Posted on 10/30/2019 2:47:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I was doing what thousands of women do daily—perhaps even what you’re doing right now: late at night, Googling another symptom that I was sure was tied to the new form of birth control I was on.
I was looking for answers. Medical sites led me down one path and chat forums down another, until I finally found my answer I didn’t know I was looking for. I came across Natural Family Planning (NFP) and realized that the only true side-effect-free birth control is the one where you start listening and learning from your body. And I was so ready to be side-effect free!
I grew up using the Nuvaring with what I thought was no real side effects. I always felt like I was just a normal angsty teenager with frequent mood swings and since I used it consistently in my adolescence I guess I will never be sure who I might have been if not on hormonal birth control.
Then in my mid-twenties, I had heard about IUDs from friends and thought I’d give it a try. Seemed like an even easier way to use birth control and my doctors seemed to be in favor of it over the Nuvaring. After a long and unpleasant insertion experience and two months of cramping, I called my doctor to have it removed. I figured that I had no side effects from the Nuvaring, so why mess with the IUD if it was not agreeing with my body.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalwomanhood.org ...
I do natural birth control.
And I am a mother of eight.
LOL!!!
Yeah, it’s nonsense.
Copper IUD? What, are they putting piping the tubes?
I used NFP to conceive 2 of my 3 children. Out of the 4 miscarriages I later had, only one pregnancy was a surprise. It works if you use it properly and consistently.
I used it. And the insertion isn’t awful. It cramping for 1-2 minutes at most. Never had an issue with it.
I did hate the way hormones made me feel. Being post meno is the biggest blessing around. No hormonal mood swings any more!
Natural Womanhood.
What a joke. She is inserting, implanting and ingesting all sorts of UNNATURAL objects and ingredients into her body.
In complete defiance of Natural Law.
And she calls this Natural Womanhood?
She sounds like a ho.
Well, if you don't count the occasional pregnancy as a side effect....
The mention of a “Copper IUD” in the title alone caused me to have a mental image of women buying the things in Home Depot.
“Yeah, Ma’am, the IUDs are in the plumbing aisle.”
Copper IUD’s. Sure.
They used to use Lead. Had bad side effects. Yes sir. Yes ma’am.
Somebody didn’t read the article.
Fixed it.
I read the excerpt. Does the article contradict and take off in the opposite direction?
You click the blog and follow up on this for me, mmm-kay?
Thank you.
Lol. They are pretty tiny things and flexible. It’s fit inside the womb.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/paragard/about/pac-20391270
The CU-7 (Monsanto?) was on the market 40 or 50 years ago. I think it competed with the Copper-T.
A vasectomy or hysterectomy also counts.
A friend of mine had an IUD put in back in the late 60’s. She was only about 20 or so, had never had a child, and wasn’t ready to have children so soon after being married. She had a terrible time...constant cramping...eventually had to have it removed, and went on birth control pills. That marriage ended without children, but she eventually remarried, and had three children...and she’s still happily married.
She says in the article that she quit using the IUD’s and pills because of the side effects-she chose a modernized version of natural birth control that uses testing strips, etc to measure several factors for fertility-but there are barrier methods that do not rely on heavy metals or hormones-condoms, diaphrams, sponges, etc-not completely natural but much safer-I relied on those when I was young because I didn’t want to use hormones, etc.
IUDs work by causing inflammation leading to failure to implant, in other words, early abortions.
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