I went on the pill a couple of months after turning 18 (1971), after many years of being a horrendous bitch in incredible pain, vomiting and having to leave class/school after I passed out (which is incredibly embrarassing when it was occurring once a month
).
At the time I went on it, my periods were very erratic. I could have one, then less than 3 weeks later, have another, or I could go 6 weeks without one. It could last 3 or 4 days or as long as 10 or 11. I started out on the lowest dosage, and ended up on the strongest within months. Even on the pill, I still had 7 day periods, but at least I knew when they were going to show up, and though still on pain meds for a couple of days, at least I wasn't throwing up and passing out.
I was on it for 7 years, got pregnant with my daughter 3 months later. (yes, I was married and had been for a year). Was on it again in between kids, and back on it after my second. at 29. I also had my first ovary removed at 31 after the scar tissue from so many burst cysts at made the ovary attach to my abdominal wall. It was during the surgery, that my GYN said I'd have to have it all out within a few years, because not only was my uterus very tilted( he couldn't figure out how I was able to get pregnant without medical help) but that it was "constructed" the way it was supposed to be.
Not ONE time, did my insurance ever pay for my BC pills. Not one penny of the $3.50 a month they cost me. On the other hand, insurance did pay for my pain pills which were considerably more expensive.
My cousin, her daughter, and my daughter have all had trouble with their "parts" and their malfunctions from the time they were in their early teens. Kinda makes one wonder if the problems aren't somewhat genetic.
I recognize this is all TMI, but this whole birth control issue makes me livid!!!
The government does not belong in a woman's reproductive system. It should be between a woman and her doctor. The only onther individuals that should be involved are either a husband or a parent. NO ONE ELSE.
The only others who should be involved would be God and a woman's priest/pastor if wanted/needed.
NO way should a bunch of hot-air politicians who think they know more than anybody else about everything else.
I am so sick and tired of abortion being brought into political races. There is more debate about abortion, and now birth control, than there is anything else!!
Hello????? I can't make a living as a realtor anymore because of the mortgage/housing mess. I don't qualify for unemployment because I'm self employed. Yes, it was MY choice to be self-employed, but I didn't expect my chosen career to go belly up for 3+ years either. There are 1000's of people in our country, that are/were self employed like me, who, if lucky have found other jobs in the meantime....most making a fraction of what they were 4+years ago!!
Hello????? We're in a f'n war and the f'n President of the United States is spending day after day APOLOGIZING to the f'n enemy because a few copies of their Holy Book was burned. Ones that were damaged by being written in, and were disposed of the PROPER way. Yet he apologizes while the f'n people we are supposed to be liberating are killing our soldiers in retaliation!!! I might add that HE is the one who put us back full force into Afghanistan!!
And that's only a tip of the mess that the Middle East is these days. And let's not forget that those bastards want us all dead.
Hello???? Our manufacturing companies are falling by the wayside, because they can't survive anymore. Whether it be from the union demands or importation from the far east and South America.
And it goes on and on and on.....
And these F's are doin' nothing but talkin' about birth control and abortion!!!
I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT ANYMORE!!!!!!
Oh...and in regards to the original post....the kids(girls) at school wouldn't have known this girl was on the pill IF SHE HADN'T TOLD EITHER THEM OR ANOTHER FRIEND WHO BLABBED IT ALL OVER THE DAMN SCHOOL!!!
Kids are cruel. Particularly girls and they are wicked cruel by the time they get to high school. They use whatever "weapon" they can to attack the one they don't like. In this girl's case, they knew about the BC pills, and regardless of why the girl takes them, the little bitches are going to use that information in the meanest, cruelest way possible.