Is there a reason to get your period on birth control pills? Apparently, no
Photo: Getty Images I remember a friend of mine in college raving to a bunch of us about how she skipped the placebo pills at the end of her birth control packs, going straight to the next pack, allowing herself to avoid getting a period entirely. I was sure she was rotting from the inside out, and I went on about about how it was so unnatural, and that she had to let her womb breathe and renew itself, or whatever.
But why do we return to having these pseudo-periods in the absence of special events? Since hormonal birth control pills typically suppress ovulation, these “periods” are instead technically known as “withdrawal bleeding” — or, withdrawal from taking hormones, which causes the uterine lining to shed. But if there’s been no ovulation, does the uterus really need to shed? Is there a need to bleed? That is the question.
But again: Are there any good reasons that we’ve been doing this since the advent of the pill, in 1960? Apparently one of the pill’s developers, a Catholic, thought the Pope might be more likely to accept the pill if it more obviously “imitated the natural cycle.
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