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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m shocked that in 7 pages, only one person brought up birth control pills, which have MUCH higher doses of hormones. So many women pop them like candy for decade of their lives without thinking twice. Any HRT warnings should be threefold for BC pills. [/quote]

Exactly!!! Yet most of us take/took them without much concern, because they did the job we needed.

So if you took those without thinking, then the "risks of HRT" are way less, and the benefits much more, especially considering there were ways to prevent pregnancy without them (you cannot deal with loss of hormones any other way than replacing them) 
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Stop spreading this stuff. The risks of HRT have not been established to be “way less,” and you need to also assess the benefits of oral contraceptives differently. [/quote]

Why?  Oral contraceptives do not really have any "benefits" that you cannot achieve thru other means, for most people.  Plenty of options for safe, non-hormonal birth control (and they are highly effective if used correctly).  So if you are on oral BC just for the "I don't want to get pregnant" there are many other effective ways to manage that.  Yet many of us took the risks to choose that method for a variety of reasons.

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First of all this is a dumb conversation because birth control and HRT are two totally different medical interventions and have to be judged by their own risk-benefit profile.

Second of all, the risk of unintended pregnancy is higher with other forms of accessible birth control compared to hormonal, so that is part of the calculation. The risk of not taking HRT is much smaller than an unintended pregnancy. [/quote]

it is similar because both come with risks.  In fact, Hormonal BC comes with much higher risks.  And you can successfully use other forms of BC to avoid getting pregnant.  
I say this as someone who got pregnant the first time I tried (so very fertile), and also the first time I tried for future kids as well. 
Yet After age 34, I never used hormonal BC, simply used condoms and spermicide.  And I never had a scare, because we were diligent about use.

So both have health risks, however, HRT cannot be replaced with condoms, so our choices for improving our health and overall quality of life is non-existent without the hormones.

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