Post Birth Control Syndrome

Your story, your symptoms and your experiences matter. Women are often made to feel that the symptoms they’re experiencing are invalid. This isn’t with poor intention, its with lack of deep understanding of the human physiology and how birth control is effecting various processes. Post Birth Control Syndrome can include many symptoms, all of which can be corrected. Some include Amenorrhea (loss of period), acne, thyroid dysregulation, depression or other mood dyregulation, digestive issues and gut dysbiosis, heavy and painful periods, or PCOS-like symptoms.

The pill causes many of these issues for a few reasons. One, It depletes our body of vital nutrients that without the adequate amount of takes its toll on our digestive system integrity and microbiome, and weakens our immune system. It also shuts down our body’s natural communication from our brains to our reproductive system so it is often clinically seen that it takes time for our bodies to reestablish this communication and regulate everything it was manipulating. Finally, the birth control uses Progestin, not progesterone (which is our bodies natural hormone). While progesterone is protective to our bodies in many ways, progestin puts many systems of our bodies as risk for various conditions.

Moral of the story, you’re not broken and the symptoms you have can be fixed and are real . Your out of balance and in transition. Your body knows how to heal thyself sometimes it just needs the right support and environment to start the healing process. We can support it by restoring and repairing you hormones, immune system, gut/digestion, inflammation and depleted nutrients.