riding while on period

[tc1]

Hi all. I really mean no disrespect, but I know we're all a bit tetchy about this subject. Please believe me when I say I am just trying to be helpful.

Basically, I have such trouble with my periods I have been on some kind of hormone-based birth control most of my reproductive live, with only 2 long-term breaks. That's from age 15, to now (age 46) and continuing to menopause if possible. One side effect of this type of birth control that is downplayed by most doctors, is, if you can find one that works for you your period will become very light, or stop altogether if you are lucky.

As an aside, I found myself shouting at Dr Laura Shovelhead when a male caller asked about birth control pills for his daughter-the girl had painful menstruation and her physician recommended birth control pills for this condition, and Dr Laura vetoed this because teenagers shouldn't take birth control! What crap.

I hope your ride goes well.

[uforgot]

As an aside, I found myself shouting at Dr Laura Shovelhead when a male caller asked about birth control pills for his daughter-the girl had painful menstruation and her physician recommended birth control pills for this condition, and Dr Laura vetoed this because teenagers shouldn't take birth control! What crap.

I hope your ride goes well.

Let me help with the thread drift:
Obviously Dr. Laura didn't go through the pain and 10 day flow when SHE was a teenager. She sounds like my mom did, even though I never got sick or complained otherwise, I was curled up with a heating pad for days. Those pills changed my life when I was old enough to get them myself!

[Di bear]

I don't think people understand that birth control isn't birth control so much as it is hormonal therapy/regulation. Even though it's prescribed like candy and listed as the etiology for practically every gynecological disease known to man, it is necessary for the treatment of various gynecological issues because of its ability to regulate.

Of course, most Americans are highly ignorant of their health care because we're taught by pharmaceutical companies via advertisements. It's sad, because we're harming ourselves. Dr. Laura is obviously in this group of people. Brave New World.

I think if people, like Dr Laura, started treating "birth control" as it really is, a drug like any other drug the doctor may prescribe, then people would start realizing the importance of taking this drug and would understand that yes, it is a highly effective drug used to treat many ailments.