Comments on: Kill Pill http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:32:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hard hat nascar http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-60233 hard hat nascar Thu, 10 May 2007 01:13:48 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-60233 <strong>hard hat nascar...</strong> ha-rd-po-rn-fu-ck 3606013 Pros and cons of hard hat nascar.... hard hat nascar…

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]]> By: Property of a Lady » The Perils of Heterosexuality http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-28649 Property of a Lady » The Perils of Heterosexuality Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:23:06 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-28649 [...] Over at I Blame the Patriarchy, Twisty is twisting over The Pill. In part, she says It is the duty of the patriarchy-blamer–particularly one who supports zero-population growth– to cast a jaundiced eye on any research that impugns contraception, but you know what? Fuck the Pill. As liberating as it has been for straight women, it is not without its vile misogynist elements. While it leaves men footloose and fancy-free to roam the earth pronging at will, it consigns women to shoulder the entire burden of contraception, and it does this while making us fat and giving us heart attacks, strokes, and, depending on who you talk to, breast cancer. [...] [...] Over at I Blame the Patriarchy, Twisty is twisting over The Pill. In part, she says It is the duty of the patriarchy-blamer–particularly one who supports zero-population growth– to cast a jaundiced eye on any research that impugns contraception, but you know what? Fuck the Pill. As liberating as it has been for straight women, it is not without its vile misogynist elements. While it leaves men footloose and fancy-free to roam the earth pronging at will, it consigns women to shoulder the entire burden of contraception, and it does this while making us fat and giving us heart attacks, strokes, and, depending on who you talk to, breast cancer. [...]

]]> By: mearl http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-27798 mearl Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:38:50 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-27798 On my part, I suffered from major episodes of debilitating pain once a month from the day I got my period at age 12. This runs in my family on my mom's side, so it's not enviropoisoning of any sort. I had to deal with three days off school or work per month, hours of excruciating pain where it was like having a small baby every four weeks, my arms and legs going numb, deleium and sweating, throwing up and shitting at the same time, screaming and beating the wall to distract from the pain for 8 hours at a time. My mom is a nurse, so I got stuffed with enough pills to kill anyone else via overdose, and still it didn't help. Once I got carried into the emergency room and pumped full of Demerol because of my mom's connections. They had thought I was going to pass out from the pain. Our doctor, being male, lazy, and completely uninformed, didn't have any recommendations about how to help this. When I turned 18 and started having sex, I went on the Pill. It made me irritable, depressed, sore, restless, emotional, and in addition to a 40-pound weight gain, I lost my sex drive. I went off it at 22 even though it did make my cramps better for a bit (for a lousy 6 months). When I went off the Pill, it was odd how I was back in pain every month but felt like myself again. I vowed never to go on hormones again. Three abortions, two cervical caps, who knows how many boxes of condomns and 5 years later, I got a non-hormonal IUD. I heard too many horror stories about Depo-Provera and drugs of its ilke to even go near the stuff. I was on my last legs, and the literature said that an IUD tended to make periods heavier, and cramps worse. I did it anyway. Suddenly it has been like having a new life. I barely get cramps. I can go running the first day of my period, something that was previously unthinkable. I don't know if I'm an anomaly, or if the doctors just have it all wrong and lie to us to keep us on the Pill. Despite the news that this IUD is the best thing that ever happened to me, my own doctor still insists that I should be on a Pill and shakes his head as to why I didn't like it. So far I have resisted the urge to smack him. I feel like myself, I have a sex drive, I don't have to worry about getting pregnant for 5 years. I don't know if this would work for anyone else, but I just thought I'd share my own story of Pill-inundation. I find it odd that when so many women have problems with the Pill, and lousy periods, that more research isn't done on this. I am all for the male BC where they put a pinch on the sperm valves. Or perhaps bringing back the honour and glory of castrati. In the meantime, I don't have sex with anyone these days but enjoy a cramp-free existence. On my part, I suffered from major episodes of debilitating pain once a month from the day I got my period at age 12. This runs in my family on my mom’s side, so it’s not enviropoisoning of any sort. I had to deal with three days off school or work per month, hours of excruciating pain where it was like having a small baby every four weeks, my arms and legs going numb, deleium and sweating, throwing up and shitting at the same time, screaming and beating the wall to distract from the pain for 8 hours at a time. My mom is a nurse, so I got stuffed with enough pills to kill anyone else via overdose, and still it didn’t help. Once I got carried into the emergency room and pumped full of Demerol because of my mom’s connections. They had thought I was going to pass out from the pain.

Our doctor, being male, lazy, and completely uninformed, didn’t have any recommendations about how to help this. When I turned 18 and started having sex, I went on the Pill. It made me irritable, depressed, sore, restless, emotional, and in addition to a 40-pound weight gain, I lost my sex drive. I went off it at 22 even though it did make my cramps better for a bit (for a lousy 6 months). When I went off the Pill, it was odd how I was back in pain every month but felt like myself again. I vowed never to go on hormones again. Three abortions, two cervical caps, who knows how many boxes of condomns and 5 years later, I got a non-hormonal IUD. I heard too many horror stories about Depo-Provera and drugs of its ilke to even go near the stuff. I was on my last legs, and the literature said that an IUD tended to make periods heavier, and cramps worse. I did it anyway.

Suddenly it has been like having a new life. I barely get cramps. I can go running the first day of my period, something that was previously unthinkable. I don’t know if I’m an anomaly, or if the doctors just have it all wrong and lie to us to keep us on the Pill. Despite the news that this IUD is the best thing that ever happened to me, my own doctor still insists that I should be on a Pill and shakes his head as to why I didn’t like it. So far I have resisted the urge to smack him. I feel like myself, I have a sex drive, I don’t have to worry about getting pregnant for 5 years. I don’t know if this would work for anyone else, but I just thought I’d share my own story of Pill-inundation. I find it odd that when so many women have problems with the Pill, and lousy periods, that more research isn’t done on this. I am all for the male BC where they put a pinch on the sperm valves. Or perhaps bringing back the honour and glory of castrati. In the meantime, I don’t have sex with anyone these days but enjoy a cramp-free existence.

]]> By: lee http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-7898 lee Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:04:29 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-7898 Well, mine got shorter when I got into my thirties so maybe time will help. My periods used to be eight to 11 days long not as long as yours, but not the 5 days a month that Growin Up and Liking it lead me to believe I would have. I had one child and they are shorter now, under a week most months. I never did any thing about them even though they are extremely heavy and long because I know many women have it worse, and many find treatment make it worse. I have a cramping and lower back pain the first couple of days, but it is only debilitating once a decade or so. With that level of pain, I decided that I can live with clots the size of hen's eggs in the toilet several times a day for a week a month and having to wear two overnight pads at once during the day. Well, mine got shorter when I got into my thirties so maybe time will help. My periods used to be eight to 11 days long not as long as yours, but not the 5 days a month that Growin Up and Liking it lead me to believe I would have. I had one child and they are shorter now, under a week most months.

I never did any thing about them even though they are extremely heavy and long because I know many women have it worse, and many find treatment make it worse. I have a cramping and lower back pain the first couple of days, but it is only debilitating once a decade or so. With that level of pain, I decided that I can live with clots the size of hen’s eggs in the toilet several times a day for a week a month and having to wear two overnight pads at once during the day.

]]> By: Shades Of Grey http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-7827 Shades Of Grey Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:40:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-7827 <strong>With apologies to Twisty, I blame the patriarchy</strong> My reaction was negative and immediate. That's bullshit, I thought to myself. Twisty just doesn't understand. But as I planned a blog post in response, a funny thing happened. You see, my initial reaction was emphatic because of personal experienc... With apologies to Twisty, I blame the patriarchy

My reaction was negative and immediate. That’s bullshit, I thought to myself. Twisty just doesn’t understand. But as I planned a blog post in response, a funny thing happened.

You see, my initial reaction was emphatic because of personal experienc…

]]> By: Charlie http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-7743 Charlie Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:15:16 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-7743 Amen, sister. Amen, sister.

]]> By: Teenagecatgirl http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-7738 Teenagecatgirl Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:19:12 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-7738 Oh well then, lets not even bother considering it. I actually was referring to problems that still would be problems even if periods were, at best, sporadic. But nevermind. Oh well then, lets not even bother considering it.
I actually was referring to problems that still would be problems even if periods were, at best, sporadic. But nevermind.

]]> By: bitchphd http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-7687 bitchphd Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:02:17 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-7687 I'm so on board with blaming the insurance industry, which only started covering b.c. reliably after the state of Washington (under their great insurance commissioner, Deborah Senn) insisted on medical parity for women. Alas, my current insurance *only* covers the pill, and the only pill I can take is the progestin-only one, which has to be taken at more or less the same time every day, which I am not so good at. I tried to get an IUD, but couldn't lay out the $400 out of pocket. Insurance would cover an abortion, though. Bastards. I’m so on board with blaming the insurance industry, which only started covering b.c. reliably after the state of Washington (under their great insurance commissioner, Deborah Senn) insisted on medical parity for women. Alas, my current insurance *only* covers the pill, and the only pill I can take is the progestin-only one, which has to be taken at more or less the same time every day, which I am not so good at. I tried to get an IUD, but couldn’t lay out the $400 out of pocket. Insurance would cover an abortion, though.

Bastards.

]]> By: BitingBeaver http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/01/03/kill-pill/#comment-7637 BitingBeaver Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:46:58 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=393#comment-7637 Well, since we're talking about the horrors of birth control and how it relates to rampant sexism, I'll give my own story (in short, the full extent of it is posted <a href="http://bitingbeaver.blogspot.com/2005/09/power-of-penis.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a> Anyway, I was on the depo shot (the pill was my last choice for contraception since, years before, I had gone through Rx after Rx while bleeding terribly and experiencing cramping that was awful. Finally we had to 'fix' it by taking me off the pill entirely) and had been experiencing pain, bleeding and increasing dizziness for about 6 weeks. I wound up in the emergency room and, after 4 hours of basically sitting in a gown before being given a test for STD's I was told I was 'hormonal' and sent home. I immediately did some research and found out that the Depo Shot had the exact same symptoms as the ones I presented with. I went off the shot and, voila, I've been fine ever since. A month or so later we found ourselves in the very same ER, only this time with my partner who was presenting with a swollen penis. (turns out it was poison ivy) the resulting episode gave me a hell of a Patriarchy compare and contrast moment that I will not soon forget. (If you're interested you can check the link because I simply do not feel like typing all of it out this morning *grin*) Much kudos to you Twisty, oh weaver of patriarchy blaming tales who has no equal! Well, since we’re talking about the horrors of birth control and how it relates to rampant sexism, I’ll give my own story (in short, the full extent of it is posted Here

Anyway, I was on the depo shot (the pill was my last choice for contraception since, years before, I had gone through Rx after Rx while bleeding terribly and experiencing cramping that was awful. Finally we had to ‘fix’ it by taking me off the pill entirely) and had been experiencing pain, bleeding and increasing dizziness for about 6 weeks.

I wound up in the emergency room and, after 4 hours of basically sitting in a gown before being given a test for STD’s I was told I was ‘hormonal’ and sent home.

I immediately did some research and found out that the Depo Shot had the exact same symptoms as the ones I presented with. I went off the shot and, voila, I’ve been fine ever since.

A month or so later we found ourselves in the very same ER, only this time with my partner who was presenting with a swollen penis. (turns out it was poison ivy) the resulting episode gave me a hell of a Patriarchy compare and contrast moment that I will not soon forget. (If you’re interested you can check the link because I simply do not feel like typing all of it out this morning *grin*)

Much kudos to you Twisty, oh weaver of patriarchy blaming tales who has no equal!

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