riding while on period

[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.

[DDH]

Yes, it was the Salado ride and the weather made my decision for me.

It turned cold (okay not cold but cooler) yesteday and stormed all night so we got up this morning and decided not to go. I'm going to look for another one that is close within the next couple of weeks. I know we need some rain, but I hate when the weather messes up my plans.

It's not raining now, but it's like 55 degrees and the north wind is blowing (not real strong) but I have no colder weather riding clothes and it makes me a little uneasy riding on wet pavement in an area I am not familiar with.
I have ridden in the rain around here in the summer, but not in the cold, bbrrrrr

Okay, I'm a wimp. LOL

[Aggie_Ama]

You are not a wimp, it is nasty today just 30 miles from Salado. ICK! That storm brought us 1.5 inches of much needed rain but woke us up. I normally can sleep through a bomb, but poor DH is a lighter sleeper and had to be at work at 7:00. We are not going to ride or hike as planned today, I don't mind cold if it is sunny but cold, grey and windy I cannot do.

[NoNo]

Since it's come up, I just started on the pill last week for extremely painful periods. So tired of timing my days by when I last took Advil and occassionaly having to leave work to curl into a ball at home. If this works as well as my doctor says they will, I will build a statue in honor of the wonderful person that created this magic pill!

[Aquila]

NoNo, I would be happy to contribute to the statue fund! When I got going on the continual use regimen, it was like gaining 10% of my life away from cramping and pms.