What are the good points about the Pill?

The Pill has now been shown to have certain major health advantages:

it abolishes period pain

it makes periods shorter

it makes them lighter.

Because of this, you are less likely to get anaemic.

If you have acne, the Pill should improve it.

In addition, it decreases your chances of getting certain cancers (though it increases the risk of others). Please see the section on cancer, below.

But can’t it give you a lot of side effects when you start? During the first few packs of the Pill, many women get minor, passing side effects, such as:

headaches

nausea

breast tenderness

slight weight gain

slight ‘spotting’ of blood between the periods.

These side-effects usually go away after the first few packs. If they don’t, it’s very easy to get rid of them by simply switching to another brand of the 22 available brands of Pill.