Why is birth control commonly prescribed in perimenopause?

Your Menopause Questions Answered, with Alloy’s Dr. Sharon Malone and Alloy Community Manager Rachel Hughes.

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[rose]

My periods actually became very short and light during perimenopause... but I do have hypothyroidism.

[itsgettingold]

Medications for a transitory, totally normal part of growing older. Thanks for the increase in cancer risk that the medical profession declares is rare. Unless it happens to you, that is. No thanks.