Relationship Between Oral Contraceptives and Weight Gain: Part 2

Many women complain about gaining weight, they started to take oral contraceptives. Do you have found that when you are not on the pill, you put on extra weight in the second half of your menstrual cycle? This is quite normal, which is due to the changes in hormone levels.

Other drugs may also cause weight gain, including pills, for depression, so it can be unfair to the accused, only contraceptive pills. An honest talk with health care providers about weight gain as a side effect of birth control pills may change the type pill can reduce anxiety, in this sensitive 'image' problems.

Oral contraceptives are less effective in overweight or obese women studies found that a women's body mass index (BMI) in the 25-29.9, oral contraceptives is 60% greater risk than the body weight of pregnant women normal (BMI of 18.5 to 24.9). The percentage rose to 70 percent, if she has a body mass index of more than 30. Why is this? Reasons unclear, and it is possible for many reasons, but may be due to hormones in oral contraceptives are fat-soluble, which dissolves in the fat one overweight people, and not into the blood.

Higher metabolism of overweight people have a reduced 'lasting effect' drugs.

Your liver, the hormone helps metabolism of oral contraceptives. If you are overweight, you enzymes in the liver increased, your metabolism or 'burned' and the oral contraceptive hormones much faster than normal. Today's oral contraceptive pills containing low doses of hormones than they used to, therefore, if you are overweight, they may soon become the 'burn', and so their role in your body may be a shorter period of time, thereby increasing your the risk of pregnancy.

How you should do, if you have weight on the pill?

With the lowest possible contraceptives containing estrogen - this should be minimized, weight gain and swelling from water retention. Two current 20 mcgm pill, which is the lowest dose of estrogen can have: alesse and mircette.