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Medications that make you gain weight [slideshow]
Contraceptives
The oral contraceptive pill is the most widely used form of birth control. But one of the most common reasons women stop using the pill is that they believe it has been causing them to gain weight.
Synthetic estrogen and progestin found in oral contraceptives are commonly found to be a cause for fluid retention and increased appetite. Reducing your salt intake moderately can help control this type of water retention.
If you feel bothered by some of these side effects, your health care provider can prescribe a different brand of pills or recommend another method of birth control.
Read: Hormones For Women: The Benefits of Progesterone, The Problems With Progestin (Provera®)
