FFP 435 | Birth Control Induced Gall Bladder Disease | Pill Reality Series | Barbara & Lisa
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🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Today Lisa shares a brand-new episode in her Pill Reality Series. In this episode Barbara shares her experience with a lesser-known side effect of the birth control pill: Gall bladder issues. Barbara is the second woman in the Pill Reality Series to share how the pill led her to have her gall bladder removed to prevent frequent (painful) gall bladder attacks.
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Topics discussed in today's episode:
- Barbara's menstrual cycle history
- What led Barbara to hormonal contraceptives
- Symptoms Barbara encounter from using different forms of birth control
- Why Barbara skipped around on different forms of birth control
- What ultimately led Barbara to get off birth control
- Barbara's experience with her gall bladder removal surgery
- Side effects Barbara experienced after she removed her gall bladder
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Resources mentioned:
- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility (Book) | Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Online Self-Study Program
Related podcasts & blog posts:
- FFP 369 | Hormonal Contraceptives & Gall Bladder Problems | Pill Reality Series | Lucie Fink
- FFP 203 | The Pill Problem | Ross Pelton
- FFP 007 | What the pill really does to your hormones | PCOS & Menstrual Irregularities | Dr Lara Briden
- FFP 006 | The problem with the pill | Menstrual taboos | Groove charting app | Jennifer Aldoretta – CEO & Co-Founder of Groove
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Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by J-Gantic
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time of year again. |
| 0:02.7 | You are officially invited. |
| 0:04.4 | Yes, you, you're invited to join us in Fertility Awareness Mastery Live. |
| 0:08.0 | This is my 10-week group coaching program designed to help you gain confidence using fertility awareness. |
| 0:12.7 | Whether you're actively avoiding pregnancy or looking to optimize your cycles for conception, |
| 0:16.7 | we have a spot for you. |
| 0:18.0 | We start the first week of October. |
| 0:19.9 | Are you ready to jump in? |
| 0:21.3 | Head over to fertility friday.com slash fam to register today. |
| 0:25.1 | That's fertility friday.com slash f a.m. |
| 0:28.0 | This is the fertility Friday podcast, episode number 435. |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for information about the fertility awareness method and all things fertility. I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson Jack. I'm the author of |
| 0:49.2 | the Fifth Vital Sign and the Fertility Awareness Mastery Trading Workbook. I'm a certified |
| 0:53.6 | fertility awareness educator |
| 0:55.0 | and holistic reproductive health practitioner with over 20 years of experience teaching women |
| 0:59.5 | to connect to their fifth vital sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing hormone |
| 1:03.6 | health, and optimizing the menstrual cycle without hormones. I have been consistently outspoken |
| 1:09.4 | about hormonal birth control over the past two decades, |
| 1:12.4 | and its impact on fertility and overall health because you have the right to know how your body |
| 1:16.7 | works and how artificial hormones disrupt that natural process. |
| 1:20.2 | I teach women's health professionals how to utilize the menstrual cycle as a vital sign in their |
| 1:24.3 | practices, and I host live coaching programs to help you achieve |
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