Posted on 03/31/2019 6:07:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Frustrated. Immobilized.
That’s how Dr. Summer Holmes Mason felt a few years into her practice.
As a board-certified OBGYN, she was dedicated to helping women manage their health. And often, that involved offering her patients contraception, like the Pill.
“Prescribing contraception was bread and butter gynecology for me,” she says. “It was probably one of the largest tools I had in my arsenal as an OBGYN to treat medical issues.”
The medication was meant to help. But soon, Dr. Holmes Mason noticed a trend.
“After a couple of years, I realized people were coming back to me with more side effects than I thought was acceptable,” she says. One patient suffered a blood clot, a potentially deadly risk of hormonal contraception. Others struggled to find a form of the medication they could tolerate. “I’ve seen people cycle through birth control. They’d be on, sometimes, five or six or seven different kinds of birth-control pills . . . and they couldn’t find one that worked well for them.”
Faced with this quandary, Dr. Holmes Mason knew there must be more choices she could offer her patients. “There has to be something else available,” she remembers thinking, “otherwise I can’t do my job effectively.” And she was determined to find that alternative.
It wouldn’t be easy.
“I had to educate myself,” she confirms. A graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, she did her residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Her training gave her very brief exposure to natural forms of avoiding pregnancy. “But typically fertility awareness-based methods [FABMs] are presented like ‘the rhythm method,’” she says.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalwomanhood.org ...
How Observing Birth Control Side Effects Drove One OBGYN to Offer Fertility Awareness in Her Practice
Couldn’t they just use “the Lewinsky method” ?
Fewer side effects, except having to increase expenditures on Tic Tacs.
If.
As the article explained, this is not the (calendar-based) rhythm system of the 1930's. That was your great-grandma's method.
Anyway, modern fertility-based methods are about real-time observation of each woman's particular, individual fertility signs so she can either avoid or achieve pregnancy.
It's not about calendar average cycles at all, because few women have calendar-average cycles.
Right, great-grandma? (Chuckle.)
The rhythm method worked great for me too.
Loved it.
I tried to read the article but kept having pop ups so I closed it.
I hate websites like that.
I am a nutritionist. My understanding is that The Pill often induces a persistent if not permanent B-6 imbalance.
The result seems to be less anabolic efficiency, with concomitant weight gain. I knew a young woman (a part-time fashion model) who was put on The Pill by her status-conscious mother, who obviously wanted to avoid scandal in her conservative circle. The young woman became heavy-set, and never recovered her svelte figure. (I doubt either of them associated it with the contraceptive drug.)
All methods of birth control are evil
In particular the two most common - condoms and the pill are the most evil
Now with IUDs - what kind of idiot would stick a foreign object inside their body?
With the pill why would you take something that would alter your natural hormone harmonic patterns that are determined by nature and the moon and other very deep things in the universe?
You are born a woman this is a very deep thing you can make a babyThis is not something to trifle with
Condoms in my view are pure evil because it makes the most depraved acts seem safe
My question is if you really love and care about somebody why are you putting a plastic bag between you and them?
Those are the main three and there are others but the bottom line is
men need to be in control of themselves
As long as that occurs then there will be no problems
Well how about that! A doctor who used her education to think for herself and make recommendations for decisions for her patients that did not just blindly follow the pro-death cults in this world.
Now if only a few hundred thousand more doctors would do the same and refuse to murder babies in the wombs of their mothers.
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“All methods of birth control are evil”
No.they.are.not! Controlling the size of your family and when you want to have your children is not evil.
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