Woman who suffered from hormonal mood swings on The Pill launches website inviting women to review contraception methods
LIKE many teenagers, Alice Pelton went on the pill once she started to become sexually active with her first boyfriend.
"I assumed the turbulent time I had over the next few months was just part and parcel of being a teenager," she recalls. "I was so emotional; I didn’t have a grip on my moods. I had waves of anger and upset."
Then, after taking a break from the pill she returned to it aged 19.
"Within days of starting it again I ended up shouting at my mum over something really innocuous," Alice, now 30, recalls.
"She turned to me and said it was like I was 16 again. It was only then that it came to me that the common denominator was that I had been on the pill on both occasions – and maybe my massive mood swings were something to do with that."
The realisation of how much her choice of contraception affected her led Alice on a several year-long quest to find something that suited her better – and culminated, two years ago in a lightbulb moment.
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