Meh don’t worry about it, it only works in about 40% of the people that tried it. Besides I like to be bitchy all the time to keep my husband on his toes. lol

How did you KNOW that I gave my husband an Edifying Lecture on this very topic last night? I forgot to throw in the grand YM tradition of the Socially Humiliating Tidal Wave of Blood, though.

Delurking……
I had the Mirena IUD inserted in Dec 2005 hoping it would stop my periods. It sounded so awesome, I mean, Look at all the money saved and the environment. Well I bled for 4 months straight and then had 8 months of nothing. nada. zilch. It would have been heaven except I started having bad arthritis type pain in alot of my joints.
After countless Dr visits, chiro visits and trying different drugs I had the thing removed in Dec 2006. Things got better immediately, not perfect, but much better than they had been. I’m still suffering from the effects. I fully believe my problems had more to do with the stopped period than the the IUD drugs.
Your body needs to go through it’s cycles as nature intended. Controlling it is great but completely stopping it can’t be good for your system.

Just my 2cents. ok maybe more like my buck-fifty

Back to lurking..

I, for one, am extremely leery of this new No Period idea. I personally have a theory that we NEED to have a week To Get Things Done. Three weeks out of the month I can let things slide - She cut me off. Whatever, must be in a hurry. The insurance company doesn’t cover that? Oh well - But come the week before Aunt Flo’s visit…I don’t think so. The insurance company WILL cover things because I will not stop until I speak personally with the CEO….I right every injustice you can think of when I am pre-period. I believe many women do. And Mr. Pharmaceutical man is just trying to keep us down…he’s scared that we will actually get the momentum up and change the world. Bastard.

I agree. Its unnatural and takes away our God given rights to eat chocolate with a dash of tabasco sauce while crying over a AT&T commerical and getting mad because your husband is breathing loud. It would be like taking away our one super power…(we bleed for four days and yet somehow don’t die?? What other living thing does THAT besides women?? We’re indestructible!!! SUPER MENSIES!)

They still publish YM??

And Chrissy, 4 MONTHS OF BLEEDING????? what the shi???? I would have gone insane and started biting people.

if you’re all done with babies, i think it’s fab. oh, and if it doesn’t give you cancer and ruin your body in any way. fab fab fab. oh, and i love jim and pam. karen is ew.

you are HILARIOUS. totally cracking up over this one.

HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Can’t. stop. laughing. to. comment.

Seriously. That was freakin’ hilarious.

My two cents is this: If I don’t have that period once a month, it means my husband will be wanting sex during that week. No way am I giving up my sacred “I need a massage, but don’t touch me” week for anybody. Outrage! We need to unite in the Sisterhood of the Super Menses and take down this new uber-pill!

Must stop laughing to write comment…
Ok, I’ve calmed down now and will say this - I totally, totally agree. The whole thing freaks me out.

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We don’t have to tell anyone we’re taking it. No periods…good. Still get to be a bitch…even gooder.

And we can rule that girls can’t have it until they turn 18. I mean Judy Blume will lose all meaning.

I know a couple of girls who get “the shot” every 3 months and they don’t get their period at all. It sounds like a fucking genius invention if you ask me. Although I would miss the YM crab sessions.

Agreed. What excuse would I use to get my husband to keep his damned hands off of me for one week a month? What, am I gonna have to break out the “toe cancer” excuse again?

And Pam and Jim are TOTALLY gonna get together….by the tenth or eleventh season anyways.

Some of the happiest days of my life were when I was getting depo provera shots to prevent getting inseminated yet again, and the side effect was to eliminate my period entirely. I can’t freaking wait until menopause except I think it means my sex-fest (aka: the peak) will be over.

ha ha… must be that time of the month… me too… I’m not on the pill… I hate the pill… thats probably why I have had to exercise some of my other “womanly rights”… but that is neither hear nor there. I never looked at this as my week off… but I will start. I do realize that I do get away with saying things and that when its that time everyone knows. I say thinks like “i’m bleeding like a stuck pig”… yes, life is beautiful.

Oh my hell that was funny! I have never looked at the horror that is my period in quite that way before. I say horror because I have endometriosis so it’s painful as hell and I, as Amy said, bleed like a stuck pig for a week!

Now I’m not so hostile towards it though because you’re right, it’s the one time each month that my family KNOWS I’m going to be a huge…er bitch and I can get away with it. It’s a great stress reliever isn’t it?

I can’t get on the pill because it wouldn’t go well with the meds I have to take to LIVE so um yeah, not happening.

Great post!!

ok…so according to “doctors” you don’t really need to have a period if you don’t have the monthly build up of the lining of your uterus. and taking the pill without the week of sugar pills is what happens here. your uterus never builds up so it technically never needs to shed everything. when you take the pill you are actually just withdrawing from the hormones on your week off which makes you have withdrawal bleeding. totally different than what happens naturally. but i don’t take the freaking things AT ALL. i don’t like the surge of hormones from medication…i actually LIKE feeling the PMS and knowing that my body can do all that by itself. call me a freak but it makes me feel good to bleed. yes i have the monthly couple of days where i feel like i could punt my child into next week and my husband can’t even floss his teeth without making me want to scratch his eyes out. but that’s me…so they can just deal.

I’m feelin’ the blood love, y’all.

I’ve heard of this but don’t know anyone who has used it. Sounds weird to me! I think we’re supposed to have periods, um that’s why we have them? I know, I’m very scientific!

Love, Love, Love this….especially love the maxipad swiffer idea…

I just have this to add: Don’t mess with NATURE!!!

PS. Maybe it’s easy for me to say, as I haven’t had a period since my son’s been born 5 months ago and plan to stay without one NATURALLY for quite a while longer (yay for breastfeeding!!!).

My first time here and, wow, what a great introduction! =P I am lovin’ it, and so sliding my bookmark in here.

So when someone asks me what my opinion is, can I give them yours? That way I’ll sound passionate, and witty, and well informed and people might start formulating the idea that I actually have a brain in my head.

Pretty please?

I love my Mirena. And I don’t miss those periods, not even for a second. And clearly, I’m totally normal. So it’s all good.

I am with you, I like my “week off” and my one excuse to eat chocolate not stop without my husband given me a hardtime.

Hmm.. I had a partial hysterectomy about 7 years ago.. I kept an ovary, so I didn’t go through menopause, but I didn’t get anymore periods either… I gotta say, it is the best of both worlds.
Now I buy the nice underwear!

Oh Kristi, my sides are aching I tell ya. Aching! This is too flipping hilarious! I loved the send of to the boys! And I loved all the rest of it, too!

Well that was way too funny. Thanks for a great laugh. I am going to try the new pill because I am one of “those” that has to take prescription pain meds just to walk during that “natural time of the month”. I see no reason not to lie to my husband and tell him the need for chocolate is every bit as important as it has always been!! I mean,,, come on now, the truth can be so highly overrated. It will also do away with the “All About Him” week I have every month!!! So wish me luck and Gods speed to menopause.

I had the shot a couple of times and didn’t get my period for a long time, and I swear I wasted SO much money on pregnancy tests, because even on the pill. I was convinced I was pregnant if I didn’t get my monthly visit.
I think it’s unnatural to not have it. But I couldn’t say it as funny as you did.

You ladies are crazy! I had my tubes tied 10 yrs ago so I am not worried about getting pregnant. If this new pill stops the horrible PMS (I don’t need an excuse to eat chocolate) and makes the periods go away until menopause. which is not far off, I am willing to try it.

I had an implant in my arm for almost three years. In that time, I think I had…. 4 monthlies. It was hell. My husband wouldn’t leave me alone.
The major side effect for the implant was that I couldn’t stand to be touched. Seriously, I sometimes felt like that feral cat in the corner of a barn: “Keep yr mitz 2 yrself”.
Was I ever glad to get that thing finally cut out.
So if there’ll be no marching in the street burning maxipads and making tampons pop like corn, how will we show that we support the “keep menses” revolution?

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So, funny!
I had the depo shot, hated it! I got a headache halfway through each dose and didn’t get my period, switched to the pill and gained 20 pounds in like two months.
Now, I have been au naturale and I love it, of course I’ve had 4 kids in 5 years so my brain cells are a lackin’ but I’ve only had a few periods in the last 6 years. Two before the first pregnancy, one before the second, two before the third and I have had two stress induced visits since December (baby #4). I love breast feeding.

Congrats on the PP!

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