stories & conversations

MC describes her thought process behind getting an abortion. She shares some of the feelings she had about the experience.

BK discusses the research she did while considering using the birth control pill and how talking to her mom helped her to be even more informed.

Our Bodies Ourselves content expert Ann Marie Meyer offers encouragement in facing the many sides of perimenopause and its symptoms.

EH shares how their experience with fatphobia in medical systems has increased, with doctors focusing on their weight more than their health concerns.

MC describes her abortions and her trouble finding contraception that works for her.

Hear from patients living with heart failure on how it impacts their lives, how they cope with their diagnoses, and how they find hope despite their condition.

AB explains what she would advise about choosing a method of birth control.

AB describes how birth control made it easier to predict when her period would start.

AB discusses the gaps in what she learned about types of birth control and potential uses of birth control.

MT describes how she coped with the heavy and painful periods she experienced growing up before being able to take birth control.

MT shares her experience using birth control to treat heavy, painful periods. She addresses problems with the first birth control pill that she tried.

CB discusses the process of finding a treatment for her painful periods and heavy bleeding, until discovering that they were caused by fibroids and cysts.