00:01:44.400Yeah. So, from being probably 18 or 19 until 30.
00:01:50.520And I also had the implant as well. I just think any of, they're all basically hormonal. So, they're putting extra hormones into your body. So, it definitely has an effect.
00:02:00.400Okay. And what was like the number one side effect that you had? Like negative?
00:02:04.580Yeah. Like just, like sadness. I just think it really.
00:02:12.260Yeah, I think so. On a level, definitely. I didn't know that when I was on it, but I just remember that day when I remember it sort of clearing from my system and looking at the sky and going, oh, what a beautiful day.
00:02:26.480I think it's an interesting question. I don't really know. I think I've got the implant. This is my second implant. So, I'd say now I've been on the implant four or five years now. And I would say on my menstrual cycle, my emotions and stuff either heighten or decrease. But I feel like maybe the implant has over heightened or decreased it a lot.
00:02:49.700So, you feel like you're more emotional on birth control?
00:02:52.020Maybe slightly, but I feel like I've kind of always been that way anyway on my menstrual cycle. So, I don't feel like it's affected me emotionally as such. But I think physically, I'd say my menstrual cycle has kind of just been a bit more inconsistent or had like a consistent pattern that I don't like. But I wouldn't say emotionally. It's like affected me as a woman.
00:03:12.940Okay. So, before, if you had a friend that knew you before you were on birth control and after, she would say you're the same?
00:03:18.500Yeah. People don't even really know that I'm even on birth control.
00:03:22.020Okay. What about you? You said you've never been on it?
00:03:25.740I just feel like, you know, when people like you ask people about birth control and stuff, like they never have anything good to say. Like, obviously, there's the benefit that it stops you from getting pregnant and stuff like that. Cool.
00:03:37.820But when you ask people, there seems to be more like cons than there are pros. So, it kind of just puts me off. Like, obviously, I'm young. So, I don't have as many years to try things and stuff that I have had. But, you know, it just doesn't appeal to me like at all.
00:03:54.280Yeah. Some of my friends have been on it. But it's the same thing. Like, they just, every day they're complaining. Like, how they feel depressed and stuff. Like, you know, all the side effects that just come with it. Like, I just wouldn't want to put myself in that position.
00:04:06.780And have you noticed, outside of them just like saying that, have you noticed them acting different, being on it?
00:04:12.220Like, I feel like with my friends that were more outgoing before, like, now they've been on it. They more like, they want to stay at home and stuff like that. Like, their social status, like, it changes. And I just feel like for me personally, like, I'm young. I don't want to feel like I don't want to go out and live my life just because I'm on the pill. Like, I want to go out and I want to have fun and stuff. Like, you can be safe. But, you know, there's other ways to do it.
00:04:36.920Yeah, I've been on birth control. I think for me, like, I think it makes me more emotional at times. And sometimes I'm like, I'm this really outgoing person. I feel like sometimes it just makes me feel like, oh, second guessing myself at times. I think that's like the biggest effect I've seen it have on me. But otherwise, fine.
00:05:00.100So it's been minimal side effects, it sounds like. Do you know anyone that's had major side effects from birth control?
00:05:06.540I mean, I've had some friends who've had, like, major weight gain, and it's taken them a couple of years to get it off. And other side effects, I think mainly for them, it's the mood swings. You know, they're just not themselves or just probably a little bit more angry at times. Yeah, mainly.
00:05:30.940I'm on birth control. I've never really had any issue with it. I was on the pill from when I was, like, 18 to 21, came off for a few years. And then when I was 25 now, I went on the implant and never had a problem.
00:05:42.480Also, on the topic of weight gain, I've heard that, like, there's actually no studies to say that there is any link whatsoever between birth control and weight gain. But sometimes they think that women see that correlation because they tend to start taking birth control, like, when they go to university, which tends to be when you gain weight anyway.
00:05:58.680I've had that thought before. I've always wondered if, because people start drinking a lot at university.
00:06:05.320Yeah, it's because, like, there is a correlation between starting university and gaining weight, but not actually between birth control and gaining weight.
00:06:11.500There's this thing where, because you have more hormones, it enhances your female assets. And it's not the fact that it makes you gain weight because you're on birth control, but it creates more of a hunger for food.
00:06:28.960And so that's where the weight gain comes in, is that you're feeling like you want to eat more, probably, like, sweet stuff or your favorite kind of meals.
00:06:38.020And that's where the weight gain comes in, rather than because you're on it for a long time that you're just putting on weight.
00:06:44.340Yeah, I get that from, like, an empirical point of view, from, like, your own experience.
00:06:47.820But I don't think there's actually any studies to back it up from what I've read myself about the birth control, because that was one of the things.
00:06:53.980When I was, like, 18, I went on it. I was like, oh, my God, it's going to make me fat because then I was skinny.
00:06:57.280But, like, apparently there are actually no studies to back it up or there weren't when I was 18 anyway.
00:07:02.160Well, for the one I've done, it's in the aspect of it increases your hunger.
00:07:14.020Like, from that, because, I mean, like, you speak to the nurse and you're like, okay, I'm gaining weight.
00:07:18.840And then when I did research, it's because it enhances, like, your food habits.
00:07:22.780Or it's not like you're just putting it on, but you're eating the things that, for example, like, when you're PMSing, you'd probably want a chocolate.
00:07:30.680Or women tend to eat, like, their favorite foods at that time of the month.
00:07:35.280And I think that's, like, a big increase, basically.
00:07:39.560Have you ever dated someone that's on birth control?