There are many options available for women today when it comes to preventing pregnancy. From pills to shots to implants, it can all start to make your head spin. Your age, health, and lifestyle are just a few things to consider when choosing which method is best for you. • Birth Control Pills: As TIME […]
“We will just keep an eye on things,” my doctor stated to me after diagnosing me with uterine fibroids. I wasn’t expecting to be diagnosed with something that sounded so unsettling. Relatively symptom free, I wondered how this new diagnosis was going to affect my life. Was I in danger? Should I be worried? Would […]
So many women, including myself, experience heavy menstrual bleeding during their period every month. It is always very inconvenient for me and often times I end up missing work. I’m always spending a lot of money on different kinds of sanitary products every month. Sometimes, I also have lower back pain and my abdomen swells […]
The pill, intrauterine device, the patch, injections, condoms – the list of available birth control goes on and on and comes in all forms and variations, giving women more options to prevent pregnancy than ever before. Although birth control has been practiced for centuries, even documented in biblical times, the first form of birth control […]