I’ve known women who were very irregular in their cycles, and this resulted in them having some significant elevated problems from time to time. The pill brought that under control for them. I would have to support that therapy, if it worked successfully. In many cases, it does.
That’s not to say that women who don’t have this problem would be better off if they were on the pill. Different strokes for different folks.
Like you, I don’t like taking anything I don’t have to, and if I was a woman I would try to use that same philosophy.
Irregular cycles aren’t caused by a lack of birth control pills. They’re caused by something else. Far better to determine that cause and fix it than cover up the symptoms of that with the birth control pill.
I know several women put on the pill to ‘fix’ their PCOS. It nothing of the kind. It masked it long enough for them to develop raging t2d in their early 30’s. Had they actually worked to solve the problem (lower carb diet, insulin sensitizers, etc) they could have had regular cycles, normal fertility and avoided the t2d.
Just sayin’.
There's a whole different approach called Naprotechnology (LINK) which concentrates on careful diagnosis of the woman's actual, underlying problem which is causing the cycle irregularities. Sometimes it is nutritional; or stress-related; or a symptom of an underlying pathological condition (like polycystic ovarian conditions, tumors, or the like.)
Naprotech takes the time to make a careful diagnosis based on total endocrine/hormlnal health, not just covering up symptoms.
It is the only sensible approach for attaining normal physiological function, clearing up pain and cramp problems, restoring normal fertility cycles and thus being able to either achieve or avoid pregnancy via natural methods.
Talk about "controlling your own body." This is it.
What kinds of problems do irregular periods cause, for instance?