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[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] There is already extremely clear language on the label of oral contraceptives explaining the associated risk (not exclusively of stroke, but that’s the one I remember best from when I took it). The associated stroke risk is striated by age on the label. At 35, the risk of a contraceptive-associated stroke rises over the risk of death from pregnancy itself for the first time. (At that point I switched to an IUD.) Use of oral contraceptives also dramatically lowers the risk of ovarian cancer, and that benefit appears to last for life. Maybe work on pregnancy death rates and come back to shame women about how we choose to avoid pregnancy once you have something to show for it.[/quote]
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