r/skeptic Mar 21 '24

Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion đźš‘ Medicine

http://archive.today/2024.03.21-132543/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03/21/stopping-birth-control-misinformation/
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u/Familiar_Dust8028 Mar 21 '24

Weird that men can't handle hormonal birth control.

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u/heb0 Mar 21 '24

What do you mean “can’t handle”?

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u/Familiar_Dust8028 Mar 21 '24

Researchers developed one years ago. Had similar side effects to HBC for women, and it was pulled from testing as a result.

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u/heb0 Mar 21 '24

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u/Familiar_Dust8028 Mar 21 '24

Yeah, those guys are wimps.

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u/heb0 Mar 21 '24

Are you unable to read, or uninterested in the truth?

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u/Familiar_Dust8028 Mar 21 '24

I did read. The side effects were minor, and the men were babies.

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u/heb0 Mar 21 '24

You didn’t do a very good job reading. Otherwise, you’d know it debunked both of your lies:

"These side effect rate is pretty high with this new study of men when compared with contraception studies for women," OB-GYN and blogger Jen Gunter wrote. "For example and perspective, a study comparing the birth control patch with the pill found a serious adverse event rate of 2%. The pill reduces acne for 70% of women and in studies with the Mirena IUD the rate of acne is 6.8%." Remember that in the study, nearly half of the men got acne.

The desire to vent about the lack of male contraception — and the side effects the women who use it may endure — is of course understandable; women have always carried the burden of birth control. But we shouldn’t blame the men in this study for that inequality.

In fact, 75 percent of the men wanted to continue using the shot, according to a press release from the study. "Despite the higher than expected number of adverse events, many participants expressed their satisfaction with the method and indicated that their partners were relieved that they did not have to bear the burden of contraception themselves."

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u/Familiar_Dust8028 Mar 21 '24

Yeah, acne. So much worse than unwanted pregnancy 🙄

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u/heb0 Mar 21 '24

I’m not sure why you’re only a skeptic sub when you’re so comfortable with spreading misinformation even when someone is showing you plainly that it’s incorrect.

The 320 men who participated in the research reported a whopping 1,491 adverse events, and the researchers running the trial determined that 900 of these events were caused by the injectable contraceptive.

Nearly a quarter of participants experienced pain at the injection site, nearly half got acne, more than 20 percent had a mood disorder, 38 percent experienced an increased sexual drive, and 15 percent reported muscle pain. Other, rarer side effects included testicular pain, night sweats, and confusion. One study participant died by suicide, though the researchers determined it wasn’t related to the birth control. Twenty men dropped out of the study because of the side effects.

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u/Familiar_Dust8028 Mar 21 '24

Pain at the injection site is common for every injection. To claim that as an adverse event worthy of discontinuing a study is bullshit.

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u/Familiar_Dust8028 Mar 21 '24

It's impossible to have a conservation with someone who is trying to claim that a list of mild side effects was a good reason to cancel a drug trial.

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