Menstruation Is Fast Becoming Optional [ladies]

Tochi, I understand what you mean. In some cases, birth control pills when prescribed by doctors are used to regularize the monthly flow and to alleviate some of the effects -- especially for people who secrete excess hormones.

Most  pills however, upset the balance of the female body because they inhibit your hormones. They should be used with caution because you might turn out getting something you never expected.

Because it slows down hormones the subject might find it hard to get pregnant and even harder to lactate.

isn't that the point of birth control. to find it hard to get pregnant ?

A really good dr will only advise these methods for women that have finished the family planning

Using the same yardstick, you haven't either. I'm just voicing my opinion and finding out how many women feel about it.

@mide2, thank you very much o~! Finally, someone that understands!

This is an interesting topic, everybody has contributed according to their knowledge.  The truth is that drugs generally apart from relieving pain have side effect which  doctors don't normally tell their clients; they will only say it depends on the body system, so if this drug doesn't work for you then go for another one.

Am not against female using the pill as a corrective measures but it is really absurd for someone to stop nature's work just for the fun of it.  I mean every organ in our body have a part to play for our good health, if we decide to stop one for the other don't u think there will be problem.

Moreover, I have a feeling that the side effect will not only affect the user but the offspring as time goes on.

there is a side effect to this which could turn out to be more of a problem than discomforts of a period.
tochi, your situation like a few others like yourself is perfectly understood but what i can't begin to fathom is the idea of stopping it just for pleasure.
there are definetely side effects to deal with later.

my take.

actually if you think about and i thought about taking seasonale for a long time due to an unnatural hatred of periods, women today are menstruating way more than before. first of all we get periods earlier at about nine to ten years these days, we have less children, think about your grand parents having like at least six kids to people having three now and all the miscarriages and young deaths. so women had less periods than today.
furthermore, the original developer of the pill allowed for having periods just to make stuff look normal, thats why theres that window when u take don't take anything so your period can come and thats why people with highly irregular periods go on the pill. think about it the pill prevents you from ovulating, so if you don't ovulate how do you have periods? the pill already engineers your period, so im not sure about causes for concern here. what i did hear is that seasonale causing longer and painful periods when the periods do occur

people have been skipping periods for years in quiet, not that i agree with this but i don't think its reasonably worse than going on the pill

billings is the way to GO!

i think that's what she meant, then again, i'm not in support of that sha! _{*ps: daz my 2cents biko*}

big up Shannon 

you guys here seem to be so against the birth control pill, not every female is blessed with painless periods. i for one suffer very much ,  well used to, not a single known pain killer helped me, infact i thought painkillers made my pain worse. i've tried ibrupen, paracetamol, mefinamic acid just to mention a few but nothing helped Nothing with a capital N. I was in bed for three days every month, i missed alot of lessons because the pain was unbearable and it was also starting to affect my social life, then one day i was introduced to bcp that could actually help me lead a normal life, since then 've been panctual and what have you. what i'm trying to say ia that i don't use the bcp to prevent pregnancy or having my period but i use it to get on with my life,  i know there will come a day when i want to have kids/husband,  but until then i'll stand by the PILL

Although I usually have bad cramps but I'm afraid that this kind of drug might prevent someone from having babies.(?) So I'd try it out after bearing all my pikins.

i'm interested in this. any side effects?

yeah i meant billings method, scorpio was right

a lot of people don't want to use it, because you really have to use it right and it takes a lot of work etc etc etc
its completely natural tho

as for pills, there are a lot of good reasons why people use them, but if you don't need to please don't, when my periods were the devil himself, if you see the way my mother begged me not go on the pill, i began to wonder, thanks be to God they are getting so much better now, except i think they might be coming  bk worse. the next few days will tell.

 :d :d :d :d seun u amaze me-yes god said in pain we ll give birth that wouldnt stop us from taking pain reliever- i'm not sure if i had ever taught of taking that pill-have you ever taught of the ------------------ effect! we are nigerians oooooooo hmmm

I've got three words:

Tryin             To               Change             Nature

(Okay 4 words!)

Such things have repercussions it's better to allow nature to take its cause.  Don't try to change the hands of God.

It's the will of God for women to menstate so be it.