In a survey conducted during the months of November and December 2007 by The Women’s Hair Loss Project, a website uniting and empowering women around the world who suffer from hair loss, one-fifth of 517 female respondents said that they began to see signs of hair loss between the ages of 15 and 20. These [...]
Using the lowest possible estrogen containing birth control pill should minimize weight gain and swelling from water retention.
Current 20 mcgm pills which are the lowest estrogen doses available are:
• Alesse®
• Levlite®
• Loestrin-Fe®
• Mircette®
If you are not taking one of the lowest dose pills, ask your physician or health care provider to switch you to one of the lowest [...]
Women who thought about contraception have always asked two questions: Do birth control make us weight gain? And which pills make us weight gain the least? Doctors have been always reporting that Birth control pills do not cause weight gain although most women have experienced such side effect. They would put on weight while on [...]
Weight gain is a common complaint of women taking birth control pills. But research shows that most women gain little, if any weight because of the birth control pills. In general, the number of women on the pill who gain weight is equal to the number of women who lose weight. But for some women, [...]