Birth Control? weight gain??

Does birth control make you gain weight?? What are other side effects of being on the pill?

Birth control pill use.
The effect of using birth control pills on a woman鈥檚 subsequent
menopausal period is in large measure an unstudied phenomenon,
but birth control pills 鈥?which work by suppressing your native
hormones, can themselves lead to many health problems. Many of the
problems of estrogen dominance, including fluid retention,
depression, headaches, and urinary tract infections, are experienced
by women using birth control pills. Everything we鈥檝e said about the
negative effects for menopausal women of using progestins applies to
the progestins used in birth control pills. Having altered your
normal hormonal cycles when using the Pill, you are more prone to
symptoms at midlife as well as potentially more serious health problems.
This is because the synthetic estrogens and progestins used in the
Pill can interfere with the body鈥檚 own progesterone receptors. The
progestins are more potent and may inhibit the product of your body鈥檚
own sex hormones.

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I believe that birth control from a long time ago did this but now a days the formulation is different. I actually LOST some weight after going on it!

It actually depends on the person. I gained weight when I started the pill but have since lost it. When I was on a different pill I didn't gain any weight. My cousin lost weight when she started. All depends on the person.