“All those painful periods for no reason.”
Davina McCall is on a mission to destigmatise female health conditions and we are so here for it. As well as her book, Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring, she has a new documentarywhich explores hormonal contraceptives and calls for a contraceptive “revolution.”
In Pill Revolution, which aired last night, McCall said that she was feeling “really, really fucking angry” as the show highlighted through speaking to women and medical experts that nowhere near enough research has been done around women’s health.Her anger and commitment to raising awareness didn’t end when the documentary did, though. Just last night she revealed that the “break” we take from the pill isn’t actually necessary and was actually put in place to appease the Roman Catholic Church.
I only found that out at 55 !!!! That we don’t need to bleed for our health on the pill !!!! Pharma put the bleed in to appease the Roman Catholic Church back then !!! All those painful periods … for no reason 🙄If, like Davina, you often find yourself frustrated by the way women are treated when it comes to reproductive health, this news won’t help.
So, people who take the contraceptive pill – such as Microgynon, Rigevidon, or Marvelon – have historically been told to take the pill for 21 days and then stop for 7, during which time, vaginal bleeding occurs and it seems to be a “period” every month. It’s actually a withdrawal bleed. Many of us were under the impression that this was essential for our health but according to the late Carl Djerass, the “father of the pill”, this was not the case.
This actually did not succeed but somehow, the seven-day break has continued to be a component of the combined oral contraceptive pill.Now, in good news, this is no longer the guidance though we do suspect long-term users of the combined pill could be stuck in the habit. In 2019, the NHS overturned this rule for patients and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare stated that, “the number of unwanted pregnancies will decrease if the pill is taken every day.
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