I like Cerazette and haven't had any side effects from it, apart from the lack of withdrawal bleeds, which IIRC happens to 20% of women who take it and is a side effect I quite like.
The other point to note about the effectiveness statistics of contraception is that they're usually based on proper usage of the drugs ie. not missing pills/not having a large gap between pills/using additional contraception when taking certain antibiotics. There's a different set of statistics reflecting effectiveness when used the way they are used in practice.
And *grr* to taking your blood pressure like that! I don't know if you're aware that blood pressure cuffs come in different sizes and if they're using one on you that's too small for your arm (it will still physically fit around your arm) it will give an artifically high reading. I normally have to ask to make sure medical people use a large sized cuff rather than a standard one.
Thanks so much for this comment, it's really helpful. I think the problem with anecdotal stuff about contraception side effects is that people are more likely to grumble if they have a bad experience than mention if things are fine, so I have heard almost entirely negative stories about exogenous progesterone
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*nods* - though I'm just another anecdote here - I think it's useful to be aware that people have different experiences with different pills so you know to look out for side effects. You're not going to know how they work for you till you try them.
Cerazette unlike the other POPs has a twelve hour not a three hour window (or at least this is what I was told when I was offered a choice of POPs - it's more expensive than the other POPs the NHS uses. I'm not sure why I was asked or why the NHS continues to routinely use the other ones, given that a three hour window is hard to deal with for many people).
And yes, definitely, I've had people be surprised my blood pressure is normal or otherwise try to redefine normal as not including my reading, because of what I certainly perceive as them expecting me to have high blood pressure because of my weight.
This site gives info on blood pressure cuffs vs. arm sizes (it's a site about pregnancy for fat women, but is the best info on blood pressure cuffs I've found). I think it's reasonably
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D had a nurse appointment and he was all anxious because he doesn't like GPs offices, so they had to take his BP 3 times! But they let him do so for an accurate reading, so that was good.
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it was fascinating, but kind of scary, to observe how half the faculty who came to talk to us completely failed to notice that she was there.
Good luck with the interviews - and 'reserve' may well mean that you're first in line if anyone in the Department lands more funding.
As for Leicester, I have ineradicable prejudices about the place, having spent some very unhappy years there; but if they hire you, I am prepared to concede that there is a redeeming feature. Where did you find a decent curry? Akash Tandoori?
Was the horror story about Cerazette mine? It made me go batshit crazy. I think hormones have quite a strong effect upon my mental state. I get emotional symptoms of PMS if I'm not using hormonal contraception.
When I got my IUS, they lost my chlamydia test. I had to reassure them that I was about as sure as you could be that I didn't have chlamydia. I also get annoyed that some medical people think that any risk below x are all the same. I get annoyed when sources only quote reliability as 'more than 99%', as if no one could care about comparisons beyond that.
I don't know how the survey for the contraceptive-effectiveness data but it's possible that >99% means "in our trial it was 100% effective but there's the margin of error to consider" (which I was told by my doctor is the case for Implanon, but my doctor was not a stats expert so may have not actually read the relevant trails).
Livredor> stupid clinic. :-( I'm on Implanon which is Prog-only just not in pill-form. I haven't had any Hideous Side Effects Of D00m on it.
I don't think that it's think, because I've seen effectiveness rates quoted which do have decimal places. I was thinking about the way that the family planning association are unwilling to use decimal places in their literature.
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The other point to note about the effectiveness statistics of contraception is that they're usually based on proper usage of the drugs ie. not missing pills/not having a large gap between pills/using additional contraception when taking certain antibiotics. There's a different set of statistics reflecting effectiveness when used the way they are used in practice.
And *grr* to taking your blood pressure like that! I don't know if you're aware that blood pressure cuffs come in different sizes and if they're using one on you that's too small for your arm (it will still physically fit around your arm) it will give an artifically high reading. I normally have to ask to make sure medical people use a large sized cuff rather than a standard one.
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Cerazette unlike the other POPs has a twelve hour not a three hour window (or at least this is what I was told when I was offered a choice of POPs - it's more expensive than the other POPs the NHS uses. I'm not sure why I was asked or why the NHS continues to routinely use the other ones, given that a three hour window is hard to deal with for many people).
And yes, definitely, I've had people be surprised my blood pressure is normal or otherwise try to redefine normal as not including my reading, because of what I certainly perceive as them expecting me to have high blood pressure because of my weight.
This site gives info on blood pressure cuffs vs. arm sizes (it's a site about pregnancy for fat women, but is the best info on blood pressure cuffs I've found). I think it's reasonably ( ... )
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My continued good wishes for you job hunt.
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Om nom nom South Indian fud nom
it was fascinating, but kind of scary, to observe how half the faculty who came to talk to us completely failed to notice that she was there.
I think that's rather the point....?
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As for Leicester, I have ineradicable prejudices about the place, having spent some very unhappy years there; but if they hire you, I am prepared to concede that there is a redeeming feature. Where did you find a decent curry? Akash Tandoori?
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When I got my IUS, they lost my chlamydia test. I had to reassure them that I was about as sure as you could be that I didn't have chlamydia. I also get annoyed that some medical people think that any risk below x are all the same. I get annoyed when sources only quote reliability as 'more than 99%', as if no one could care about comparisons beyond that.
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Livredor> stupid clinic. :-( I'm on Implanon which is Prog-only just not in pill-form. I haven't had any Hideous Side Effects Of D00m on it.
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