• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    16 days ago

    I would have definitely gotten a second opinion via some internet searching on anything I saw in a commercial long before I talked to a doctor about it.

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      16 days ago

      Oh, I did do that. I just wouldn’t have looked into it if it weren’t for the advertisement warning.

      I think birth control is in a weird category here though, because it’s (generally) totally elective and there’s a bunch of different kinds that work differently for different people, so it’s probably pretty standard for people to have preferences about it in a way that they probably don’t for various types of, say, cholesterol medication.