Hello, this is episode three hundred and twenty four and today we're chatting about birth control

We're chatting about hormones period a menorrhia a lack of period

Informed consent as it relates to hormonal birth control. I

Cannot tell you how many women I've worked one-on-one with or met at book signings who have said that they were put on birth control without them fully understanding

What it was and what it did to our bodies and so whether you choose to have birth control or not

That's really not what this conversation is about. I'm not here to change your mind

I'm here to educate you so that you can understand

What you're saying yes to and make a decision on whether or not you want it to be a yes or a no

so

This conversation is really near and dear to my heart

I too was put on hormonal birth control at a pretty young age after two rounds of acutane that didn't help my skin

So the doctor recommended an estrogen-based hormonal birth control which cleared out my skin sort of but also caused a lot of other

Problems after years of being on it at the age of

21 or so I went off birth control and then didn't have a period for eight years now fast forward a

Bungie years

I finally have a cycle and I've worked over the last four or five years since getting my period back really to help my hormones

And it is an uphill battle guys. Yeah, it's an uphill battle

And so I wanted to have

Dr. Kayla on the show to share her experience and I didn't know this before recording with her or asking her to come on the show

That she had actually never shared her personal experience with a menorea and birth control ever even to her friends

So for her to come on today and share what I remember when I first started sharing this as like a super personal

Embarrassing just

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