Okay, how 'bout they market two different sets of pills? One is for people who are taking them for birth control, and they get their period every month, or every three months. The other is for people who are taking them for dysmenorrhea, and they have no periods at all. Everybofy satisfied.
(Okay, maybe not women who have dysmenorrhea and don’t want kids. But you can’t please everyone).
Ugh. cramps. I can’t wait to have my uterus yanked. I also don’t respond well to snthetic hormones, so the pill has never helped. I also throw up until I have little blood blisters popping up around my eyes.
And yes, I had periods regularly after the Celtling was born, despite breast-feeding for almost a full year.
As stated, they aren’t all like that. But thanks for enlightening us.
Ya, and more specifically, we tend to use it to mean “no birth through the cervix” in this context…it’s not absolute but for the way I’ve used it here, a c-section still leaves the cervix nulliparous, so it’s quite literally “never having given birth” even if you have had children who were removed by c-section before they loosened up your birth canal very far.
And that there is the reason why my GF takes her Nuva Ring out once a month to allow for a period-- it’s nature’s way of letting us both know that the BC worked just fine.
She’ll take the pain of a period over the pain of pregnancy any day (well, at least until we’re married with kids. . . but even then I’m sure she’ll be grumpy!).
Um. They do this already, don’t they?
Exactly! When I was younger, if there were any sign of cramping, I’d be bringing out the Tylenol, hot water bottle, etc. and going around moaning. Now, since I have developed PMDD, I actually EMBRACE cramps!!! No Tylenol needed.