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Title : Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control
Category: Sex
Brand: Grigg-spall, Holy
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Rating : 4.3
Buyer Review : 59

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Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a drug.

Depression, anxiety, paranoia, rage, panic attacks - just a few of the effects of the Pill on half of the over 80% of women who pop these tablets during their lifetimes.

When the Pill was released, it was thought that women would not submit to taking a medication each day when they were not sick. Now the Pill is making women sick.

However, there are a growing number of women looking for non-hormonal alternatives for preventing pregnancy. In a bid to spark the backlash against hormonal contraceptives, this book asks: Why can't we criticize the Pill?


Review :
Postponing Motherhood... at What Cost?
Back when my husband was in medical school, his pharmacology textbook listed seven full pages of adverse side effects associated with oral contraceptive use, including:

- heart attacks
- strokes
- liver tumors
- blood clots
- gall bladder disease
- migraine headaches
- depression
- loss of vision
- urinary tract infections
- yeast infections
- weight gain
- thyroid problems
- high blood sugar

…as well as an increased risk of infertility, miscarriage, and birth defects even after discontinuing use of the Pill.

That was enough to convince us we’d made the right decision when, as newlyweds, we opted to forgo hormonal contraceptives three years (and two babies) earlier.

Yet when we shared this information with family and friends, they remained skeptical. “If the Pill were really that unsafe,” they reasoned, “then doctors wouldn’t prescribe...
Exceptional, Provoking, Questioning
I found this to be an exceptional book, and I take the Pill. This was not an easy state to arrive at, with my reluctance to depend on a powerful medication and full knowledge of how the medication worked- by suppressing the normal ebb and flow of pituitary hormones that trigger the 28-day cycle. I had come across Ms. Griggs-Spall's blog some years ago when I was having challenges with the Pill, in particular Yasmin. I questioned its impact on my health and emotional state, as did Ms. Griggs-Spall. I, too, had difficulty going off the medication, and after a significant break returned to the medication informed, wiser as to what it does and doesn't do to for my situation. In my case the benefits far outweigh the negatives, but I had to come to that choice deliberately, with full information and weighing both costs and benefits.

This book is a thoughtfully wrought and powerful manifesto directed at the forces that control our world and how they impact women- including...
Why can't we TALK about the Pill?
In the first ten pages, Holly Grigg-Spall delivers an impassioned description of The Problem, told from personal experience: While Taking Yaz/Yasmin, she thought she was losing her mind. Her sanity, her work as a writer, and, she thought, everything she held dear was collapsing,

In delving into the problem with a trusted girlfriend, a doctor who did not dismiss her concerns, groundbreaking books, her then-boyfriend now-husband, and women that had taken to the Internet to air their personal stories, Ms. Grigg-Spall realized that Yaz was wreaking havoc with her body and mind--and yet, even after stopping it for good, the allure of the Pill beckoned.

To be blunt, Ms. Grigg-Spall has plenty of attitude, wit, and insight and spares no one in the birth control debate--population control advocates, capitalism, our warped commercialized view of sexuality, the patriarchy, pharmaceutical companies, the religious right, the Pill evangelical feminists on the Left who silence...