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Breaking news, earth shattering new information. Birth control is still slow release poison for women people. I will die on this hill and the only reason I will die on this hill is because literally, women have put up with for generations the slow release poisoning of all of us. And not only assuming it's okay, but also being gaslit into thinking this is actually healthier, that we're going to be happier, we're going to be prettier, we're going to overall have a much better life if we sit down and shut up and take the poison. We cover birth control a lot on the show, especially for those of you who are new around here. You might not know how often we cover this, but I care about this subject so deeply because so many young women, by the millions, if not hundreds of millions, have been lied to and duped by the pharmaceutical industry into thinking birth control is our magic one size fits all pill solution to all of the aches and pains of womanhood. And now, decades later, we're waking up to realize intimately for ourselves the havoc that has been wreaked on our bodies, on our minds, on our relationships, and so much more as the truth is coming to light. A couple of months ago, I posted a reel to my social media about a lawsuit that was being speculated and coming to the surface really for the first time against one specific type of hormonal birth control called Depo Provera. If you guys haven't taken Depo or you don't know what it's like, Depo Provera is actually the injectable birth control that goes into your arm just like a vaccine or any other injectable drug that you take pretty regularly over the course of several months to years. And they say that it works basically the exact same way as the birth control pill, but in many ways it's so much easier. You don't have to remember to take it every single night. Your body's gonna be so happy for you. And then your brain doesn't even have to think about it. Turns out the ease and convenience of Depo Provera has translated into horrifying side effects that allegedly Pfizer, the manufacturer of Depo Provera, failed to disclose in any sort of label on the drug itself. And therefore doctors didn't know to warn against some of these crazier side effects, namely developing brain tumors. Turns out thousands upon thousands of women who have taken Depo Provera for the last several years or even decades are now realizing they have brain tumors, meningiomas more often than not, and are banding together to sue Pfizer for failing to disclose this potential side effect. I posted this back in July about this story. Listen to this. Hundreds of women from across the US and UK are banding together to sue Pfizer over the Depo Provera birth control injection specifically being linked to brain tumor development. These lawsuits all started after a study came out from France, France last year that women who got this birth control injection and used Depo Provera for more than a year were five times more likely to develop a meningioma, which is a specific type of brain tumor. And this wasn't like they just asked five people. This study uncovered that 18,000 women in this study alone between 2009 and 2018 had to undergo brain surgery specifically for a meningioma. And here's the real kicker. More than 4,40 million women have already used Depo Provera. In 2021, the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care published that over 42 million women were using these injectable birth controls like the brand Depo Provera in the United States. That involves around 25%, one quarter of all sexually active women in our country. And this lawsuit isn't the first class action lawsuit about birth control companies not warning people appropriately about how much hormonal birth control can impact your 2014, another pharmaceutical company agreed to a hundred million dollar global settlement over the nuva ring, not for brain tumor growth, but for blood clotting issues causing deep vein thrombosis, stroke or even death. And then I see videos like this one of the nexplanon implant, the little device that actually goes into your arm. And I just keep thinking that one's probably coming next. And all these companies and the mainstream media are all wondering why women everywhere are quitting our birth control. Is it really that surprising? She's smart. She's a smart cookie. We should have her on the show more. I forgot about the nexplanon video in there. Total side note, we'll get back on track here for a second. Nexplanon, I guarantee you, is the next class class action lawsuit in the birth control world. It's the little, like, bar thing that they put inside of your arm. I had forgot about that video going viral earlier this year where a girl's arm is like, it looks like she got shot and there's a tiny nexplanon implant in her arm. If you guys are just listening to this on podcast platforms, you obviously couldn't see that video. She's like completely bruised down her whole arm in the most traumatic injury you've ever seen in your life. And then from inside of her arm, you can see the nexplanon implant blinking lights. Not normal, not good. Mark my words. July Me was very ahead of her time. September, October, not even September. October Me is following up by saying, that's the next class action lawsuit, I guarantee you. Okay, Being totally honest with you guys. Between work relationships and just trying to properly adult in my house these days, remembering to reorder supplements is honestly the last thing on my mind. That's why I became a preferred customer with Balance of nature. 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Like almost every woman my age in our generation, I took birth control for upwards of nine years of my life because so many women had the exact same story told to us. I was 15 years old when I was first prescribed hormonal birth control. And I know, I know before everyone comes at me, I like most young women in the church, I was prescribed hormonal birth control not because of preventing pregnancy or because I was sexually active, but because of a million other pharmaceutical reasons and the fact that doctors have often been prescribing this medication as like the band aid solution for anything associated with womanhood. In my case, it had to do with horrifying cystic acne as a teenager and I had tried every single pharmaceutical option on the market, all of the topicals, all of the other pills, every, everything I could think of before eventually arriving at the end all be all conclusion of our generation, which was Accutane. Accutane is a really intense drug. Do not recommend taking it unless you absolutely need to. But at the time when I was a teenager, they mandated by law that you had to have two different forms of birth control while also on Accutane. As a young woman. I don't know if that's the same process that is required today. So if you are a teenager right now or you guys know about Accutane right now, let me know if that's changed in the comments because I am really curious. But because Accutane can cause very severe birth defects if you take it while you are pregnant for your baby. They legally mandated when I was a teenager that you had to have two different forms of birth control. The good dermatologists would let you pledge abstinence as one type of birth control. They would believe you if you said I'm not sexually active, which obviously I did. My dermatologist was My next door neighbor. So that made life a little bit easier. But for the second form of birth control, as a young woman taking Accutane, you had to, by regulations, take birth control pills. And from then on out, from the time I was 15 years old until the time I was 23, 24, I was told by every single health care practitioner in my life, every single one, that I can't stop taking birth control or my life would go off the rails and be in shambles. I would get super, super fat, my skin would come back with all of the acne problems that I worked so hard to get rid of. Isn't it so great not to have a period? You definitely don't want to have a period, Isabelle. Come on. Who wants that? Even though you're normally supposed to have a period, your body is supposed to go through this journey. You're going to be super stressed. You're going to cry all the time. You're going to be depressed. Meanwhile, I was depressed and anxious like the whole time I was taking birth control, which is part of the reason I decided to quit. But they'll convince you and gaslight you that everything's going to be worse the second you stop taking it. So I care about this subject and I cover birth control horror stories all the time in my content because of my own experience. When I say birth control is poison, I'm not just saying that for clickbait or for a viral headline or for the New York Times to attack me as some anti birth control propagandist, which they do quite regularly pat on the back for that, but because I have intimate experience taking this said slow release poison, and I know the impact that it has had on my life. I know so many of you guys, by the way, have been asking for a birth control deep dive, which I promise is coming. And we are working on some really exciting experts to bring onto the show to talk about why birth control is changing so much of women's minds, our spirituality, our attractiveness to men, who is attracted to us, our sex lives, so, so much more. So I promise we are getting into that in the show very soon. But even more importantly, as to why I cover this because I care, because I have an experience with it. I cover stories like this in this lawsuit, in particular about Depo Provera. Because of your experiences and the horror stories by the thousands, I hear from all of you about what problems birth control caused in your own life over the last several years or even decades that you have been taking these drugs. The lawsuit that I posted about back in July is getting crazier. And just a few days ago, our friends over at EV magazine, we love them, ended up posting an update to their Instagram about where the depo lawsuit currently sits, which I'll throw up here for you guys. They're explaining that this has really exploded in stature. The study that is being referenced for the lawsuit has asked over 10 million American women about their experience with birth control. And the researchers found that those who used Depo Provera, the injectable birth control, faced a 143% increased risk of brain tumors. That makes me want to blow my brains out. Long term users of Depo Provera were found to face an almost 300% risk, a 290% risk of developing brain tumors. So great. Girlhood, Just girl things. Oh my gosh. How did we not know that this was happening until now? And of course, by the way, everybody will say, well, it says on the label you're not supposed to use it long term. What doctor ever in history has told women, eh, you're only supposed to use birth control for a few months at a time. To the contrary, every doctor in my life told me, no, no, no, stay on this thing forever until you're ready to have a baby. Until like right before you're ready to have a baby. Thank you God, that I had the foresight to quit birth control when I was 23, 24, and I had a baby when I was 28. My body could fully cleanse itself of all of the horrifying toxins associated with this medication. And I have luckily so far, please God, let this continue to be the case. Had no long term impact on my fertility. But I can't tell you how many of my friends have had the opposite experience that they are really struggling to get pregnant to begin with. They've had recurring miscarriages and they'll say it has nothing to do with birth control. But we all took birth control for like 10 years and there's been no major studies about the long term impacts of getting rid of your period, the thing that enables you to be pregnant for years or decades on end, and how that impacts your ability to be pregnant in the first place. Turns out, I guess we're not asking about brain tumors either. And how you have a nearly 300% increased risk of developing brain tumors if you took Depo Provera long term, which everybody did, because they always make you take this stuff long term. One of the women in this lawsuit is named Robin Phillip. In this class action lawsuit against Pfizer which is really kicking off its U.S. u.S. Leg today. She, at 45 years old, because of long term exposure to Depo Provera, has had multiple brain tumors and lost vision in her left eye and had to relearn how to walk at 45 years old, after taking Depo Provera for nearly 30 years. Listen to her testimony right now. If I would have knew from the giggle, I would have never took that shot.
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In 2018, doctors discovered a tumor called a meningioma pressing on Philip's brain.
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This right here.
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Emergency surgery left her without vision in her left eye. She even had to relearn how to walk.
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It was a whole reframing of life. I lost my apartment. I had to move in with my mama.
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Depo Provera is a progestin shot injected every three months. One in four women in the United States use it. With black women taking the shot at nearly double the national rate. Philip took it for nearly 30 years. The only time you stopped was when you had your two children.
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Multiple studies have found a potential link between depo and meningioma, including one that found women who took the drug for more than a year had five times the risk of developing the tumor.
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So overall, meningioma is not common. The likelihood of having a meningioma as a depo user is incredibly low. It's just that it's incredibly, incredibly low for people who don't use depo.
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Philip is now one of more than 1,000 women suing Pfizer, the maker of Depo Provera, alleging the company chose to ignore relevant safety concerns and deliberately not study the long term safety of depo.
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Did you guys catch that? One in four. One in four women. It's going to be interesting to see how that surfaces. What's really heartbreaking to me, and my heart just goes out to women like Robin. But so many women like her have had symptoms like this for years. And so many doctors just don't even take us seriously because they've been trained like we have to to believe that birth control is the solution to everything. It's never the source of the problem. Birth control is going to fix your endometriosis. It's going to fix your pcos, your polycystic ovarian syndrome. Birth control is gonna make your period more manageable. Birth control is gonna clear up your skin. Birth control will fix everything in your life. So when we start to complain and say, hey, I'm gaining a bunch of weight, my heart is having palpitations, it's racing all the time. I'M constantly having migraines. I had the worst migraines on birth control and I pray that that does not manifest into a brain tumor at some point. But that's a very common first symptom when women start saying, hey, I'm really anxious and depressed all the time, I feel a little suicidal. I'm not attracted to my boyfriend anymore. I never want to have sex again. When we start talking about this stuff, doctors go, eh, that's. Yeah, that's womanhood. Couldn't be from birth control. And so women are telling these stories and they're explaining these symptoms, but nobody is taking us seriously about it because it's just another silly thing that women complain about. Not to sound like a raging leftist feminist, but this is a severe problem in the healthcare industry and there is a gap between women's legitimate experiences and people taking you seriously in the diagnostic process and helping you come up with actual, actual solutions for this stuff. It feels like these days everyone is just pushing the latest TikTok wellness trend or magic greens powder. And I'm so sick and tired of scrolling through seeing the experts who clearly aren't experts, give you the best advice for your health. I've been asking myself, why are we just trusting these one size fits all solutions with our health from people that we can't necessarily rely on? Especially as a new mom, I can't afford to just guess what goes in my body anymore. Which is exactly why I have partnered with Jevity. They are doing something radically different in our quick solution. Listen to the wellness influencer culture. They're following actual science through at home blood work. They show you exactly what your body needs. No more throwing money at random supplements and just hoping that something works. 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Choose Jevotee because your health deserves so much better than what's trending on social media. Interestingly, men are starting to pay attention and they are offering now to go with women in their lives to doctor's appointments and to advocate for them to healthcare practitioners so that their symptoms are taken seriously. One young man decided to post about this Depo Provera lawsuit on his TikTok and encourage women to reach out to the men in their lives to accompany them if they're having any of these same symptoms. Listen to this. If you need to advocate there, ask a man to be there. Because what we've learned is that women don't get help when they need help. So if you need a man to be there to advocate for you, ask anybody to be there. Like I'm talking about brothers, literally ask anybody because I've just learned too much over the last couple weeks. And if you find out, please talk to a lawyer. Go, go immediately to. I think they are handling this case in Florida. No more people need to know about this. More people need to know about this and more women need to be speaking up about this. I was never offered Depo Provera. I was only ever immediately put on hormonal birth control pills. I can't even remember, I think the brand that I was taking mostly, and it varied a little bit over the years, but mostly, if I remember correctly, the brand was called Trinessa. So I guess I didn't realize how horrifying the symptoms and the side effects actually are of the injectable birth control of Depo Provera. And until I went through and I read the comments on that video from this kind, wonderful man who we need a lot more of in the world. Thank you for speaking up and advocating on behalf of actual women's health. These comments are shocking to me. From Charlotte Nicole, I'm someone who was on depo for over 10 years and I developed a brain tumor. I am about 10 weeks post op. Please get screened if you have any issues. Migraine, vision issues, hearing issues, et cetera. Hmm. I was on prescription migraine meds for years while I was taking birth control. I wonder how many women just think, ah, it's just a headache and eventually it ends up becoming a brain tumor. But we are gaslit into thinking it's no big deal. How about this one from Ducky the depo shot ruined my health when I was a teenager and I was just told hormones are tricky. You are right about needing a male with you. I am taken way more seriously when my husband is with me versus the years of going by myself to appointments. Candy Candy with a K and two y's. Not to mention the depo shot can also also cause you to go into a permanent period. What where you are not where you are on a heavy flow menstrual cycle for the whole duration that the chemicals are in your system. My friend had a menstrual cycle lasting for over a year. It ended up causing other health issues due to severe blood loss. How have we just like accepted that as normal up to this point? Everything's good. Just another day in womanhood. You're so empowered now. Women. More birth control. Take it. Oh my word. So then that prompted me to go back to my post from July and start scrolling through some of these comments. Equally shocking and insane. From Autumn Neely I was on it Depo Provera for 15 years. I broke both of my feet. They said my bones were so brittle because of Depo Provera. One of the major side effects. Wild and free. One said my friend died from a depot shot. Hmm. Atelania McDermott says, I was on Depo Provera for about three to four years. It made my period disappear. I got off of it and I still didn't get my period back for two years. Then found out I have a prolactinoma, which is a brain tumor and have been battling that ever since. Doctors have always said that the two weren't connected, but you know, they always say that they're not connected. Sammy says, I was on depo from 2000 until 2017. I stopped it as I didn't need birth control so I haven't had any sense. The last couple of years I've gotten diagnosed with two types of really rare cancer like diseases. I've already had two tumors removed. One was 6 cm and the other was 12 cm. They keep saying they don't know what caused it. I wonder if this was a factor. The fact that you're not even allowed to ask, did this cause it? Everyone says, nope, not related. Not related. Don't look. Look over here, not over there. That's disgusting. Actually, Lily May says, I've been on it Depo Provera for five years and I have a pineal penial cyst and started having seizures three years ago. Could it be linked? Question mark? Doctors say no, but I don't believe A word. How are we just like, okay with all of this being normal? How has there not been a class action lawsuit until now, is my question. Because in my research on Depo Provera, what is genuinely shocking to me is that this drug has been marketed, I don't know, in the UK for example, where there are other lawsuits happening. Since the 1980s, this has been out there, marketed to women. And as a result, in the UK, Depo Provera is used by about 4, 15% of all women in the country, 15% of all British women are on Depo Provera probably for years and years and years. Like all of these comments, even though you're not supposed to. So they have a 300% chance, increased chance of developing a brain tumor later in life, not to mention all of the other side effects. And we call this like the gold standard treatment for endometriosis. I'm sorry, are you, are you insane? How is this real? The warning label for Depo Provera in the UK wasn't even updated until last year after 15% of the whole country has been prescribed this medication since the 1980s. Across the rest of the world, it is thought that There are about 250 million women across the entire world that are currently taking hormonal contraceptives. That alone is insane. That's like multiple countries, populations all put together who are on hormonal birth control because it makes your life so good. It's the rainbow magic pill. Just take it, or in the words of the New York Times, you won't have an identity anymore. Who am I without birth control? Was an actual headline run by the New York Times, what, last week, just a few days ago, just take it. Like the other 250 million compliant women in the U.S. nearly 1/4 of all sexually active women in our country, as I mentioned in my post from July, have used Depo Provera in their lifetime. Specifically injectable Depo Provera, not just hormonal birth control pills. 25%. So calming and wonderful to hear that reality. This lawsuit, the class action against Pfizer here in the US had some first hearings, preliminary hearings on Monday in Pensacola, Florida. And we are sure to be following this case very, very closely over the next several months to know just how severe the impact is on the women of our generation. But knowing that 25/ percent of all sexually active women in our country have received this injectable drug is a frightening thought. Especially when you start doing the guy with the red string on the corkboard thing and realizing the people manufacturing this drug, Pfizer Sorry, had a cough. Are the same people who are selling you stuff like cancer drugs and long term chemotherapy and pharmaceutical interventions for severely long term debilitating diseases like those associated with brain tumors. The fact that we have not had this conversation honestly up to this point in American history is unacceptable. And despite being attacked by the New York Times repeatedly for it, I will die on this hill. I will not rest until women of our generation realize just how systematic the poisoning of our entire generation has been sold to us in a pretty pink sparkly box. We've got a shorter episode today because I am on the road traveling, doing some very fun on the ground boots on the ground stories for you guys for the show for the next couple of days. More coming soon, I promise. But because it is so important for us to be incredibly honest about the poison of birth control, I am begging you, like I normally do in all of my Instagram reels about birth control, to drop your why I quit birth control story in the comments. The more we can be honest about our experiences and we can warn the next generation of women just how debilitating these drugs actually are and allegedly the specific impact that Depo Provera has had on our generation, the more we can say never again and never again can we allow 25% of the women in our society to fall victim to being told this is going to make your life so much better. And as we plan ahead for a new episode, deep diving into all of the things wrong with hormonal birth control, please drop your questions if you have any for a certified birth control expert for us to take with us in the next couple of weeks as we interview people that you have been requesting for a very, very long time. And that is all I will say about that. We'll be back tomorrow with a very special interview here on the Isabelle Brown show with one of my friends favorite creators on the Internet about finding God in the most unexpected of places. 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