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The TikTok Birth Control Trouble

What: Salon looks at the TikTok birth control content that gets clicks and finds it’s often about rare side effects or straight up misinformation. Mix that in with women’s pain routinely being ignored and underresearched, and you have a potential recipe for birth control disaster.

Key line: “TikTok has become a hotbed of birth control misinformation, with videos accumulating millions of views in which women blame their IUDs for pelvic floor dysfunction, autoimmune conditions, liver failure, and other conditions. In one video, the text reads: ‘I cannot believe my ‘for you’ page today. Every video is of a girl getting autoimmune/cancer from her IUD. Why did we pop birth control like candy because doctors told us to?’”

Source: Salon

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