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First time birth control user, help needed regulating period?
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Shoud help: Birth control will help regulate menstrual cycles, make them very predictable, shorter, and less cramping.
Answered 7/27/2012
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Pill will help: In addition to the birth control pill being safe, effective, easy to take - 1 per day, and well tolerated, they have other benefits that result in shorter/ lighter/ more predictable/less crampy periods.
Answered 12/28/2016
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