Category: Unexplored misconceptions and myths “…I’ve been told that if you don’t take a break you become infertile (talking about COC)”, YW5 “they say that after a few months of taking the pill you should rest for a month or two, then start again…”, YW11 “Imagine, because if you don’t get your period for five years… you imagine the headaches… you imagine the bad mood… that can’t be normal, it can’t be good… because the lack of oestrogen gives you wrinkles, you suddenly become an old woman, it’s as if you were in menopause (….). and I think, if this is something we need as a woman, I mean, we need to get rid of that blood, as they say “it’s bad”, it’s useless, what happens to all that blood that accumulates there…?”, AW22 “…that each year of birth control pills are 7 years of ageing of the womb…”, YW4 “I’ve been told that there was an IUD that wasn’t hormonal but for people who hadn’t had children we should never use it, as there was risk of damaging the uterus”, AW1 “We have used birth control pills, but we’ve been reading that they cause hormonal changes, like putting on weight, that it can eventually leave you sterile… for women, right? That’s what I understand and that’s why we decided to change to condoms”, M8