When you stop birth control, your period may be heavier and more irregular. You may also have a few acne breakouts and your frequency of headaches may change. Birth control can also dampen your sex ...

BuzzFeed spoke with Chancey, who, like many women, started birth control as a teenager (she was 13). "I first started taking it because I have an extremely irregular cycle. I was on several forms of ...

“I’m New at This” is Be Well Philly’s series for new and soon-to-be parents. This educational resource covers the ins and outs of prepping for the arrival of a little one and taking care of them — and ...

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A woman who developed alopecia after stopping hormonal birth control is sharing her story — so others can prepare for the nightmare. After taking oral contraceptive for 10 years, Chancey Sessions, ...

Last Wednesday, Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper dropped a solo episode where she shared that she decided to come off birth control to start trying for a baby. There was just one problem: Shortly after ...

Using birth control pills and other hormone-based contraceptives is known to elevate the risk of blood clots about three-fold, but a new study suggests that this risk largely goes away within two to ...

When you’re on birth control, your body gets a steady dose of hormones that help prevent pregnancy by stopping ovulation (the release of an egg). These hormones also affect things like your menstrual ...

Aside from preventing pregnancy, birth control pills are commonly used to treat other issues like irregular menstrual cycles. Once you start taking them, you can usually expect period-like bleeding ...

TikTok has become a hotbed of birth control misinformation, with videos accumulating millions of views in which women blame their IUDs for pelvic floor dysfunction, autoimmune conditions, liver ...

Studies have suggested for decades that birth control pills containing both estrogen and progestogen — synthetic versions of female hormones — may slightly elevate one’s risk of breast cancer. But ...

Last Wednesday, Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper dropped a solo episode where she shared that she decided to come off birth control to start trying for a baby. There was just one problem: shortly after ...