Myth #8
Any woman can take the birth – control pills for some limited period of time.
Reality
If a woman is healthy, she can take the birth – control pills beginning from the pubertal period and up to the menopause. Moreover, its effectiveness does not become lower. If at some period of her life a woman may wish to have a baby, she is to stop taking these pills, wait for some time, get pregnant, deliver a baby, and as soon as she stops feeding her little with her breastmilk, she may start to take birth – control pills again.
Myth #9
All hormonal methods of contraception make a woman fat.
Reality
Recent studies have found that nowadays almost all hormonal methods of contraception have low – doses of hormones, thus they do not cause significant weight gaining in majority of women.
Myth #10
The birth – control pills cause cancer.
Reality
The reality is that all the birth – control pills actually lower the risk of getting cancer. Though these pills do cause some slight increase in breast cancer in women under the age of 35, but the risk is extremely tiny, comparing to other phenomenon, which may be reasons of cancer’s development. Moreover, the birth – control pills even cut the risk of ovarian and uterus cancers by more than 50 per cent, and this benefit persists even if you stop taking these pills.
Myth #11
Intrauterine Devices cause infertility
Reality
A woman, who applies Intrauterine Devices, may only be running a risk of getting infertile, if she suffers from any sexually transmitted infection or any pelvic inflammatory infection, which the Intrauterine Device may push further into a woman’s uterus and fallopian tubes. So, for those couples, in which neither of the partners suffers from sexually transmitted infections, and if their relations are monogamous (if none of them has sex with anyone else, except each other), then the Intrauterine Device is quite a safe and effective method of contraception against an unplanned pregnancy.
Myth #12
All methods of contraception provide protection not only against an unplanned pregnancy, but against sexually transmitted diseases as well
Reality
Condom is the only method of contraception, which provides protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Even other barrier method of contraception, like the Diaphragm, the Cervical Cap, the Contraceptive Sponge, etc are not able to keep bacteria and viruses out of the vagina, and neither the birth – control pill nor the intrauterine device do anything to provide this kind of protection.
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