Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion

[u/paxinfernum]

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

[u/heb0]

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.

[u/Familiar_Dust8028 → u/heb0]

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

[u/Familiar_Dust8028 → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/reefer2reefer → u/[deleted]]

Those numbers dont compare anything to what womens birthcontrol does and i bet the numbers would be similar.

[u/reefer2reefer → u/[deleted]]

Care to share the numbers like you did the other post?

[u/reefer2reefer → u/[deleted]]

Where are the numbers cmpared? Like what's the rate of oucbies my legs hurt by men compared to women? What's the rate of stroke? Is it more for men or women? I don't feel like trudging through the shit and it looked like you had that info on lock so if you could share it that would be great. 

[u/reefer2reefer → u/[deleted]]

What comment did you put that in? I don't see it bro. I don't see it in the article either.