When using oral contraceptives like Estrogen and progesterone, we e given placebo/sugar pills too. Why?
I suggest you go back to your prescribing doctor and talk to him/her more about oral contraceptives; the question you’re asking here is the result of misinformation, misinterpretation, or flat-out lies somewhere along information pathway from expert to consumer. Someone should sit down with you and explain in detail how this class of drug functions and answer all of your questions satisfactorily before you start taking these pills. The typical oral hormonal contraceptive package comes with 28 individually packaged pills, one allotted for each day of the forced 28-day “cycle.” The first 21 pills contain hormones that prevent the body from producing a viable egg; the last 7 pills are placebos, used as placeholders for the active ingredient pills taken the other 21 days. The “why” for these pills depends on your philosophical and cultural views, as well as your medical understanding of the finer details related to the actual biochemical functioning of oral contraceptives, but most people
