Weight gain and contraception: What you should know

We know everyone who's taken birth control, who's starting to say up and down to his chest or back, that classmate who's back from summer vacation, because she started contraceptives, but how true are those words?

Girls are afraid to start using contraceptive pills driven by this misconception, that contraceptives are healthy. Such a thing is wrong and not true.

Weight gain that may occur in the first few weeks or months after you have begun contraceptives is usually due to water maintenance and is temporary.

No matter what you have heard from your mother or friends, there is no evidence that the use of oral pills, the combination of estrogen and progesterone, is linked to weight gain. Even when tested on overweight and obese women, contraceptives have shown that they have nothing to do with weight gain or bodily changes.

In fact, experts explain weight swings as a body adaptation. When the breast pills start, it swells and becomes a result of hormonal stimuli. This causes a temporary explosion that disappears after three months.

However, if you're one of those women who swears to be fat after using contraceptives, then it's your body that's reacting negatively and unusually with specific hormones found in your pills.

Source Layer: Health Line