Image ID: a black and orange image of Sisyphus pushing up a boulder. The boulder is labeled “the fucking menstrual cycle”.
A few days after my period ends I just blissfully forget about it until one day I wake up and notice my crotch looks like someone was murdered there. Super duper fun.
For me, I get super emotional like a week before haha
I’m a chronic depressed major anxiety guy. I can’t imagine dealing with this every month.
imagine you start to get your shit together, start some habits to get you on a better footing, and then there’s a week where you just can’t every month. and maybe there’s also a mid-month slump, because hormones suck.
i didn’t see a therapist until i had one weekend to run all the errands, see doctors and vets, clean the house up… there was just the one weekend where i was sure i’d have enough of an upswing.
-general anxiety and depression diagnosis, plus PMDD (pre-menstrual dysphoria disorder), the drugs are great and i’m better now
That sounds like my biweekly Panic attacks, but combined into one full week. Not fun either way.
https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/extended-use-birth-control-overview
It doesn’t need to be every month…
The creator only made the pill have a placebo week to allow the period to come in order to please the catholics
I don’t think so. Basically you are tricking your body into thinking you are pregnant and leaving it that way. Less eggs are released, less uterine walls being replaced. That should mean both more eggs later in life and less risk of uterine cancer.
Of course you should ask a doctor about it. They gotta prescribe it anyways.
So, I’m a guy, so no first-hand experience, but I know at least two women personally, who unfortunately had additional issues with PMS-like symptoms and general increased emotional/psychological issues with what I think was this category of contraceptives. So, as always, look into what might work for you and stay aware of how your body and mind react. Just mentioning that, because both also had problems with doctors, including gynecologists, basically gaslighting them about how they are supposed to feel.
My wife used to be on Implanon (now Nexplanon) and she basically didn’t have a period for like 3 years. I think the new dose has protection for 5 years (it’s primarily a birth control that they implant into your arm)
Birth control has a WIDE range of symptoms. All birth control affects people differently (mostly due to a failure of the companies that produce the medications. Was primarily tested on white men originally… as most medications have been). Not sure that it can be definitively stated that it was entirely the medications fault, but apologies anyway.
what do you mean female birth control was tested on men? as much as people can be idiots that’s like testing hair removal on patrick stewart
very unpoggers. they should ban it 👍
