Is it normal to gain 5 pounds in one week while on the Pill?

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It's absolutely normal. The hormone system which governs how much water your body keeps (and how much it excretes) is directly affected by the hormones in contraceptive pills.

The weight you've added is water weight and it will get to a level where it stabilises. If it becomes an issue for you, lower dosages can prevent water retention (but at the cost of being slightly less effective).

This happened to me when I first started taking birth control...it went away after a while...i think for me it was a few weeks. Hang in there! I believe I read somewhere it's normal to gain a max of 5% your body weight when starting the pill.

Normal, but if you continue to gain a substantial amount of weight, see your doctor. The weight might go away, but if it doesn't and you're worried, once again, see your doctor.

Yupp, birth control makes you gain a lot of weight :/ I believe it's because birth control makes your body think its pregnant? I'm not too sure

No this is perfeclty normal alot of medication will have the side effect of making you gain wieght talk to your doctor he may give you something that will not do that .

Medication can have strange side-effects. If it starts to negatively effect your health, stop taking it at once.

Sounds like bloating, which I think is normal for some birth control medications.

My friend told me shell never take Bc cus it apperently makes your body act like its pregnate so mabie that's why? (I'm a dude I'm not gona front like I have a clue)