JustPearlyThings - Woman REVEALS Her Experience With Birth Control

00:00:00.000 okay so first question have you ever been on birth control and then for you

00:00:04.920 it would be have you ever dated someone on birth control start here and go

00:00:07.680 around yes yes yeah no no yeah yeah I have the imply my arm right now yeah and

00:00:15.780 did your preference in men change when you were on birth control I think

00:00:20.760 preference to a lot of things change when you're on birth control so yes yeah

00:00:24.900 um tell me more how um I think sex drive goes down I think messing with your

00:00:30.660 hormones is just a negative thing okay and are you still on it or did you end

00:00:35.040 up going off no I ended up coming off okay two daughters now okay and did you

00:00:39.360 feel better when you came off of a hundred percent literally about six

00:00:42.020 months after I stopped taking the pill I felt like I could see that the sky was

00:00:45.660 blue really how long were you on it probably about ten years and I did run it

00:00:50.640 for ten years yeah so from being probably 18 or 19 until 30 and I also have had

00:00:59.880 the implant as well I just think any of they're all basically hormonal so they're

00:01:03.960 putting extra hormones into your body so it definitely has an effect okay and what

00:01:08.880 was like the number one side effect that you had like negative yeah like just like

00:01:15.120 sadness I just think it really really so you made you depressed yeah I think so on

00:01:20.400 a level definitely it wasn't I didn't know that when I was on it but I just

00:01:24.920 remember that day when I remember it sort of clearing from my system and looking at

00:01:28.740 the sky and going oh what a beautiful day oh wow um okay what about you um I think

00:01:35.400 it's an interesting question I don't really know I think I've got the implant this is

00:01:39.480 my second implants I'd say now I've been on the implant for five years now and I would

00:01:45.260 say on my menstrual cycle my emotions and stuff either heighten or decrease but I

00:01:52.040 feel like maybe the implant has over heightened or decreased it a lot so you

00:01:57.140 feel like you're more emotional on birth control maybe slightly but I feel like

00:02:01.160 I've kind of always been that way anyway on my menstrual cycle so I don't feel

00:02:05.240 like it's affected me emotionally as such but I think physically I'd say my

00:02:09.920 menstrual cycle is kind of just been a bit more inconsistent or had a lack of

00:02:15.260 consistent pattern that I don't like but I wouldn't say emotionally it's that

00:02:18.860 affected me as a woman okay so before if so if you had a friend that knew you

00:02:22.760 before you're on birth control and after she would say you're the same yeah people

00:02:26.400 don't even really they don't know know that I'm even on birth control so yeah okay

00:02:30.500 what about you you said you've never been on it I just feel like you know when

00:02:34.900 people like you ask people about birth control and stuff like they never have

00:02:38.780 anything good to say like obviously there's the benefit that it stops you

00:02:43.240 from getting pregnant and stuff like that cool but when you ask people there

00:02:46.840 seems to be more like cons than there are pros it kind of just puts me off like

00:02:51.320 obviously I'm young so I don't have as many years to try things and stuff that I

00:02:55.600 have had but you know it just doesn't appeal to me like at all have any of your

00:03:00.620 friends taken it yeah some of my friends have been on it but it's the same

00:03:04.140 thing like they just every day they're complaining like how they feel depressed

00:03:08.220 and stuff like no all the side effects that just come with it like I just

00:03:12.400 wouldn't want to put myself in that position and have you noticed outside of

00:03:16.020 them just like saying that have you noticed them acting different being on

00:03:19.040 it like I feel like with my friends that were more outgoing before like now

00:03:23.620 they've been on it they more like they want to stay at home and stuff like that

00:03:26.680 like their social status like it changes and I just feel like for me

00:03:30.540 personally like I'm young I don't want to feel like I don't want to go out and

00:03:33.640 I like live my life just because I'm on the pill like I want to go out and I

00:03:37.400 want to have fun and stuff like you can be safe but you know there's other ways

00:03:41.020 to do it what about you yeah I've been on birth control I think for me like I'm

00:03:49.140 I think it makes me more emotional at times and sometimes I'm like I'm this

00:03:53.640 really outgoing person I feel like sometimes it just makes me feel like oh

00:03:57.640 um second guessing myself at times um I think that's like the biggest effect I've

00:04:03.680 seen it have on me but otherwise fine so it's it's been minimal side effects it

00:04:09.480 sounds like do you know anyone that's had major side effects from birth control

00:04:13.220 I mean I've had some friends who've had like major weight gain and it's taken them a

00:04:19.080 couple of years to get it off um and other side effects oh I think mainly for them

00:04:24.900 it's the mood swings you know they're just not themselves or just probably a

00:04:29.260 little bit more angry at times um yeah mainly and are you still on it yeah okay

00:04:35.540 yeah um what about you um I'm on birth control I've never really had any issue

00:04:40.940 with it I was on the pill from when I was like 18 to 21 came off for a few years

00:04:45.040 and then when I was 25 now I went on the implant and never had a problem also on the

00:04:50.780 topic of weight gain I've heard that like there's actually no studies to say that there

00:04:55.060 is any link whatsoever between birth control and weight gain but sometimes they think that

00:04:58.880 women see that correlation because they tend to start taking birth control like when they 0.99

00:05:02.740 go to university which tends to be when you gain weight anyway I've had that thought before

00:05:07.400 yeah I've always wondered if if because people start drinking a lot at university it's because

00:05:13.060 like there is a correlation between starting university and gaining weight um but not actually

00:05:17.420 between birth control and gaining weight there's um there's this thing where because you have more

00:05:22.040 hormones it enhances your female assets um and it's not the fact that it makes you gain weight 1.00

00:05:30.140 because you're on birth control but it creates more of um a hunger for food and so that's where the

00:05:37.600 weight gain comes in is that you're feeling like you want to eat more probably like sweet stuff or

00:05:42.800 um your favorite kind of meals and that's where the weight gain comes in rather than

00:05:47.520 because you're on it for a long time that you're just putting on weight yeah I get that from like

00:05:52.720 an empirical point of view from like your own experience but I don't think there's actually

00:05:56.200 any studies to back it up from what I've read myself about um the birth control because that

00:06:00.760 was one of the things when I was like 18 I went on it I was like oh my god it's gonna make me fat

00:06:03.540 because then I was skinny but like um apparently there are actually no studies to back that up or

00:06:08.060 when I was 18 anyway well for the one I've done it's in the aspect of it increases your your um

00:06:14.640 hunger so it changes I've heard that that it makes you more hungry yeah I don't know like from that

00:06:21.900 because I mean like you speak to the nurse and you're like okay I'm gaining weight and then when

00:06:26.360 I did research is because it enhances like your food habits so it's not like you're just putting on

00:06:32.400 but you're eating the things that for example like when you're PMSing you'd probably want a chocolate

00:06:37.840 or women tend to eat like their favorite foods at that time of of the month and I think that's 0.98

00:06:43.920 like a bigger increase basically have you ever dated someone that's on birth control yeah um my

00:06:51.220 missus so we're coming up to maybe like two years now uh for the first year she was on birth control 1.00

00:06:56.200 not anymore and did you notice a difference in her behavior no but then to be fair to be fair she

00:07:05.580 that's the reason why she came up right because she did say that you know she just was herself when

00:07:10.500 she was on it and it does affect her mood swings big time so I just kind of had to take that on

00:07:14.580 just say fair enough okay um so how did you guys make the decision to go on birth control was it for

00:07:20.780 acne hormones or was it you started dating someone how did you start I think it was like 16 17 18 when

00:07:28.080 you start having sex with a partner it was it was nothing to do with periods or anything like that

00:07:32.000 it's just purely birth control okay yeah that was the same for me it was just strictly how old were

00:07:37.400 you about 18 when I first went on the implant yeah so yeah it was interesting but I had the same

00:07:43.740 like theories of putting on weight and always being on your period or having to I think with the

00:07:48.680 implant which you might know is that sometimes people take a pill on top of the implant because

00:07:53.340 it really fluctuates your cycle so I was a bit skeptical but I could never remember to take

00:07:58.200 the pill every morning so I was like let me just do that um what about you know you're

00:08:04.260 when did did you ever consider it um no like not really like I just literally I've never ever felt

00:08:11.940 like I want to do it or like it's a good yeah like it's a good decision so I just decided not to

00:08:17.560 okay what about you um I made the decision so I've been on and off of it because of relationships

00:08:23.600 so I think I first went on it by choice at I think 19 or 20 that's when I made the decision that yeah

00:08:31.040 because I was seeing someone and I just thought um no she's not ready to be a mom so I'm like no

00:08:36.420 no even though you use protection I'm just like I had I don't even think my partner at the time knew

00:08:42.620 I was on it because it was just for me in terms of like as a backup really yeah for me as well I was

00:08:49.240 in my first long-term relationship when I was 18 um and then again like I was in that for a few years

00:08:54.580 came off and then just used condoms for a period of time and then again when I was back into a

00:08:58.900 serious relationship um I went on the implant as many of you know I was just banned on tiktok

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JustPearlyThings - April 16, 2023

Woman REVEALS Her Experience With Birth Control

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