Posted on 02/17/2019 7:21:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
My girlfriend in the 1960s had extremely painful menstrual cramps, almost every month.
When she went on The Pill, the cramps completely disappeared.
Never had a headache until I went on the pill. That ended that method.
Ah, no.
The biggest side effect to the pill is more refugees. Funny how same libs who say we are overpopulating our great environment, now say we need refugees because we haven’t had enough kids.
America's finest hours were in the years of "The Greatest Generation".
It's usually more than the timing of her cycle.
Often it's the debilitating cramps and uncontrolled bleeding that motivate a woman to go on the pill.
Uh, yeah.
I used to have cramps so bad I’d pass out on Day One. Almost every month, throwing up and passing out. Men have no idea.
Hormone changes can cause migraines. But birth control meds do not have to be involved. Plenty of women have these debilitating migraines at times in their cycle where it is clear the fluctuations are a cause. Who don’t take BC pills.
Some women get the worst migraines ever while pregnant, while for some migraneurs, pregnancy is the only time they go 9 months without a single migraine.
So it isn’t a certain amount, absense of hormones, or one specific hormone causing it. Bc pills may be the problem or it may not.
My previous post was really only to say that RE hormone changes and migraines, pills are only one small part of a much larger picture.
However, taking hormones orally is not a good idea and can lead to many bad things including cancer. Fake hormones are not good for us. If you need hormones they should be taken any way but oral.
You mean that 8 year old headache was real and wasnt an excuse?
I’m not far off from that.
Only it was two days for me.
Labor was NOTHING compared to what I went through.
You’re right. Men don’t get it.
And what’s actually worse is the women who have no problem who sneer and act like it’s all in our heads. Makes me want to rip theirs off.
We’re already reaping what we sow. There are studies out there that show hormonal BC influences mate selection in some women. To wit, they’re more likely to choose less masculine men while on BC. Then they get pregnant and bear less masculine boys. Such a thing WILL eventually hurt our society if the SHTF and there is less “toxic masculinity” around to shoulder the load.
I’m injecting a supplement to counteract low T, which to my benefit, has brought other hormones into balance, as well as helped me to achieve an optimum level of testosterone (which, BTW, is NOT 1,000, like all us men wish we had).
The endocrinologist offered it either by injection, cream or an implant. I picked injection. No pills were offered, so I’m not going to bother with off the shelf supplements.
I can believe it. I have a friend who, following her divorce, moved to her sister’s house temporarily. While she was there, she bled for literally 7 weeks. She thinks her body might have been trying to synchronize with the cycles of her sister and her sister’s wife — yeah, you read that right.
“She thinks her body might have been trying to synchronize with the cycles of her sister and her sister’s wife”
I understand that’s very common, but have never heard anything that drastic. Usually it’s a subtle process — with dorm-mates, etc.
I was on them for cramps. In my 70 years that’s the most excruciating pain I’ve ever had — and I’ve been through a lot. The pills were a blessing.
I was at that place, too. If I was LUCKY I’d pass out. I’d hallucinate and watch movies on the wall that weren’t there. At work I’d be in a fetal position under my desk, sometimes puking. Worst. Pain. Ever.
“Labor was NOTHING compared to what I went through.”
My mom said the same thing.
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