JustPearlyThings - April 16, 2023


Woman REVEALS Her Experience With Birth Control


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

206.84828

Word Count

1,921

Sentence Count

1

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

In this episode, I speak to my best friend about her experience with birth control and the side effects that come with it. We discuss the pros and cons of birth control, side effects, and how it can affect your hormones.


Transcript

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
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
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
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
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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