You can find more detailed information about blood clot symptoms here. She told BuzzFeed, “I didn’t think about it at all until I went off the pill. I was on it for more than a decade and when I went off it, I felt like I woke up from a nap that I didn’t know that I was taking. I felt three-dimensional and alive in a way that I hadn’t in years. This is what led me to begin diving into the research looking at the effects of the pill on women’s brains and the ways that they experience the world.” “This is because medical research is focused on safety and efficacy (will it kill you? Does it work?) with little attention paid to experiential effects and quality of life,” she said. “With the pill, these things are huge, since hormones are a key player in how our brains create the experience of being the person that we are.” “It’s been an issue that has been almost completely ignored by the medical community until very recently. And because the research into this is still relatively new, it isn’t being taken seriously enough by those in the medical community.” “I think that it’s critical for women to also be aware of the range of psychological side effects associated with pill use. Things like changes in the risk of developing anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, PTSD-like symptomology, and even changes in things like partner preferences (the pill can impact who women are attracted to) and the ability to build muscle from working out (the pill seems to lower women’s ability to build muscle from strength training — likely due to lowered testosterone),” she said.
