Opinion: Millions of people take birth control to treat endometriosis — but it doesn’t work
Doctors believe that if they can control the reproductive cycle with synthetic hormones, then they can also control endometriosis. But research suggests that isn't the case.
At 14, after nearly three years of haunting the local urgent care clinic because of my intense menstrual periods, a doctor wrote a script that would alter the course of my life.
It was for the birth control pill.
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