Cycling and your 'cycle'

[RoadRaven]

if kids are not in your future, why not just get your tubes tied?

Now that I have done my dash with kids, I have my tubes tied...

Had them done when my youngest was 6 months old.

Brilliant decision - no chemicals, drugs, hormones or invasions like IUDs or latex in my body or with its rythyms

I would thouroughly recommend it to anyone who has finished having kids...

[roughingit]

I use the Nuva ring myself. It's been the least problematic out of everything I've tried.

[trickytiger]

I use the Nuva ring myself. It's been the least problematic out of everything I've tried.

Ditto on that. Seriously, it's the ONLY method I've tried that didn't give me side effects (Nuvaring has a very low hormone level because you don't have to process the hormones through your digestive system) and was really really easy. I like not thinking about it every day.

[doc]

Or even better - have your husband's tubes tied. Mine had his vasectomy last week. A significantly less invasive procedure for a man than a tubal ligation for a woman. Cheaper and quicker recovery too.

[Irulan]

Or even better - have your husband's tubes tied. Mine had his vasectomy last week. A significantly less invasive procedure for a man than a tubal ligation for a woman. Cheaper and quicker recovery too.

heh, you give them any icy six pack to stick between their legs, the TV remote, and say " see ya on monday"...

[SadieKate]

What about duct tape?

[bouncybouncy]

I was wondering when the sarcasm would pop-up??? I can always count on this site to put a chuckle in my day no matter what the subject

anyway...back to seriousness (not that it has to stay)

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/edi...9/patch_watch/

I do not know much about the patch but when my doctor said to WAIT till it is out on market longer to consider it...I knew then i would stick to something that has been around for a while! I was put on the pill at 17 when i STILL had not had a period...the doc said i was not producing estrogen. my options were the pill or hormones...who wouldn't just go for the pill ( it IS hormones for crying out loud!!!) which is exactly what the doc said! Now that i am all grown up and still can't remember to take my pill on time i looked into the IUD (thanks to this site) and found something i would like to try...now i am moving so i will get to it after i move, get married, find a new doc, blah, blah, blah

http://www.paragard.com/new_installs/paragard/index.php

meanwhile...sticking to the pill...

Not sure if any of this helps but i had to add my $0.02

[Irulan]

hubby is good, if you are in that situation, I am

ok, YOUR TURN.

I think singles who know that they do not want to be parents should be able to make that choice without getting so much "are you sure" from the medical community. Everyone one I know who has finally gotten what they wanted in terms of a permanent fix, has had no regrets.

Irulan

[MomOnBike]

Another one of the tied-tubes crowd here. Did it after my second child was born. I got a lot of "Are you absolutely positive that you're sure" from every one, but I expected that, given the area I was in.

I've never regretted it.

Anyway, when I was discussing it with my doc, I said that DH & I had decided to be fair and each have one of our tubes tied. The doc gave me The Look and said "It doesn't work that way, you know." Sheesh, I thought docs were supposed to be smart enough to know a joke when they heard one....

[snpdragn]

I had trouble with the Ortho period, and if you change your routine even slightly you pay for it for a few months with spotting and double periods and the like... at least I did.
The best I've ever been on was Alesse and it was perfect. I had no side effects at all, including weight gain, and my period was to the day predictable.