i just started taking lo orval a few months ago. i used to have very painful cramps and even get sick durring my period; now i barely notice it.
"most women consider monthly periods normal." i can understand the benefits of not getting a period, but something about the idea that it could be anything but normal bothers me.
"That schedule [21/7] was set by the original birth control designers to mimic normal menstrual cycles." 21/7 is what the text books teach, but i know plenty of women whose bodys didn't follow that schedule, or any at all. I used to get mine 16/5... what makes any woman's cycle "normal" or abnormal?
21/7 is what the text books teach, but i know plenty of women whose bodys didn't follow that schedule, or any at all. I used to get mine 16/5... what makes any woman's cycle "normal" or abnormal?
Exactly. I never even attempted to follow mine on a calendar because I got them about four times a year, from age 14 to 21. Taking the pill in a 21/7 schedule made me feel horrible, bursting into tears all the time, etc. Now I've been on a 63/7 schedule (three 21 tablets non-stop) since last Fall and I don't have those feelings anymore (though some problems remain, it's not perfect). And I'm more closer to my own natural schedule.
I'd go back to using hormonal therapy if it didn't exhaust me, so I'm hoping uterine cauterization is covered by Medicaid or Medicare. I don't plan on reproducing anyway.
I would not miss my period one little bit. I would, though, use a pregnancy test regularly.
I don't think that a monthly pregnancy test would cost any more than the cost of tampons, panty shields, Ibuprofen for cramps, and occasionally replacing underwear and even sheets that I've leaked onto and stained.
Hell, even if I didn't get cramps, I'd gladly stop staining the sheets every month!
My hormonal IUD has recently caused me to stop menstruating, but I used to get very heavy periods. Years ago, I switched to a reusable menstrual cup and I can't tell you how much it improved my life in oh so many ways. They're not for everyone, but most people who try it would never go back.
I bought one and used it for the first time at my last period. WOW ! It makes it so much easyer ! Even if Im not yet perfectly comfortable with it, i will never go back to tampons, never !
You were one of several people who have advised me to try the Keeper. I've got it, but I'm having some trouble using it. I get leakage, especially after emptying it on a heavy-flow day. Do you have any suggestions?
Maybe I just don't have a low opinion of periods or something but this line bothered me: Almost since the first pill arrived in 1960, women have manipulated birth control to skip periods for events such as a wedding, vacation or sports competition.I'm on the pill but I still have my period. It'll last about 4 days or so and its heavy enough that I use size 'Super!' Still, I don't "cance" my period when I go somewhere, nor do I avoid sex or activity when I'm on my period, either. I've noticed that a lot women feel their periods interrupt their natural flow of life and put a halt to whatever they're doing for that week or so. You can especially see this in TV commercials, where they start out like "your period got you stuck inside the house with nothing to do, try *this* tampon!." However, I don't feel my period is bothersome at all. It's just ... there. When I'm bleeding once a month I just have to take a few minutes longer in the bathroom and wash more carefully. I really don't understand why people think of it as they do. Again,
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While I do have very mild periods - three to four days of light bleeding, little pain - I can understand the women whose lives halt when they're on the rag. My best friend often has horrific periods - she spends at least a week laying on the couch because she'll throw up if she moves. My mother's periods were even worse than that.
And hell, as I said, I have mild periods, but I feel absolutely dead during them. Physically I don't feel bad - oh, look, crotchblood, okay - but psychologically... I have no energy, no motivation, get nearly suicidal and extremely paranoid. It's hard to continue your life as usual when you burst into tears at the slightest thing.
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"most women consider monthly periods normal." i can understand the benefits of not getting a period, but something about the idea that it could be anything but normal bothers me.
"That schedule [21/7] was set by the original birth control designers to mimic normal menstrual cycles." 21/7 is what the text books teach, but i know plenty of women whose bodys didn't follow that schedule, or any at all. I used to get mine 16/5... what makes any woman's cycle "normal" or abnormal?
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Exactly. I never even attempted to follow mine on a calendar because I got them about four times a year, from age 14 to 21. Taking the pill in a 21/7 schedule made me feel horrible, bursting into tears all the time, etc. Now I've been on a 63/7 schedule (three 21 tablets non-stop) since last Fall and I don't have those feelings anymore (though some problems remain, it's not perfect). And I'm more closer to my own natural schedule.
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I don't think that a monthly pregnancy test would cost any more than the cost of tampons, panty shields, Ibuprofen for cramps, and occasionally replacing underwear and even sheets that I've leaked onto and stained.
Hell, even if I didn't get cramps, I'd gladly stop staining the sheets every month!
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It makes it so much easyer ! Even if Im not yet perfectly comfortable with it, i will never go back to tampons, never !
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Almost since the first pill arrived in 1960, women have manipulated birth control to skip periods for events such as a wedding, vacation or sports competition.I'm on the pill but I still have my period. It'll last about 4 days or so and its heavy enough that I use size 'Super!' Still, I don't "cance" my period when I go somewhere, nor do I avoid sex or activity when I'm on my period, either. I've noticed that a lot women feel their periods interrupt their natural flow of life and put a halt to whatever they're doing for that week or so. You can especially see this in TV commercials, where they start out like "your period got you stuck inside the house with nothing to do, try *this* tampon!." However, I don't feel my period is bothersome at all. It's just ... there. When I'm bleeding once a month I just have to take a few minutes longer in the bathroom and wash more carefully. I really don't understand why people think of it as they do. Again, ( ... )
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And hell, as I said, I have mild periods, but I feel absolutely dead during them. Physically I don't feel bad - oh, look, crotchblood, okay - but psychologically... I have no energy, no motivation, get nearly suicidal and extremely paranoid. It's hard to continue your life as usual when you burst into tears at the slightest thing.
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