Pill That Stops Monthly Period

[popcornbird]

popcornbird, that line of logic also would discourage use of antibiotics post childbirth, cardiac meds and osteoporosis meds.

Nope, not at all. Those are very neccessary medications. I don't see any reason to 'get rid of' the periods, unless it is for a medical reason. I think it would be unhealthy, but that's just how I feel.

[columbine]

What's "natural" (think cave people) is for a girl to get pregnant at 14 or so and keep popping out babies until she no longer can (and that usually wasn't because she got old enough to become infertile). Women weren't built to have fertile years x 12 periods per lifetime. Women were built to constantly have babies. In the strictest sense, even saying "no" is unnatural.

Love, Columbine (wearing clothes, of all things, in 80-degree weather, but only until she indulges in some of that creepy newfangled bathing)

[lbaker]

Columbine, are you referring to that creepy "NEW" fangled bathing thing like my hero Ben Franklin did, i.e. "Air Bathing" in the nude? Welcome to my world

[CathyBogart]

I'm irritated because I KNOW I've seen a study that indicates that suppressing the menstrual cycle results in a dramatic decrease in incidence of breast cancer, but I can't find it. I'll keep hunting, but I saw it in a paper journal and the internet is a very large place.

[dukedogsmom]

I am so glad not everyone thinks the way some do here. I can't believe there's still that backwards thinking that we all have to breed and breed. No wonder women's rights are so restricted. Thank God for my hysterectomy!! That's the best thing that happened to me and if I could have gotten it in my 20's I would have. Even then, the doctors all say, "Oh, you'll want children someday" How do they know how I or any woman feels? Especially when it's a male doctor. That really takes the cake. So, should we all be like Quiverfull??
In this video, notice who is more calm and collected:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/...control-unruh/

[columbine]

Thank God for my hysterectomy!! That's the best thing that happened to me and if I could have gotten it in my 20's I would have. Even then, the doctors all say, "Oh, you'll want children someday"

I got my tubes tied when I was 25, but I did have to chase down a doctor with a reputation for being woman-friendly, and she had to refer me to somebody who wasn't hopelessly lawyer-phobic (in case I changed my mind!) Huzzah for living in Academicsville USA. (This was also before the invention of HMOs, so I didn't have to fight like a wildcat for every Band-Aid.)

lbaker - Ben Franklin rocks!

Love, Columbine

[sparks19]

I'm irritated because I KNOW I've seen a study that indicates that suppressing the menstrual cycle results in a dramatic decrease in incidence of breast cancer, but I can't find it. I'll keep hunting, but I saw it in a paper journal and the internet is a very large place.

I've also seen a study that breastfeeding ALSO results in a dramatically decreased incidence of breast cancer..... and ovarian cancer.

[lizbud]

I'm irritated because I KNOW I've seen a study that indicates that suppressing the menstrual cycle results in a dramatic decrease in incidence of breast cancer, but I can't find it. I'll keep hunting, but I saw it in a paper journal and the internet is a very large place.

That was my thinking about the effects of this pill, but it would take years
of study groups before you could measure results. I've never seen any studies
done on this idea, but be sure to let me know if you find a link to what you
have read about it.

[Hellow]

Nope, not at all. Those are very neccessary medications. I don't see any reason to 'get rid of' the periods, unless it is for a medical reason. I think it would be unhealthy, but that's just how I feel.

I feel that way too. Even though im not a women...

[catnapper]

Hmmm... I haven't had to worry about that in years. I can't remember my last cycle. Even after I had my surgery, when I was supposed to experience bleeding, I didn't.

I desperately need everytthing yanked out, but cant afford it right now