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Q: Cellulite From Bc?

asked by: hollyoh on September 24th, 2006

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I've been on hormonal birth control and ever since i've been on it i've developed mild cellulite around my abdomen. No matter how hard I do crunches, or lose weight, or anything, [i also eat healthily] it's still kind of there on that like tummy-pouch that many women are oh so blessed with. But I noticed that when i'm off the hormones a bit, [aka on my period] I dont have any cellulite appearing around my abdomen. And the skin is tighter! And I dont feel so weighed down [water retention obviously].

I'm just curious to know if any of you have the same problem- that birth control causes you to have more cellulite. Because it could also just be im making it up that the birth control is causing it, but I dont know!!

Thanks for reading!!

Replies(1)

Carifairy

replied on September 24th, 2006

Extremely eHealthy

You are correct that it can be water retention! I do not use hormonal birth control, I use a non hromonal iud, so I expereince zero side effects =)

yasmin or yaz are pills which help reduce water retention and weight gain, perhaps you should seek the advice of your doc to switch to a new pill.

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