Women’s mood found to worsen during ‘pill pause’ period of monthly contraceptive pill cycle

Most contraceptive pills are based on a cycle of taking the pill for 21 days, and then stopping the pill for 7 days. Now researchers have found that women’s mood worsens during the 7 pill-free days. This work will be presented at the ECNP congress in Barcelona on October 8. The research is also published in JAMA Network Open.