In case you live under a rock, a male birth control study just concluded one trial. Lots of articles came out claiming the study was canceled because men couldn't handle the same side effects women put up with. Cue feminists on Facebook and elsewhere bitching about how men are wimps and selfish jerks etc. for making women put up with all these horrible side effects that men can't handle
Apparently the treatment was giving them a shot of testosterone every 8 weeks, because teste lowers men's sperm count. Result was side effects like mood swings and acne. One man committed suicide (researchers claim they think it was a coincidence unrelated to the teste) and another attempted suicide. Another looks like he is permanently sterile now. The more I look into it, it looks like these side effects were more severe and more common than the ones from female birth control.
Anyway the study was considered a success, it wasn't really cancelled they are going to do further development on it because it was 96% effective.
I don't know much about steroids, does anybody here know about the study and effects of steroids? From what I've heard the acne from roids can be a lot worse than normal acne. With two suicide attempts I'm guessing the mood swings can be a big deal too. Is permanent sterility something roiders worry about?
Here's a link to the male study
press.endocrine.org
>Intramuscular injections of 200-mg norethisterone enanthate combined with
1000-mg testosterone undecanoate, administered every 8 weeks
And a comparable study for female birth control:
clinicaltrials.gov
I haven't gone through the studies in detail but it does appear that the side effects for the men are much more common and more severe than the female birth control. Just wondering if any of the roiders here can understand this better and give insight and opinions on the side effects or the study