Which Pills are best for clearing up skin / acne
There are a couple of Pills that are very effective, one is Dianette and another is Yasmin. Marvelon is also quite good. They tend to be anti-androgenic, reducing the progesterone side of the hormone balance.
Which are least likely to cause weight gain?
Actually the weight gain story is quite interesting, because it is one of the myths around the Pill. Research shows that the pill doesn’t actually cause people to put on weight – it may make you feel bloated because there is a tendency to retain fluids, and again switching to a different preparation can minimise that. I think the Pill often gets blamed when it’s just people getting older and maybe eating a bit more than they used to!
Can you be too young or too old to be on the Pill?
As you get older, some of the health risks with the Pill get relatively larger. For example when you’re very young the risk of getting breast cancer is very small – as you get older, that relative risk increases, so the potential dangers of taking the Pill increase with that. Most family planning practitioners and doctors would think carefully about putting a woman over 35 on the Pill, because the oestrogen does have side effects that increase risk, so they might think of either switching to a pill that doesn’t contain oestrogen or some other form of contraception. That’s particularly if they smoke as well or have put on a bit of weight, which are other risk factors for heart disease so that could be a problem.
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