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boxofdelights) wrote2013-12-30 11:42 am
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aggghhh progesterone is vile how do people make themselves endure it when they don't have to
no it is not the progesterone it is the fluctuation in progesterone level that is making me puke every time i lean over or turn my head i remember now
do doctors still recommend that you take a week off hormonal birth control every month that is just cruel
no it is not the progesterone it is the fluctuation in progesterone level that is making me puke every time i lean over or turn my head i remember now
do doctors still recommend that you take a week off hormonal birth control every month that is just cruel
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Re: hormonal birth control
All this being said, you *can* just skip the placebo row in a regular pack of BC; my GP recommended that for a couple months while trying to figure out some annoying technical difficulties. I've also heard of docs being fine with one doing it just to skip a period when it would be inconvenient; not sure how recommended it is to do that on a regular basis. But as
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Actually, there's a lot more pushback against off-weeks within the medical community now that people are considering just how few periods fertile women have had over most of evolutionary time. We really don't need all that misery as far as anyone can tell who studies it; people (men!) were just trying to mimic an unusual condition without thinking too hard.
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