by Sarah Hill | Jul 28, 2022 | Birth control, General Wellness, hormones, Relationships, The Pill
One step closer to a precision medicine approach to birth control? As you all know, I am a huge advocate of women’s reproductive health. And this means having something of a love-hate relationship with hormonal birth control. On the one hand, I love it because...
by Sarah Hill | Dec 28, 2021 | Birth control, General Wellness, hormones, Relationships, The Pill
How do I know if I am on the right birth control? This is – by far – one of the most frequently asked questions I get. And of course it is. For most of us, the birth control we’re on is a mystery. Our doctors give us a prescription for birth control. We have no idea...
by Sarah Hill | Oct 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Contraception has been around for decades, but it’s only recently that it’s become more widely talked about. The CDC reports that 14% of women between the ages of 15 to 49 are taking the pill, 10.4% are using long-term but reversible contraceptives, and 18.1% have...
by Sarah Hill | Jul 8, 2021 | Birth control, The Pill
Does the pill make sense when you are 35+? It wasn’t all that long ago that doctors used to discourage all women – regardless of their health or lifestyle – to go off of the birth control pill once they were 35 or older. However, times have changed. Not only have...
by Sarah Hill | May 6, 2021 | Birth control, hormones, The Pill, Uncategorized
One of the most common birth control misconceptions that I have encountered is the myth of the locally-acting IUD. This is the belief that the hormones in the IUD “act locally”, affecting women’s reproductive organs, but not their brains. But it doesn’t work this way....