I hate my goddamned uterus. I’ve been on continuous oral contraceptives (i.e., not taking a week off) to completely avoid having a period since I get horrible migraines every day of the period. (I get migraines other times too, but more often during menstruation.) This had been working fine for quite a while, until my body started ignoring the pill’s instructions and apparently deciding that having a period would be awesome, and thus starting breakthrough bleeding about once a month, with migraines along with. So I’d have to go off the pill for 3 days to reset my cycle, and I’d bleed for a week or so, and feel like shit.
Well now I’m going to have a Mirena IUD put into try to shut off my period (rather than do something drastic like operate), and I finish my pill pack last Thursday, and wait. It has to go in during my period, and I’m to call them the day it starts and schedule. Migraines start up, as expected. I had one last nearly 24 hours this weekend.
Here I am, feeling crappy but at work, and it still hasn’t started. WTF. Goddamned uterus doesn’t feel like having one right now, but seems to think I should just enjoy the days of migraines and meds, not to mention the bloating.
I hate my goddamned uterus. I’ve been on continuous oral contraceptives (i.e., not taking a week off) to completely avoid having a period since I get horrible migraines every day of the period. (I get migraines other times too, but more often during menstruation.) This had been working fine for quite a while, until my body started ignoring the pill’s instructions and apparently deciding that having a period would be awesome, and thus starting breakthrough bleeding about once a month, with migraines along with. So I’d have to go off the pill for 3 days to reset my cycle, and I’d bleed for a week or so, and feel like shit.
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I’ve heard, Ferret Herder, that oral contraceptives increase the risk of migraines. (link to about.com article, which isn’t exactly scholarly, I know, but I have read this elsewhere as I suffer from the damn things). Unfortunately I can’t compare being on the Pill to being off it as I have avoided OC’s for years. I do get more migraines during Aunt Flo’s visit, though. Did the pill prevent the headache completely during your period? How about the rest of the month; curious.
My migraines during the other weeks are seemingly more related to stress and probably other triggers. My mom gets migraines as well, but didn’t have hormonal ones. I’ve been on the pill for over 20 years but it’s only been in the last several years (shortly after a job change) that I’ve gone from a couple migraines a year to anywhere from 2-3 a week (plus every day during periods) to maybe one every other month or even less. I see a neurologist and my gynecologist for migraine management.
Oh, and one reason for being on oral contraception for that long is that I get horrible, sometimes debilitating menstrual cramps otherwise; the hormones get rid of or reduce them. (Told you I hate my uterus.) I’m dealing with that right now too since my uterus is holding out on the “start of Shark Week.” Hooray.
I got myself spayed in 2001, and I have not missed my uterus or ovaries at all. Those organs are just troublemakers, I tell you.
We’re moving. However, Charter has screwed up our move three times. First, their technicians said that they’re not allowed to drill through brick walls. OK, if that’s something that’s legally prohibited, or even prohibited by company policy, I can understand. However, the tech reported that my husband had refused to allow him to install the connection, which is NOT OK, because it was the tech who refused to do the work. Second, we told Charter to cancel our disconnect order at the old house…and they disconnected us anyway. Third, when I called in to ask why my internet connection was down, they told me that they were “performing maintenance in my area”, NOT that they had disconnected service at our old house (which we’re still living in). Because then, you see, I could have had them FIX it. I was told that the maintenance would take about a day…so when I called up again after a day and a half, I FINALLY learn that our service has been disconnected.
I’d switch to another provider, but around here, this is actually the best of the lot.
Obviously, I have a connection again. Good thing, too, I was going through some serious withdrawal.
Fuck the kids who can barely read but think they’re going to law school next year because they’re dropping a thousand dollars on a course. They break my heart but at some point they need to know they can’t handle hundreds of pages of reading every week.
And fuck the school that gave an English degree to a woman who had never seen the word ‘mirror’ as a verb and assumed it meant ‘minor,’ among other serious reading errors, this afternoon.
No, mother-in-law, I am not pregnant, nor will I have another baby just because you want another baby around. My son is 5 months old! And cut the crap of play whispering to him encouraging him to run away from home to your house if we should ever tell him he’s not allowed to do something. That’s how you ended up with 2/3s of your children neither in regular contact with you nor even vaguely productive members of society. Grrrrrr. I think its time for me to take a short break from you. See you for Christmas?
Also, bouncing him on our knee or gently throwing him in the air (he doesn’t even get any air off our hands) is not going to give him a concussion.
Also-also, stop snipping about our parenting choices to my husband behind my back. Its none of your business if we cosleep, when we start him on solids, or what kind of laundry detergent we use on baby’s clothes. (no, really, she bought us a giant jug of Dreft, when we normally use dye and fragrance free All. Husband used it once and noticed the stench)
Here’s a mini rant. Plastic coffee cup lids. Why is the little air hole in them (the one opposite the drinking hole, that lets the pressure equalise) always so small that it makes an annoying whistling/sucking sound as you drink? I always have to enlarge it with my thumbnail to stop the INFERNAL NOISE as I drink. Gnh.
My 67 year old mom lives in a nice situation, an old folk’s complex in the small town where she used to live, where she has friends and family and her rent is controlled at 1/3 of her pension - everyone is happy with the arrangement. I have one complaint about her housing association, though - she’s been complaining to them that the dryer in her unit runs red hot and is melting her clothes, so they bought her a new washing machine. I’ve been talking with her about this, and I’m mostly convinced that she’s taking appropriate precautions so the dryer they won’t replace won’t kill her, but goddammit, that’s a fire hazard! I know some older folks turn complaining into an art form, but my mom isn’t one of these - if she says the dryer needs to be replaced, it NEEDS to be replaced!
Dear inlaws: Normally I get along with you just fine. I am surprised, therefore, to find out that you think
Two-year-olds shouldn’t touch anything in a grandparent’s house without asking (even if it’s a toy on floor level)
Two-year-olds should be able to sit still for ten minutes while the grownups talk
Two-year-olds don’t require toys to play with because listening to grownups talk about politics should be interesting enough.
I am also fascinated to find out that you think the 7 month old baby should be weaned and eating only three square meals a day, and that nursing him and comforting him when he asks for it are going to make him helpless, clingy, and manipulative.
I also think you should make it generally know to the world of psychology that adults should win every argument with kids, especially about how much children eat. And never apologize to their children if they’re, oh, wrong, or unfair, or something.
You’re being really, really stupid, and I’m sorry that you think all parent/child interaction should be based on power struggles. Fuck off and stop telling me my 20 lb chubby baby is starving because I nurse him. Clearly his rolls of fat are from sneaking Doritos.
Tell them to call meeeeeeeeeee! I’ve never even gotten one.
Could swear it was said somewhere, and someone in her/his banning thread said the same thing. I suppose it’s possible I conflated Carol with Kimmy_Gibbler, who *is *male, despite the Kimmy. At least, I think, maybe I’m confusing him with…
This problem solves itself if you start calling 911 every time the kids are screaming outside.
FYI, I have a Mirena. And it hasn’t exactly shut my periods off. I got it in the middle of June, and things still haven’t really settled down into something normal again yet–as far as I can tell, I’m now on something like a 28-day cycle, but I’m at least slightly bleeding/spotting for about 3/4 of it. Really obnoxious. If I had any choice in the matter, I’d be back on oral contraceptives.
Shush, I’m feeling encouraged by the Mirena thread over in IMHO. If this doesn’t work, we’re going to use oral contraception on top of the Mirena. Or we can try endometrial ablation but that’s a tad more drastic - not to mention requiring 3 days for recovery time.
Arboretum is pronounced the way it’s spelled. ARE-BORE-EE-TUM. Not “arboritum” “arbortum” “arboreritorietum” or whatever other crackhead pronunciation you want to try. Hell, even the crackheads around here can pronounce arboretum.
Biltmore House is not a castle. It’s a tourist destination. A highly overpriced tourist destination.*
For the last time, if you are coming up to the desk to ask me something, don’t just stand there staring like a dead fish on ice. If I’m doing something, clear your throat, say excuse me, something besides staring until I look up from what I’m doing. You have vocal cords for a reason. Use them.
*And I get to go there for free on Sunday! Working at a hotel sometimes has its benefits.
Just wanted to let you know what you *might *be in for. You’ll note I haven’t had mine removed–it’s just not 100% sunshine and kittens coming out of my crotch.
Plus the whole “no babies ever” thing would be a sticking point for some women. (If it’s not for you, I’d personally say hell, go for it.)
Listen, doc, I know you took over for another doctor who left the practice and so I’m a new patient to you, but look at my chart - I’m 40, I’m nulliparous (no kids, no pregnancies ever), I’m on birth control every goddamned minute and am asking how to get even more done, not to mention the anti-migraine meds that come with the “holy crap, you cannot take these if you’re even trying to get pregnant, danger, Will Robinson” labels… you can spare me the “you might change your mind about not having kids” comments. Really. I know, I know, you’re going to get someone who suddenly goes ‘OMG I suddenly want babies nooooow!’ and flips out on you. Whatever. I think you got the point when I narrowed my eyes slightly and commented that I’ve known I’ve had no desire to have children since I was a pre-teen.
It’s just… is it too much to ask that when I’m old enough to be given a mammogram requisition that I NOT be bothered about whether I REALLY don’t want kids?!
Christ on a pogostick. If I weren’t worried it’d screw up my hormones/body/whatever even more, I’d just have the whole kit and kaboodle yanked out and shut them all the hell up already.
Discriminatory behaviour is not acceptable in the workplace, especially when it’s illegal.
“But we need to know how old the job applicant is!” – No, you don’t. You need to know whether they are an adult or not, and that’s it.* “But if they’re over sixty…” Look, I forwarded the text of the applicable law. You cannot ask about age. “But our bosses want to know…” Well, too bad. I sent them the text of the law, too. If they want to illegally discriminate, they’re welcome to do it on their own time, but you can’t ask me to go along with it. Do not put the boss’s discriminatory wishes ahead of the law.
(Background: two of us are interviewing a candidate over the phone. The question about age comes out again, six weeks after I looked up the law and notified everyone what is and is not legal when hiring in this province. I tried to stop the question in its tracks and got chewed out for my unprofessionalism. Thanks.)
*The government is pretty clear: “When hiring, an employer can ask someone if they are legal working age, but cannot ask anything that could reveal age.”
Oh, they’ve progressed a bit, then. When I had my tubes tied, I had to throw a hissy fit at various doctors, because I was told that I WOULD want to have another couple of babies. Ummmm, take a look at the records of the last pregnancy I carried to term. I was incredibly ill. And I managed to get pregnant on 3 occasions, using 4 different birth control methods (I used two at once with one pregnancy). I think that the only thing that convinced the doctors was the fact that I was married and not having any sort of sex at all, and they had more sympathy for my husband than for me.
I don’t want someone else deciding my fertility options. Ever. And I don’t want any other adult’s options to be limited. Lose the guidelines, or else LISTEN to your patients when they say that they don’t want kids, ever. Because chances are that they know their own minds far better than YOU do, oh Medical Deity.
Seriously, what the hell is it with doctors. I fought like hell to get my tubes tied at 25 and STILL when I needed a hysterctomy last year I was required to undergo a counselling session to ensure I was okay with “losing” my reproductive ability. Lets put some common sense into the system PLEASE.
