This is a bizarre thread.

-Rudey
--This is what I know about birth control: it's her responsibility.

:rolleyes: Right.. like guys have nothing to do with it

Has anyone tried the Nuva Ring? I'm getting sick of the Pill.

I use the patch and love it! Like someone had mentioned it never falls off and you don't have to remember a certain type of day, BUT I read somewhere that if you are over 198 lbs that it could be less effective, so who knows!

Before I started the pill a year and a half ago, I would get cramps so bad that I would have to call out of work for 3 days because I couldn't move and just spent the day in a fetal position on the couch crying, and couldn't sleep at all. I couldn't even schedule work around it or anything because it was so unbelievably irregular.

I was on Triphasil for a year, but it stopped working. Now I'm on Tricyclen. They both calmed the cramps down a little, but it's still pure hell... at least I know when to expect it though. I've also gained weight, which I hate.

No painkillers help much... if they do ease the pain, it only lasts for about 15 minutes. I'm getting a lot better at just sucking it up and dealing, but it's really not fun!

At least that's the only symptom I have to deal with though! Well, I do get incredibly mean, but I think I'm allowed if I have to deal with this...

:( I feel so terrible for everyone who has monster cramps... that just sounds wrong :(

When I was younger I used to get monster cramps, but gradually they got better on their own somehow.

See, I'm the complete opposite as most of you.....

Back in high school, I used to have MAJORLY heavy periods (it was a seven day cycle, I'd stop for a week, and then have another week long cycle!) I was getting anemic, so I had to suck it up and go to the ob/gyn and be put on the pill. That helped regulate everything for a while, but then I was skipping periods left and right (no, I am not sexually active, and never have been) and my blood pressure was rising, so the gyne took me off the pill. I became regular for about three months, and then they stopped all together. I finally had to be put on natural hormones in order to GET my period every month. There are times I wonder if it would have been easier to be a guy, and then I hit my head.....WHY WOULD I EVER WANT TO DO THAT????? :D

Yeah, I USED to get horrible cramps where I would have to call out of work or not go to school. They were not like that at the beginning though.

Anyway, so I am on the pill, and have been for two years. I think my body is becoming immune to them because I havent gotten my period for two months, but not in a row. Or, they are SUPER light. I think I am just going to go off of them, BUT i am scared of the horrible cramps coming back.


Has anyone gone on the pills because of the evil cramps, had the pill work, but then went off of them, and had the cramps come back??? I mean, you never know, maybe my cramps wont be as bad now, but thats the thing- you never know!!

I was put on the pill because of cramps and horrible headaches. My cramps came back whenever I ran out and had to wait to get a new prescription. Now I'm on the patch and all is well again :) I don't think I'd ever go off my bc unless I was trying to get pregnant.

Sex is for marriage.

-Rudey
--You don't need birth control ladies.

No applicators? :eek: I don't think I could do that. I'm clumsy. :(

Big myth about birth control: you're only on it if you're having sex and don't want to get pregnant.

the truth is that I was put on the pill before I started having sex. I used to have to stay home from school because my cramps and headaches were so bad. The pill aleviated all of those things! I know how hard it is to talk to your parents about being put on the pill, but my OB/Gyn actually recommended it to my mom when I went in to be checked out for my problems.

I also was on birth control long before I started having sex. There is a correlation between usage of the pill and a lessened chance of ovarian cancer. Having a bad family history of ovarian cancer, I was on the pill as soon as I was old enough.

Furthermore, I feel even within a marriage a woman has a right to decide when or if she plans on having children. It's her body, her life, and her choice. I feel she shouldn't be dictated to by a man about when she may have sex (unless he is her partner or potential partner), and whether or not she chooses to have children.

Other than one poster :rolleyes:, I don't think anyone else thought this was true. In fact, I'm the only person I know of who got on the Pill solely for contraceptive reasons (and I don't even use it as my only means)--all of my friends were on it because of bad cramps or because you have to be on it if you're taking Tetracycline or Accutane. Bah. The poster is just posting to get a rise out of people--which he obviously did.