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No, You Don’t Actually Get A Period On The Pill

If you have ever sat in your primary care physician or OB/GYN’s office for a consultation to solve irregular periods or control hormone levels, you may have been told that beginning hormonal birth control would help. Irregular bleeding can be really bothersome and stress you out, so that might have seemed like an attractive choice to make.

By Andrea Mew4 min read
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Here’s the truth, however. The “period” you have while you’re popping the placebo pills in your hormonal birth control prescription really isn’t a period. So why in the world do so many people believe that it is?