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Bowman says she advises students that their choices are abstinence, the condom or the condom with vaginal spermicides, the diaphragm, the pill or depo-provera, a hormone administered by injection...
...most common form of contraception which students use is the condom, followed by the pill, Bowman says. The pill--a daily oral contraceptive made of cycles of cycles of hormones which prevents ovulation--is the number one prescribed form of birth control, Bowman says...
...most common concerns about the pill are its side effects, the nurse practitioner adds. Woman are concerned with weight gain, bloating moodiness, changes in their body and long-term fertility problems as a result of the pill...
...most side effects are not serious, and there is no evidence of the pill causing longterm fertility problems, says Bowman. Also, women should not be concerned about consuming high doses of hormones, since the levels in the pill are "very low," Bender says...
...There's a certain amount of being disconcerted when you find out that oral contraceptives are not like popping aspirin," says Faigel, who adds that reactions to the pill vary according to the individual...