tiktok can be a place to find many shocking things: people buying
diy facial filler, people attempting “
at-home tooth straightening kits,” people drinking
coffee with breast milk. but a recent viral post, of a women who says she lost nearly all her hair when she stopped taking hormonal birth control, is causing people to rethink their relationship with the pill.
the video, posted by a 25-year-old user named chancey sessions, now has 1.5 million views. she shows video footage of clumps of hair that had apparently fallen out. the culprit, she says, was birth control.
sessions started taking oral birth control when she was 13, starting on a low dose to regulate her menstrual cycle, and gradually increasing the dosage over time,
she told buzzfeed news.
‘i had no idea i would almost go bald’
when she eventually decided in her 20s that she wanted to stop taking the pill, “i did my research… and went to the doctor and gyno, but both claimed nothing would happen,” she added. “since i had taken birth control for so long, i knew i would likely experience some side effects going off it, but i had no idea that i would almost go bald.”
when her hair first started falling out, many people told her it must be due to stress, even though she says she didn’t feel stressed at all. she finally got answers at a dermatologists’s office, where she found out that the “hormonal shock” her body experienced after she stopped taking birth control had led to her hair loss in some way.
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