Your Ultimate Guide to Gaining Weight
How Much Weight Do You Gain After Being Put On Birth Control?
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Oct 31st, 2009 |
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I keep getting cysts on my ovaries and the doc wants to put me on the pill so that i wont get them any more. im worried about the weight gain?
I started talking Yaz in May of 2009, it made me really sick and i gained like twenty pounds. I finished up that month, then quit taking it. In July i started talking Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo, and i have gained two or three pounds. I hate it! But i don’t know what i can do about it, other than get off the birth control, which i don’t want to do. So if you start talking it, you’ll probably put a few pounds on.
I had to go on the BC pill when I was 18 because I had irregular and excessive bleeding… it TOTALLY took care of those problems, but over the course of a year and a half, I put on about 15 pounds, which was an obvious downer.
It happened so slowly for me that it sort of snuck up on me, in a way. But I think if I would have paid more careful attention to what I ate and my activity level, I wouldnt have gained so much weight. You just have to pay attention.
Since, I have lost the weight and then some, by exercising and eating right… if you do that from the start, you may not see the weight gain, or at least, not so much.