birth control is completely different from a lifesaving medication. i would take a life-saving medication (especially for diabetes, cancer, or any autoimmune disease) that was tested on animals but something i don't need? no freaking way.
I'm aware that there are other conditions for birth control; i had a physician try to put me on it once for acne; but to my knowledge birth control does not treat any life-threatening condition. if having a child will kill you; there are other, permanent solutions to that problem.
Sometimes, and often and as it was in my case, it is used to regulate one's menstrual cycle. Before I was put on it I would get heavy bleeding for three weeks in a row sometimes and it made me severely anemic and was quite dangerous and thus I needed to be put on birth control so that I wasn't in and out of the hospital with cramps that made me vomit continuously and pass out and due to loss of blood (haha kinda gross I know) but I know that the birth control definitely helped with all those symptoms.
But don't get me wrong, I do agree with you that any medicine that is not lifesaving or necessary should be omitted and other alternatives should be explored and often birth control is used for prevention of getting pregnant and acne, ect.
Well, sure that's a cosmetic reason. But I guess it gets into quality of life with when you're talking about interstitial cystitis. They found another medication that helps quite a bit so I'm taking something different now, but not being able to work, drive, or go to school would have been a real damper on my life. They still want me to be on bc but I know it's not good to be on it for long so I don't take it anymore.
It treats a condition that had me in and out of the hospital for three years. What I have probably won't kill me, but being in the hospital 4 times within two weeks? I think my use of birth control is justified.
Depending on the hormones in the pill, it can help prevent breast cancer. One of the things that can lead to breast cancer is irregular & frequent periods because of all the hormones that the body releases during those cycles. Some people who have started their periods early on in life and have irregular and frequent cycles along with a family history of breast cancer may decide to choose to take certain types of pills. If you look at it in another light, it helps prevent the heavy use of medications (chemotherapy, narcotics, etc.). I've had so many discussions with all sorts of different health care providers about ways to prevent breast cancer because my mom died from it. It turns out I can't handle hormonal birth control anyway, but some people can and may choose to for this reason.
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Just want to point out it's not always just taken as a contraceptive. It's used to treat other things too, which is why I used to take it.
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But don't get me wrong, I do agree with you that any medicine that is not lifesaving or necessary should be omitted and other alternatives should be explored and often birth control is used for prevention of getting pregnant and acne, ect.
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