how will birth control pills affect daughter? (w/response)

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<<I have a question but first a quick summary of daughter:

15.5 year old(I have been calling her Honey) again on Zoloft 25mg/day since

Nov 15 06 (previously on Zoloft 50mg/day from Jan 06- July 06 then weaned

too fast from late July to late Aug 06)

Following recommended supplement schedule from which includes

liquid multivit, fish oil, vit c, magnesium, digestive enzymes.

She has finally discussed with me that she is sexually active with boyfriend

of 7 months and would like to begin birth control pills. How will birth

control pills affect her success with weaning from Zoloft? I imagine that

birth control pills will not help her gain optimal mental/physical/spiritual

health, but neither will a pregnancy. Yes, they currently are using

protection and will continue to do so if she begins taking " the pill " but

everyone involved would like this to be a pregnancy free relationship at

this point.

Thanks for any knowledge or thoughts )

Amy in MN>>

** Amy, regardless of Zoloft being in the picture, BC pills (or patches)

should not be taken. Altering hormonal function is shortsighted and, coming from

doctors that prescribe them, foolish. You cannot alter one hormone without

affecting several others. All of these hormones have more than one job so when

you do this you prevent them from appropriately doing what they are meant to do.

These pills impose synthetic hormones upon a natural cycle. When nature

intends for women to be ovulating, this drug tricks the pituitary gland (part of

your brain also adversely affected by Zoloft) into believing you are pregnant so

you don't ovulate. That is the intended effect. But there are scores of

unintended effects as well.

These contraceptives can cause alterations in insulin production and

metabolism causing a person to become insulin-resistant, blood clots, edema

(which is indicative of alterations in heart function), cataracts, Erythema

multiforme (a severe skin disease), impaired renal function, hirsutism

(overabundance of hair on the body)...need I go sny further?

I look forward to the day when we all overcome the brainwashing that has been

done to us by the drug industry and conventional medicine and reclaim our

ability to clearly see that altering normal bodily functions has negative

consequences.

A few rules of thumb:

-- Never interfere in the normal functioning of your body. I dislike being

trite, but, Mother Nature DOES know best.

-- Drugs should be taken only in situations requiring acute treatment

(pneumonia, an infection you are unable to treat on your own requiring

antibiotics, severe pain, etc. Pharmaceutical drugs have intended actions and

unintended actions. This latter is usually called " side effects " to make these

actions seem benign. This is a far cry from the truth. The goal is to minimize

how often you take pharmaceutical drugs. Long-term, " chronic " treatment should

be done only in situations where a person's life would be threatened if they did

not take the drug. Examples of this are Type I diabetes (Type II can usually be

avoided through dietary alterations), thyroid disease, etc.

-- Good nutrition and a broad complement of nutritional supplements will

prevent most of the chronic diseases of our times. Most of the so-called

chronic diseases (heart disease, hypertension, cancers, etc) are in the making

for many years before they appear. Avoid them by not taking your body and

health for granted.

Regards,