My doctor said Yasmin was the very latest model, modernized and therefore superior to all other brands. The women's magazines that I read hinted at Yasmin's skin-clearing, weight-loss and breast-enhancing effects. The marketing hype filtered from the US through to the UK,where I was presented with this popular new drug by my GP when the pill I had been taking started to make me bleed badly during sex. Currently there are a number of drospirenone-containing pills available, including generics - Beyaz, Yasminelle, Ocella, Zarah, Angeliq,Syeda, Safyral, Gianvi and Loryna. I started taking Yasmin in2006 when it seemed as though every woman I knew was doing the same.Īfter graduating from college in the UK I spent some months in San Francisco where I saw the television commercials that pronounced this new birth control pill as capable of combating everything from PMS to bloating to acne. They are different from other pill brands because they contain a new progestin(synthetic progesterone) component, drospirenone. Yasmin was released in 2001 by the pharmaceutical companyBayer Pharmaceuticals and followed by its descendent Yaz in 2006. Although puzzled, I conceded and took her prescription. She then suggested I give a different brand, Femodette, a try. I had been depressed the whole time and now I'm much, much happier." When I came off it, I realized I was a completely different person to who I'd thought. The doctor listened quietly and then said, "I took the pill for twenty years. I was seventeen when I popped the first pill. Yasmin was the third oral contraceptive I had taken in a decade. I had whirled through many levels of misery before realizing that my choice of contraception could be the cause. When I returned to the doctor who had prescribed me the birth control pill Yasmin three years earlier I told her that I had spent the time since slowly unraveling.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Įxcerpt © Reprinted by permission. In a bid to spark the backlash against hormonal contraceptives, this book asks: Why can't we criticize the Pill? However, there are a growing number of women looking for non-hormonal alternatives for preventing pregnancy. When the Pill was released, it was thought that women would not submit to taking a medication each day when they were not sick. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a drug.ĭepression, anxiety, paranoia, rage, panic attacks - just a few of the effects of the Pill on half of the over 80% of women who pop these tablets during their lifetimes. Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication everyday from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. The inspiration behind the forthcoming documentary - from the makers of The Business of Being Born Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein.
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