Updated : June 5, 2023 3:01 PM IST
Birth control pills do a lot more than just impact women’s chances of getting pregnant or not. Ideally, women take them to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Some women also require them as per their doctors advice, to regulate their hormones, there cycle, reduce menstrual cramps and also maintain skin acnes and pimples.
But, are women aware of what change their body could go through when they stop taking these pills? We are here to let you know the range of possibilities. Most women stop taking their pills due to health reasons only. For example, increased risk of rare and serious complications or blood clots or increased risk of cancer.
The libido level is also dependent a lot on these pills as their main function is to regulate hormones. For some women, the libido may go up while for others, it may go down.
Birth control pills help keep the skin free from acnes and pimples. How? Pills affect the hormone levels. It leads to a dip in the testosterone levels in particular and thereby causing fewer breakouts on the skin. There lies the problem when a woman stops taking those pills. The hormones level will function like the way it use to before and cause acnes and pimples again.
This is very obvious. When a woman stops taking their birth control pills, their menstrual cycle will go back to the way it was before the pills. These medicines have a huge impact on periods and on regulating it every month.
Some women might even start gaining weight after they have stopped taking the pills.
PMS-ing is very common among women especially when their hormones have gone haywire. These pills help prevent that but when it stops, they will go back to its natural tendencies.