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Please describe a good birth control that doesn't cause weight gain?

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Many choices: Non hormonal birth control such as condoms or a diaphragm wont case weight gain. Nor should iuds. Most low dose combined birth control pills do not show any significant weight changes. Depo Provera (medroxyprogesterone) is the method most commonly associated with weight gain.

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Answered 10/24/2017

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