: 75
    Yaz worked fine for me. The four ppl I know that got blood clots from it smoked. And there are always warning signs about not smoking on birth control because it increases these risks. So for them it didn't work out because they didn't take the proper precautions. But I love yaz and have been on it for 3+ years and have yet to have a problem.
  • HipsBreastsandMore
    HipsBreastsandMore Posts: 51 Member
    Birth control works differently for each woman so what doesn't work for you will work for some other women.

    I get nausea when I took birth control pills, so when I was 19, I decided to get the Depo shot. BIG MISTAKE! I gained over 60lbs with the Depo. It took me 2 years to finally work that off to 175 lbs. After I got off the Depo, my monthly periods were crazy. I would have a period like every 5 to 6 months. Thank goodness, I was making sure that I was using protection. After I got married, I had my tubes tied so I gained about 40 lbs post pregnancy weight.

    Depression also can cause you to gain weight as well. Everybody bodies are made differently.
  • nwhitley
    nwhitley Posts: 619
    Weight gain can be a side effect. That's why I stopped 2 years ago when I gained 10 pds. I googled and saw a lot of other women complained about the weight gain too.
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