Side effects you should expect by using the contraceptive pill

I am not a friend of the nowadays common ways of contraception like the pill, the plaster, the ring or whatever tempers with our body. 

The recent cases of death related to the contraceptive pill in France, clearly show why. I can just encourage women to get their own research about how our cycle really works, what it is good for and what happens, when you choose an unnatural way of contraception. Here perhaps is a passage about a woman that did her own research and what she found out. 

When we talk about the Pill preventing pregnancy, we should also mention it does this with a whole-body effect. The monthly hormone cycle is integral to many of the body’s central functions, including the metabolic, immune and endocrine systems.

After 10 years of Pill use, I showed signs of nutrient deficiency, low hormone levels and immunity suppression – with bleeding gums, urinary tract infections, hair loss, poor circulation, hypoglycaemia and rounds of flu-like fatigue, as well as the effect on my emotional state. As Alexandra Pope and Jane Bennett state in, The Pill: Are You Sure It’s For You?: “The Pill alters at least 150 bodily functions and affects all your organs.” Pope calls the ensuing problems “quality of life-threatening”.

There’s research that reveals the health benefits of continuous ovulation, showing consequentially the dangers of cycle suppression. Yet the Pill is prescribed and taken without care. This drug accounts for close to half of the $16bn women’s healthcare market and 96 per cent of birth control education for doctors in US medical schools focuses on it. Last year the NHS introduced a pilot scheme in some London boroughs to provide the Pill without prescription. Pill use is positively pushed.

At a time when we are more concerned about what we eat, wear and use to clean the toilet than ever, we are celebrating millions of otherwise-healthy women taking a powerful medication every day, for years. James Balog is right: these women are not sick, they’re fertile and for just a few days a month. The Pill is on so high a pedestal that alternatives are undermined in comparison. Pill-mania has eroded the fundamentals of reproductive rights – choice, freedom and education.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-ill-never-take-the-pill-again-1970488.html

Here an other source telling you about the harmful side effects. Please read the whole article (link is bellow). It's very informative and necessary to make a responsible decision.

Increased risk of cervical and breast cancers

Increased risk of heart attack and stroke

Migraines

Higher blood pressure

Gall bladder disease

Infertility

Benign liver tumors

Decreased bone density

Yeast overgrowth and infection

Increased risk of blood clotting

http://bodyecology.com/articles/dangers_birth_control_pill.php#.UQ-ZKZjrZd0