I’m not saying you should never go on birth control, but I do think we should be aware of their side effects! So what should you do? After a patient decides to go on birth control, I suggest they consider getting a blood panel done a few months after to see if anything has changed. That's because birth control pills can cause vitamin deficiencies. Birth control pills can deplete your body of several B vitamins (riboflavin, B6, B12, and folic acid), vitamin C, magnesium, and zinc. I say this as a

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